'Not about healing': Black Caucus hits out at Charlie Kirk honor

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'Not about healing': Black Caucus hits out at Charlie Kirk honor - Raw Story via MSN

A number of Democrats joined with Republicans for a resolution that honored the life of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, following his assassination at a political event at Utah Valley University. But very few of them came from the Congressional Black Caucus.

According to Politico, the Black Caucus put out a statement that "denounced political violence and the killing of Kirk, but said individuals must condemn violence 'without abandoning our right to speak out against ideas that are inconsistent with our values as Americans.'"

The caucus further stated that Kirk held “racist, harmful, and fundamentally un-American” beliefs that would be inappropriately be dignified by supporting the resolution.

Among many other things, he said passing the 1964 Civil Rights Act that guaranteed Black people a right to integrated public accommodation was a "mistake," repeatedly attacked Dr. Martin Luther King, has said that "prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people" in cities, said he believes airlines are endangering passengers with unqualified Black pilots hired to meet quotas, and paid tribute to a pastor who claimed slavery was a godly institution.

[MrWowWow]

1. Never Say Anything Bad About the Dead...

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Never Say Anything Bad About the Dead. He's dead. Good.

-Bette Davis
(Paraphrased)
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[B.See]

4. Well, Dr. King died by an assassin's bullet

yet Kirk has had plenty bad to say about him. So there's that.

[MrWowWow]

7. The cycle repeats

And will likely continue to repeat ad nauseum

[Celerity]

2. US House Congressional Black Caucus members who voted for it anyway: Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY-8), Gregory Meeks (D-NY-5),

David Scott (D-GA-13)
Don Davis (D-NC-1)

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025282

[B.See]

3. As history shall note.

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10. Davis is my Congressional representative

so I know full well that he is used to casting heinous votes. I will give him this, at least his district is a tough one (we are a R plus 1 district).

[Cha]

5. Yeah, CK promoted Guns.. not caring who got shot & Killed.

and by his words was a Racist POS of Boring Shit.

What the hell is there to "celebrate"?

[sheshe2]

6. Good on the Congressional Black Caucus

For speaking the truth.

[Beartracks]

8. The whole "unqualified" hiring claim is frustrating because it's patently untrue.

No employer, not even an employer with a strong DEI program, is going to hire an UNQUALIFIED person, period. The preference for hiring a minority is simply a preference for offering the job to a QUALIFIED minority rather than a QUALIFIED straightwhitemale whenever the option presents itself, i.e. whenever both persons have jumped through the hiring hoops and are found to be qualified for the job.

Veterans get a strong hiring preference at many employers, but weirdly you never hear conservatives complain about "unqualified veterans" being hired into demanding jobs and endangering the public. Yet the process is generally the same as DEI hiring.

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9. To bigots like Trump and Kirk, qualifications don't matter.

Because to them, a minority or a woman (in a so-called 'man's job') is presumed INHERENTLY unqualified by virtue of their race or gender. To such a bigot, we could never be 'qualified.'

[Beartracks]

11. Oooh. Yeah, hadn't thought of it that way.