'It ain't right.' Tarrant commissioner opposes honoring Charlie Kirk's legacy

I do not support or endorse violence. For Mr. Kirk's life to be taken by an act of violence is not right. But at the same time, black youth who are being hung all over this country is not right. For a Tatiana Jefferson to be gunned down in her home is not right. For the countless number of black boys who have been killed at the hands of violence is not right. And we are asked to honor the life of a man whose rhetoric did extreme harm to people of color is an affront to me and every black person I know. It ain't right. And I know that there are many people in this room who have varying opinions of Charlie Kirk. But let me ask the question. How much honoring and celebrating did we do for the people who died at the hands of brutality because of the color of their skin? I'll answer it for you, none. But we are expected to do that for someone who perpetrated this same ideology and thought process that caused the death of all of these black folks. I'm not saying that Charlie did it. I said the rhetoric that he voiced. I got a problem with that. And I respect every man and every woman on this dance. But I got a problem with asking me to cosign on somebody who did harm to people that look like me. Now he may have changed, I don't know. Only him and the Lord know that. But what I do know is what he said did harm to my people. And if we're going to say that he represents all of the good in Tarrant County and all of that, that is not true, that's a lie. What it tells me is that you don't see me and you don't see the people that look like me. If you can willingly advocate and stand up for somebody whose words did harm to people that look like me, I can't get with that. And I am trying my best to use restraint. But it ain't right. And the God that we say we serve knows that that ain't right.