Candace Owens tells R.I. crowd that Democrats 'brainwash' blacks

I'm a bit late with this article, but didn't see a prior post about it so here goes:


Posted Sep 22, 2019 at 5:59 PM

PROVIDENCE — Candace Owens, a conservative political commentator, praised President Donald Trump and discussed her theories about what she called the Democratic Party’s “brainwashing” of black Americans during a talk at a Rhode Island Young Republicans event Saturday night.

“The key to saving America and saving Western civilization is waking up black America,” said Owens, sparking applause from the mostly white audience of about 150 people at the Rhode Island Convention Center. “There’s no group of people that has been more lied to, more abused and more used by the Democrat Party.”

Owens, who is black, said she believes that the Democratic Party pushes a narrative about racism in America to curry favor within the black community. Owens founded an organization called “Blexit” based on this premise, and says her goal is to show people of color that they are not victims of systemic racism.

″[Democrats] treat minorities like puppies that need rescuing,” she said. “They don’t know what to make of a black American who says, ‘Oh no, I’m not oppressed.’”

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