Dear Black People, Charlie Kirk Loved You

One of the biggest problems we face today is the idea that beliefs are tied to race. It is why so much of our discourse today is framed as white and black. It is why Joe Biden can say to black people that if you don’t vote for him, “you ain’t black.” It is also why someone can be deemed a white supremacist for holding beliefs that have nothing to do with one race being better than another. They only have to hold to ideas that have been deemed to be “white.” It is how a black person like me can be called white.

Is it true that our beliefs are tied to our skin color, and are whites oppressive if ideas that are deemed “white” are the majority cultural standard? Are whites oppressing others who hold to beliefs that are tied to other races, such as “blackness?” I’m asking these questions because this idea is the center of all our discussions around modern-day racism and oppression. The terms racism and oppression have taken on a completely different definition and framework from their classical definitions and understanding.

So what is this “whiteness” that is so oppressive that it must be torn down in the name of justice and standing with the oppressed? Look at the infographic below. This was posted in 2020 by the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which is part of the Smithsonian. These are some things it believes define whiteness.

• The nuclear family

• Husbands working, wives being homemakers

• The scientific method

• Objective thinking

• Understanding cause and effect relationships

• The Protestant work ethic

• Hard work is the key to success

• Christianity

• Judeo-Christian values and morals are the norm

• Monotheism

• Holidays based on the Christian religion

These are the things they have deemed as whiteness, so when they say we must destroy and tear down whiteness, these are the things they’re referring to because whiteness is oppressive. Remember, one of Black Lives Matter's stated goals on their website (archived here) was to "disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure." This may sound like an unusual goal, but you have to understand that they were, admittedly, trained Marxists, and this was how they viewed the world. Their fight for justice was a world free from the bondage of whiteness.

The point I’m trying to make and get people to see is that this is not about black people vs white people. This is a battle of ideologies and worldviews. So if you’re black and a Christian, what side do you take? Do you march and raise your fist and say the chants because we’re told that’s what blackness is and what it means to be black? Do we put our blackness ahead of our Christianity?

Many have attempted to merge these two things because they recognized the dilemma. Many black Christians try to toe this line between being Christian and holding on to blackness. This is why black liberation theology is so prevalent in our churches. It is the attempt to merge Christianity and Marxian ideology in the black context. Sadly, most black people have no idea where the ideas we hold come from. We believe they originated organically within the black context, but they didn’t. The black community was intentionally targeted by Marxists to be the catalyst of strife and division in America by stoking the flames of grievance.

The goal has been to use black grievance to tear down the social structure of America, which has been heavily influenced by the moral principles and wisdom of Christianity. This is why someone who promotes fundamental Christian values, such as marriage being between a man and a woman, that there are only two genders, or that homosexuality is a sin and said to be promoting hate speech because those oppressive beliefs are rooted in whiteness (Christianity). It is oppressive to alternative beliefs and lifestyles. To silence those promoting this hate speech is to fight for the oppressed, and when the oppressed turn to violence against those promoting hate speech and oppressing them, it is an act of liberation and self-defense.

This is why Charlie Kirk was murdered and why his murder was cheered and celebrated, and sadly, way too many black people are cool with this because of how they’ve been trained to view the world. This isn’t justice nor is it a fight against real oppression. It is the same fight that has been ongoing for a long time. It is Karl Marx’s fight against God, but black people have been trained to think it's about us. We think we’re the center of this fight when in reality we’re just pawns in a game that’s bigger than we realize. The progressive left have simply been using us for their own goals, and when we were no longer sufficient, they turned to the LGBTQ community. It is all rooted in using grievance and this oppressor/oppressed whiteness/blackness view of the world to build the coalition of the proletariat to rise up and overthrow the bourgeoisie (Judeo-Christian culture of the West).

Wake up, black people, and understand what has been done to us and who has done it. It wasn’t the conservative Christians, although they were complicit in true racism and oppression, that destroyed our families and communities. It was the liberal progressives who pushed liberation to us. Not just liberation from Jim Crow laws but liberation from whiteness. In the process, we liberated ourselves from the “white man’s” religion and its sexual ethics. We rejected biblical marriage and embraced the sexual revolution. We rejected fathers in the home and embraced feminism because the black woman decided she “didn’t need no man.” The progressive liberal Marxists did to us what the KKK couldn’t even dream of, but they did it to us while pretending to be our friends and smiling in our face, and we bought it.

We’ve been conditioned to believe that anyone who doesn’t affirm our victim status and aid in our struggle, like the liberal progressive Marxists, is our enemy. So when a man like Charlie Kirk comes along and says you’ve got to stop having kids out of wedlock, black fathers have to stop abandoning their kids, you have to start prioritizing education, you have to understand your potential is the same as everyone else but you have to make some cultural changes if you want to succeed that man is labeled racist and told he’s your enemy. When black Christian conservatives say these things, we’re called self-haters, bootlickers, coons, and Uncle Toms, because they don’t want the word to spread to black people that we’re capable and that we’re not oppressed because they still need us as pawns in their game. They need us to be bitter, angry, and with a self-destructive culture so they can keep showing the disparities and how far behind we are as evidence of our oppression to whiteness.

My plea to my black brothers and sisters, whom I love, is to wake up and stop letting them use you and understand that our ancestors survived the hardships of slavery and Jim Crow by their faith in God and their hope, not in earthly liberation from whiteness. but in the hope of their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. The more we’ve been ripped from this hope, the more hopeless we've become, and it has driven us into nihilism. The solution isn’t reparations or anything material from the government. Voting won’t change our outcomes. The only thing that can heal our hurting hearts, give us the peace to truly forgive and let go of the past, and to move forward in a way that leads to healthy and thriving families and communities is to turn back to God. That was Charlie Kirk’s message to the black community. Put your hope in God, build strong families, work hard, and you won’t need DEI. That is not a message of hate. That is a message of love because love is telling people you care about, hard things.

You can hate Charlie and others like him and call them racist. You can hate black people like me and Chad O Jackson and call us bootlickers and Uncle Toms, but you’ll never be free if you continue down the path we’ve been on for the last 60 years. You’ll never be free from the oppression of your own limited beliefs and victimization, and you’ll never be free from those who use that to manipulate and control you by pretending to be your friend and ally.

Reprinted from https://kevinbriggins.substack.com/.