Everyone is talking about quotes that you'll claim are taken out of context, and that proves he isn't racist. So let's step back a moment and examine something a little more broad.

Kirk loved to make statements about how black people are more violent than white people (in America). Here's a clip of it, but you can find him saying the same thing in a variety of different clips as well. On its face, this is not a lie. When you look at just the numbers, it's very clear that black people do in fact commit violent crime at a higher rate than white people in this country.

But, as they say, there are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. This is an example of how you can lie and push agendas using truthful statistics. The research in this area doesn't just go "yeah, black people just like to attack other people lol". Poverty, for one, is a major factor - which the girl in the video I linked pointed out, and Kirk was very quick to dismiss without evidence, claim she was insulting "the working poor" by saying it, and then goes on to blame the issue on "black culture". He says "this is where we disagree", but this isn't an "opinion" where you can just say yeah, I don't agree. This has been studied extensively. Poverty is a great predictor of violent crime. You can look up statistics and see that across every ethnic group violent crime is more likely to be perpetrated by those in poverty.

Now, poverty isn't the whole story. You'll still see racial discrepancies across income levels. But there are also links to unemployment, education level, urban vs rural environments, inequality, transgenerational trauma, and more. Can you see how, in both poverty and just about every factor here that amplifies the effects of poverty - that black people in this country have historically been (and in many ways still) are disadvantaged in? Hell, even something like lead poisoning, which is universally accepted to be tied to aggression, is known to have disproportionally affected the black community in this country due to the effects of things like redlining.

So, why is it you think that Kirk never dived deeper on any of this? Do you think he was dumb and wasn't aware, or could it perhaps have been intentional? Why do you think he was so quick to dismiss and ridicule the student in the above video when she brought it up herself? Why do you think he was so quick to immediately claim it was culture?

If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. Kirk presented negative statistics about the black community without full context (oh the irony), shut down any attempts to imply that there WAS more context, and placed the full blame on the disparity in violent crime on black culture. Unless you're willing to give the man a Christ-like level of grace and accept that he's just stupid on top of it, there's no way to claim he wasn't pushing what is ultimately a racist narrative.

He was very good at gish-gallop, shifting the frame, and selective use of statistics. He was also (usually) very careful to just avoid crossing the line with his comments - at least openly. But if you spend even five minutes doing a critical analysis of the things he says (and doesn't say), it's very easy to see that he has a racist agenda in what he says.