I absolutely love that Twitter is feeding me a stream of wholesome posts from European soccer fans discovering the greatness of America. Europeans are so saturated with anti-American tropes and false narratives that many arrive expecting one thing and then find something completely different.
The day before he was horrifically murdered, Charlie Kirk sent me a direct message on X.
Unfortunately, before I could even respond, Charlie Kirk was killed — seemingly assassinated for the words he'd spoken.
I've taken issue with many of those words — sometimes strongly — but never his right to speak them. Never his right to express those views and then go home to his family. That is a sacred American value.
Kirk’s murder gives us all reason to come back to the table for dialogue. There is a rising tide of political violence that has already swept away his life and many others’ lives, from both the Left and the Right.
Violence like this should compel people in both parties to turn down the heat, seek common ground and look for off-ramps from the vitriol — as Kirk was doing with me, the day before he died.
We can choose to go the way of more violence, more outrage and more censorship — if we want to.
But if we choose censorship and civil war, we cannot blame that choice on Charlie Kirk!
From his last 24 hours, I have the proof that he wanted to go a very different way.
Declaration by Dr. YoungHoon Kim, World’s Highest IQ Record Holder and Grand Master of Memory: "I will plant churches in every corner of the world, declaring Jesus Christ as Lord, in honor of Charlie Kirk."
As a Black man, it hurts my soul to see people call Charlie Kirk a racist. I knew him personally and I can tell you, he was nothing but kind to me. Charlie never looked at me as a color, he looked at me as a friend, as a brother.
He went out of his way to help me, to open doors for me, to make sure I had opportunities I didn’t even ask for. That’s who he was, just generous, thoughtful, and loyal.
To hear people smear his name with lies is painful, because I knew the real Charlie. He wasn’t about division, he was about lifting people up, no matter where they came from or what they looked like.
And honestly, this all still feels unreal. I still cry, It’s hard to accept that he’s gone. A man who gave so much, who inspired so many, taken from us too soon.
Charlie Kirk was more than a leader , he was a husband, father , friend to many of us and a true American patriot.