Be Free: Candace Owens shares her desire for ‘every black American’
Article By Teresa Paige // EEW Magazine // Politics
Candace Owens, a conservative activist, said, “I want every black American to know that we’ve been running the race of life with an unnecessary weight upon our shoulders.”
The former communications director for Turning Point USA, tweeted, “We can set down the weight of victimhood and run this race as God intended us to: freely.”
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The social media message posted Sunday, Nov. 3, was in promotion of an upcoming event hosted by “Blexit,” the political movement she founded devoted to encouraging fellow African Americans to leave the Democratic Party and become registered Republicans.
Whether you agree with her or not, Owens, 30, is responsible for a new surge of young, African American Republicans voices, and she praises gospel artist Kanye West and her organization for “the awakening within black America,” calling it, “the most inspiring thing happening in the conservative movement right now.”
Though Owens has not always been conservative, she said the switch happened “when I became educated about the issues and stopped reacting emotionally, which is what the left wants us to do presumably when they hold up pictures of burning churches.”
On numerous occasions, the Stamford, Connecticut native has decried what she views as the Democrat party’s parading of lightening rod social issues and racially divisive topics to keep the black vote and maintain power.
“I began to examine the facts and look at some of the narratives they were spinning—for example in 2016 it was police brutality—and I realized that they are dissuading us against our own best interests,” she said. “And I wanted to have a more productive dialogue with the black community about the issues that are actually affecting us, and impacting us.”
Owens claims it was that shift in her ideology that made her a target for hate by the media and members of the Democrat party.
“I’ve been referred to as an Uncle Tom, a bed wench—for those of you that don’t know, that means a slave that sleeps with the Master— a House N*gger, and these are all words that have been said over and over again about black conservatives when they have the audacity to think for themselves,” she said.
Despite the criticism and controversy that constantly swirls around her, Owens’ organization is going strong and is attracting millennials in droves.
Speaking of millennials, she tweeted, “When we look back at the age of millennials, our legacy will be ‘that period of time in western civilization where life had gotten so great that people began making up problems.’ My generation is suffering from peace.”
One of her primary goals it to combat the victim narrative, and empower people of color to think of themselves. The response among liberals is overwhelmingly negative, but among conservatives, it is overwhelmingly positive.
Clearly, she is a polarizing figure but undeniably an important one.
