As Donald Trump awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Charlie Kirk Tuesday, a Kansas City-area school board candidate decried the slain patriot as a promoter of “White Christian Nationalism.”
Gardner Edgerton Unified School District 231 school board candidate Keith Davenport wrote on social media that a “person of color” was troubled by the district’s mention of Kirk. He then goes on to recount a series of statements by Kirk that lack context or are taken completely out of context to insinuate Kirk was a racist.
Specifically, he claims Kirk said “Black women needed affirmative action because they lacked the ‘brain processing power’ to compete with white people.”
In truth, Kirk in a July 13, 2023 podcast, celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision ending affirmative action in university admissions – and noted that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, admitted to being, in her words, “a clear recipient of affirmative action, particularly in higher education.”
