Candace Owens Holds Her Ground When Questioned By Congress

witness may not refer to remember the committee is stupid I didn't refer to him as dude but that's not what I said that's not what I said at all you didn't listen to what I said may I continue please Ms Owens I'm gonna direct these questions to you if I may I don't know that you've seen this but it's a memorandum that the majority Democrats prepare for the committee members and in this memorandum they go through the various witness names and organizations that they represent the anti-defamation league we call Justice Society the lawyers Committee for civil rights under law and then we get to you oh my goodness Candis Owens director of communications at the conservative nobody else is described as progressive or liberal but you are described as a conservative advocacy group Turning Point USA and a conservative commentator and political activist known for her criticism of black lives matter and the Democrat Party I think you've caused my friends on the left to to go to their safe spaces and I'd love to explore with you a little bit of the reason for that did you consider yourself a conservative I am a conservative yes okay are you pro-life I am pro-life okay does that trigger people when you see them that they know that you're pro-life it makes them very upset and Democrats hate me do you own a gun pardon you own a gun no sir well next time you come to Colorado we'll thank your shooting are you a Christian yes I am are you proud of your family I'm very proud of my family okay let me ask you something you hate Americans with black skin color absolutely not I actually love Americans with black skins color so much that I'm willing to fall on a sword a thousand times for them to wake up and realize that we are being lied to abused and used by the Democrat Party how about Americans with white skin color you hate them I do not and that's a problem for people on the left do you hate Hispanics I do not do you hate of Asians I do not lesbians or gays or anybody from the LGBTQ community nope I've got all of that in my family I'm baffled because in the chairman's opening statement he said that you openly associate with purveyors of hate yes purveyors of hate by his definition is anybody that supports the president I support the president because he's done a tremendous job in helping the black community despite all of the rhetoric from the media and leftists just do not want him to be successful tell me a little bit about how the president has helped the black community if you would please well he's lowered the black unemployment rate it's the lowest it's ever been in the history he's getting us off of our feet we see I believe the last number I checked was 3.5 million people are off of food stamps something that the Black Caucus sat down and didn't applaud neither did any of the Democrats applauded because they want a system where blacks are dependent on the government they are people that put in place the policies that broke down the black family and the biggest problem that's facing our community is father absence in every room that I've been in with the president he talks about real issues and he doesn't pander to us he doesn't do I was an g Ocasio cortezes southern drawl accent and speaking to us like we're slaves he asks us important questions and the most important question you could have asked was black America what do you have to lose because they were already losing under Democrat leadership do you believe that you openly associate with purveyors of hate I absolutely do not I have no tolerance for hate whatsoever do you believe that college campuses should be open discussions or there should be open discussions on college campuses for various issues I absolutely do you know I do a campus tour tonight I'm flying up to University of Connecticut to continue that and we are being met with aggressive leftist groups a3n Tifa chapters have declared they're gonna try to shut it down and we face this violence every day I'm a left and nobody ever wants to talk about it and I guess I was gonna ask you you went on to explain it before I got a chance to but have you ever been disinvited from speech opportunities at college campuses because of your conservative views all the time um does that form a hatred do you think of course it is and we're not talking enough about political hatred in this country we're not talking enough about conservative activists being attacked like myself we had a student whose dorm was set on fire for being a member of a turning-point chapter and all we preach is for free markets and capitalism as a means to lift the most people out of poverty that is my belief and of course my main thesis is that black people do not have to be Democrats we are not owned by the left and I understand that causes some people trouble so as a conservative you've attended many conservative events and and visited with many conservatives and I am not denying for a moment that there are white supremacist and we should condemn white supremacy but there are Nazis and we should condemn Nazis that there are hateful groups all across the political spectrum and we should condemn those but in your interactions with conservatives have you seen hateful speech bigotry racism among the Conservatives that you've associated with I speak in front of conservatives probably three times a week I jump on a stage and I say everything Pro black and they are so supportive and they applaud all they want is for black Americans to realize that they are Americans first and foremost conservatives are patriots the president is a patriot and I'm a patriot and there is no skin color and patriotism thank God we have you thank you very much for being here I also you know I'm riffing on something that mr. buck gentleman from Colorado was talking about but in the listing of witnesses in the Chairman's memo it is something I've not seen in my brief time in Congress or indeed in my many years of legislative service in my home state that is an editorial comment about a witness some might even consider that this not-so-subtle editorializing is in an of itself an indicia of animus it's unfortunate but it demonstrates how easy it is to let one's bias appear even in what is supposed to be an innocuous listing of witnesses for the sake of yes I will yield sir I assume you're referring to what is written about Candis Owens where it says she's the director of communications at the conservative advocacy group Turning Point USA and a conservative commentator and political activist known for a criticism of black lives matters and at the end of the Democratic Party I don't think she could quarrel with the accuracy of that it's a simple statement of who she is reclaiming my time what I will say about this is you never ever see anybody characterized in any other list of witnesses this is the first time I've ever seen that other than the stating what they represent or the group that they are from this is seemingly seemingly anyway going beyond the bounds of what is the norm that is an indication to me of how easy it is to demonstrate animus and so it meets for a logical question of Ms Owens what she's already addressed in some respect is as used talk miss Owens and you go to universities I couldn't go to UConn tonight do you receive hate speech directed at you all the time and I really do feel that the media and the left has made it okay and I do just want to add that my biography which I submitted you reduced it to one sentence calling me a just a conservative activist and it wasn't what I said or what I submitted to your office last night no I just think that you opened with anti-black bias and I see it coming from the chairman today and miss Owens these efforts to shut you down when you speak publicly on issues that you care about under the protection of the First Amendment are they peaceful no they're they're really scary they threaten us online perpetually I received threatening letters to my home when the media drums up narratives and pretends that I hate black people or that I hate gays that I hate Muslims with no evidence supporting any of those claims but they're inviting is for people to think it's okay to be violent towards me when they see me they want to make it an act of virtue your people to be violent towards black conservatives that are outspoken and there are on occasion false accusations and staged hate crimes what impact did those have on actual real hate crimes it makes it harder I think for people to come forward for people to believe it I don't see enough condemning of what Jesse Smollett did I went to this nation in terms of tearing us apart and and causing it to be and obviously the left was quick to believe him and put him on a platform despite absolutely no evidence and it just makes it harder again it just makes it harder for us to come together as a nation which i think is what the president is trying to do bring everybody together and mrs. Owens are you familiar with the case of Isabella Chao who is a UC Berkeley senator who was harassed because of a position - she took I'm not well miss chow took position of basically abstaining from a vote due to religious concerns and was harassed out of her position and she was hate speech galore all arising and and going forward so it isn't that that there isn't hate speech it's that we need to condemn all hate speech I definitely agree we need to condemn all hate speech there's only one type of hate speech like that they like to talk about and give a platform to it there is a double standard in this country and a double standard I think is being felt the most by black conservatives the Jewish community and Christians so let me begin with you if I can I think it's fair to say that you didn't start off on the conservative side of the ledger is that correct that's correct I was liberal okay and so just on a couple of issues and you mentioned them in your statement but just to go back to them if you could tell us again kind of what they are and and what what hatred that you've experienced as a result of having this point of view um you mentioned the term flex it would you describe what that is and what hate that you've experienced as a result of your position on that I launched a movement called blex it which is the black exit from a Democrat Party when I became educated about the issues and stopped reacting emotionally which is what the left wants us to do presumably when they hold up pictures of burning churches I began to examine the facts and and look at some of the narratives they were spinning for example in 2016 it was police brutality and I realized that they are dissuading us against our own best interests and I wanted to have a more productive dialogue with the black community about the issues that are actually affecting us and impacting us when I announced that I was a conservative I've never seen anything more racist more disgusting more vitriolic it more hate that's coming away in my entire life and the things that Democrats and the media say about me today I've been referred to as an Uncle Tom of bed wench proposed you that don't know that means a slave that sleeps with the master a house naked nigger and these are all words that have been said over and over again about black conservatives we have the audacity to think for themselves become educated about our history and the myth of things like this southern switch and the Southern Strategy which never happened you mentioned I think let me ask you this I think you did on the life issue you're pro-life is that is that accurate that's correct and I started off pro-choice and what what sort of hatred if any of you experienced turned you yes well that hate tends to come majority from Caucasian Democrats when I start telling the truth about the fact that the community that is the most impacted by abortion is the black community 800 to 900 black babies are aborted every single day that amounts to about 18 million black babies aborted since 1973 and the black population has stagnated or we are not our population growth has stagnated completely these are the kinds of logical discussions that I've had that have earned me all the titles that we discussed before I would like to take my time to yield to miss Owens if there's anything that's been said I'm the last Republican here so if there's anything that you would like to respond to I'd like to give you the balance of my time to do that yes I actually wanted to respond to congressman Cicilline because he was making references to me and I thought that was a bit cowardly he said he was dishonest when he said that the president refused to condemn white nationalism suppose just literally gave the exact quote the president doing just that he does not want to accept the reality of the president has under multiple occasions condemned white supremacy and white nationalism and the best condemnation of that is in President helping the black community every single day with his policies he also brought up family separation this seems to only be an issue for illegals at the border and nobody ever wants to talk about black babies being separated from the womb of black mothers so if you actually cared about that he would be embracing me and lastly he brought up the rhetoric of the President as in the same breath that he referred to me as despicable I'm tired of hearing a left refer to people as despicable as deplorable we are Americans we are patriots and even if we disagree with you name-calling should not be something that is done especially in these chambers in congressional hearings the minority party gets to select its own witnesses and of all the people the Republicans could have selected they picked Candace Owens I don't know miss Owens I'm not gonna characterize her I'm gonna let her own word do the talking I'm gonna play for you the first 30 seconds of a statement she made about Adolf Hitler I actually don't have any problems at all with the word nationalism I think that it gets the definition gets poisoned by leaders that actually want globalism globalism is what I what I don't want so when you think about whenever we see nationalism the first thing people think about in at least in America is Hitler you know he was a National Socialist but if Hitler just wanted to make Germany green and have things run well okay fine problem is is that he wanted he had dreams outside of Germany he wanted to globalize he wanted everybody to be German everybody to be speaking German mrs. Owen miss Owens I'm sorry we just started recording would you like time to respond to that yes um I think it's pretty apparent that mr. lube believes that black people are stupid and will not pursue the full clip in its entirety he purposely presented an extract mixture clip will suspend for a moment it is not proper to refer to spera jingly or with to a member of the committee the witness will not do that again witness may continue sure even though I was called despicable witness may not refer to remember the committee is stupid I didn't refer to him as - but that's not what I said it's not what I said at all you didn't listen to what I said may I continue please as I said he is assuming that black people will not go pursue the full - our clip and he purposefully extracted he cut off and you didn't hear the question that was asked of me he's trying to present as if I was launching a defense of Hitler in Germany when in fact the question that was asked of me was returning to whether or not I believed that Hitler was a whether or not I believed in nationalism and that nationalism was bad and what I responded to is that I do not believe that we should be characterizing Hitler as a nationalist he was a homicidal psychopathic maniac that killed his own people a nationalist would not kill their own people that is exactly what I was referring to in the clip and he purposely wanted to give you a cut up similar to what they do to Donald Trump to create a different narrative that was unbelievably dishonest and did not allow me to respond to it which is worrisome and should tell you a lot about where people are today in terms of trying to drum up narratives by the way I would like to also add that I work for Prager University which is run by an Orthodox Jew on a single Democrat showed up to the embassy opening in Jerusalem I sat on a plane for 18 hours to make sure that I was there I'm deeply offended by the insinuation of revealing that clip without the question that was asked of me [Music] you

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