I wonder how Candace will deflect away from this....
As much as it may delight the closet racists in the GOP to hear Candace tell them that she never encountered any race issues in her life....
She will have to explain why she asked the NAACP to help her sue her school over racial bullying....
"Scot X. Esdaile, the Connecticut NAACP president who helped Owens with her lawsuit, was shocked to hear Owens become a conservative. Esdaile told Mic in 2018, “We’re very saddened and disappointed in her. It seems to me that she’s now trying to play to a different type of demographic.” He also said, “It’s the same type of thing Clarence Thomas did. [Thomas] reaped all the benefits of affirmative action and then tried to roll over on it. It’s that kind of mentality and disrespect.” Owens now calls the NAACP “one of the worst groups for Black people,” even though the organization helped her win a racial discrimination lawsuit."
The NAACP helped Candace Owens win a lawsuit where she claimed she was racially harassed, now she says she never had "race issues" growing up.
newsone.com
I thought the NAACP’s mission was to support the advancement of all colored people? What happens when a person of color becomes conservative? Are they no longer eligible for support from the NAACP?
NAACP defended Candace Owens when she needed it. Got her a $37,000 settlement
She threw them under the bus
I wonder how Candace will deflect away from this....
As much as it may delight the closet racists in the GOP to hear Candace tell them that she never encountered any race issues in her life....
She will have to explain why she asked the NAACP to help her sue her school over racial bullying....
"Scot X. Esdaile, the Connecticut NAACP president who helped Owens with her lawsuit, was shocked to hear Owens become a conservative. Esdaile told Mic in 2018, “We’re very saddened and disappointed in her. It seems to me that she’s now trying to play to a different type of demographic.” He also said, “It’s the same type of thing Clarence Thomas did. [Thomas] reaped all the benefits of affirmative action and then tried to roll over on it. It’s that kind of mentality and disrespect.” Owens now calls the NAACP “one of the worst groups for Black people,” even though the organization helped her win a racial discrimination lawsuit."
The NAACP helped Candace Owens win a lawsuit where she claimed she was racially harassed, now she says she never had "race issues" growing up.
newsone.com
I thought the NAACP’s mission was to support the advancement of all colored people? What happens when a person of color becomes conservative? Are they no longer eligible for support from the NAACP?
NAACP defended Candace Owens when she needed it. Got her a $37,000 settlement
She threw them under the bus
The lawsuit says she was being threatened by white boys. Like or dislike Owens, the mission of the NAACP is that they should assist her or any other person in that situation. Does that mean Owens is then forbiddened to disagree with the organization? If so, then you just validated my point that support from the NAACP is conditional.
Owens claimed she was “traumatized” by the racist taunts of a 14 year old white boy.
10 years later she told Fox she had never experienced racism
When and where did she say this? Do you have a link?
Turning Point USA’s Candace Owens talked to Fox News host Laura Ingraham about how Democrats, ahead of the 2016 election, were “laying down the groundwork...
www.marketwatch.com
I thought so. I did a quick search myself and came across this article and wondered if this was what you were referring to. I'm sorry but I have to say, that is not what she said.
She said:
"I do not remember when I was growing up having all of these race issues."
She did not say she never experienced racism herself and, contrary to what IM2 says, she never said racism doesn't exist.
Saying "race issues" is not the same as saying "racism". What she's saying is that the subject of racism and race issues were not as prominent and had not gripped the country as it has in the last few years. Not even you can deny this.
I don't know if Owens has ever said anything along these lines but I and a lot of other people are getting sick and tired of people seeing racism in everything from movie roles to a bowl of corn flakes. It is a major source of frustration and anger for people like myself and Owens.
WTF?
She never experienced any “race issues” until the Evil Black Man Obama but she had no problem pocketing $37,000 because she was so traumatized by racism
She is a con artist whose new scam is bilking Conservatives
Wrong. Again, she said:
"...all of these race issues...". She did not say there were never race issues before and she did not say she never experienced racism.
Not even you can deny that race and racism was not as prominent an issue in this country when she had her experience as it is now. The whole country has gone batshit crazy on the issue to the point that we're seeing and hearing accusations every day by celebs, politicians and others and most of the time they're frivolous.
If you refuse to interpret Owens' remarks the way they were meant because you think she's an Uncle Tom then perhaps you'll accept
my words the way they're meant: There is racism in this country. There was then and there is now. But is the issue of racism more prevalent and at the fore of the national conscience now than it was ten, fifteen years ago? Absolutely. Are we seeing more accusations and allegations of racism now than we did then? Absolutely. Are some of these accusations spurious and false? Absolutely.
So you see, it's possible to acknowledge that racism exists while at the same time decrying the hysteria and paranoia that has sprung up around the issue.
Racism itself is damaging enough. But when people are seeing racism where there is none and making kneejerk accusations because of a misunderstanding or lack of information, it is even more damaging.
I was called a liar by IM2 because I'm white and he called me racist for nothing more than disagreeing with him. JoeB calls me racist for defending Nick Sandmann when Sandmann did nothing but stand there and smile at a guy who got in his face unprovoked.
These are just a couple of personal examples but it shows how it has gotten completely out of control and it is damaging lives of those who don't deserve it.
Why do Conservatives struggle so much with our language?
Why do liberals?
It's simple English composition and it's a simple comment with no room for interpretation. Seriously, how do you get
"I never experienced racism" out of "
I do not remember when I was growing up (the country)
having all of these race issues."? (insert is mine)
Racism does not qualify as a “race issue”?
Of course it does. But I'm not the one constraining the context, you are.
"Race issue" entails
any matter pertaining to race relations. Ergo, this involves people saying a decorative cotton plant is racist or that a white person with dreadlocks is race or cultural appropriation.
Before ten to fifteen years ago we hardly ever heard these kinds of ridiculous claims and accusations and now we hear them every ******* day.
I am honestly baffled as to how you can look at the fact that race issues, accusations and allegations have exploded in the last few years and not know what Owens is talking about. You're not stupid so you know this as well as I do.
She cashed in her $37,000 payout the year before Obama was elected. Then claimed Obama was responsible for the race issues in this country?
Knowing that other blacks have switched parties and changed their minds about Trump while not receiving a dime to do so, I fail to see your point.
I have yet to see any significant change in black support of Trump
Does that make it a “race issue”?
Sigh That's not the point. The point is, other blacks have switched parties and/or changed their minds about Trump and none of them have gained anything from it except disdain from other blacks. In fact, many were conservatives and supported Trump from the beginning. So this argument that Owens only switched for the money is specious.
There is no proof of that
Oh, so now you want proof after making an entirely subjective judgment about why Owens switched parties. Incredible.
The fact that Owens has a history of demanding payment for racial discrimination,
A "history" of demanding payment for racial discrimination? It was just the one lawsuit, was it not?
started a far left website that was critical of Trump, shut it down and emerged six months later as an arch conservative and FoxNews darling is not suspicious to you?
Why would it be? I leaned left myself at one time and eventually became a conservative. So what?
So are you telling me that being a victim of white discrimination and bashing Trump paid off for her so she decided to, what, go in the completely opposite direction out of greed?
Seems to me that remaining a Democrat racism victim would have been more lucrative.
No, it didn't pay off for her you dunce...
$37,000.
This is why she switched.....if it paid off for her --- you would have known who she was "BEFORE" then.....because she would have been yet another black liberal whom you folks love to demonize....
And now she's a black conservative whom
you folks love to demonize....
Tell me, what is the moral difference between conservatives demonizing a black liberal and liberals demonizing a black conservative?
But ironically, it wasn't until she started putting on a minstrel show for the entertainment of closet racists did she become popular.....and due to the thirst and desperation of closet racists to find them a black minstrel that they can use to say "hey, we're not racist, we have a black woman ...look at her" -- ONLY because of that desperation did she instantly become a millionaire...
Wait, is she a millionaire? If so, how do you know this?
And what is her claim to fame?? Did she work with conservative politicians and think tanks to get some major policy initiatives passed? Nope....she is famous because she is a black woman saying things closet racists wish they could say....
She's famous because she's a black woman saying things that few other blacks are saying. That's it. And do you know who is partly responsible for making her famous? People like you. All of your bitter vitriol and your hypocritical judgments against her accomplished nothing more than shoring up support for her from conservatives and making her even more famous.
Now just think about it.....for someone who has had a history of bashing conservatives as racist, bashing Trump -- you would think a person like that would have to prove themselves for at least a couple of years before her so-called conversion can be taken seriously --- and not some grift.....but again, since closet racists are so desperate to find them a black minstrel -- they didn't even bother to ask about her past....
Did
you bother to ask her? What do you actually know about this woman other than that she now expresses a viewpoint you disagree with?
This is also the same reason this guy did a similar thing....and now he is famous ONLY for claiming he is a thug -- but a thug for Trump....and morons like yourself pour money into his pockets too.....and this guy basically admits he is doing it for the money...and yall still don't care....
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Morons like myself? I don't even know who the **** this guy is let alone gave him any money.
Get your facts straight before making these kinds of allegations.
Let me make it simple for you......this black woman was able to scam Trumpers out of thousands and thousands of dollars just because she pretended to be a Trump supporter who was being attacked by the "left" --- and since these Trumpers are so desperate to buy into this "Walkaway" nonsense -- they fell for it.....that is ONLY possible when your party is so unpopular among black folks -- that just announcing you are a black republican gets you treated like a celebrity...
Who’s scamming who in this situation?
nymag.com
I couldn't help but notice that you reserve all your revulsion and disdain for those who believed her scam rather than for the person who perpetrated the scam. Even the author himself says at one point:
"Everyone loves a good scam and she seemed to be scamming the right people."
"Everyone loves a good scam"? What color is the sky where this idiot lives? And "...scamming the right people."? So it's morally okay to scam conservatives?
It is precisely this kind of hypocrisy that compels people like Owens to switch allegiances. But you'd rather believe that they do so out of malice and greed because it's easier for you.