Charlie Kirk: The American People Have Had It With the Media's Double Standard On Race

CHARLIE KIRK FIRES BACK AT VAN JONES

"The attacker said, quote, 'I got that white girl.' The moment we make them live up to their own standard, they start to cry foul." — @charliekirk11 pic.twitter.com/mAN4CCI1lH

— Real America's Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) September 9, 2025

Charlie Kirk comments on reactions from the left, including sympathy for the murderer from CNN's Van Jones, to the racial angle of the murder of a Ukrainian refugee in North Carolina.

"In reality we’re asking a very simple question, Mr. Jones, will you apologize for all the criminal justice reform you pushed forward that allowed these 14-time criminal offenders to walk the streets? You are the architect and designer of constantly feeling bad for the criminal—criminals who then kill more people like Irina Zarutska," Kirk said.

"And by the way, I didn’t bring up race. The attacker said, quote, 'I got that white girl.'"

"People say, Why does race matter? Oh, it matters because you made us care about race in the summer of 2020," Kirk said. "Looks like you’ve got to live up to your own rules. The second we make you live up to your ridiculous paradigm, you collapse like a house of cards."

CHARLIE KIRK: Van Jones was talking about me, and there are so many lies involved in what he said.

First of all, I never said the first part of what he claimed. I did say the second part, but this is a very important thing to focus on. Van Jones is saying I should be ashamed of myself.

And just a reminder—the murder of Irina Zarutska. Did you know that the attacker said, quote, “I got that white girl”? The attacker racialized this, just for the record.

Now, do you notice that the media suddenly tries to play the moral high ground when we make them live up to the standard they created—the construct they forced, the paradigm they constituted under George Floyd? The moment we make them live up to their own standard, they start to cry foul. As soon as we do that, they say, “Oh, Charlie Kirk is racializing this.”

And by the way, Van Jones also has a major lie embedded into this whole thing. Listen carefully. Race hustler, Marxist Van Jones—by the way, Van, you’re welcome on my program. I’ll treat you well. I’ll give you an uninterrupted opening statement.

Van Jones, if you want to talk about black crime and urban decay, you’re always welcome here. Because even though you’re an expert in race hustling, I’ve been around the block a couple times. I know your tricks, and they don’t work here. Your magical spells don’t work here. Your little hocus-pocus—"you are racist"—that doesn’t work here. We’ve got holy water here.

VAN JONES: For Charlie Kirk to say, “We know he did it because she’s white,” when there’s no evidence of that—it’s just pure hate-mongering. It’s wrong. Then he says that if something like that had happened the other way, there would be sweeping changes imposed on society. Where is the George Floyd Policing Act? It didn’t pass, even when you had a white police officer kill a black man on live television, the whole world saw it. There were no sweeping changes. In fact, not one law was passed at the federal level. We don’t know how to deal with people who are hurting in the way this man was hurting. Hurt people hurt people. What happened was horrible. Someone like Charlie Kirk should be ashamed of himself. No one mentioned race—white, black, or anything—except him.

CHARLIE KIRK: OK, so there’s a lot there. First of all, when Keith Ellison, the Attorney General of Minnesota, was asked repeatedly by the media whether there was racial animus involved in Derek Chauvin’s actions against George Floyd, he said no. They dodged the question. There is no evidence Chauvin acted racially. If you think he did, then you’re a racist, injecting racial fantasies and mythologies into a situation where they don’t exist.

And by the way—just if you’re taking notes, Media Matters—George Floyd overdosed. You can write that down, take it to the bank.

Anyway, that’s not what this is about. Here is the tweet I sent out:

“If a random white person simply walked up and stabbed a nice law-abiding black person for no reason, it would be an apocalyptically huge national story used to impose sweeping political changes on the whole country.”

Of course, this is true. Everybody knows this is true. Our media thirsts for stories like this.

Imagine a white guy sitting on a bus, and a black woman is just on her phone. Suddenly, the white guy takes out a knife and stabs her in the neck repeatedly. How do you think the media would react? We’d have protests. I’ll tell you right now—there would be a hundred burned Wendy’s around the world -- in every city. It would be so much, they’d start burning the Denny’s.

They use Emmett Till seventy years later because it was a horrifying murder of an innocent black person by hateful whites. It’s so rare they had to go back seventy years. But when a white person is murdered, we don’t burn down the country. But when George Floyd overdosed on drugs, it was Floydapalooza. But for the opposite? We only have to go back one day.

Literally, there was another. You know, several happened just last week. Another white girl was murdered by a black person in Alabama—a woman butchered walking her dog. There was also one in South Carolina, and one in Virginia. That is four white women in the American South recently butchered by black criminals.

So we step back and ask: what’s really going on here? Van Jones is acting like I said something I didn’t say, when in reality we’re asking a very simple question: Mr. Jones, will you apologize for all the criminal justice reform you pushed forward that allowed these 14-time criminal offenders to walk the streets? You are the architect and designer of constantly feeling bad for the criminal—criminals who then kill more people like Irina Zarutska.

And by the way, I didn’t bring up race. The attacker said, quote, “I got that white girl.”

People say, “What does race matter?” Oh, it matters because you made us care about race in the summer of 2020. Looks like you’ve got to live up to your own rules. The second we make you live up to your ridiculous paradigm, you collapse like a house of cards.

Here are the comments from Van Jones:

NEW: CNN panel shows sympathy for the man who stabbed Iryna Zarutska in the throat, shames people for calling it a racist attack.

Van Jones claimed there was no evidence that Zarutska was attacked because she was white.

Audio footage, however, reveals the man bragged about how… pic.twitter.com/G1ayTS7Vmk

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 9, 2025

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