Obama pushed back on Kirk’s 2023 claim that a group of high-achieving Black women, including Michelle Obama, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, MSNBC’s Joy Reid, and the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee “do not have the brain processing power” to be taken seriously, while stressing that rejecting political violence “doesn’t mean we can’t debate the ideas.”
Former President Barack Obama addressed a live audience this week in Erie, Pennsylvania, covering everything from Donald Trump to conservative commentator Charlie Kirk’s past attacks on Black women — including his wife, former First Lady Michelle Obama.
In 2023, Kirk claimed that women such as Michelle Obama, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, MSNBC host Joy Reid, and the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee lacked intelligence and only advanced by taking opportunities from others via affirmative action.
“You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously,” said Kirk, who attended community college briefly before dropping out to pursue his political interests.
Kirk specifically targeted a group of high-achieving Black women with elite educational backgrounds: Michelle Obama, who graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School; Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School; Joy Reid, who graduated from Harvard University; and the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), who graduated from Yale University, earned a master’s degree from New York University, and a law degree from the University of Virginia.
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