{"id":13472,"date":"2025-09-19T17:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congressional-black-caucus-says-resolution-honoring-charlie-kirk-not-about-healing\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T17:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:34:13","slug":"congressional-black-caucus-says-resolution-honoring-charlie-kirk-not-about-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congressional-black-caucus-says-resolution-honoring-charlie-kirk-not-about-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Black Caucus says resolution honoring Charlie Kirk \u2018not about healing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Members of the Congressional Black Caucus condemned a bipartisan resolution to memorialize conservative organizer Charlie Kirk on Friday, saying the measure validated Kirk\u2019s beliefs, and legitimized \u201cracist, harmful, and fundamentally un-American” ideals.<\/p>\n

In a statement following the House\u2019s approval<\/a> of the resolution, which received support from more than 90 Democrats, the caucus denounced political violence and the killing of Kirk, but said individuals must condemn violence \u201cwithout abandoning our right to speak out against ideas that are inconsistent with our values as Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe resolution introduced in the House to honor Charlie Kirk’s legacy is not about healing, lowering the temperature of our political discourse, or even ensuring the safety of members of Congress, staff, and Capitol personnel,\u201d they wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt is, unfortunately, an attempt to legitimize Kirk\u2019s worldview \u2014 a worldview that includes ideas many Americans find racist, harmful, and fundamentally un-American.\u201d<\/p>\n

The caucus outlined some of Kirk\u2019s past comments that they said they \u201cstrongly\u201d disagreed with, listing \u201chis belief that the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended racial segregation, was a mistake; his denial that systemic racism exists; his promotion of the Great Replacement theory; and his offensive claims about Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Michelle Obama, and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee lacking adequate cognitive ability.\u201d<\/p>\n

Forty-two members of the CBC voted against the resolution, according to a Blue Light News analysis of Friday morning\u2019s roll call vote, making up 72 percent of the 58 Democrats who opposed the measure. Five members of the caucus voted yes on the resolution, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Another four members of the caucus voted present and four members didn\u2019t vote at all.<\/p>\n

Members of the caucus went on to denounce President Donald Trump\u2019s actions since Kirk\u2019s death, saying he has \u201cthreatened to go after the political left.\u201d Trump earlier this week pointed to the \u201cradical left\u201d for doing \u201cirreparable damage to this country,\u201d and members of his Cabinet have made other sharp statements since Kirk\u2019s death, like blaming<\/a> \u201cleft-wing radicals\u201d for the shooting.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s disheartening to see a tragedy used to further divide the country and suppress honest debate,\u201d the caucus wrote. \u201cAs the conscience of the Congress, the CBC has a responsibility to speak out against this on behalf of our communities, and we are calling on each of our colleagues who share our values to follow suit. Enough is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus condemned a bipartisan resolution to memorialize conservative organizer Charlie Kirk on Friday, saying the measure validated Kirk\u2019s beliefs, and legitimized \u201cracist, harmful, and fundamentally un-American” ideals. In a statement following the House\u2019s approval of the resolution, which received support from more than 90 Democrats, the caucus denounced political violence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}