You know it’s bad when Candace Owens has managed to offend the very people she’s been unsuccessfully trying to galvanize over the past few years in her efforts to sink even deeper into the sunken place. But that precisely the scenario she’s created for Black conservatives with her relentless criminalization of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was jogging when two white men armed themselves, hunted him down and killed him in the middle of a road in broad daylight.
Owens — the same person who sympathized with Adolf Hitler and tried to convince Congress that white supremacy doesn’t exist — has been on a mission to discredit Arbery and blame him for his own death. She has accused Arbery of “breaking into” a property, referred to the notion that he was jogging as a “bullshit narrative” and questioned whether he was really jogging on that fateful February day he was gunned down by accused murderers, Gregory and Travis McMichael.
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The attacks on a man who, in death, cannot defend himself proved to be too much for Owens’ fellow Black conservatives, who seem to be united in finally denouncing her hate. Red State, a conservative news website, compiled reactions to Owens’ stance on Arbery from various Black conservatives who have previously worked with and aligned themselves with her work supporting Donald Trump. All eight of them distanced themselves from Owens’ toxicity in no uncertain terms, leaving her on a hateful island all by her lonely.
Johnathan Throwe, the former South Carolina director for BLEXIT, the failed (and Columbused) movement started by Owens to encourage Black people to leave the Democratic Party, reportedly said she would do anything to please white people, including criminalizing a Black man in death.
“BLEXIT could never get any traction going into the Black community trying to speak with residents with the rhetoric and energy Candace is currently exhibiting,” Red State quoted Throwe as saying. “Her facts she presents are only to paint Black America negatively in the face of white supporters. She will blatantly ignore the facts that would equally cause White America to have to look in the mirror themselves on key issues. I decided to resign from BLEXIT to prevent being associated with someone who doesn’t speak for Black people, but speaks against Black people.”
Source: Black Conservatives Denounce Candace Owens’ After ‘Hateful’ Comments About Ahmaud Arbery
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