Speaker 1: Hi, Welcome back to the Carol Martha Show on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: My guest today is Keisha King.
Speaker 1: Keisha is host of The Keisha King Show and the
Speaker 1: founder of the Mass Exodus movement.
Speaker 2: Hi, Kisha, is so nice to have you on.
Speaker 3: Hey, Carol, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: So you and I were very much in the school
Speaker 1: trenches together over the last few years. I have been
Speaker 1: such a fan of yours and we've met on a
Speaker 1: number of occasions. I think you're just terrific. How did
Speaker 1: you get into this world?
Speaker 2: What made you go be an activist?
Speaker 3: Well, first some we say thanks for having me on.
Speaker 3: I love everything that you've done as well the book
Speaker 3: everything that you're quoted of.
Speaker 2: My book I interviewed you.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's right, that's right, And I was one of
Speaker 3: the first purchasers. I must say, as.
Speaker 2: Gone, thank you, very appreciated.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. Yeah. So I got into this world a little
Speaker 3: bit differently than most people. I think it was a
Speaker 3: kind of a spiritual experience. I was having a conversation
Speaker 3: about BLM with a close family member and I said
Speaker 3: I was going to go look up the statistics on
Speaker 3: the unarmed black men and police interactions and looked it
Speaker 3: up and I was completely blown away. It was like
Speaker 3: less than ten and I didn't really know what to
Speaker 3: make of it, because you know, there were all these riots.
Speaker 3: Why are all these riots happening when clearly there's more
Speaker 3: of an issue with black on black crime, and so
Speaker 3: just pondering the stuff, I started doing more research, found
Speaker 3: doctor Thomas Soule, Walter William's Milton Friedman, and my mind
Speaker 3: was just completely blown away. I was sitting on my couch.
Speaker 3: Fast forward a few months later, and the Lord spoke
Speaker 3: to my heart and told me that my skin color
Speaker 3: had become an idol in my life, and it just
Speaker 3: it changed my life. I felt like ten thousand pounds
Speaker 3: had been lifted off of me. I really truly felt free.
Speaker 3: I don't know how many people know the the oppression
Speaker 3: narrative that you're born into. You know, it's a black
Speaker 3: American I mean, you hear everywhere. And with God telling
Speaker 3: me this, it was just, you know, it was life
Speaker 3: changing because he was pointing me back to this is
Speaker 3: who I said you are, and it just gave me
Speaker 3: confidence and reassured me and just pointed me back in
Speaker 3: the right direction. And then I felt sort of this,
Speaker 3: you know, usher ushering into politics, and I'm like, no,
Speaker 3: thank you, Like I got the revelation like all that
Speaker 3: other stuff. I'm cool, I don't really want to go
Speaker 3: into that world, right, but I couldn't.
Speaker 2: You're like this, I'll just stop here, thank you.
Speaker 3: That was enough, exactly, And so I just started getting
Speaker 3: involved locally. And then I worked for the RNC during
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty Trump campaign and that's when all the
Speaker 3: school stuff happened. So I'm you know, reading just my
Speaker 3: life has like just completely, you know, blown apart at
Speaker 3: this point, because.
Speaker 1: Right I was gonna say, did this make make you
Speaker 1: very popular in your world?
Speaker 3: Your not so much? Not so much. So you know,
Speaker 3: I'm like, that's why I didn't really want to go
Speaker 3: into all of that, but you know, I just couldn't
Speaker 3: help it. Anyway. I had read all of this, you know,
Speaker 3: all these books and and come across critical race theory,
Speaker 3: and I didn't even know at the time it was
Speaker 3: even a thing. I thought it was just you know,
Speaker 3: people talking about it, like this is happening here and
Speaker 3: there maybe. But my oldest daughter was asked what pronoun
Speaker 3: she wanted to go by, and the first day of
Speaker 3: her eighth grade year and Carol, we go way back.
Speaker 3: I yeah, no. And then same teacher a few months
Speaker 3: later comes back and asks the kids, or is rather
Speaker 3: telling the kids that they're oppressed based on their skin phone. So,
Speaker 3: you know, I was not having it. And it was
Speaker 3: just I was going to school board meetings. I honestly
Speaker 3: thinking I could just go down there because clearly they
Speaker 3: just need to know that parents to what their children
Speaker 3: to be thought of themselves as oppressed and they're going
Speaker 3: to change all this nonsense. They didn't don't like.
Speaker 2: That, no, all right, So what did they What did
Speaker 2: they say? What did they tell you?
Speaker 3: They didn't want they didn't want to hear us. They
Speaker 3: did not want to hear anything that we had to say.
Speaker 2: But the fact that there wasn't us was there more
Speaker 2: than just you?
Speaker 3: Yes, So Moms for Liberty was like sort of bubbling
Speaker 3: at the time because they were upset about what was
Speaker 3: going on with their children as well. And so I
Speaker 3: was asked to be a part of that, and I
Speaker 3: was like, no, thank you, okay, and but eventually I
Speaker 3: did join. So yes, So there was a group of
Speaker 3: parents which was very you know, welcoming and encouraging and
Speaker 3: you know, letting me know that I wasn't alone and
Speaker 3: feeling like, Okay, this is not crazy. I'm not crazy
Speaker 3: for you know, hearing these things and being upset by it. Anyway,
Speaker 3: I ended up getting involved with Monster Liberty, became their
Speaker 3: spokes mom, and just started speaking around the country on
Speaker 3: critical race theory and how it was a detriment to
Speaker 3: not just Black Americans but all Americans because we're not
Speaker 3: trying to be judged by our skin color. Like we
Speaker 3: did that already, Thank you very much. We're done with that, dude.
Speaker 1: So any regrets about getting into all this, like you
Speaker 1: could have had just the easy, peaceful life and not
Speaker 1: done this.
Speaker 2: Do you wish it had gone differently?
Speaker 3: I don't. You know, that's a great question. I don't
Speaker 3: regret any of it. I mean, I've had the death
Speaker 3: threat I've had, you know, people try to lunge at me,
Speaker 3: to attack me, men at that, you know men. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's been I've had some pretty crazy instances or incidents
Speaker 3: rather and no, I don't regret it at all. I
Speaker 3: would do it all over again. And matter of fact,
Speaker 3: I'm double down on everything that I've ever seen because
Speaker 3: you know, just everything that's going on in our country,
Speaker 3: it's too much. If we don't speak up about it,
Speaker 3: we're going to have more. So, you know, no biggie
Speaker 3: to get involved.
Speaker 1: So what's next on the horizon for you? What battles
Speaker 1: are you fighting now?
Speaker 3: Well, so right now I feel like we are. We've
Speaker 3: been so so much, so many lies have been thrown
Speaker 3: at Americans. You know, we're so blinded with deception. So
Speaker 3: my goal is just to try to help people see
Speaker 3: the truth, like what is really happening? And let's try to,
Speaker 3: you know, dig a little bit deeper and see what
Speaker 3: the root of some of these things that we see
Speaker 3: in the news. What's the root of this? And a
Speaker 3: lot of times you see it's a lot of Marxist
Speaker 3: communist tactics and just infiltration. So that's my goal to
Speaker 3: help enlighten people who see what's going on and try
Speaker 3: to show them like, Okay, here's where these things come from.
Speaker 3: Because I think it's a bigger conspiracy honestly than we realize.
Speaker 2: What does the mass epsodist movement do?
Speaker 3: So what we do is we've provided resources for parents
Speaker 3: who want to help their kids get out of the
Speaker 3: public schooling system or into charter schools. We have resources
Speaker 3: on there to show parents what to do, like the
Speaker 3: steps that they need to take to get their kids
Speaker 3: out of the public the government in doctrination camps as
Speaker 3: I like to call them, if there are any other
Speaker 3: available options in your state, showing you how to navigate that.
Speaker 3: There's different websites that we have there. Basically it's a
Speaker 3: resource for parents because you know, every state is different.
Speaker 3: It's hard to you know, pinpoint everything, but it kind
Speaker 3: of gets you going in the right direction. If you
Speaker 3: want to take that leap and pull your kids out.
Speaker 1: Is that Are you seeing a lot of people wanting
Speaker 1: to do that right now?
Speaker 3: We have seen millions of parents pull their children out
Speaker 3: of these government and doctrination camps since twenty twenty one
Speaker 3: till now. It is only growing and with school choice
Speaker 3: being implemented all over the country, parents realize that they
Speaker 3: want more options when they look and see that these
Speaker 3: reading scores are not you know, they're kind of just
Speaker 3: making them up, you know who as your own child,
Speaker 3: and you can kind of see where they are. You're like,
Speaker 3: wait a minute, this is not lining up with what
Speaker 3: I was told on their court part. And so parents
Speaker 3: are deciding that you know that there's more options, and
Speaker 3: they are exercising their rights on those options.
Speaker 1: Are you optimistic about the next few years, Let's say,
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm just an opti mystic person.
Speaker 1: Same so yeah, but I have to say the last
Speaker 1: few years I really was pessimistic about America for the
Speaker 1: first time in my life. I really thought, if this
Speaker 1: gets any worse like the twenty twenty, you know, twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: early twenty twenties, the whole pandemic years, the cancel culture,
Speaker 1: the strict conformity on the left, all of that, I
Speaker 1: really thought, we're heading in a really dangerous, terrible direction
Speaker 1: and we might not be able to climb out of it.
Speaker 1: And so to see kind of the backlash to it
Speaker 1: now it's nice, but I'm worried.
Speaker 2: I'm still worried overall. But in general I'm an optimistic person.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, And I think it's wise to you know,
Speaker 3: have that maybe not worry, but just you know, keeping
Speaker 3: your eye out to see what's going on, what's bubbling up,
Speaker 3: what is like what the left is up to, because
Speaker 3: they don't seem to be backing down and this, you know,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say it's not a time to kind of,
Speaker 3: you know, rest on our laurels or anything like that,
Speaker 3: because we can see with Another thing that worries me
Speaker 3: is the like all this the rise of the anti
Speaker 3: anti Semitism, like that has First of all, it's kind
Speaker 3: of to me came out of nowhere, was like yeah,
Speaker 3: in the world. And then to see some fellow all
Speaker 3: used to be fellow, you know, other people on the
Speaker 3: right starting to chime in on this, Yeah, guy, that
Speaker 3: makes me concern. A friend of mine who digs really
Speaker 3: deep into these topics, was telling me that when you
Speaker 3: see the rise of like anti Semitism, that is like
Speaker 3: a sign that a nation not doing good at all,
Speaker 3: and like all of us, that too was new to me,
Speaker 3: and they were to me like historically, when you have
Speaker 3: these things, when you have the children being targeted, and
Speaker 3: you have you know, just group specific groups of people,
Speaker 3: just yeah, yes, like that is not a good sign.
Speaker 3: And so historically it hasn't been a good sign, right
Speaker 3: And apparently it's not a good sign. But I've been
Speaker 3: trying to.
Speaker 2: Warn people that it's really not about the Jews.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not good for Jews right now, but
Speaker 1: it's not about the Jews. It's about a real deep
Speaker 1: sickness and society. Like the anti Semitism on the right
Speaker 1: isn't even about I would say, not.
Speaker 2: Really about Jews.
Speaker 1: It's about conspiracy theories and about just falling for the
Speaker 1: most ridiculous conspiracy.
Speaker 2: Theories out there.
Speaker 1: So I get that people are distrustful of, you know,
Speaker 1: the narrative or what they've been told, but a lot
Speaker 1: of the things that are being spread on the right
Speaker 1: are taking that way too far, and that worries me.
Speaker 3: Also, Yeah, I mean it should worry all Americans. You know,
Speaker 3: this idea that we can't Yes, we have been lied to,
Speaker 3: but it's like not about everything.
Speaker 2: Something's actually happened. Dinosaurs existed.
Speaker 3: This was so crazy to me, Like it's like I've
Speaker 3: described it as like it's like postmodernists or like history.
Speaker 3: It's like we can just get history, like you know,
Speaker 3: we we have all the knowledge now, Carol, and so
Speaker 3: everything that you've learned in the past, that's old, that's
Speaker 3: you know, that's that traditional stuff. We don't need experts, absolutely, Yeah,
Speaker 3: anybody is actually studied on anything. We're just because some
Speaker 3: other experts had been wrong in the past, therefore no
Speaker 3: expertise should exist.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 3: World is this? Like, this is I don't mean to
Speaker 3: be it's just dumb, like this just dumb. I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: Like yeah, it's not smart, it's not even they're not
Speaker 3: good takes, they're not sensible. It just doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3: But because a lot of these people that are saying
Speaker 3: this nonsense have huge influence, that is the thing that
Speaker 3: concerns me. It doesn't take much, you know, back to
Speaker 3: Charles Lindbergh and you know, see what he was doing,
Speaker 3: thing like same thing.
Speaker 1: We're going to take a quick break and be right
Speaker 1: back on the Carol Marcowitch Show.
Speaker 2: What keeps you up or what are you kind of
Speaker 2: concerned with?
Speaker 3: My concern is the ability for so many Americans to
Speaker 3: be mass sort of indoctrinate, not sort of, but indoctrinated
Speaker 3: so heavily. That is really because when someone gets indoctrinated,
Speaker 3: like legit indoctrination, which we see like when you start
Speaker 3: believing that a man could be a woman and a
Speaker 3: woman can be a man, like you are fully indoctrinated
Speaker 3: because that is a complete lie. And it's very hard
Speaker 3: to break through those types of that type of brainwashing
Speaker 3: because people really do believed the lie, like it is
Speaker 3: not a theory to them. Anymore. It's not you know,
Speaker 3: they have fully internalized this thinking, this world view, and
Speaker 3: that that to me is concerning because it's like, if
Speaker 3: we can't speak to you and get through to you,
Speaker 3: what do we do? So that is the thing that
Speaker 3: that's on my heart. It's been on my heart for
Speaker 3: quite some time, which I'm determined to I'm writing a
Speaker 3: book on this. Oh good, yes, yes, it's so my family.
Speaker 3: I have a history of cult in my family. Wow, okay, strange.
Speaker 3: My grandmother actually passed away in a cult. And then
Speaker 3: I had another family member, a nephew, who was in
Speaker 3: a cult as well. I've actually interviewed him from my book.
Speaker 3: He's out now, thank god. But seeing the left and
Speaker 3: then seeing my family, when I said, you know, okay,
Speaker 3: I'm not I don't believe in any of these tactics
Speaker 3: and things on the way, I don't believe this ideology.
Speaker 3: The way that they responded as a Christian family was
Speaker 3: very It was jarring to me, and so I'm like,
Speaker 3: wait a minute, this is not just a belief in
Speaker 3: a political party, you know, like a support for a
Speaker 3: political party. This is like beyond that. And so the
Speaker 3: more I looked into and I was like, this is
Speaker 3: like a cult. And so I've been just digging and
Speaker 3: looking and reading yeah, thank you stuff talks that I'm like,
Speaker 3: is this hyperbolic? But the more I read, no, I'm like, no,
Speaker 3: this is how cults behave right, So that I you know,
Speaker 3: there is typically in a cult, there is a like
Speaker 3: a main character or a main personality, and in this
Speaker 3: particular stance, in this particular instance, it is the Democrat Party.
Speaker 3: All roads lead back to this massive institution, and I
Speaker 3: believe that they have become the biggest cult in American history.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know that sounds like a pretty Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking forward to reading this.
Speaker 3: Is this sounds really interesting? Well, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I've been working on it for a few
Speaker 3: years now, and yeah, I look forward to presenting it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll have your back on to talk about it
Speaker 2: more in depth. But I love that. I think that's
Speaker 2: a really cool idea.
Speaker 1: What advice would you give your sixteen year old self?
Speaker 3: I probably I would tell myself that it is okay
Speaker 3: to be you. Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm
Speaker 3: gonna cry. You did the Oprah thing.
Speaker 1: Cry.
Speaker 3: I still struggle with this, just to be quite honest
Speaker 3: of being myself, like, this is what I believe, this
Speaker 3: is what I think, and you know, sometimes it is
Speaker 3: sort of out of the box. You know, it's not conventional,
Speaker 3: but I'm hit it has blessed me throughout my life.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, sometimes I just have a
Speaker 3: lot of second guessing. So I would tell myself it
Speaker 3: is okay to be yourself. What God has put inside
Speaker 3: of you is good and it is good for you
Speaker 3: to express those things. And yes it may be a
Speaker 3: little bit different, but that's okay too.
Speaker 2: Is that what you tell your kids? Also?
Speaker 3: I do. I admire my kids, like they old? Are
Speaker 3: you talking with that? So they are eighteen and sixteen?
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, you don't look old enough to have eighteen
Speaker 1: and sixteen.
Speaker 2: Year olds.
Speaker 3: Neither. How old is you have?
Speaker 1: My oldest is fifteen, fifteen, twelve and nine.
Speaker 3: So why didn't I remember? You had three?
Speaker 1: Yeah, girl and two boys. The girl really tricked us
Speaker 1: into having two more.
Speaker 2: She was too easy.
Speaker 3: So yeah, girls are good. Girls are easy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I always tell people if you have any saying it,
Speaker 1: you know, I have a girl first, and they don't.
Speaker 3: Have to say in it. But you know, jump.
Speaker 2: My joke is if you had control.
Speaker 1: Try to have a girl first, because she really does
Speaker 1: make the whole operation operate a lot smoother.
Speaker 3: They do. They are so different. My little sister has
Speaker 3: five boys.
Speaker 2: Wow, oh yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, drive for the girl. And then they were like,
Speaker 3: they got a boy instead, and so they were like, Okay,
Speaker 3: we're dead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3: They try? They have contributed to humanities.
Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I when I joke about having a fourth, my daughter's like,
Speaker 1: I mean I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: I would not have a fourth.
Speaker 1: But when I used to joke about it, yeah, she
Speaker 1: would be like, well, what if it's another boy, what.
Speaker 2: Are we gonna do? Exactly, They'll be just too many
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's against them at that point exactly.
Speaker 1: Well, I've loved this conversation, Kisha. I think you are fantastic.
Speaker 1: Leave us here with your best tip.
Speaker 2: For my listeners on how they can improve their lives.
Speaker 3: How you can improve your life. Get in a quiet
Speaker 3: place and get closer to God. That is what I
Speaker 3: would say. That's how you can improve your life. The
Speaker 3: God of the Bible. That is what I believe that
Speaker 3: has truly guided me throughout my life. And there is
Speaker 3: no match. There is no match, so that would be
Speaker 3: my advice. Get in a quiet place and get closer
Speaker 3: to God. I love it.
Speaker 2: Find God. Thank you so much for coming on. She
Speaker 2: is Keisha King. Check out the Kisha King Show and
Speaker 2: we're looking forward to this book. Let's let us know
Speaker 2: when it's out.
Speaker 3: Will do. Thank you so much, Carol,