Posted on 06/04/2020 9:32:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
In a viral video that has garnered 1.5 million views, conservative activist Candace Owens explains why she refuses to accept George Floyd as a martyr for the African-American community.
“Confession: #GeorgeFloyd is neither a martyr or a hero,” Owens captioned her video on Twitter. “But I hope his family gets justice.”
Confession: #GeorgeFloyd is neither a martyr or a hero. But I hope his family gets justice. https://t.co/Lnxz0usrp5
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) June 3, 2020
In the 18-minute clip, Owens clearly condemns police officer Derek Chauvin’s murder of Floyd but also examines Floyd’s criminal record and challenges the narrative that celebrates him as a hero. “I am not going to accept the narrative that this is the best the black community has to offer,” she insists. “Nobody thinks he should have died during this arrest but what I find despicable is that everyone is pretending this man lived a heroic lifestyle when he didn’t.”
Owens notes that Floyd was high on fentanyl and methamphetamine at the time of his death, according to the autopsy report, and goes on to cite his record which includes jail sentences in 1998, 2002, 2004, 2005, and 2007. His 2007 arrest, she continues, was for participating in an armed home invasion against a pregnant African-American woman, where Floyd held a gun to the pregnant mother’s stomach.
Owens challenges the idea of lifting Floyd up as a hero. “We are the only people that fight and scream and demand support and justice for the people in our community that are up to no good,” she says. “We are being sold a lot of lies and at the detriment of the black and the white community and at the detriment to America as a whole.”
Owens also questioned the narrative of police brutality. “A police officer is 18 and a half times more likely to be killed by a black person than the other way around,” says Owens.
“Do some police officers do the wrong thing? Yes,” she said. “They’re always going to exist because they’re human beings. And sometimes human beings suck…society is not perfectible.”
“It is no excuse to paint society with a broad brush and it is certainly no excuse to accept a Democratic narrative.”
Rather than celebrate George Floyd as a role model, Owens cites some of her own African-American heroes, including Kobe Bryant, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, and Shelby Steele. “George Floyd is not my martyr…he can be yours,” she says. “And that’s all I have to say to Black America.”
Pretty courageous
Pretty honest and accurate, but that didn't work for Drew Brees
Well they certainly are portraying him as a saint that’s for sure.
Two great conservative voices that will stand up to the media about as well as Pres Trump does...
And we get the fun of watching the DNC try to tear down two strong minority women. LOL
Absolutely
Not Haley. Thanks.
COVID, fentanyl, methamphetamines, and marijuana on board.
Didnt he hold a knife(Or was it a gun not sure) to the stomach of a pregnant woman in Houston in order to rob her..yeah he was such piece of work..lets build a mural in his honor
I had read a bit about Candace Owens, but this was the first of her videos I watched.
Passionate but also supremely rational.
Nothing George Floyd did warranted summary execution by a rogue cop.
But the fact remains that he was a career criminal and a druggie.
As Miss Owens argues, he was not an admirable person in any way, much less the saint and martyr leftists have built him up into.
Drew Brees got that white privilege going for him. I understand he’s on his knees now. so much for his rights
Candice is an incredible woman. She should be one of Trump’s top advisors as well as spokeswoman.
When the entire neighborhood is destroyed and all the generations are relocated far from their church to make room for the gentrification for the new favorite LGBTQ community, will the Black community be satisfied with expensive rents and a shiny new boys and girls club.
Thank you for this information.
Thank you, Candace. Right as usual.
Here comes the push back from the conservatives...AMEN!
“”””””Nothing George Floyd did warranted summary execution by a rogue cop.””””””””””
Dafuq? He wasn’t EXECUTED by anyone.
Ambassador Haley has been disappointing.
Maybe DeSantis or Noem?
Haley is George Bush in a skirt.
Just said everyone needs to suffer personally from Floyd’s death.
Promoted southern Confederate pride was responsible for racist shooting.
Was never Trumpern
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