Amanda Seales Discusses Charlie Kirk’s Death: “I Can’t Have Empathy”

Amanda Seales isn't holding back in sharing her thoughts on Charlie Kirk in the aftermath of the Utah shooting incident.

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Charlie Kirk has rubbed many people the wrong way, so there were understandably some apathetic reactions to his death this week. Amanda Seales shared her thoughts on the conservative activist being shot, saying that she was unable to have any empathy for him.

“First of all, Charlie Kirk don’t believe in empathy,” she said in an Instagram video. “He said it’s a bad thing. He said it’s some ‘new-age made-up sh*t.’ He also said people got to be sacrificed in order to protect guns. If he was saying that while fighting for reparations, I may have a little bit of empathy.”

Per the video, she learned in real-time that he was confirmed dead and had a detached response to the news. “He died? Damn, B. Life comes at you fast,” she said with a sarcastic tone. “I can’t have empathy because I have no connectivity. I have more connectivity to someone who is a complete stranger that dies of a drug overdose than I do to someone like Charlie Kirk. Because life is hard and I understand that. Because it takes very little for someone to end up committing themselves to an existence of numbness.”

Seales reflected on the exact circumstances of his death, which were an eerie coincidence. “That man got murdered at 31 at a college event in the middle of a sentence talking about Black gangs. What a way to go,” she said. Watch her full reaction above.

Kirk was shot in the neck on Wednesday (Sept. 10) and rushed to the hospital before being pronounced dead. State and local law enforcement have partnered with the FBI to find his killer, who is still at large. The only details they know currently are that Kirk was shot from a long distance and the shooter, who was reportedly wearing all dark clothing, was possibly on top of a roof when they fired the gun.

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This is why I always say be careful what kind of energy you put out into the universe. Karma never forgets an address.

Like Amanda I cannot have sympathy and empathy for someone who lacked sympathy and empathy for black folks, queer folks, women, and trans folks. I can't have sympathy for a white supremacist who wanted to see harm done to anyone who wasn't a white male.

When you have spent the majority of your career profiting off the downfall of marginalized groups, you can't be surpised when those same groups celebrate your execution, as harsh as that may sound.

So when you openly advocate for public executions sponsored by Coca-Cola. When you say that people should die by guns in order to protect the second amendment. If you're going to live by the gun, don't be shocked when your life is taken by one in broad daylight.