Candace Owens - Liberty University Convocation

well we have two exciting combos today and Friday before fall break and I want to first tell you about an opportunity you know Liberty's only three hours from Washington DC so we try to give our students an opportunity to get involved in national politics penny penny Nance his head of Concerned Women for America she's on our board she went to Liberty her daughter is her daughter still here Claire anyway she's called me this week and she said that Yale is sending a large group of students to protest tomorrow the appointment of Judge Cavanaugh to the Supreme Court and so she offered to pay for 150 of our students to come up tomorrow we agreed to match that we're gonna send buses for 150 more so if you want to be excused from classes tomorrow go to Washington and counter what the Yale students are doing support judge Cavanaugh we got 300 spots for you the only bad news is you have to leave very very early in the morning like 2:30 sorry but but you can sign up and get more information at the tables at sections 109 110 and text CWA to liberty zip code 2 for 502 to get more information and we hope you'll take it well we hope you take advantage of the opportunity to make a difference in national politics tomorrow today's speakers Candis Owens she's communications director for Turning Point USA she's known for a criticism of the Democratic Party she has guest hosted on Fox News and MSNBC CNN she's amassed five hundred and sixty thousand Twitter followers she's um she's one of the young people that are really making a difference in our country we have recent graduates like Cabot Phillips and Hannah's hair locker others who have worked with campus reform and us old guys might have age and wisdom but you guys listened to the young ones more than you listen to us so she's making a difference with the with a new generation in ways that that us old folks can't do but she's she Kanye West tweeted this year that I love the way Candis Owen thanks in response to Candace's interaction with protesters at at the event that she was referring to but please welcome to Liberty University Candis Owens in the other way Candice Owens is turning point USA's communications director for folks who are unfamiliar with your story a couple of weeks ago you were at a town hall and you confronted a black lives matter protester and you encountered what they were saying and then they are two later kanye west said he liked the way you thought and then everything unraveled on the political left where they came after you what's so dangerous about a black woman believing that she can do it without government handouts what's so dangerous about a black woman that's promoting independence of thought in the black community earlier this morning friends of this program Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens were brutally harassed by foiler protesters y'all having breakfast and Tifa attacked me this is an all-white gang and attacked me and attacked an all-black police force I think independently I'm a free thinker and I don't believe that because I have a certain skin tone that I absolutely have to subscribe to all these ideas which on paper do not make any sense whatsoever [Music] hello this is honestly such a blessing I am so grateful to be here I cannot thank all of you enough for coming here to hear me speak I want to start off by asking you guys a very simple question by a show of hands how many people in this room have had bad things happen to them everyone okay everyone now I'm gonna ask a similar question but it's gonna be different by a show of hands how many people in this room consider themselves a victim Wow really impressive normally I get a few hands and that's that's really impressive so the difference is in these questions is a difference in mentality I have been smeared lie belt I have been protested I have been kicked out of restaurants I have been assaulted because I go around with a very simple message which is that bad things happen to everyone but a victim mentality is not something that you should possess because a bad thing happens to you this has earned me the title of being called anti black anti LGBT I have been called a Nazi sympathizer among other things because I have this idea that if we don't accept ourselves as oppressed and we accept ourselves as the victor of our experiences then we can achieve more in life so let me tell you a little bit about me that you're not going to find in all of these articles that basically want people to believe in I am somehow a white supremacist which is quite impressive that I get called a white supremacist I grew up in Stamford Connecticut I did not yes is there some Connecticut law here that's awesome I grew up in Stamford Connecticut I in a really small apartment I shared with my sisters I have two sisters did not grow up I grew up in poverty my family didn't have much we had the exterminator coming into our apartment when I was a little girl to get rid of the roaches every week because we lived in a low-income housing structure about the time that I was 8 years old my grandfather decided he came to our apartment he said I really don't want my grandbabies to live in this sort of a situation and he moved us into his very middle-class house now my grandfather is a very very very pious man living in his home and that every single morning I was meant to read the Bible he would pick a scripture and me and my brothers and sisters would sit around the table and he would ask us questions and based on our understanding of the scriptures and the Bible we would be awarded different hot chocolate mugs in the morning I never really in my life thought that that was a meaningful way to grow up in fact when I was introduced to the public school system I was embarrassed I was embarrassed about my relationship with God I wanted to go away I didn't want people to know that my grandparents were so Christian that they wanted us to read the Bible every morning that wasn't cool that wasn't a cool way to live and so I shed that I shed that throughout most of middle school I hid it and in high school I completely shut it when my grandparents moved down south in high school I had a very unique experience happened to me which reporters and journalists do not like to report on because it complete disrupts their narrative that I don't understand that bad things happen to black people but I don't understand that there's racism in the world and that people can be hurt by racism when I was in high school I was I had a boyfriend it's my first boyfriend I thought I was really cool and he and I went to watch a movie at his house we were watching Talladega Nights it's a great movie if you guys haven't seen for those who that have seen it I never know what to do with my hands just like Ricky Bobby so it's watching telling a Knights my phone rang and it was a blocked call and I don't pick up block calls so I sent it to voicemail my phone rang again I sent it to voicemail again my phone rang four times by the time the movie was over I had four miss voicemails which was really an insane thing so I went home and I listened to the voice mails after a great night and what I heard was something really horrific and terrifying on the other end of a line there were four male voices and they were alternating they were calling me the N word they were saying that they were gonna put a bullet in the back of my head as they had done to Martin Luther King they were calling me Rosa Parks they were telling me that they were going to tar and feather my family it went on for a really intense I would say five minutes and when I hung up the phone the first thing that I did was I broke down I cried because I couldn't think of four people that would say those words to me I couldn't even think of one person that would say those words to me Here I am I'm a senior in high school living my best life and I get these terrible messages so I went to bed the next morning I had a class a philosophy class and we happened to be talking about racism and I told my teacher I rose my hand and I told him what happened I said mister Forker I got these terrible messages and I played them for him and he was so horrified that he said get up right now we're gonna go to the principal and you're gonna report these messages the principal immediately called the police and that was the beginning of what would represent a very dark life of a dark period in my life it turned out by some random stroke of my own misfortune that I did not know as I had said three of those people in the car one of those three people in the car that night that left me those messages happened to be the current Democratic governor of Connecticut's son and instantly this case was elevated at my face a high school senior was splashed on the front pages of every newspaper in Connecticut and in New York calling me a victim a victim of a hate crime that's a really really really heavy word a victim of a hate crime it turned out that one of the kids in the car was a former friend of mine and I used to hang out with him and a group of my friends all the time and and once I got a boyfriend I did what most girls do and I just wanted to be with my boyfriend and he was hurt and one night he got into a car and he was drinking and with three people that I didn't know and they decided to leave me these voicemails now of course because a politician's son was involved the FBI had to get involved to trace the origins of the messages because nobody wanted to come clean and say that they had left them so I went from watching Talladega Nights to being a front-page cover story to being called a victim to having everyone in my high school and in my town debate whether or not the messages were real why the FBI investigated it of course the messages were real of course after the FBI included their six-week long investigation they determined that I did in fact receive these messages from these men and six weeks later all four of them were arrested the youngest person in that car was only 14 years old and then of course after the entire world was debating it reading letters to the editor where people either called me a liar a hero a victim it was over just like that the press was over they were ready to move on from the situation and that's supposed to be a common theme we're looking for the oppressed and the oppressor these kids were labeled racists I was labeled a victim how did that turn out for me well for me it turned out into four and a half years of anorexia the next years of my life I that title I was so scared going into college afraid that people that I was meeting we're going to Google me they were gonna find this story but they were gonna find that I was a victim but they were gonna think that I somehow started this or I deserved it or they were gonna take a side in the same way that people in my town had taken the side the only way that I thought that I could assert control over myself and over my narrative was through having anorexia it took four and a half years of me having an eating disorder before something woke up in me I was living in Manhattan I was paying down student loans I went to school and I majored in quite ironically journalism something that I don't believe in as much today and I began to take yoga classes and I had lived a life partying throughout college drinking really had fallen far from the girl that sat at the kitchen table with her grandfather reading the Bible my friend said let's take a yoga class I went to yoga class and suddenly that silence that meditation you know the prayer that people have I really for the first time in a really long time was able to have conversations with myself Candice what are you doing you know why are you doing this why are you living this life are you happy the answer of course was I was not happy I wasn't happy being a victim I was miserable I was allowing it to eat me alive I was able to meditate my way and people say how did you get over here an erection meditation yoga I was able to meditate myself back into health with conversations and prayer and focus and here's what I discovered what happened to me in high school didn't just happen to me it also happened to the four kids that left those terrible messages because a 14-year olds a fifteen year old a person that was my former friend they can't be racist that's heavy word that's a really heavy word what they were were young kids that were trying out what it was like to be mean in a generation that has smartphones in a generation that can send text messages can send Facebook and Instagram messages around the rolled in a matter of nanoseconds something that the adults that had raised us had never experienced before in their lives we are the lol generation when I was a little girl my dad had a beeper headon up Twitter there was no Facebook there was no Instagram and parents and teachers never thought about how that might impact us growing up when you no longer have to look at someone to just be mean when you can just say a mean tweet leave a mean comment it's so easy in this generation to be mean I thought to myself Wow imagine if as opposed to calling me a victim which ruined four and a half years of my life as opposed to calling children racists which I'm sure ruined years of their lives what if the adults in this situation tried to pause and actually understand how everybody was impacted what if the adults tried to understand what it's like being a kid coming up in this generation how easy it is for us to be me what if the politician just made his son say sorry no one says sorry anymore that seems to be going out of style because people are constantly trying to get away with everything I was angry with God for a lot of things in my life I was angry that I didn't grow up in a family that had any money I was angry that I had a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in student loan debt and no degree I had to drop out because Sallie Mae collapse and I couldn't get my loan in my senior year I was angry with God because I had this horrific situation happen in high school and I was a victim and he allowed that to happen to me that was my mentality and all of a sudden I had a different perspective and this perspective changed my life and it's what I try to tell everybody that is going through something bad whether you believe it or not is up to you but I can tell you that it transformed my life I believe that God picks people to have experiences in their life the good ones and the bad ones I believe that God wanted me to have my parents I believe that my god my god wanted me to grow up in a house that was dysfunctional I think that he wanted me to grow up impoverished he wanted me to go through a hate crime as it was classified in high school because who better positioned to attack the left's narrative than somebody who has lived through all of that in 2017 and early 2017 I had such an interesting moment I I was still drinking and suddenly after a night of drinking I woke up in the morning and I just broke down crying it was the most bizarre that nothing happened there was nothing eventful that happened I broke down crying and I said to someone close to me I have this feeling and it was the first time that I had said that God wanted me to do something that God wants me to quit drinking just like that I just quit drinking because I broke down crying in a room and had a sense that God wanted me not to poison my body anymore that he that he wanted to be able to open the universe up to me in a way that I had never been open up to me I quit drinking and I uploaded my first youtube video which was called mom dad I'm a conservative what happened next I could have never predicted my third video got 26 million views worldwide it was me attacking the narrative at CNN was trying to sell to me after which I'm sure you guys remember here in Virginia the Charlottesville tobacco CN n when I went home was trying to sell to me as a black American without the KKK was alive and well that a real fear that I have to have walking down the street is that a guy on horseback in a white hood is gonna come because we didn't vote for Hillary Clinton and I said this is ridiculous honestly we've had enough of this narrative it's time for someone to be a voice in the black community and I just started ranting I always call it what I did for four and a half minutes was a Kanye ran I challenged Americans to believe their experiences versus what they see coming out of their TV screens because what I see is that I grow up I grew up in a country that is not racist I grew up in a country that is diverse I grew up in a country that has given opportunities to so many people including myself to be able to start from humble beginnings and to use my voice and to be able to share it and tell me in what other country in the world do people have those sorts of opportunities that they could flip open a laptop Kanye rant for four minutes and reach 26 million homes I attack a lot of narratives on TV I'm sure for those of you guys have followed me on Twitter you see that I am going after I go I go for the jugular a lot about tons of things I speak out against feminism because it's not feminism what's happening today is a radical form of a woman's movement the idea that we don't need men that men are always in constantly once again the oppressed versus the oppressor I have news for people that do identify themselves as feminists men are not dropped off by the stork they are born we are the people that have to carry men for nine months they are our little boys there are sons there are husbands the idea that somebody can live a life in the way that Brett Kavanagh has lived his life and to have what has happened to him over these last couple of weeks happened to him should terrify everyone this country needs due process but beyond that this country needs women to find their voices and to fight for our men because what is happening right now is a cultural war on men quite controversially I also speak out against Planned Parenthood and I know in school I learned that choice was good the word choice is good the leppe is incredibly good at linguistics plans Parenthood that sounds nice I want to plan my Parenthood when in reality they're murdering babies choice choice is good I want choices but in reality one of those choices is to murder when I looked into Planned Parenthood in the history of eugenics and the fact that it was founded by a woman who quite literally said that black people need to be exterminated like weeds when I looked into the numbers I understood that nine hundred black babies are aborted every single day and yet CNN wants me to pay attention and be upset and enraged and to boycott and to protest for the 16 unarmed black men that are shot and killed by police per year no voice for the 18 million black babies that I've been ripped from the wombs of their parents since 1973 that's acceptable they've branded that as okay murder that is the focus that I try to deliver to the black community to understand that our population growth has stagnated and it is due to the fact that we are being taught to murder our children that is labeled me as somebody that's controversial she doesn't believe in Planned Parenthood I'll tell you what else I don't believe in I don't believe in the welfare system you know I make strong statements and I say that I don't believe in the welfare system because look at what it has earned people that have gone onto the welfare system absolutely nothing since LBJ put in place the Great Society Act which he referred to as the n-word bill it has completely decimated our communities a question that I always ask myself and I've had this conversation with my partner charlie Kirk is why is it that the left mocks God a weird thing like you know there's a lot of things you can make fun of but it's very weird when you start making fun of Jesus Christ and that becomes normal when joy behar is just openly mocking Christians on the view when when they're openly mocking the fact that our vice president Mike Pence has respect for his wife and believes in Jesus Christ why would they do that the welfare system is an interesting study as to why my belief is that the less wants to grow government it wants government in many ways to replace God in people's lives it wants people to turn to government for solutions for every solution someone had told me that hey Candace you know the argument for pro-choice is that Planned Parenthood also does a lot of really great things and I'm sure that's true you know they supply birth control pills and they conducts mammograms and woman can go there for other health concerns and I say that's really great but they're also murdering people there's no justification for murdering people how do we get to a point in society where people understand the value of a human life if we don't have people boldly and courageously standing up and speaking out against these systems which are meant to make us place so much faith in the government so much fee that the government can fix all of our issues so much faith that the government understands how many human life's are worth being born how do we reverse that every single person in here I believe has had a series of experiences that are prompting them to do something great in this world at the moment that you believe in yourself at the moment that you get back to your Center that you align yourself with the universe with God the universe are opened itself up to you it certainly did for me maybe not every person is gonna do what I did maybe not every person is going to quit their job and decide they're going to make youtube videos but make no mistake there is a cultural war happening and every single one of you can do something and participate in it in some regard my focus obviously has been on presenting a new perspective to the black community I think we are in desperate need of new voices in the black community we are in desperate need of somebody else and a platform and say hey it's actually not cool to be a victim there's no value in being a victim you win no awards for being a victim unless you're Colin Kaepernick I think he made uh he made a pretty sweet deal off of of being a victim so credit to him where credit is due but the message that he is selling to people of course is not going to get them anywhere at the moment that you believe that you can't you won't at the moment that you believe that you can you will why is that controversial why wouldn't the left want to tell the truth about me that I stand on a stage and I tell people all across the country that I believe in them that's what I'm saying every time I stand on a stage in a room at a university at a college I say hey guys I believe you I believe in you you can do it without government handouts you can do it based off of good ideas you can do it based off of hard work you can do it with Jesus Christ of course of every single person in the world thought that if every single person in the world woke up with confidence and said I can do it and I can contribute and my life my birth has meant something it means something to this world and I'm going to contribute something you would see naturally that government would shrink that when people were faced with problems they wouldn't run to an arbitrary welfare system they would turn to God they returned to their communities and they would nurse themselves back to health that's what you would see and that is why I believe in my heart that I have been considered a threat to the left and to the establishment Kanye West man he's a wonderful man it's so great to look back at everything now and to remember his song jesus walks how many of you guys know that song and he made that song he made that hip hop song jesus walks because people told him that he couldn't talk about Jesus and he couldn't make Jesus cool so he made it a number-one album he made it a number one track talking about Jesus and feeling that Jesus was walking with him and what he was doing the gift of Kayne West isn't because he is one of the biggest stars in the world the gift of Kanye West and that simple seven word tweet that broke the internet I love the way Candace Owens thinks is that he opened people's hearts and people's minds to a different perspective the gift of Kanye West's putting on the mega hot was that it completely destroyed the narrative I love Donald Trump first and foremost he's pointedly hilarious I actually genuinely feel bad that there are people that are not enjoying Donald Trump in office I just I don't understand how they don't understand how hilarious president Donald Trump is aside from that he's an unbelievably strong leader to stand in the face of the entire United Nations assembly yesterday and to say that America will be governed by Americans and not by globalists what is it that President Donald Trump Kanye West and Candace Owens have in common that we have grown so fond of each other I think Kanye West describes it as dragon energy and to me I think it's it's individualism it's believing in yourself it's standing up in the face of everybody telling you you can't you're not allowed to think that you're a black man you can't think that you're not allowed to think that you're not a woman you have to think this because you're a woman it's standing up in the face of all of that and saying no I am my own person I am governed by what I believe to be truth and I can live up to any expectation that I set for myself I think that is an energy that is a love and that is a passion that I hope that I work every day to share with the world thank you guys so much for having me Weston yes and obviously you can see why I think today's lunch and the rot will have some very interesting conversations that you started for us today and I really believe I do believe that you'll carry the conversation like you did here I love that we can come in a room and always always hear each other out and and then it hopefully helped us grow as individuals can we thank her just one more time for being here very busy person thank you for you hey tonight tonight at campus community we're going to talk about some of the things that Candice even touched on but I do want to say this to you Candice touched on anorexia and Candice touched on a few other things that might be a bit of a personal issue for you even sexual harassment if you are a victim in the sense that someone has invaded your life and has hurt you in some sense or if you struggle with anorexia just know that our Shepards department is always open and available to minister to you and that they're always at dorm 17 and available all right we love you we care about you will see you tonight the campus common 630

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Length: 33min 32sec (2012 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 26 2018

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I was there!

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She's amazing.

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She’s amazing 💜

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Demoncrats absolutely hate her for leaving the Demoncrat Plantation and thinking for herself. They think they own black people.

She is awesome!

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Candace has it all, brains, beauty and poise .

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She is EXTREMELY intelligent and independant. A benchmark for everyone everywhere.