Candace Owens - Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation

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To Grandma and Granddad.

May my every action make you proud.

A t a recent congressional hearing on the alleged rise of white nationalism, Candace Owens said the following:

I am hopeful that we will come to a point where we will actually have hearings about things that matter in America, things that are a threat to America, like illegal immigration, which is a threat to Black America, like socialism, which is a threat to every single American, and I hope that we see that day. Its definitely not going to be today. Fortunately, we have Republicans that are fighting every single day, day in and day out.

For all of the Democrat colleagues that are hoping that this is going to work and that were going to have a fearful Black America at the polls, if youre paying attention to this stuff that Im paying attention to, the conversation is cracking, people are getting tired of this rhetoric, were being told by you guys to hate people based on the color of their skin or to be fearful. We want results. We want policies. Were tired of rhetoric, and the numbers show that white supremacy and white nationalism is not a problem that is harming Black America. Lets start talking about putting fathers back in the home.

Lets start talking about God and religion and shrinking government, because government has destroyed Black American homes, and every single one of you know that. And I think many people should feel ashamed for what we have done and what Congress has turned into. Its Days of Our Lives in here, and its embarrassing.

Mic drop.

Incandescent. Bright. Most of all, Owens is courageous. These are just some of the adjectives that describe this young, charismatic female who happens to be black and who happens to challenge the notion that blacks should retain their near-monolithic support for the Democrat Party.

In 2008, for the first time, the percentage of eligible black voters who voted exceeded the percentage of eligible white voters who voted. This shows, despite liberal rhetoric to the contrary, that the black vote is not being suppressed due to racism. Barack Obama actually got a higher percentage of the white vote than John Kerry did in 2004. Donald Trump, despite allegedly using a dog whistle to inspire white racist voters to turn out, received a smaller percentage of the white vote than Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney four years earlier. In 2016, Donald Trump received approximately 7 percent of the black vote.

Blacks have voted for the Democrat Party since Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal. Candace Owens dares ask, What have blacks gotten for their loyalty to the Democrat Party? Democrats preach and teach blacks to think and act like perpetual victims, eternally plagued by institutional or structural or systemic racism, never mind overwhelming evidence to the contrary. After all, this is a country that, in 2008, elected a black man for president, and in 2012, despite a tepid economy, reelected him.

CNN analyst Van Jones attributed Trumps victory in 2016 to whitelash. On election night, Jones explained: This was a whitelash against a changing country. It was whitelash against a black president in part. And thats the part where the pain comes. But where is the evidence? Of 700 counties that voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012, 200 switched to Trump in 2016. When were the white voters in those counties bitten by the racist radioactive spider? The city with more than 100,000 in population that voted most for Trump was Abilene, Texas. Yet this majority-white city, founded in 1881, recently overwhelmingly voted for its first black mayor.

The biggest problem in the black community is not racism, inequality, lack of access to health care, climate change, the alleged need for commonsense gun control laws, or any of number of the arguments Democrats pitch to blacks to secure that 90-percent-plus black vote. The number one problem in the black community, as Owens told Congress, is a lack of fathers in the home.

Economist Walter Williams points out that the percentage of blacks born outside of wedlock in 1940 was approximately 12 percent. In 1965, when Daniel Patrick Moynihan published a report called The Negro Family: A Case For National Action, the percentage of black children entering the world without a father in the house was at 25 percent. Moynihan warned about the dysfunction created by absentee fathers, including a greater likelihood of kids dropping out of school, an increased probability that kids would end up in poverty, and a greater likelihood that such children would commit crime and end up incarcerated. In a speech on Fathers Day in 2008, then-senator Barack Obama said: We know that more than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubleddoubledsince we were children. We know the statisticsthat children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools, and twenty times more likely to end up in prison. They are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home, or become teenage parents themselves. And the foundations of our community are weaker because of it.

Today, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 70 percent of black children enter into the world without a father in the household. At the congressional hearing on white nationalism, Owens said, If were going to have a hearing on white supremacy, we are assuming that the biggest victims of that are minority Americans. And presumably this hearing would be to stop that and preserve the lives of minority Americans. Which, based on the hierarchy of whats impacting minority Americans, if I had to make a list of one hundred things, white nationalism would not make the list.

Eric Holder, President Barack Obamas first attorney general, denounced what he called pernicious racism. At a commencement speech before a historically black college, Holder said, Nor does the greatest threat to equal opportunity any longer reside in overtly discriminatory statutes like the separate but equal laws of sixty years ago. Since the era of