Comedian defends Charlie Kirk against racist accusations, recalls how he helped Black people

WASHINGTON, DC: Comedian Terrence K Williams is going to bat for Charlie Kirk, blasting critics who branded the Turning Point USA founder a bigot.

Williams flat-out rejected the narrative, writing on X (formerly Twitter) that “Charlie Kirk was not a racist, and I will not sit back and allow people to spread that lie.”

Williams pointed back to 2019, when Kirk invited hundreds of young Black attendees to the White House. “I gave Charlie Kirk his flowers last year and thanked him for helping 100s of young Black people get an invite to the White House back in 2019,” the comedian wrote.

Kirk picked up the tab for many of the children, too. “He helped pay for most of their flights and hotels because it cost so much to travel and he didn’t want them to miss out,” Williams recalled, adding that Kirk “gave them an experience & opportunity of a lifetime and yes he helped me get an invite as well.”

He added, “I’m going to miss him so much!”

Charlie Kirk's controversial past comments

Charlie Kirk’s defenders may be loud, but his critics point to his past comments as evidence of racism.

In 2024, the conservative activist raised eyebrows on 'The Charlie Kirk Show' with a comment about pilots. “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified," he said.

In December 2022, he asked, “If you’re a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States Marine?”

The following year, he said, “Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.”

Kirk also jabbed at Black women in customer service, saying, “If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?”

In another comment, the activist said, “If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us … You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.”

Grim celebrations and consequences

After Charlie Kirk’s death, some critics took their shots and wound up paying for it.

“A lot of good people died today. Charlie Kirk wasn’t one of them,” reportedly wrote Michael Kilbane, the city council president of Fairview Park, Ohio, in a nasty Facebook post.

Secret Service agent Anthony Pough allegedly posted, “If you are Mourning this guy .. delete me. He spewed hate and racism on his show.” He added, “At the end of the day, you answer to GOD and speak things into existence. You can only circumvent karma, she doesnt [sic] leave.”

That didn’t sit well with the feds. A Secret Service spokesperson told the New York Post the agency “will not tolerate any behavior which violates our code of conduct.” They added, “We are aware of the employee’s social media post from today and the individual has been placed on administrative leave as we investigate the matter.”

The military also got dragged into the mess. A Marine Corps recruiter was booted after posting an Instagram image of Kirk with the caption, “Another racist man popped.”

“The Marine in question has been relieved of his recruiting duties, and the matter is currently under investigation,” Capt Austin Gallegos confirmed to Task & Purpose.

Kirk was just 31 when he was fatally shot on Wednesday, September 10, at around 12.20 pm local time during a student Q&A at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, according to a statement from UVU. Tyler Robinson, 22, has been identified as the prime suspect in Kirk's killing. 

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