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That quote is a combination of two sentences Charlie Kirk said consecutively. Here is the full context of the statement: When and Where: The remarks were made on the July 13, 2023, episode of "The Charlie Kirk Show". Topic of Discussion: The segment was about affirmative action policies. Context: Kirk was arguing that prominent Black women were beneficiaries of affirmative action. He played a clip of then-U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee speaking in Congress, in which she said she had been admitted to educational institutions because of affirmative action. Kirk used her statement as a premise to discuss her and three other prominent Black women: television host Joy Reid, former first lady Michelle Obama, and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. He then made the following statement, which includes the words from your query: "If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they're coming out and they're saying it for us … 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".   He continued by saying their admission of benefiting from affirmative action was an admission that they were not smart enough to achieve their positions on their own merits.