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Thank you for listening to this Podcast 1 production now available on Apple Podcasts, Podcast 1, Spotify and anywhere else you get your podcasts. Hey everybody. Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, I had the opportunity to fill in for the great Dr. Sebastian Gorka on America First Salem Media Group. And now we are going to share those thoughts with you and they were very well received and we talked about Kanye West 2020 explained. We go even deeper and I tell you my personal experiences and we give a full throated examination of the shame of the cities, how Democrats have destroyed our inner cities. Email me your questions freedom charliekirk.com, listen to our sister episode with Madison Cawthorn, who's going to be the youngest elected member of Congress if he wins his election in November. Sure looks like he will get involved with Turning Point USA. Tpusa.com tpusa.com Again email us freedom charliekirk.com, freedomarliekirk.com Buckle up everybody. Action packed episode in store here. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
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I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point usa.
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We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are. The president was in great form this last weekend at Mount Rushmore. I want to dive into that and also get into Kanye West 2020. What do we make of that? I'm actually probably one of the only people that has spent extensive time with both Kanye west and President Trump. In fact, a couple of years ago, two years ago, geez. Candace Owens and I, Candace, our communications director at Turning Point USA for a couple years and now she runs blexit blexit.com and does a terrific job of it. Speaks truth every single day. She happened to strike up a friendship with Kanye west when he tweeted out. I love the way Candace Owens thinks and I happened to meet Mr. West and all that comes with that. He's a creative guy, pretty brilliant. And I could actually make the argument that Kanye west running for president is a very good thing for President Trump and his reelection. So I want to get into that. But before I do, I was watching cable television over the weekend and I saw the continual and repeated violence happening in our inner cities. Two more kids were shot and killed in Chicago over the weekend. July 4th, Independence Day weekend. It is the third straight weekend of children being gunned down in the streets. Natalia Wallace, do you know that name? Natalia Wallace? Well, BLM Inc. BLM Inc. What I call the organization that pretends to fight for, for black lives. BLM Inc. A multi hundred million dollar a year organization that has taken money from good forces and not so good forces in our society towards I think sinister and malevolent aims, has been amazingly silent on the story of Natalia Wallace. Natalia Wallace was a seven year old that was gunned down this weekend in Chicago. Every weekend, every July 4th weekend in Chicago, we know there's going to be bloodshed. There were 75 shot over the weekend and two children killed. Third weekend this has happened. So let's just go through the Chicago gun violence right now. To date, 20 have been shot and killed, 94 shot and wounded, 114 total shot and 21 total homicides. That's just since July 1st in the last five days. And so my very good friend, dear friend and American patriot, Tom Patrick, who I've known for years, had an opportunity to catch up with him recently and he reminded me about this booklet that Dave Horowitz from the Dave Horowitz Freedom center composed called the Shame of the Cities. And it is so true. Why Republicans are not seizing harder on the tragedy that is happening in our inner cities because of Democrat policies is inexplicable to me. Democrats have run our urban centers for decades. Democrats have to own the violence, the killing, the poverty, the lack of hope. So let's go city by city. Let's start with Detroit. Do you know the last time there was a Republican mayor of Detroit was 1962? I think it's fair to say that Democrats can own whatever is happening in the city of Detroit. So a 1960s crime spree after they elected a Democrat mayor caused a huge exodus and an increase in taxes. Sound familiar? The average income perhaps per person in Detroit is $14,861 a year, about half of the national average. The average household income, $26,955 a year, almost half the average. The poverty rate is 38%, which is two and a half times the national average. In an independent study that was done of all of the cities across the country, 384 metro areas were studied. Which was the most free and least free metro area? Some of the most free were in South Dakota and Texas. And I just recently interviewed Governor Kristi Noemi. I encourage you guys to check out that episode on the Charlie Kirk Show. She's one of the few courageous governors we have left in our country. But out of 384 metro areas, Detroit was ranked 345th most free. Out of 384 metro areas, public sector teacher unions and public sector unions run Detroit into the ground. Detroit subsidizes, meaning they pay pensioners so much, so many people receive pensions in Detroit. It's twice the amount of people that are actually employed by the city. Again, let's just do a recap. The last time a Republican ran Detroit was in 1962. It's not a funding issue for the Detroit Public Schools. They spend over $15,500 a year per pupil, per student. $15,500 per year, which is almost double the national average. $15,500 per year. I'm sorry, it's about 50% more than the national average. And that is according to the Wall Street Journal. It's so bad. In fact, the schools in Detroit were so bad, despite Democrats doing nothing but running these Cities for nearly 50 or 60 years. It's actually coming up on 60 years now. It'll be the 60th anniversary in 2022 since a Republican's been mayor of Detroit that even Secretary of Education under Barack Obama, Arne Duncan, categorized the Detroit Public Schools as a national disgrace in 2009. From 2009 to 2013, it won the award of America's most dangerous city. I think Chicago can conveniently take the mantle for that now. An independent study was done by a man named Robert Bob, who is the Washington, D.C. board of Education, when they were trying to prevent bankruptcy. And they found that over 257 ghost employees were illegally receiving checks from the Detroit Public Schools. So people said, we don't fund these schools enough. Well, first of all, it's well above the national average in a lot of these Democrat union states, cities well above the national average. And the money you're even appropriating is not even going towards educating the kids. A lot of it is going towards funding GHOST employees. Two months after that, seven additional public officials in the Detroit area were charged with felonies for operating an embezzlement scheme that siphoned tens of thousands of dollars out of the school system, according to Judicial Watch. Judicial Watch. That does a great job. It was also discovered that 500 people who had been illegally enrolled as a health care plan dependents were costing the school district millions of dollars per year. And so what do they do? They raise taxes, more people leave the city and then they don't do anything when people riot, loot and commit arson. Why Republicans are not repeating these numbers every single day. And President Trump is. I got to give him credit. President Trump has been focusing in on how this is the shame of the cities, but it should be a daily hourly drumbeat. How about the schools? What do you get for $15,500 a year per pupil? 50% more than the national average? Well, the percentage of students in the Detroit public schools who are proficient in math, 15.7% of third graders, 18.8% of fourth graders, 17% of fifth graders and 13.6% of sixth graders. I agree with Arne Duncan. This is a national disaster. The percentage of students whose scores indicated proficiency in reading, 42% of third graders, 40% of fourth graders. My goodness, only fewer than 10% of fifth to eighth graders were proficient in science in 1927, back when Republicans used to run Detroit. The New Republic, which is a left wing Marxist rag, now called the Detroit school system one of the finest in the world. Now it is probably the worst in the country. 1967, the last time there was a Republican that ran Detroit. And now that they have Governor Gretchen Whitmer, it's not going to get better very soon. So while BLM Inc. Is marching in the streets over this Independence Day weekend, while BLM Inc. And mind you, that is what I call that organization, BLM Inc. I refuse to say a statement that is of course true while also saying something critical of that organization. And they use that intentionally to try to insulate and shield themselves from criticism. They have remained silent when it has come to the murders of innocent black individuals at the hands of other black individuals across the country. It would be one thing if there was not this sort of carnage happening across the country. But if you, if you just saw the numbers in Chicago over this last weekend, where is BLM Inc. Nowhere to be found. In fact, they are still protesting something that we all agreed upon. They are still protesting the individual police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota who did something evil and unspeakable. We all agree on that. No one's defending that. Yet they have tried to create an entire narrative that to try to hypnotize you into something that is pathologically untrue. They have tried to convince you that America is a racist, bigoted country. We are the most systemically decent country in the history of the world. In fact, you have to go out of your way to try to find racism in our country. In fact, sometimes you have to create it. Just look at Jussie Smollett. Just look at the recent NASCAR incident where sometimes you have to find things that aren't true and intentionally contort them and misrepresent them to try to make them fit your narrative. Now, I'm not saying that evil things do not individually happen sparingly. What I am saying is that we are actually a tremendously decent country to each other. When I ask black people, are your interactions with people of a different race generally decent or not decent? The answer is almost always decent. In fact, where I went to high school in Wheeling, Illinois, it was a majority minority high school, 53% English as a second language. You had to go out of your way to find someone that had something, some statement, some opinion that was rooted in hatred as America. As Dennis Prager says, America's trinity, liberty in God we Trust, e pluribus unum. We've actually done a pretty good job of striving towards that. But now we have to be lectured by BLM Incorporated on how we are a racist, bigoted country. And mind you, BLM Incorporated uses ActBlue payment processing solutions, which is the number one payment processor for the Democrat Party. So basically, when you donate to BLM Inc. You are harvesting data for Joe Biden, for Ilan Omar, for Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, for Ayanna Pressley, for Nancy Pelosi. So for all these self righteous suburbanites that have been sending in money because they feel they have to atone for a sin that they have never committed. So they have a free flow of capital to the most radical elements of American society. And they think that they are going to help eradicate racism, to give it to BLM Inc. In fact, they're funding a fundamentally racist organization. I opened up the program by talking about David Horitz's book the Shame of the Cities by John Purrazzo at David Horowitz Freedom Center. And my friend Tom Patrick showed it to me. And when you go piece by piece, you go city by city, you realize how fundamentally broken Democrat leadership is. We talked about Detroit. Let's talk about Baltimore. The last time there was a Republican mayor in Baltimore was 1967. In the 50s and 60s in Baltimore, the median income was 7% higher than the national average. So Baltimore was doing great back when they had Republican mayors. Now their violent crime rate is 80% higher than most cities. It's 7.6 violent crimes for every 1,000 residents. In Detroit, out of 100 of the most the biggest cities in the country, they came to 87 out of 100 in household income. They used to be in the top 20% in schooling again. They fund $15,483 a year for each K through 12 student, twice the national average. 14% of their 4th graders and 16% of all their 8th graders read proficiently. They did a study of 13 high schools in Baltimore. They were almost all black schools. They couldn't find one fifth grader, but that could read at grade level. Not one fifth grader that could read at grade level. Not one. There are 47,000 abandoned homes in Baltimore and 16,000 vacant buildings. How does this happen? It's because when you perpetually elect leftist Democrats that raise Democrats that raise taxes, that bathe in graft and corruption, and you have single party rule, it is incredibly unhealthy for any sort of city, county or country to live through that. And in fact, if you think you can just abolish hierarchies and you think you can get rid of any form of evil because you're going to continue to elect Democrats or have these vast social movements, you're incredibly incorrect. See, one of the fundamental flaws in leftist philosophy, and this is a Rossouian idea, is that if they think they get rid of the police, they get rid of the trappings of the modern era, somehow people will be better. If that's the case, why is it
