When asked if it was problematic that
white supremacist groups, such as the
Ku Klux Klan, support Trump, Owens answered that "
Antifa" was more prevalent than the KKK.
[58] Owens has said that the media cover the KKK during Trump's presidency to hurt him.
[64] In a 2019 hearing on
hate crimes, Owens referred to the KKK as a "Democrat terrorist organization".
[65] After the 2017
Unite the Right rally in
Charlottesville, Virginia, Owens said that concern over rising
white nationalism was "stupid".
[2] She has also called it "just election rhetoric" and "based on the hierarchy of what's impacting minority Americans, if I had to make a list of 100 things, white nationalism would not make the list."
[66] In 2018, Owens dismissed reports of a resurgence in hate crimes, saying "All of the violence this year primarily happened because of people on the left."
[58] On Facebook, Owens wrote "I proudly self-identify as an
Uncle Tom".
[67]

Owens in 2019
During her April 2019 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on the rise of hate crimes and white supremacists in the United States, Owens made the claim that the Southern strategy employed by the Republican Party to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans was a "myth" that "never happened"