Charlie Kirk co-founded Turning Point USA when he was 18 years old.

[Coldwater]

But now we know his real Turning Point was at the age of 16 when he applied to West Point Military Academy and was rejected.

According to a former High School classmate, after he received an admission rejection letter, he went full-on racist.

He couldn’t accept failure and blamed it on a black applicant to the academy, any black person.

[marble falls]

1. Who's that?

[Coldwater]

3. Watch the Video

[marble falls]

6. Absolutely not. Chalkie whatshis face is dead in the grave and meanwhile TACO's still here. Refocus.

[Coldwater]

9. Yes, I know, TACO wants the whole enchilada

but it's still important to understand why Charlie Kirk became the ass he became

[FarPoint]

17. Ya know....

Just maybe one can sense he was just another trumpian style grifter......the misses may be as well....

[Wiz Imp]

19. May be? Try definitely is 100%.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. What does one know at age 18? /nt

[Coldwater]

7. He was mentored by Bill Montgomery

Co-founder of Turning Point USA who was in his late 60s at the time.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. What does one know at age 18?

Nothing. Very vulnerable.

[Coldwater]

10. Angry and vulnerable

and recruitable into the ranks of far-right groups.

So, Charlie shouldn't accept any responsibility for his actions?

[Tree Lady]

18. I read that he listened to and was influenced

By Rush Limbaugh when he was young and that opened the door to the rest of it.

Another life Rush ruined. So many were addicted to listening to his garbage.

[yardwork]

4. Charlie Kirk is basically the campus preacher.

Every university has one. When I was in college there was a guy named Brother Jed who made the southeastern university circuit. His show was pretty entertaining. He'd rail about the evils of drinking, drugs, rock and roll, and sex. Mostly sex. He was very preoccupied with sex.

In more recent decades it seemed that each major university got their own assigned preacher. The local guy was meaner than Brother Jed had been.

Charlie Kirk just took it up a notch in terms of publicity and reach. Instead of an old man dressed in a black suit, "Charlie" looked like the students. Instead of shouting about damnation and brimstone, Kirk pretended to "talk" with his audience. But it's still the old message: "There are people among us who are evil. Drive them out or be destroyed by them."

[JI7]

14. It was a huge grift and it's unlikely his wife will be

able to make as much money.

I think she mostly married him was because of the money from that.

[Emile]

5. Charlie who?

Never heard of him.

[Coldwater]

12. lol

[malaise]

11. Rejection was his

Turning point - poor lil martyr

[JI7]

13. From what I saw White Males make up a large majority

of those that go there. So why did all those white men get in but he didn't ?

[Coldwater]

15. Because he didn't meet their standards

of excellence

[niyad]

16. Reading the application process to USMA just now, 16 year old racist

and future communuty college dropout would not have come near qualifying.

[Aristus]

20. When I was eighteen years old, I was a member of a culturally-diverse organization.

Dedicated to using teamwork and cooperation to make our country better and safer: the United States Army.

It amazes me how many "patriots" out there somehow seem to skip the whole "serving your country" thing...