“We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was,” she said. “A man who believed that the Civil Rights Act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake. “If you’re gonna call someone else’s rhetoric ignorant, shouldn’t you make sure your rhetoric isn’t ignorant?” he said. He noted that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not grant black Americans the right to vote. Asiedu played a clip of Kirk addressing the Civil Rights Act in response to a question at an event.