For weeks now, the mainstream U.S. media has been awash with coverage and accolades about Charlie Kirk, a racist ultra-right young fascist who was shot to death on Sept 10, 2025. In this era of MAGA glorification and promotion of traditional Nazi ideals, and shaming those who dare oppose them, Kirk is being hailed as a martyred young hero of the mainstream Right, euphemistically called a “conservative activist” instead of the Neo-Nazi that he was. There have been calls from modern conservatives for violent retaliation and repression of their political critics and opponents, whom they blame for creating the social climate that incited Kirk’s killer.
Top U.S. officials attended and spoke at his memorial service, including president Donald Trump. He’s being lionized as a hero of the Republicans, which reveals the true racist character of these U.S. power holders that they have hidden for decades behind a thin veil of ‘tolerance.’ Republican Virginia governor Glenn Younkin attended a gathering in memory of Kirk on Sept 25th where he expressed that Kirk left a “blueprint” for young conservatives to follow, and pledged $100K to Kirk’s Neo-Nazi Turning Point USA organization to set up chapters in Va.
Kirk was the sanitized political version of Dylann Roof, the young white loner who shot nine Black parishioners to death in 2015 during a Bible study class in Charleston, SC’s Mother Emanuel Church. In Kirk was, and is now in death, FAR more dangerous than Roof, because his agenda was and is being used to revitalized a culture from not so long ago where the MAJORITY of white Amerika were people just like Dylann Roof. Where Amerika was a society where Blacks weren’t just murdered in their churches and homes, but entire white communities routinely gathered to carry out festive gruesome murders (lynchings) of Blacks and distributed their body parts – with especial emphasis on genitalia – as mementos, and white mobs invaded and burned entire Black communities to the ground while gang raping Black girls and women and randomly killing Blacks.
This is the history that MAGA proponents and the Charlie Kirks are driving a movement to erase and remove from schools and libraries, in furtherance of their agendas to revive this history. Indeed ,THIS is the very meaning of MAGA (“Make Amerika Great Again”). Meaning, bring back that old openly racist, sexist, white male supremacist Amerika, where no one except the dominant white male class had a voice and power, and openly repressed and murdered those who even breathed a whisper of defiance. This is the “great” Amerika they want to see “again.”
The whole anti-DEI movement is blatant white male supremacy writ large. This is only a new euphemism (in times past they called it “Manifest Destiny” and “Mission Civilastrace”), that allows it to be promoted openly and to attack its critics as racists – the typical dysfunctional defense mechanism of ‘deflection’ is now a conservative political strategy. In this moment of heroizing the slain Neo-Nazi Kirk, not a word of criticism is being allowed to be uttered about him. Those who have simply posted or pointed to his own racist and sexist utterings and views have been fired from jobs, ridiculed in the press and social media, faced pressure from top power holders in the government, and have been used as heads on spikes dotting the landscape to warn others to keep quiet lest they suffer the same attacks for expressing free and honest speech.
Yet these conservatives claim that Kirk embodied the ideals of free and open political debate and expression and holding his views up against those of his opponents, so he should be emulated. His death is also being denounced by them as an evil act of political violence which they claim to oppose. Yet, they are openly repressing his critics. Wow! One wonders then, why I am now sitting and suffering abuses in the SC prison system, including being held incommunicado, in the IMMEDIATE wake of and response to publishing articles exposing abuses in Va prisons and its high level administrators lying to the public to conceal those conditions?
Not only was my transfer to SC in retaliation for those articles and what is supposed to be protected free expression, but SC prison officials have retaliated each time I’ve written anything critical about them, and they’ve been trying to murder me by medical/dental neglect, refusing and delaying me treatment for an abscessed tooth for several months now, and lying to cover up their actions. I’ve been a recognized political activist for decades, and was profiled as a domestic terrorist by federal and Va agencies in 2009, BECAUSE of their own statement that my written views and articles have often proven persuasive in educating the public and leading them to criticize the U.S. law enforcement and prison system, and “promoting a brotherhood of the oppressed philosophy.”
So, a Neo-Nazi is a hero for espousing his views and challenging opponents, but I am designated a terrorist and face continued retaliation and censorship, including being targeted by the state with violence (political violence), for espousing my views, and simply reporting the truth about the abuses suffered by America’s imprisoned and holding my UNIFYING political views up against the existing standards of the status quo, which has a tiny group of predatory rich exploiting everyone else.
Clearly a racial and political double standard. How many of our independent Black leaders have suffered political persecution and violence, and were murdered BY THE AMERIKAN GOVERNMENT for using their tongues? – Fred Hampton, George Jackson, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and the list goes on. NONE of them were memorialized as with Kirk, because they weren’t white Nazis. In fact they were opponents of Nazism, and were murdered for challenging America’s white racist capitalist status quo. Indeed, the formal commemoration of their memories many years after their deaths, which the MAGA movement is trying to erase today, were the results of Black folks fighting for decades to have them remembered.
In this period of the resurgence of open and unapologetic white supremacy and the Nazification of America, they must invent heroes like Kirk, shielding and hiding his deviant views, and pretending he was an innocent victim of some sinister killer.
Kirk and his Turning Point USA group embodied, propagated and united to revive everything everything hateful that Amerika was built upon and has stood for (genocide, white male supremacy, sexism, lynching, slavery, racial mass imprisonment, capitalism and every form of divisiveness and discrimination devisable to target and playing them against each other), while trying to hide behind lies, red herrings and mudslinging. This is the history of hate that the MAGA movement wants to erase while promoting a new generation of Neo-Nazis like Kirk and Turning Point USA. We must expose them for what they are, fearlessly counter them, and stop their grabs for power.
Dare to Struggle Dare to Win!
All Power to the People!
Kevin Rashid Johnson
source: Kevin Rashid Johnson