Confessions of a former Candace Owens type
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- Опубликовано: 14 сен 2020
- This video was prompted by an exchange I had with one of my closest childhood friends. She will always be one of my closest friends, bc she we are continuing to have a discussion about my experiences as a black person in America - and she’s willing to ask questions and challenge me - but most of all she’s listening. That’s what being an ally looks like. There is a trend of “well-meaning white folks” finding a Candace Owens video or something similar and sending it to me privately, or posting it with captions like “we need more of this” or “less division”, etc. And because I used to believe some of the things she currently believes, I wanted to share my story. Bc I understand that point of view. I talk a lot to my PA folks - but this applies to everyone who still refuses to accept that America is racist.
Downingtown folks, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that I became a professional actress because I learned some of my finest acting techniques by keeping you in the dark about the racism I experienced from some of you, as well as teachers, coaches, even from some of your parents. Did you know that in 8th grade at Downingtown Junior High, Mrs. Parsons gave us an art assignment where we were to bring in a class photo and do a shading assignment where we drew our version of our class photos - and she said that if we forgot our photos, she had photocopied the pages of the yearbook so we could use that. When I approached her for a copy of the yearbook pages, as my white classmates did, my photo was black. Just completely black. Mrs. Parsons hadn’t thought to lighten the copy so that black students' features would be visible. Instead of apologizing for her misstep and sending me to the office to make a lighter copy, she instead berated me for my darkness in front of the entire class and told me there was no way I could use that for the assignment and that it was my fault for forgetting my picture so she gave me an F for the day. Mind you, my white classmates were able to finish the assignment even if they had forgotten their pictures. I cried for the rest of the class in humiliation, as my table mates looked on helplessly, not quite knowing what to say or do.
I don’t think I ever shared that story with my parents, to be honest. But that’s just one of many examples of racist behaviors perpetrated by “good people”. That’s just the one that comes to mind.
Please watch the whole video. 
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We need to hear more from others like you.
To quote Nick Nolte from "North Dallas Forty", "far out".
Thank you for the video!
Thank you for doing this video.
Well said. Being so honest is rare. Haters are going to hate. You'll find standing up and telling the truth is a lonely place. Humans are masters at disguising their true feelings. Thank you so much for telling your story.
All the great things you’ve done, will be dwarfed be your future achievements.
I have watched many Black conservative and they are not saying racisms does not exist. They are saying we can't live our lives and see racism in every situation. Somethings we can control some we can't.
The black experience that you're talking about sounds a lot like the gay experience (this is coming from a gay person). I support Candace Owens because I looked at the alternative to what she's saying and I reflected on both sides. What does walking around with the victim mentality do for you as a person and your community? I can make a list of things that I had to go through as a gay person. I lived in a conservative household and I went to conservative schools that were essentially anti-gay. What exactly is making that list going to do for me? I can say that it spreads awareness, but after that awareness is spread where do I go from there? Candace Owens never said that racism doesn't exist and I'm not saying that homophobia doesn't exist either. I'm saying that walking around hating the world because of how straight people treated me in the past does absolutely nothing for me. I was able to cope with dealing with the issues that you speak about by looking at others as individuals and not judging them by their immutable characteristics. I think society needs to start doing that as a whole. That's the best way to deal with the issues that you're talking about in this video.
Uh, sorry, Ms. Owens does say that racism doesn't exist anymore.
Look, we're different, all of us and we take things our way. I can totally, 100% relate to what this young lady is saying. She looks younger than me. I didn't make the "switch" until 5 years ago and I'm in my late 50's. For years, I considered white people my friends and still do. Unfortunately a lot of them have chosen the Trump Train and our points of view differ greatly. They present Candace Owens as the paragon of what blackness should be and I will respond with how disingenuous she is. And she is. I think she has set race relations back decades because whites cling to her and other black conservatives as a way of absolving them of their guilt. She is in the way of this country healing. But, for the first time, I can see a different side and Ms. Young pointed it out. Candace Owens is hurt and I guess like most of us, she needs healing. She has a black son now, regardless of him being mixed. He will not be treated as a white man and I hope she'll be ready for that.
@@noeltaylor3594 I can see why you'd have that perspective, but as a white person I disagree with most of what you wrote. First of all I don't support Trump. I'm a classical liberal and I supported Biden this election cycle. Second of all, I'm an individualist which means that I look a black people and all races for that matter as individuals. I don't look at anyone as part of a group and I don't think any races are supposed to act a certain way. I also don't think she represents what blackness should be. I look at her as Candace Owens not as a black conservative. Third of all I don't cling to her at all. I disagree with her on a lot of issues. In general, I have respect for people who go against the grind and have more of a heterodox world view.
Where would you rather be a black person?
When did you wake up and see light of racism in America and does your husband feel the same way you do.
I think you should stop giving into the bigotry of low expectations in this country... Martin Luther King said judge by character not by color... If you talk a certain way and people of your own race don't want anything to do with you just because of how you talk what does that say about them?... I'm sorry for your bad experiences but I think you were on the right path to begin with there's nothing wrong with being who You are
Who said I was giving in to the bigotry of low expectations? What part of the video made you think I was doing that? And who said I'm not fully who I am now? I think what you missed was - I wasn't being myself back then. At all. And now, I've never been more fully myself. By recognizing the bigotry and systemic racism in this country, it allows me to take active steps to recognize it, call it out and demand better. That's what Dr. King said and did, right? Let's not forget, there were many many people who did not think there was a problem with racism when he started leading protests. :-) Be blessed!