{"id":1437,"date":"2026-03-02T16:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/dept-of-education-unveils-charlie-kirk-banner\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:18:08","slug":"dept-of-education-unveils-charlie-kirk-banner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/dept-of-education-unveils-charlie-kirk-banner\/","title":{"rendered":"GTFOHWTBS: Charlie Kirk\u2019s Photo Placed Next To Booker T. Washington Outside Dept. Of Education Despite Calling College \u2018Scam\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Donald Trump\u2019s America continues to try to convince us that Charlie Kirk<\/a>, the slain right-wing instigator, was some sort of hero worthy of our praise, adulation, and public recognition. He was not that and he deserves absolutely nothing, but alas\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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According to Yahoo! News<\/a>, The Department of Education<\/a> has unveiled a cartoonishly ridiculous banner of Kirk outside of the federal building next to truly educated heroes like Booker T. Washington and Catherine Beecher. These banners are part of a campaign about \u201cAmerican heroes of education\u201d like Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Anne Sullivan, and Ben Franklin yet somehow, Charlie, who never finished college, gets to be memorialized next to these titans. Not only did Kirk not finish school, in 2022, he wrote a book called, wait for it\u2026The College Scam: How America\u2019s Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America\u2019s Youth<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Is the education in the room with us now?<\/p>\n

The men and women on the wall next to Kirk stood for the exact opposite of his anti-intellectual agenda. Booker T. Washington was born enslaved and earned his way to attending Tuskegee University and worked to expand education opportunities for Black folks. Catherine Beecher was as staunch advocate for women\u2019s education. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr\u2026well, the credentials are in the name. <\/p>\n

When the internet caught wind of this noxious new aesthetic at the DOE, the commentary was pointed, pissed off, and pure comedic gold.<\/p>\n

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One commenter quipped: \u201cWon\u2019t be surprised if the DOJ hangs a banner of Epstein\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Another reacted: \u201cA flaming arrow and a bow will take care of that\u201d.<\/p>\n

Truthfully, we\u2019re surprised that DOE didn\u2019t unveil this banner with a Wrestlemania-style performance of Erika Kirk zip-lining from the roof in a shiny spandex leotard with fireworks and smoking machines. Seems very on-brand these days. <\/p>\n

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Source: Tasos Katopodis \/ Getty Donald Trump\u2019s America continues to try to convince us that Charlie Kirk, the slain right-wing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14044,"featured_media":1470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-rss","tag-culture","tag-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}