By Curtis E. Gatewood
Don’t let me see anyone else putting Charlie Kirk on a picture with Martin Luther King, Jr. Charlie goes on the picture with George Wallace.
Although Wallace became old enough to live through an attempted assassination, and to realize he had traveled deeply into the racist-gutter on the wrong side of history, during Wallace’s years and as the Governor of Alabama, he emerged as Dr. King’s most outspoken enemy and rebel against the idea of integrating with Blacks.
Similarly, Kirk made it clear that he resented Dr. King. Kirk said, “MLK was awful. He’s not a good person,” when Kirk is the one who has nothing to show for any “good” contributions to society.
Further, who can be more of an “awful” and “not a good person” than Donald Trump, the monstrous man whom Kirk seemingly worshipped. Therefore, Kirk is more like the George Wallace of the 1950s and 60s, who stood in the doorway to stop Black children from entering public schools with White children, while declaring “Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!”
Lastly, it was Alabama Governor George Wallace who Dr. King had in mind when be eloquently uttered these powerful words – “I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right down in Alabama little Black boys and Black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today!”
So, yes, Charlie Kirk falls into the category of the George Wallaces of our history, NOT the Kings.