Triggering people is Candace Owens’ business—and business is good. emilyjanefox speaks to the conservative pundit about her upbringing, her friendship with Kanye West, and her own presidential ambitions.
A little more than a year later, Owens was again singled out. Unlike the first incident, this one she wrote about in her book: She was curled up on a couch at her then boyfriend’s house one evening when a string of calls came through. She let them go to voicemail. It had been a rough week. She’d gotten in a shouting match with one of her friends, a guy who she says was jealous of her boyfriend. The fight resulted in the young man getting suspended from school.
Once the mayor’s son was identified, local media descended. The story was splashed across the front page of every local newspaper and at the top of nightly news broadcasts, Owens’s image flashed again and again. Everyone picked a side, she wrote, and many people thought she was lying. With years of distance, her perspective has shifted. She told me that her friend wasn’t racist; he was a hurt person trying to hurt a person. It had been the media’s analysis that destroyed lives. When I told her that the friend had since changed his last name, she looked surprised.
I asked her how she squares the fact that she was the victim of heinous racial attacks and now broadcasts that there is no such thing as systemic racism. “It’s not about whether or not you are a victim because I can guarantee you are. That’s the easy part. But how do you get over these things? How can you use your experiences and recognize that they’re not permanent? You’re not locked into being a victim forever,” she said. “I always come out stronger.
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