Current Events > Candace Owens: I do not remember growing up having all of these race issues

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Also Candace Owens: Sued Stamford Board of Education at age 18 of not doing enough to protect her from racist harassment by white classmates and defended by the NAACP

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Black conservative Candace Owens was called to the carpet this week after arguing that race was not an issue for her when she was younger, seemingly forgetting a racial discrimination case she filed just 10 years ago. It was during a Tuesday appearance on The Ingraham Angle that Owens blamed Barack Obama for deepening the nations racial divide and accused Democrats of using awful name-calling rhetoric as a means of laying down the groundwork for Hillary [Clinton] to run in the 2016 election.

Obama did a lot to tear the country apart, the pundit told host Fox News Laura Ingraham. I do not remember, growing up, having all of these race issues. I really dont remember it. Owens, a right-wing provocateur and Donald Trump supporter, continued railing against Obama and smeared the former president for buying into what she called the myth of police brutality. Suddenly toward the end of Obamas [term], we started hearing all of this rhetoric drummed up it became white versus black all over again, she argued. I shouldnt even say all over again, because when I was alive, this was not an issue. It all became about race.

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The lawsuit, filed in May, accused the city of "failing to act in part because one of the callers is the son of Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy." The exact amount the Board of Education paid the family of Candace Owens, now an 18-year-old Stamford High graduate, was made public yesterday after The Advocate filed a Freedom of Information request last week.

The Board of Education spent an additional $25,000 on legal expenses, including representation by a Hartford law firm, Shipman & Goodwin LLP, school board spokeswoman Sarah Arnold said. The case was terminated two weeks ago at a settlement conference, according to court records. As part of the settlement, the Board of Education denied any wrongdoing and liability.

Last February, at least one of five teenagers sitting in a car left messages threatening to kill Owens, who is black, and repeatedly used a racial epithet. In one of three messages, one of them referred to her as "dirty" and threatened to burn her house down and tar and feather her.

The group included Malloy's youngest son, Sam, then 14. The mayor released a statement in March saying his son cooperated with police and did not know the alleged ringleader, Evan Kopek, or Owens before the night of the calls. He has declined comment since then. Kopek, now 18, was a former friend and classmate of Owens. Two days before the phone incident, they had a shouting match during class. School officials suspended Kopek for that but would not discipline him and the other boys for an incident committed off school grounds unless the police made an arrest, which drew criticism from the state National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Owens left school for six weeks, saying it was traumatic to attend with the alleged callers. She returned after Kopek was arrested in late March.

Almost like she's a lying grifter being used to sell a narrative...

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Wonder how much Candace initially priced her soul at
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Proof she was born yesterday.
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Candace Owens is an actual moron

I hope she's at least getting paid to say this bullshit
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Lock her up
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I'm amazed that she's okay with the GOP rolling her out whenever they need to say "we're not racists, we have a black friend"

Must be some fat checks they're writing her
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Tired-Insomniac posted...

I'm amazed that she's okay with the GOP rolling her out whenever they need to say "we're not racists, we have a black friend"

Must be some fat checks they're writing her

Once you start taking that money from the Koch's, you just can't stop

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And can someone please explain where the whole "Obama made race relations worse than ever" bullshit came from? I see it all the time from people on the right but there's never an explanation.
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Tired-Insomniac posted...

And can someone please explain where the whole "Obama made race relations worse than ever" bullshit came from? I see it all the time from people on the right but there's never an explanation.

People trying to hide their racism behind the emergence of smartphones and therefore video cameras being pretty much everywhere to capture racists in action and post it online

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MacadamianNut3 posted...

Tired-Insomniac posted...

And can someone please explain where the whole "Obama made race relations worse than ever" bullshit came from? I see it all the time from people on the right but there's never an explanation.

People trying to hide their racism behind the emergence of smartphones and therefore video cameras being pretty much everywhere to capture racists in action and post it online

Exactly, social media wasn't even really a thing yet in 2008. At least not anywhere near the level it is now.
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Tired-Insomniac posted...

And can someone please explain where the whole "Obama made race relations worse than ever" bullshit came from? I see it all the time from people on the right but there's never an explanation.

It usually boils all down to the "Trayvon could have been my son" comment he made as well as his responses to the Ferguson and Baltimore riots(and others) in 2014. It's complete and utter bullshit and it's amazing that being as damn milquetoast and non confrontational as Obama was during all of that it still was too much of a response.

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Tired-Insomniac posted...

And can someone please explain where the whole "Obama made race relations worse than ever" bullshit came from? I see it all the time from people on the right but there's never an explanation.

Obama did very little in regards to race relations himself beyond not defaulting to "we love our boys in blue" in regards to cops shooting unarmed black men, and not calling BLM a terrorist organization. He basically paid lip service to the idea that racism was not quite over and scarcely did anything beyond that except occasionally form ineffective task forces or have meetings with movement leaders.

According to right wingers, yes, the president doing these tepid things was an attempt at driving a national divide between races for the sake of voting. Keep in mind these are the same people that say that Trump constantly telling the country that we are being invaded by homicidal mexican druglords has nothing to do with the recent spike in right wing terrorist attacks in the country o take that with a grain of salt.

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Well. She was either lying then or lying now.

Malfunction posted...

Candace Owens is an actual moron

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Smashingpmkns posted...

Wonder how much Candace initially priced her soul at

Tree fiddy
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Esrac posted...

Well. She was either lying then or lying now.

She probably lied both times.

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