The Candace Owens Show: Melissa Tate

so i'll do a soft open and then i'll turn over to an instruction okay all right sounds great i just totally had a pregnancy brain for him got it okay all right ladies and gentlemen we are rolling into another episode of the candace owens show so i've noticed this thing recently i live in washington dc and every time i get into an uber car the uber driver happens to be an immigrant from africa and they are all conservative every last single one of these african immigrants is conservative and they usually recognize me and they start a conversation with me about black americans and the conversation usually ends with them asking what is wrong with black americans how could black americans possibly view themselves as oppressed i often think this as well maybe the problem with black americans is that we have actually no connection uh to the continent of africa and at the same time that we are squealing that we've been taken from our homeland we have no idea what actually goes on um in africa i'm very excited about having this next guest because she is an immigrant from africa and she's lived in america for a very long time and there is so much for us to delve in here so much to learn from african immigrants and i hope that all americans but especially black americans listen to this episode melissa tate welcome to the canis owen show thank you so much for having me candace so i do want to give the audience a background you actually have a very big twitter profile as well you are at the right melissa yes i remember when i was getting started and kind of looking at what conservatives were black um you were one of the accounts that i followed right away right and i had no idea um that you spent the first 17 years 19 years of your life yes in africa you do not have an accent so i still you told me this the other day i was like what um and you're from of all places zimbabwe yes zimbabwe where robert mugabe was the prime minister i wrote down the dates from 1980 to 1987 uh before he became the president in 1987 and that ended in 2017. and there is no better person to talk about when you're talking about the harms of socialism and how swift it can happen uh than robert mugabe so i just want to start with um what was what was it like when you grew up in africa okay so basically uh you know growing up in africa my story begins in a small town in a small town called rusape and there i grew up as a you know just a young kid that loved living in zimbabwe my mother later moved to the bigger city which is harare and harare is a beautiful was a beautiful city very cosmopolitan you know there were people from all over the world because it's such an amazing city it was a very cosmopolitan and there was a lot of great weather so when i went to school i went to school with people from all over the world i went to school with people from australia from sweden from denmark you name it so it was amazing growing up in zimbabwe because starting off it was very uh capitalist so when mugabe came into power he would he didn't start off being a marxist you know it was slow walked so it was over a 20-year period that he started implementing socialist socialist policies that then transformed zimbabwe but beginning there it was amazing it used to be called the bread basket of africa absolutely it was a very wealthy country uh even people from neighboring countries neighboring african countries used to come to zimbabwe to migrate there for a better life so i couldn't have asked to live in a in any other place in the world but to grow up in zimbabwe it was very peaceful you know i used to walk to school you know walk back from school like miles and not have to worry about being kidnapped or anything like that it was just a beautiful peaceful country and you have family in zimbabwe today yes i do my mother lives there and your mother still lives there yes and is your mother still growing up in that peaceful beautiful country absolutely not right now it has transformed into something else with the passing of uh president mukabe we now have a new president who is probably if it's possible worse than mugabe as well because he's also a serious marxist there's a lot of chinese influence that has taken place in zimbabwe i would actually call it more like colonization by the chinese and it's absolutely terrible what's taking place there so when robert mugabe gets elected what is his rhetoric how are we starting it's a great place everyone's happy to live here we're called the breadbasket of africa i know that he started efforts um expropriation efforts and it was what was his rhetoric how did this begin this sort of socialist marxist so to begin with he was uh he was all about reconciliation with the white community because there is quite a significant white population in zimbabwe so his rhetoric started out of as reconciliation with the whites so when i was growing up in zimbabwe there was no racial tension like you know animosity it was all about reconciliation and everybody moving forward away from the past of colonization so that's how he started out but as time went by the corruption that he had that he had instituted within the country the minute his ministers were stealing millions of dollars from the people and his war veterans they blew all the pension funds so now what was taking place was the economy was starting to fail and his way of taking attention off himself was to start this marxist rhetoric against the white farmers so he started telling everybody that your problem is not me and my corrupt ministers your problem are the white farmers they're the ones that have taken your land and this is your land so you are the that's who you should be looking at and not me so this is so playbook socialistic exactly the government is corrupt the government is taking your money but let me go ahead and start issues between the proletariat exactly and the wealthy people and that's what i start to see in the united states and that's why it's so familiar to me i'm just like wow okay this is starting to play out again yeah actually right when you were just saying that in the beginning it was oh we need reconciliation we need to move forward i actually thought of obama because that was sort of like that was the guy that was crying the night that he won being like finally we're all going to come together we're going to move forward exactly and not exactly what we got absolutely not the same way his rhetoric started changing obama's rhetoric started changing and becoming more about black versus white does the people of zimbabwe fall for this rhetoric well a lot of the people in the rural areas did so what happened was a lot of the war veterans that had lost their pension funds they started seizing the white farmers land by force and killing some of the white farmers so it created a lot of tension within the country but it was mostly rural so we never really felt it in the city so in the rural areas that was taking place and then once um once that had taken place it started creating a cascading effect because now there were sanctions placed on zimbabwe and it just went into overdrive so just the policies that were being implemented you know they all sounded great it was like indigenization you know giving the land to the people but it never really went to the people of zimbabwe it went to his cronies right it went to the ministers and all these and they were building mansions that looked like office buildings right you know and they were living like that while the rest of the population was living in abject poverty i mean um unemployment went to 80 if you can even imagine i can't i can't wrap my head around that the uh inflation rate was uh it started out at seven thousand percent inflation rate and then it went to 250 million percent inflation i don't know i can't comprehend i do not have the mathematic skills to comprehend that i got to an inflation rate of 250 million 250 million so he comes and he says he's his cronies he's got his ministers they're doing bad stuff and people are going hey what's going on and his his effort is to say white people look at these white people they've got your land and we've got to expropriate it and take it away from them and of course if you're a citizen you're going maybe that's it maybe that is the issue i need to take this take this land away from them exactly of course the irony uh of the mugabe store is that it doesn't really work that way expropriation effort is something that we're starting to hear a lot of that rhetoric um you know south africa also has this issue as well so here's the thing taking back farms um if you don't know how to manage a farm those farms collapse exactly and that's exactly what happened in zimbabwe candace because what happened was he was giving land to people that have no background in commercial farming you know a lot of them were subsistence farmers they were not commercial farmers so he was giving them land and then what happened was production because zimbabwe was well known as an agricultural you know that was our main export was agriculture so we're talking tobacco we're talking flowers you know like zimbabwe was providing flowers to to europe you know there were planes that were flying out of zimbabwe to europe every single day with flowers you know so this was what was bringing money into the country and it was creating jobs so all those things started to fall apart because what happened was those farms uh you know because they were seized the production of of all these uh tobacco and flowers and all it went down by like 40 50 60 until it came to a point where you know zimbabwe was not even making enough money to sustain itself and it just started to collapse and crumble so you're looking at people who have like um you know like for example my mother you know she had invested you know let's say for example like in a 401k she invested she had like an equivalent of what would be like let's say 200 000 and then she wakes up one morning and finds out that her 200 000 can buy you a chicken at the grocery store and that's what we lived through and um i remember we used to sit in fuel cues uh you would go into the supermarket and there was nothing on the shelf because mugabe was trying to put price controls on the food so um you know when you put price controls people are not gonna you know engage in that because let's say you're a farmer or you sell chicken or whatever and then the government says that you're supposed to sell your chicken at five dollars but it costs you about six dollars to make it so you're not gonna put your chicken in there so it created a black market of food so you you you had a chicken dealer you had a bread dealer you had yeah so it was crazy it was like dealer and eggs yeah basic things you would walk into the supermarket and there was absolutely nothing on the shelves so let me ask you something when you hear now and especially in in california i think they're leading the charge on this uh we're going to put together a committee and that california is getting real close to you know socialism you know we're going to put together a committee to talk about reparations do you hear when you hear that like government is corrupt government is running out of other people's money and now what we're going to do is we're going to start to pretend that it's the white man's fault or it's because of 400 years of slavery and that's what it is when i look at reparations to me it sounds like the the land reform program that we had in zimbabwe you're talking about you know taking money from other people and giving it to other people to right a wrong from the past and i don't believe in that i believe in moving forward and if you just take money you know let's say we're gonna give you a hundred thousand dollars you know from in reparations you're going to blow through that money within a couple of years if you don't know how to invest how to use it and whatnot so i i i don't believe in reparations i just think it's ridiculous because if you really think about it who lives who who who alive today has lived through slavery certainly not i who alive today has had a slave in america right exactly and when i actually studied it i was shocked to find out that only two percent of the white people that are alive today in the united states uh have owned slaves and certain states like kansas you know where i'm from kansas and missouri kansas never had slaves you know there's certain uh states that never had slaves i think it was even less than two percent at the time of the civil war of people that actually had slaves and people don't realize that it was the extremely wealthy people i mean you're talking about what today would be the jeff bezos of the world that could afford absolutely to have slaves and yet they see and this is even when they attack confederate soldiers and we need to wipe this away those people didn't have slaves it was a poor man's fight and a rich man's war the civil war and and and it's because of this lack of education about what this war was a fight they weren't fighting to maintain slavery they didn't have slaves oh people that were fighting they didn't have any slaves exactly um and and it's it's so as we're seeing increasingly now especially with critical race theory and this focus on race it is a bit of look over here look over here right because we don't want you looking to see what we're actually doing over here exactly and we're trying to grow government and we want to get all of our cronies in there like mugabe did exactly and we want to take take take take take while telling you that the reason you're suffering is because of the white man and the injustice that were done centuries ago exactly it's scary it really is scary it's scary to watch because i've lived through it right i've seen it i've seen the playbook and now i'm seeing it play out you know when i just listen to the democrat party i'm like i've watched this show before oh that is so so scary so what was it like for your mother i just wanted that because i just i'm thinking you have 200 000 saved in a bank account and then you wake up one day and you find out you know very quickly that that 200 000 can get you chicken maybe some eggs yes uh what what was it like for her it was very difficult it was very difficult but you know um the thing is zimbabwean people are very resilient and they're actually very um they're just naturally funny people so there was a lot of i guess you would call them memes now but back then there was no memes but there was just a lot of uh jokes that surrounded you know people get over things with with uh through uh comedy you know so um so there was a lot of um pain that a lot of people went through you know just losing everything and the only thing that survived out of everything my mom had invested in was the physical real estate that she owned and that's the only thing that survived everything her pension funds her for her equivalent of a 401k her life insurance all that stuff went away overnight so it was very difficult so let me ask you how did you get out how did you end up in america okay so um 19 years old country's falling apart how did you get here so um in zimbabwe we only have about two universities like major universities so it's very hard to get in because you have to be a genius and i'm smart but i'm not a genius so uh typically what happens is um people who are middle class they send their kids abroad to study so it's very typical of a middle class family to send their kids to study abroad so a lot of people go to south africa they go to the united kingdom they go to australia and the united states and because i had come here before when i was 17 for a missions trip i went to california and uh florida what is the missing strip a mission yeah like mission like yeah my church with your church with my church yeah yeah when i was about 16 years old i had come here and we went to disney world and disneyland so when when it came time for me to go to college i was like i'm going to america so so that's how it all started and uh my mom at this time all this is playing out you know the economy is crashing the dollar the zimbabwe dollars crashing against the the american dollar so my mom couldn't afford to send me to the united states for school but because my mom is a woman of faith she said by faith you're going to go so she actually had like a fundraiser to raise money for my ticket to go to some to come to the united states i applied to in fact i was applying to a lot of universities on the east coast but it wasn't going anywhere and almost a year a year into applying to all these universities i started to give up hope until this lady came up with one application she's like just try this one this school seems to be very responsive in my experience so just try this last one and it was an application to the university of missouri kansas city so i was like i will sign it i will do that you know i didn't know the difference between east coast west coast or whatever i was like i'm going to america i don't know the difference between the diff you know the different dynamics like midwest versus east coast west coast so i filled out that application and my mom did a fundraiser to raise money for my ticket i got on a plane i had one suitcase 300 in my pocket and i had to figure it out from there wow so i arrived at umkc i had a partial scholarship like an out of state scholarship but then everything else i had to figure it out and i had to start working so i was working um part-time at school while i was actually working full-time at school i joined the track team as a manager in order to get another scholarship so i was working full-time on the scholarship team about 30-40 hours and then working 30-40 hours at my job studying staying up at night so i worked my butt off for four years and i was able to graduate with a business administration degree wow wow and so what would you say was the biggest difference um in being surrounded by africans and being surrounded around black americans so uh that's that that was a bit of a culture shock for me like just coming to the united states because when i came i come from a background where education is extremely important you know like your parents are like on you when it comes to education it's like the number one thing you know when you when you do that and it's all and it's very competitive so in zimbabwe like education is a competitive sport the way americans are competitive with it with sports we're competitive with grades and stuff like that you know when i was actually reading your book i i was surprised uh when i was reading the part where you said like the kids who don't do well in school are the ones that are popular yeah in zimbabwe it's the opposite like it's the kids who are exceed excelling in class that are the cool kids like if you're a teenager you want the guy who's getting straight a's yeah like that's just how it is in zimbabwe yeah and i'm just gonna just add some clarity for people who are watching this and maybe didn't uh read my book but i was talking about black americans if you do well academically you get made fun of by other black americans and you get accused of acting white and suddenly you you're not the cool kids or black americans because you're not listening to hip-hop music and um that's very true and so it's the opposite dynamic so i would have been cool in zimbabwe yeah you would have been absolute you would have been one of the cool kids so when you uh when you enter a school in zimbabwe like you take an entrance exam and that interesting entrance exam is going to determine where you what class you fall in so there's usually like four classes so this class a b c and d so if you're if you do well in your entrance exam you'll get into a class you know the ones that do the least well go into d-class so every kid's goal is to be in the a-class and when you make it in the a-class you're part of the cool club you know that's that's just the way it is and when you're in the a-class it doesn't mean you have a secured spot you have to keep your grades high because if you don't they will move you to class b and it's quite an embarrassment when that happens and the kids who are in b are trying to get into a right so you have to constantly competing you're constantly competing and then also like when you um when when you take exams during school at the when when the teacher marks the exams and they put your grades your grades are posted up for everybody to see so when you go look for your name you're hoping you're at the top not at the bottom there's nothing that gets black liberals more upset with me than when i talk about the success of black immigrants from africa academically in their careers professionally i think nigerian americans are the most successful immigrant group and i'm sitting here looking at this going uh guys don't tell me that it's because this country's racist right we've got some culture issues and i that's why i went into that in my book because i was like i know how we treat intelligence how we treat academic success amongst um you know black americans and it is true that black american students fare better in an all-white classroom than in an all-black classroom because they're allowed to be smart you know and they're allowed to try and there's a competitive environment around them whereas for whatever reason amongst black americans it's seen as um a betrayal wow you've betrayed your culture because you're talking like the white man you know what i mean you're doing what the white man does it's similar to that smithsonian list they posted of attributes of whiteness they called it being punctual did you see this working hard yeah i couldn't believe it so totally different in africa which is fascinating and that's why i was like i'm just looking at the statistics and something there's obviously a different mentality in africa um stronger values family values educational values and you come here and you're shocked to see how were you treated um well you know what i was treated really well even by by white and african americans but i did see that there was a little bit of tension between africans and african-americans but um you know i tried well i was treated fairly well i mean i i i thought america was a very friendly country when i came over here you know like the people are just naturally very friendly i i don't know if it's a midwest thing but i think it is a midwest thing really it must be okay yeah out of new york in l.a right right exactly so so yeah so now i absolutely loved the united states when i came over here there were a lot of things that were a little bit different from what i was used to you know i felt like people were kind of on the same level playing field no matter what kind of socio-economic places they came from because in zimbabwe we have a very distinct class system you know and it's very hard to move from one class to another like if you're born poor you're probably going to die for and so there's this you know class i'm sure maybe your husband might know it because he's from the uk so the uk has a lot of that class thing right and zimbabwe inherited that so and that's something that is actually inherently amazing about america and americans don't realize it is that you have that you have a chance for upward mobility it doesn't matter where you start you can finish on top you can move and it's so unique about america and because most americans don't travel right they they don't understand they don't understand how special it is yes and that is why i think you get so many immigrants coming from africa who are like what is wrong with you like i can work 10 jobs and move up a social class i'm doing it right exactly exactly absolutely so when did you start kind of and i don't want to say getting into politics but you really just started speaking out um you always knew you were conservative it just aligned with your values right and that was like this makes sense obviously i'm a conservative right um when did you start moving towards deciding to be vocal about your conservative positions so i actually started um i wasn't really vocal to begin with like in the uh 24 around the 2014 time when the tea party movement was starting to get its legs i was kind of listening to ron paul and i was listening to kind of like the tea party type conservatives and i was like you know what they're right because the republican party because i did support the republic but i started to notice that they weren't really like implementing the you know they were a lot of talk but not no action so i started kind of getting into tea party politics this is in 2014 and then when 2016 came around and we had 17 amazing republican candidates i was like wow this is the year we're going to get a real conservative we've got conservatives and christians running we've got ted cruz we've got you know marco rubio we've got ben dr ben carson i was like man this is awesome i don't know who to pick and i was paying no attention to trump i was just like this clown he'll be out in no time and then it was when the first debate came with uh with with trump and do you remember megyn kelly's first question to him you've called women fat pigs and she names off a whole bunch of stuff and everybody's quiet just thinking what what is trump gonna say is he gonna come out with like this politically correct thing and then he goes only rosie o'donnell i was like that's the guy that's the guy who's gonna take on both establishments the republican party the republican establishment the democratic establishment and most importantly the media because i understood that the media had the minds of the people and i felt like we need somebody who is not afraid and is not intimidated by the media to be able to take that on and from that day on i've been on the trump train so yeah so you just started speaking out i just started speaking out on twitter so i actually joined twitter because i wanted to hear more of what president trump like well yeah yeah so then i just started tweeting my own thoughts and then you know i wasn't on there trying to become you know get followers or anything but you know just as i started posting and posting content on that and he started retweeting you and that's right exactly um so that's very very interesting so you are kind of just saying what you believe how many times have you been called a white supremacist a racist a self-hating black and this is incredible because you're from africa right right this is the irony of this is like the whole black liberal thing is you took us away from africa and like you know and they always try to play the like we're african card even though they've never been to africa have no idea what goes on in africa probably couldn't point out on a map um but now they are all about their roots now you have a person perfect she's born in zimbabwe she lived there for 19 years she came to this country she worked hard you're a racist a racist and a white supremacist i get that all the time and it's just shocking i'm like what do you mean like what do you mean so it's just ridiculous i mean what what you're seeing i mean you see white liberals that call me all kinds of names i've been called all kinds of names by white liberals because they hate the fact that i don't toe the line of how they think a black person should think right you know the whole narrative that america's a systematically racist country is a total contradiction to the experience that i've had living in this country especially because the person that caused the most harm to your country is a black man right exactly right a black african man a black african man and i escaped that situation and came to this country and was able to make something of myself whereas if i had stayed in my country under a black president i never would have been who i am today right so it's almost like race doesn't matter it's actually the values and the principles that people are putting into place what a crazy crazy idea right and you and i share something in common so i know that this must be something else you get um we are both in biracial marriages right right so you came to this very racist country america fell in love with a white man yes right and you have biracial children right so are your children half oppressed and half privileged that's what i keep asking myself when you look at them are you like is that the little oppressed person in you or of a little privileged person in you exactly and that's that's the division that we're seeing in this nation is you know i when i came over here uh i never pictured myself with a white person so initially when my husband was pursuing me i kind of thought it was weird i was i had never like seen myself with with a white man but uh and i was actually surprised because in zimbabwe you know we have white people in zimbabwe but white people and black people usually don't marry if you see an interracial couple in zimbabwe it's usually a white person from outside the country like from germany or sweden or whatever but like white zimbabweans and black they don't ever intermediate so you never you know like thinking of marrying somebody who's white like never crosses your mind you know so when i came over here i was surprised when like white guys started hitting on me i'm like this is weird especially in a racist country exactly absolutely so um so i uh i met my husband like within weeks of me moving here but it took him a year to get a date with me so i ended up getting it african women are tough i know right so after um after about uh a year we went on our first date and uh i fell in love with him and we've been together since we've been uh together for what 16 years now we've been marrying 13 of those and we have three kids so it's wow three kids yes isn't it interesting and i always think of this now because obviously i'm pregnant now and going on this journey but you would think that you know the rhetoric that is used as america's racist and you would think that when people on the left see biracial relationships they would look at it and say that's what we're after right where people don't see color people love each other not based on race and this is beautiful this is perfect and yet it's the exact opposite response from these so-called woke liberals who claim to see racism everywhere the first thing you get called is a sell-out right right exactly i get that all the time you're a sell-out if you actually invest in what the people who fought for civil rights wanted right they wanted an end um to miscegenation laws they wanted to make sure blacks and whites could marry you know uh that was the loving versus virginia supreme court case exactly and yet these same people that see racism everywhere cannot see or hear it when it's coming out of their mouths well they want to upend all of that right they want to up and because we're moving further and further away from what martin luther king said right now they say that if you don't see color you're racist right i'm like that's an inversion of reality like i don't teach my kids to see color i teach my kids to see the content of somebody's character and that's what it should be that's what martin luther king said like it was actually funny because my uh i don't talk about race with my kids because it's not an important thing it's it's not about what color you are it's not about your race it's about who you really are so it was funny because my kids they only watch pbs because i don't let them watch a lot of garbage but now i'm starting to be careful about that but there was a show that came on they said oh on friday we're going to have a family night and we're going to talk about race and racism and my kids are like mommy they said they're going to talk about race what what's race and racism yeah you know yeah my kids are you know he's nine years old and i'm like should i even start talking about this conversation you know so i just you know the whole race thing like seeing colors being taught by adults to children exactly that bothers me and i'll add when people say oh i had to sit down i had to talk to my child about you know and i've seen this a few times i saw this even if you remove race when hillary clinton lost and people i had to explain to my daughter you know that she could still be something i'm like if you if your daughter ever had her all of her hopes and futures invested in one woman you put that energy on your daughter i didn't care about politics at all when i was five years old exactly why would i have boo hood or cried if al gore i didn't care about any of this stuff right exactly so it's it's you're putting that energy on your children it was similar when people kept saying how did you explain you know the george floyd tape to your you know what it was like as a black person watching this and seeing themselves and i kept saying i didn't see myself right exactly i don't have i don't have interactions negative interaction with the police i've never i've never been to jail i've never been to prison i haven't spent multiple sins so why are you telling me that i need to see myself in every black person right do you know what i mean like why would i see do you as a white person see yourself in every white person as a hispanic person like does every hispanic person go i see myself in pablo escobar right right and that that mindset only exists for black americans to see ourselves every time a black person gets into trouble and that's another thing that i noticed the difference between africans and african americans is that i've noticed that african african americans the number one thing they see themselves as is being black yeah and that's different from any other race like a lot of people identify with so many things like what they do where they're from you know a lot of things like that but then the number one identifying factor i've noticed an african-american is i'm black like that's the number one thing like for me the number one thing in my life that i identify with is my faith in christ so i'm a child of god like that's the number one thing and then i'm a wife and then i'm a mother you know so and then race i'm i'm black or i happen to be black i always say that i happen to be black but i've never thought that i had to adjust and have this entire identity and see myself and all these other people because i only i'm candace right right exactly and it's individualism right so what the left is teaching black people is to be collectivist so it's that same narrative that collectivism and that's and that's all yeah all socialism that's what it's all about you need to see yourself and every single other person and i just i i'm a true free market capitalist i believe in the individual i believe that i'm i'm i don't see myself and my sisters i've got two sisters close to nature they're close people to me and we are so different exactly um and we make different decisions we make different choices um and i think that that's the only way forward for all americans right just to realize the importance of individualism lest we end up like the zimbabweans um who by the way did the media play a big role in the mugabe thing well you know uh in zimbabwe we only have one channel one zimbabwean channel and it's state-run so everybody knows that everything that comes out of that channel is coming directly from the mouth of the of the president so everybody knows it's propaganda wow you guys don't even have a free not really no what about like now with youtube and all this stuff is there like what i mean i sound so ignorant but like are you guys able to have like could you be melissa on the right in zimbabwe yes i could yeah so we we did have other channels which was mostly like cables so it would be like american media and whatnot but i'm saying like the zimbabwean channel itself right it would be it's just one channel yes and it's state-run so everybody knows that what's coming out of there is basically propaganda and that's why i know when i come here and i see a media i can pick up on the fact that it's it's propaganda and i feel like americans don't really understand the fact that our media is not free press it's propaganda for one party so i picked that up because i i see i saw it growing up in zimbabwe just that propaganda that is constant so you're just a lot more awake to it yeah absolutely honestly i think we just need we need more black americans to spend time with africans yes you know spend time in africa i always say if i become president i'm going to do a trade program so every black american is like i hate america you took us from work we're going to take you right back you're right we did that we're wrong and we're going to bring you right back to africa and we're going to do a swap program so for every person that's complaining about america there's an african that can't wait to get to america and when you die for the opportunity to transform yes it would in seconds it would right absolutely absolutely you have a book coming out i want to get to this it is called choice privilege uh what's it about okay so basically the book is it says white privilege and the white is crossed out and i write in choice because really it's about the choices that you make not the color of your skin that determine how well you do in life my mother has always taught me that when you make good choices that is what's going to determine where you go and not the color of your skin so the book just follows kind of my experience of being black in america but being a black african in america so the contradiction just basically talking about the contradiction of the whole narrative that america's systematically racist and oppressive and the contradiction of the life that that i have led you know coming from africa and being black in america so that's what my book is all about well i hope people go out and buy it i hope that your platform just gets bigger and bigger and bigger because we need more voices like yours um because they they really can't strip away your blackness or your identity because you've lived through so much and you've seen so much exactly um melissa thank you so much for coming on we wrap every episode by allowing you to leave a two-minute face message for the world um so i'm gonna put you in this direction of the camera and you can say whatever is on your heart and on your mind okay are you ready so my two minutes to the world is uh wait i have to say your market set it's my thing all right okay on your mark get set world i give you melissa tate thank you so my two minutes to the world is actually two minutes to the american people because whatever ameri whatever happens in america affects the rest of the world so i wanna what i wanted to say to the american people is that you have a special country your country is amazing it is great and it is exceptional and what we're seeing today with the whole racial narrative is actually a playbook that is being played for marxism so i wanted people to understand and recognize that this is a marxist takeover that they're trying to destroy the country from within and as somebody who grew up in a country that went marxist i wanted to warn everybody to be able to do whatever it takes to stop what is happening so i actually brought this it is a hundred trillion dollar note and this represents a country that was successful a capitalist country that i grew up in and i loved and then a slow walking within 20 years this is what could have bought you a loaf of bread in zimbabwe a hundred trillion dollars so i am employing the mary the american people to recognize what is taking place in this nation i don't want america to take the same path of the place where i escaped so i would like everybody to recognize the hour that we're in in this nation and realize that we have a choice to make the right decision and to not let america fall the way that every other socialist country has fallen through jesus christ amen amen thank you guys for watching the latest episode of the candace owen show i hope you guys enjoyed the conversation as much as i did as many of you guys already know prageru is a 501c3 nonprofit organization which means we need your help to keep all of our content free to the public please consider making a tax deductible donation today i would really appreciate your support

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Keywords: prageru, prager university, candace o, blexit, black americans, black community, african-americans, systemic racism, institutional racism, land of opportunity, immigration, african immigration, africa, africans, personal responsibility, work ethic, hard work, choice privilege, privilege of choice, freedom, liberty

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Length: 39min 46sec (2386 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 29 2020