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If My Response To Charlie Kirk’s Death Didn’t Fit Your Pastoral Narrative, Perhaps I’m Not The Problem

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Ogun Holder
Sep 16, 2025
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Minutes after I learned Charlie Kirk was killed by a single gunshot from 130m away (that’s about 142 yards for you Americans still not using the metric system like the rest of the world), I called my almost-25-year-old daughter from Lisbon and told her to get out of the States sooner than later. She already had tentative plans to go to Barbados in Novem…

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