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.
Quite a metamorphosis from Owens
From arch Liberal to arch Conservative in a few months
You do realize that she's not the only black person to make the switch, yes? And you do realize that other blacks who switched received no money for doing so, right?
What positive message has Candace really given too anyone?
It goes without saying that if you don't agree with her views, it will not be a positive message to you.
And continuing with the greed line of argument continues to ignore the fact that other blacks have switched with no financial gain.
Name a few.
I will when you give me proof that Owens only switched out of greed.
She learned the Diamond and Silk lesson
There is one thing that neither you, IM2 or any other Candace Owens-hater has bothered to do to gain some actual knowledge and perspective on this: Ask her.
You have. So what did she say?
We are still waiting for her to tell us what time period America was great for black folks, for some odd reason she couldn't answer that question.
This is irrelevant to the question I asked. I asked if anyone ever asked her why she switched.
Besides, I saw that video. Every time she tried to answer the idiot kept shouting her down. Sorry, but this one doesn't cut it.
What do you actually know about this transition of hers other than that it seemed (to you) to happen so quickly? Don't give me "It looks suspicious" or speculation, assumption and conjecture. What do you actually know?
She claims she has never experienced any racism, which was found to not be true.
Wrong. She never made that claim.
“Obama did a lot to tear this country apart. I do not remember when I was growing up, having all these race issues, okay? I really don’t remember it. And suddenly, toward the end of Obama, we started hearing all of this rhetoric drummed up. It became White versus Black all over again. I shouldn’t even say all over again because when I was alive, it was not an issue. It all became about race. Candace Owens.
I see nowhere in this quote that she said she never experienced racism.
The subject of race, racism and cultural appropriation have gripped this country like it never has before, even when she was a victim of racism. This is what she was talking about.
She didn't say
racism was not an issue, she said
race was not an issue like it is today. Meaning, we've never had this level of accusations, allegations and paranoia about race. We didn't have the problem we have today of people making issues about race that are not.
The way Owens and people like myself see it, racism exists. However, the number of people being publicly accused of racism has skyrocketed. People are being accused of racism for everything from smiling at an elderly Native American to not showing the proper level of contrition for white privilege. We're being hounded from all directions and usually it's for the most ridiculous reasons imaginable.
This switch she has done is just like those 2 boot licking clowns Diamond and Silk, it is any opportunity for a financial gain.
Did Diamond and Silk switch or were they always conservatives?
What did they switch from?
Ask him, he's the one who said it.
