Charlie Kirk Explains How ‘Force Fed’ Media Narrative About Race ‘Met An Appropriate Backlash’

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk said on Fox News Tuesday that the media’s race-obsessed narrative finally collided with public backlash, data, and growing skepticism over its selective coverage of violent crime.

Corporate media largely ignored the brutal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska for days, offering only brief coverage after public outrage grew. During an appearance on “The Will Cain Show,” Kirk said America is the least racist country in the world and warned that the left’s selective outrage over race-based violence exposes the hypocrisy of the narrative forced upon the nation.

“We’re the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world. In fact, if you want to actually talk about race-focused activity, why is it that you then ignore all the race-focused activity of black on white crime? Will, I want to live in a race-neutral country,” Kirk said. “I don’t like talking about race all the time, but when I see it, and I see the left ignore it, and we try to make them live up to their own standard of rules that they force fed us during the chaos of 2020, it really goes to show the destruction that this can lead to the entire nation.”

Kirk accused left-leaning outlets of fabricating a story of relentless white-on-black violence while deliberately ignoring evidence of black-on-white crimes.

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“The media doesn’t care about this, and we should start asking why,” Kirk said. “It doesn’t fit a narrative. This is my most charitable reading. The narrative that they have pushed forward in the last 10 years is that there is a relentless assault against black people on behalf of white people, and the data does not show that.”

Kirk said Tuesday that the media’s post-2020 narrative portraying America as a systemically racist nation has not only warped public discourse but ignored hard data. (RELATED: CNN Host Erin Burnett Accuses Trump Of ‘Seizing On’ Murder Of Ukrainian Refugee ‘To Push His Nationwide Crackdown’)

“White individuals are actually more likely to be attacked, especially even per capita, by black individuals in this country. The narrative that they have tried to force feed this nation post 2020 is that we are a systemically racist country to our core. We started to say the word racist more. We started to redesign our corporations,” Kirk added. “We started to teach things in our classrooms that were from the 1619 project, and all of this has now been met with an appropriate backlash where people said we’re actually not nearly as racist as you say we are.”

Kirk said that the media’s false racial narrative isn’t just rhetoric as it drives real policy, from soft-on-crime policing to multimillion-dollar payouts, all rooted in a lie left unchallenged in schools and public discourse.

“The final thing I’ll say is this is more than just a semantic argument. This is more than just whether or not it’s a race thing or not. Bad policing practices, consent decrees, opening up the prisons,” Kirk said. “As you say, $3.3 million is an outgrowth of a media narrative lie. So it’s not just an innocent media narrative lie. Real policies get put into place when you don’t challenge this nonsense in the public schools.”

Newly released footage shows bystanders rushing to help a Ukrainian refugee as she bled out on a Charlotte, N.C. train, moments after she was stabbed. The video, made public Friday, quickly went viral, prompting Axios to claim Monday that “MAGA influencers” were exploiting the killing to push a narrative about rising crime. Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted and reposted multiple reactions on X, highlighting the lack of coverage from corporate media.

The Axios piece triggered backlash online, with critics slamming the outlet for downplaying the media’s silence. Many compared the muted response to how major outlets heavily covered the 2023 death of Jordan Neely, who died after Marine veteran Daniel Penny restrained him on a New York subway.

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