Why does black America hate Candace Owens?



Candace Owens’ departure from the Daily Wire appears to have sparked even more animus toward her, especially where it concerns the black conservative community.

Why?

This is the subject of Jason Whitlock and Shemeka Michelle’s conversation.

Owens has come under intense fire for using the phrase “Christ is King” during conversations surrounding the ongoing war between Israel and Palestine. Many have called her use of the expression "anti-Semitic" — granted, she has been openly critical of Israel’s war on Gaza — and even questioned the authenticity of her Christian faith.

“When I saw her say [Christ is King] the first time a few months back, I didn't really believe it simply because she hadn't been talking that way previously,” says Shemeka. However, “I think that people can find Christ and then all of a sudden just become very spirited and passionate about it.”

Jason agrees, adding, “I do think it's possible that she's just on fire right now for Christ, and I want to give her grace, even if she's making some missteps.”

Last week, Owens was interviewed on “The Breakfast Club” podcast, hosted by Charlamagne Tha God, and apparently, the political commentator missed an opportunity to connect with the black community when she performed poorly on a quiz that referenced various aspects of black culture.

Further, on March 15, Owens had a conversation with Joe Budden on “The Joe Budden Podcast,” during which she disapproved of specific black artists in the hip-hop community, including Lizzo, Ice Spice, and Sexyy Red, which only fueled the accusations that Owens is “anti-black.”

Jason, however, thinks much of the animosity toward Owens is a result of jealousy.

“Some of these attacks on Candace are just jealousy” stemming from “the attention she gets and the opportunities she gets,” he says.

Shemeka thinks that in addition to jealousy, there’s something else playing into the hatred for Candace Owens.

“Candace not being married to a black man is going to” lead many black people to ask: “If you love [black men] so much, why didn't you marry one?” she tells Jason.

But Jason understands that Candace has “[limited her] dating pool with black people tremendously,” considering her political affiliations.

On “The Breakfast Club,” when asked why she speaks openly about the black family when she married a white man, Candace explained that love, not race, led her to marry her husband, who she says is intellectually compatible with her. Many, of course, took this as a slight against black mens’ IQs.

“I thought her answer was transparent and appropriate and not in any way disrespectful to black people,” says Jason.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip below.


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Candace Owens and Megyn Kelly just had a HEATED debate over Palestine



Support for Palestine has been growing rapidly on college campuses, and some conservatives are calling for the cancellation of these students from the job market.

One of these conservatives is Megyn Kelly, who recently posted on X that if college students “are not ‘persuaded’ that murdering babies is wrong, there is no ‘persuading’ them. We don’t hire those who do the killing & we don’t hire those who applaud the killers while the savagery is underway.”

That’s when Candace Owens jumped in to disagree, calling Kelly’s argument “disingenuous.”

Owens continued to recall her own college days, when she was “radically pro-choice” and was glad she “didn’t get put on a conservative black list for wanting babies murdered.”

“As it turned out I was just young and temporarily brainwashed from a public school education coupled with mainstream Hollywood lies and not because I legitimately wanted to see infants torn from their mother’s wombs,” Owens added.

Kelly retorted by saying she looks forward to seeing those college students on Owens' show, but she herself will only be hiring “the ones who saw murdered grandmas and entire families burned in their homes and easily identified this as a terrorist attack they would never in a million years defend.”

Jason Whitlock likes both Owens and Kelly and believes this is a debate that needs to be had.

“I am a tiny bit confused and perplexed on what we do with this lost generation of young people who have been, as Candace pointed out, brainwashed by an educational system that has been rigged to brainwash them, and this starts long before college,” Whitlocks says.

Whitlock notes that the educational system is largely dominated by leftists, because leftists are less money-driven — and teachers don’t make a lot of money.

“We didn’t make the sacrifice necessary to hold on and to have a voice in these institutions that shape the minds of young people,” he explains.

“So,” he continues, “this is where I’m sympathetic or believe in Candace’s position. These kids we’re looking at out in the street supporting Hamas — they’re victims of the system that we created.”


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