Conservative media persona Glenn Beck is asking on cities to call streets after Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who was shot and killed in Utah final week.
“We should cease calling Charlie something apart from a civil rights chief,” Beck said on his BlazeTV present. “We have to plant that stake deep.”
He mentioned Kirk was not doing politics however standing up for civil rights.
“Make no mistake: Charlie Kirk was a civil rights chief as a lot as Martin Luther King,” Beck declared. “I’m ready to see the primary metropolis that may make a Charlie Kirk Blvd.”
He particularly referred to as on Phoenix, the place Kirk’s Turning Level USA headquarters is positioned, to be the primary.
“There’s a Martin Luther King Blvd, there must be a Charlie Kirk Blvd,” he mentioned.
Beck also said that different “so-called civil rights leaders” of the previous few a long time are “jokes” and “cash hustlers.”
He mentioned King was a real civil rights chief, together with Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President John F. Kennedy.
And he positioned Kirk in that firm, including that he was “martyred” in the reason for civil rights.
“Charlie Kirk died standing up and attempting to indicate individuals the best way to train your civil rights in a civilized method,” he mentioned. “And so they gunned him down due to it.”
Kirk was not a fan of King, calling him “awful” and “not a good person.”
