Van Jones, CNN: Charlie Kirk DM’d me before he was murdered. Here’s what he said. In the middle of a difficult debate he and I were having about the murdered Ukrainian woman on public transportation in Charlotte — Charlie Kirk reached out. Charlie Kirk’s surprising message:
He invited me to come on his show to talk with him. He wrote: “Hey, Van, I mean it, l’d love to have you on my show to have a respectful conversation about crime and race. I would be a gentleman as I know you would be as well.”
Unfortunately, before I could even respond, Charlie Kirk was killed – seemingly assassinated for the words he’s spoken.
Condemning murder is not hard. So it was not hard for me to condemn his murder — immediately, without qualification and in unconditional terms.
That afternoon I tweeted: “Today’s attack on Charlie Kirk is absolutely horrifying and heartbreaking. He fought with words not weapons. There is no place for political violence in our society and those responsible must be swiftly brought to justice.”
My prayers are with Charlie’s loved ones, the traumatized students at Utah Valley University.
But instead, the opposite is happening. People are using his horrific assassination to call for MORE violence – justifying murder or even calling for a civil war! Government officials are using his killing as an excuse to censor and silence dissent.
Hold up! Wait a minute!
That’s NOT the way Charlie Kirk handled disagreement. Not at all. -Van Jones, CNN
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