Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk speaks at the Turning Point Believers' Summit in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 26, 2024. Alex Brandon/AP

The day before he was horrifically murdered, Charlie Kirk sent me a direct message on X.

He and I had been sparring publicly over the killing of a Ukrainian refugee and its relationship to race.

He said the gruesome killing of a White woman by a Black man was motivated solely by anti-White hatred. I denounced those comments on CNN as unfounded. He went on TV and denounced MY denunciation. Then he unleashed a firehose of tweets, challenging my argument.

Kirk’s pushback sparked an online torrent of racist death threats against me, the likes of which I have rarely seen.

Things were seriously heading off the rails.

Then — in the middle

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