Candace Owens blasts American Booksellers Association’s ‘unspeakable, explicit racism’ after it reportedly characterized her book as racist



Conservative commentator Candace Owens hit out at American Booksellers Association CEO Allison Hill for reportedly suggesting that her book, "Blackout: How Black America Can Make its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation," is racist, according to The Daily Wire.

In a fiery tweet, Owens called for an apology from both Hill and ABA.

What are the details?

The outlet reports that the ABA accidentally promoted Owens' book in July, inadvertently conflating Owens' book with another bearing a similar name.

"In July, the organization mistook a social-justice-themed teen romance titled 'Blackout,' for Candace Owens' best-selling book ... sending out a cover image of Owens' book to approximately 750 stores" the outlet reported.

Outraged shop owners immediately railed against the ABA and Hill for promoting the book, which prompted Hill in early August to issue an apology for what she referred to as a "serious, violent incident."

"It was a terrible mistake with terrible racist implications," Hill said at the time in her letter to impacted bookstores. "However, based on our investigation and the demonstrated diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) commitment of these individuals, we have no reason to believe that the action was malicious in intention. The employees are very apologetic and very committed to vigilance going forward. They have been held accountable and have agreed to training, both on procedures as well as on DEI, and we have added layers of checks and balances to this process."

What is Owens saying now?

In response to Hill's statement, Owens on Wednesday took to Twitter and called for a public apology from the association and its CEO.

She began, "I am calling for a public apology from @ABAbook and Allison Hill. It is an act of unspeakable, explicit racism for a white woman to send around an e-mail slandering and denigrating an autobiographical book from a black woman who came from nothing. We cannot accept this racism."

"For those of you that don't know, the CEO of American Bookseller's Association (@ABAbook) recently sent around an email, apologizing for promoting my book and labeling my book as racist. This is the CEO, Allison Hill, who sees no irony in calling a black woman racist."

I am calling for a public apology from @ABAbook and Allison Hill. It is an act of unspeakable, explicit racism for… https://t.co/t2eKx01aus

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) 1628712200.0

Booksellers group apologizes to LGBTQIA+ community for 'serious, violent' recommendation of a politically incorrect book



The American Booksellers Association offered a groveling apology to transgender people who were upset at their "serious" and "violent" recommendation of a book questioning the transgender agenda.

The statement issued on Monday said that the recommendation had been made to their members in their July mailing.

"This is a serious, violent incident that goes against ABA's ends policies, values, and everything we believe and support. It is inexcusable," the ABA statement read.

"We apologize to our trans members and to the trans community for this terrible incident and the pain we caused them. We also apologize to the LGBTQIA+ community at large, and to our bookselling community," the statement continued.

"Apologies are not enough," the statement concluded. "We've begun addressing this today and are committed to engaging in the critical dialogue needed to inform concrete steps to address the harm we caused. Those steps will be shared in the next three weeks."

Transgender people took to social media to bash the ABA for inclusion of the book titled, "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters," by Wall Street Journal columnist Abigail Shrier.

@ABAbook I'm seething. I was excited to open our July white box, and then the first book I pulled out is “Irreversi… https://t.co/DoC1g339uX
— Casey (@CaseyBookEater) 1626278924.0

"I'm seething," said one member. "Do you know how that feels, as a trans bookseller and book buyer? It isn't even a new title, so it really caught me in the gut. Do better."

"I need @ABAbook to explain how this happened, with an outline of how they will recitify this and avoid promoting transphobic hate speech in the future. I am one of many trans booksellers at my bookstore, and I plan on writing a letter with our union asking for accountability," complained another critic.

The publisher of Shrier's book said that Amazon had suspended their ad campaign in June 2020, and in November, Target was forced to put the book back on sale on its website after many complained.

Here's more about the book by Abigail Shrier:

Exposing the Reality of the Transgender Craze in Teen Girls | Abigail Shrier | WOMEN | Rubin Reportwww.youtube.com