Candace Owens, communications director for Turning Point USA, gave a speech at UCLA that she was not about to let Black Lives Matter protesters take over.
On Friday afternoon, she posted some must-see video of her taking on the protesters and not backing down an inch.
Black Lives Matter protesters showed up to my @UCLA event to protest. Here is a video clip of me smacking them down with the truth; they’re a bunch of whiny toddlers, pretending to be oppressed for attention. pic.twitter.com/riBA0A3J1I
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) April 20, 2018
“Avengers” actor Don Cheadle took offense at the idea of young Black Lives Matter protesters showing more emotion that their grandparents who actually lived through things like Jim Crow.
https://twitter.com/DonCheadle/status/987486153510014976
Sounds like an invitation to a debate (that will never happen):
Huge fan of your work, @DonCheadle. Rather than critique me over twitter, why don’t you debate me and my stance on BLM publicly? I will raise 50k for the debate, all proceeds to charity. What do you say?
(Followers: please RETWEET) https://t.co/xo3fP9Dg8l— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) April 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/DonCheadle/status/987533793861894145
You respond, but not to my offer? A simple yes or no will suffice. Many of us are under the impression that you Hollywood stars are nothing but hot air when it comes to your political stances. Prove me wrong.
50k, charity of your choice.
(Folllowers, please RT once more). https://t.co/pFOjY3kciD— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) April 21, 2018
Yeah, he’s not gonna debate.
Owens did get some celebrity support from rapper Kanye West, though:
I love the way Candace Owens thinks
— ye (@kanyewest) April 21, 2018
I’m freaking out. @kanyewest ….please take a meeting with me. I tell every single person that everything that I have been inspired to do, was written in your music.
I am my own biggest fan, because you made it okay. I need you to help wake up the black community. https://t.co/Uz1nB9K0Oz— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) April 21, 2018
Once Kanye West got involved, Twitter decided to create one of its “Twitter Moments” to report on West supporting the “far-right” Owens.
Far right? Allow me to clarify: I believe the black community can do it without hand-outs. I believe the Democrats have strapped us to our past to prevent us from our futures. And I won’t stop fighting until all black Americans see that.
I’m not far right—I’m free. pic.twitter.com/wtqCuYPtM2— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) April 21, 2018
“I’m not far right — I’m free.” There’s your moment, Twitter. Get on it.
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Update:
We’d missed this, but Roseanne Barr added her endorsement to Kanye West’s tweet:
bingo.
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) April 21, 2018
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