CHARLIE KIRK, A VICTIM OF THE HATE THAT HATE PRODUCED?

Charlie Kirk, America's Chicken Came Home To Roost Again!

The ideals of this great nation are not set in stone; large segments of the population remain racist, misogynistic, homophobic, abusive, assholes, and some are just plain old evil. So What About Charlie?

Today, Charlie Kirk is a MAGA martyr; soon to be a made for Hollywood movie. Ironically, we’ve seen this brand of hero before, fighting for a true-noble cause but persecuted until death!

No, not the Confederacy or the South’s attempts to rise again, The Black Power leadership!

In a 1959 CBS program, “The Hate That Hate Produced,” Mike Wallace zeros in on the alarming and growing threat to white supremacy, Black Nationalism. The program shocked and terrified America. Over the next 30 years the nation would wage a war on Black Nationalism, masked as the War On Drugs, Gangs, Crime…in short People Of Color.

Charlie Kirk is the newest in a long line of leaders from the “I’m for whatever you are against” crowd that grows everyday, a mob that President Donald Trump commanded, for a while. He understood how to feed the monsters in America. There will be more, better, versions, like Charlie Kirk, are we prepared?

Like Mookie shouting at the end of Spike Lee’s epic, Do The Right Thing, the murder of Charlie Kirk screams #WTFU to America. However, the masses seem to keep missing the cues. It took the overturning of Roe v. Wade to slap women into Trump’s reality. Now it's the rest of the nation’s turn to get it roughed up a bit.

Reviving 1960's Outrage

Dial the clock back 60 years, interestingly, America is dealing with many of the same issues we face today; but with much more violet reprisals. A flood of immigrants from Europe, the Middle East, South America, fleeing tyranny and oppression--battle hard-- entered the USA, demanding “liberty or death.”

Irish, Italians, Jews, Arabs, Mexicans, Cubans and more poured into ghettos and rural communities across America only to be treated “slightly better than a nigger,” and some are often mistaken for--or seen as--“Negroes.” The South, in 1960, Blacks are progressing but the life for most Negroes was not far from slavery.

By 1965, the country was in revolt. The rapid expansion of America created the new problem of population control. As immigrants gathered into power bases they began to fight back, the “threat to national security” became the enemy within -- US Citizens! Some Americans felt under siege, like many today.

Red Summer (1919) is now a footnote in history, until it is repeated. Anarchy is not new. What this nation witnessed on January 6, now the “live stream” execution of Charlie Kirk, needs to serve as a wakeup call. Kirk's murder is the first flame from a spark lit long before Timothy McVeigh blew up the Oklahoma City Federal Building, or the City of Philly’s decision to annihilate a community in 1985, Google the MOVE Bombing.

Political violence is the hate that SPEWING hate produces, if you could as Kirk now.

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Donnell Sims
Donnell Sims, Los Angeles–based film review contributor, offering thoughtful perspectives on cinema, storytelling, and visual culture.

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