“He Is Not A Hero Or Martyr For Black America” – Controversial Pro-Trump Activist Candace Owens Says, Get Slammed For Comments About George Floyd
Candace Owens, controversial political activist and ardent supporter of President Donald Trump has come under fire for her controversial stance on the tragic death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man killed by a White policeman in Minneapolis, on May 25.
In a Facebook Live video, titled “Confession: I DO NOT support George Floyd and I refuse to see him as a martyr”, the 31-year-old woman declared she does not support the depiction of Floyd as a ‘martyr’ in the wake of national outcry and protests.
In her video, she said;
We are being sold a lot of lies at the detriment to the Black community, at the detriment to the White community and at the detriment to America as a whole. So, I want to come out and say that I do not support George Floyd and the media’s depiction of him as a martyr for Black America.
The vocal critic of the Black Lives Matter movement alleged that the 46-year-old Floyd, was ‘high’ at the time of his death.
She also took a jab at Floyd’s history of infractions with the law, including charges relating to drugs and theft with a firearm.
Owens added that;
Everyone is pretending that this man lived a heroic lifestyle. We are embarrassing in that regard. Nobody wants to tell the truth in Black America. Our biggest problem is us.
For whatever reason it has become fashionable over the last five or six years for us to turn criminals into heroes overnight. It is something I find despicable. George Floyd was not an amazing person. George Floyd is being upheld as an amazing human being.
Despite her controversial comments, she noted that she is not trying to defend Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who is now facing upgraded charges of second degree murder and second-degree manslaughter after he pinned Floyd to the ground with his knee.
She expressed that;
The family of George Floyd deserves justice for the way that he died but I also am not going to accept the narrative that this is the best the Black community has to offer. I have no apologies to make. George Floyd is not my martyr. He can be yours.
Social media users were quick to criticise Candace, with many brandishing her Facebook rant as ‘horrible’ and ‘insensitive’.
See some mixed reactions from Twitter users below;
malcolm x talks about the underlying self-hatred of candace owens and other alt-right black conservatives, who use their blackness to prop up white supremacy for personal profit pic.twitter.com/kjxMKJCdTS
— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) June 5, 2020
Candace Owens after spending several months sucking up to Kanye and begging for his attention, only for him to join the #BlackLivesMatter protests and donate millions of dollars to families of the murdered black men who she has been vilifying. You love to see it. pic.twitter.com/F9334rxDen
— Wabzi Ford 🇬🇧🇩🇲🇳🇬🌍👩🏾🎓♻️ (@WabziS) June 5, 2020
Just mute/block people like Prison Planet, Katie Hopkins, Candace Owens, Tomi Lahren, Ben Shapiro, and co, rather than quote tweeting them, imo. They benefit from saying shocking shit and people like us getting mad at them.
— Pi’erre Bournedieu (@AshwinRaman_) June 5, 2020
Candace Owens received $37,500 from lawsuits regarding racism in 2008.
She must have gotten a better offer to now pretend racism isn’t affecting black peoples nearly as much as it affected her in 2008. https://t.co/LsPKI2nZjx
— Brittany Pounders (@LibertyBritt) June 5, 2020
Candace Owens is the most confusing kind of white supremacist.
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) June 4, 2020
I’ll say it again, block Candace Owens. Don’t engage with her posts, don’t even mention her insane rants, just block her. She and Tin & Foil are enablers of racists for money and exposure. Let them remain in the deepest fringe section of the Internet forever more.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) June 4, 2020
Candace Owens is a pathetic, self loathing, uneducated, homely, grifting, sycophantic, white supremacy apologist who gets paid to make white racists feel comfortable as Black face cosigning their bigotry.
She’s bought and paid for.
She’s trash.#CandaceOwens
— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) June 4, 2020
Bro fuck Candace Owens he’s a fucking human he didn’t deserve that shit regardless of whatever you tried to dig up on George he is one of many of the faces of our struggle the cops could have handled that shit way differently but none of them did now a man is dead #Georgefloyed pic.twitter.com/nCkT3vNKk7
— Bagheera (@Bagheer49757017) June 4, 2020
I see Candace Owens is trending.
She blocked me. I don’t have a burner account to check on people who blocked me.
But I’m going to safely assume that she is trending for being a gigantic asshole.
Thank you.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) June 4, 2020
I actually watched the first half of Candace Owens disgusting and disingenuous stance on George Floyd so you wouldn’t have to.
But I couldn’t continue. She wants to criminalize the man and minimize the movement. She is TRASH, and makes me sick to my stomach.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) June 4, 2020
Malcolm X warned us about people like Candace Owens.
— Brad Betts (@870South) June 4, 2020
No way, you’re telling me Candace Owens, the woman who thought Hitler’s biggest flaw was that he was just too ambitious, said some despicable things to justify George Floyd’s death. I’m shocked….
— Francis Maxwell (@francismmaxwell) June 4, 2020
Black ppl
Please
Please
Please
Stop responding to and sharing links of #CandaceOwens doing her “routine”.
Candace Owens is a paid troll who white supremacist think tanks push out to spew the same 3 arguments. Her purpose is to WASTE BLACK PEOPLE’S TIME with bad faith arguments— Tariq Nasheed 🇺🇸 (@tariqnasheed) June 4, 2020
Watch her full video below;
