Comic Claims to Don Lemon Charlie Kirk Was ‘Horrible Human Being’ Whose Last Words Were ‘Lying About Black People’
Legendary comic D.L. Hughley told podcast host Don Lemon that late Trump ally Charlie Kirk was a “horrible human being” who used his last words to “lie about Black people.”
The political and media world were stunned when news broke Wednesday afternoon that Kirk had been shot during an event at Utah Valley University. Hours later, news broke that Kirk died from the injuries he sustained in that shooting.
The shooting was captured in a parade of grisly social media videos, including one that showed the interaction that preceded the fatal shot:
STUDENT: Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?
CHARLIE KIRK: Too many.
STUDENT: It’s five. Now five is a lot, I’m going to give you credit. Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?
CHARLIE KIRK: Counting or not counting gang violence?
(FATAL GUNSHOT)
On Thursday’s edition of The Don Lemon Show podcast, Hughley lashed out at Kirk, and cast the exchange as a racially-motivated attack that turned out to be Kirk’s last words:
DON LEMON: You’ve seen the outrage from the right. And look, again, nobody is saying that, oh my gosh, we’re happy that this happened to Charlie Kirk. Nobody, I don’t believe in political violence. However, the right is saying, well, this is war. And you liberals are killers.
D.L. HUGHLEY: What was it when the one congresswoman was murdered along with her husband in Minnesota and another congressman?
See, because here’s the thing. Now, bantering the word assassination around Charlie Kirk was not a political figure. I mean, he might have been influential to political figures, he wasn’t a political figure.
He wasn’t assassinated, he was shot. He was shot. And that’s unfortunate. Unfortunately, that happens to far too many people. But those other two congressmen, they were political figures and they were shot because of their political beliefs.
And it’s always like we can only have empathy for people if we relate to them, if we spark to them if we have a tribal connection to them. It is a shame.
And the thing that makes me the angriest about this is I always swore that I would never cede my humanity to anybody or any other situation, but that’s getting more and more difficult to do.
Because I don’t, I certainly don’t believe a young man 31 years old should have lost his life, but Charlie, Charlie Kirk was a horrible human being! He said horribly incendiary thing–.
As a matter of fact, he died-+-. The very last words he spoke were basically putting the onus of a gun violence on gangs, which is a synonym for ,synonymous with black people.
He blamed– the very way he died was lying about black people with his last breath.
And I just think the best thing I can say is that I hope he believes what he was saying. I hope he believed that lives being lost were worth it so the Second Amendment can persevere. I hope he believed that there should be a lack of empathy.
He was parsing between sympathy. Sympathy means we have a similarity. Empathy means I have nothing to do with you, but I can still feel your pain as a human being.
And I think I hope he believed all the rhetoric he espoused, because if not, that was certainly an empty, vacant way to live, and certainly a horrible way to die.
Watch above via The Don Lemon Show podcast.
