The Candace Owens Show: Paris Dennard | Candace Owens Show

okay picking a few things here alright ladies and gentlemen we are rolling into another episode here talking about something that I've actually been dying to discuss and that is the lynching of black Americans now you might be watching this and thinking Candace what are you talking about it is 2019 black Americans are no longer being lynched but I beg you to reconsider your position what it means to be a black conservative today have the tactics been updated are we watching media lynchings that are occurring if you come out in support of conservative principles or even worse in support of President Donald Trump my next guest knows a lot about what I'm speaking about and I'd like to introduce all of you guys to mr. Paris Denard welcome to my man cave nice place this is my man case might mess it in my apartment yeah I'm so glad to have you here today and we're gonna get into everything that happened to you everything that's going on with me since I've kind of come out in support of this president and being a black conservative but I want to first take it back to introducing you to my audience and and letting them know who you are what it is you do and let's start with just growing up what where are you from let me worry about yourself well I'm appreciate being here with you Candice I think you are a force and so it's it's an honor to be with you I'm from Phoenix Arizona grew up in a single-parent home my mom was not political my family wasn't really overtly political pretty Democrat in terms of politics but conservative in terms of how we were raised in the church you don't go to church every Sunday choir rehearsal Bible study all the whole nine and so very close-knit family and went to Pepperdine University here in California and was there for five years got two degrees in political science and public relations and throughout this time was always involved in politics and got invited to a teenage Republican convention when I was in high school and I didn't know anything about what what the difference was between a Republican or a Democrat I just like leadership and I went to this convention in Arizona and I ran for a corresponding secretary gave a speech and won the election and the rest is history became state chairman obtained Republicans and it was funny thing Candice was I didn't even know whether or not I was a Republican when I ran for office for that position I just wanted to be involved and that night in the hotel room my buddy said let's just find out if you're Republican or conservative me is just a series of questions to just respond and all of my just gut reactions at you know 16 17 years old lined perfectly with the Republican Party and he said well luckily you're a Republican because that's what you believe and I so went home to my mom and I said mom I'm now corresponding secretary for the Arizona teen Republicans and I and I'm a Republican she goes well that's great son just don't tell your grandfather you know it's actually really interesting that you just said something that I talk about all the time which is that there seems to be a disconnect in the black family we are raised conservative and yet if you ask a black person in your youth what are you they'll say Democrat like there seems to be a total disconnect in terms of what we actually practice versus what we feel that we have to preach it was absolutely true I mean one of the things my grandfather was my hero and he's since passed away but he told me said parents I don't like your party he said but I like you in your party he said and don't you leave the party you stay and you fight in the Republican Party because he knew that the things I was standing for the things I was trying to do and change and make better were for my community's interests and things that I thought were important and so I think as a community we have to be willing to say what are the differences between the parties and what is it that I believe look there's a new guy Kalapana out of West Virginia the youngest black American state legislator 19 years old attends an HBCU he was inspired by President Obama to get involved in politics but he started to learn about President Obama's policies especially in coal where his father came from and he switched and said no I'm gonna be a Republican and he supports the president because of it it's to your point Kandace when we're honest and we look at how we're raised but actually look at the realities of the political structure then we realize we're probably more Republican than we are yeah you know I personally have the theory that it's actually the school system and the culture that poisons us and makes us believe that were liberals when in fact the black community is as far as liberalism as it possibly gets and you brought up the church and I say that all the time I say the black community cannot align with the side that is not aligned with God and and this leftism this increasing radical left ism rejects God at every chance that it gets and it mocks God and you see so much of that happening on the television screen and in the culture and in the media and it's something that it's just very strange to me that we haven't yet turn the lights on and realize that this is not a party that we can align ourselves with we're consumers of culture black community black community are just consumers of culture and influence and things that we see and what if we're giving things on television and radio and music and present it with things too I think dis synthesize us and to liberalize us and to make bad or make make it to be evil to be conservative or make it evil to be Republican or you anytime you see a Candice Collins you're immediately labeled or you put down or you your character is besmirched I think that's part of there it's not by happenstance it's deliberate because they know that we've got to create a narrative so that more black Americans more younger black Americans don't discover what it means to be essentially free right and it is free I love that you use that word and I say that all the time when people say you're all too right you're this you're that I say no no no I'm free right I'm afraid I've released the mental change I see the world for what it actually is and I feel like it's it's such a duty of mine to make sure as many black Americans wake up to what I just see to be a mass brainwashing in our community where we are literally voting for things that are against our best interests absolutely it's it's actually unbelievable so you you actually made it quite far in politics and you've worked with a president before which is true tell me tell me about that what President was it and what did you do and how did you get there yeah my first job out of college was interning at the White House for President George W Bush in the political affairs office I didn't know anybody I had intern at the RNC before that and I had really just was just so passionate about what I believed and just wanted to get really into the Republican Party and I just set a goal and said I'm gonna work at the White House didn't know I was gonna do it didn't know what did so I told my mama said mom I'm moving to DC and I'm and I'm gonna work at the white house and she said you just spent all that money to go to Pepperdine University and you got two degrees and you're gonna work for free I said yes just trust me okay so two months into this unpaid internship I was hired because someone left and my boss caught me Thompson said we want to hire you for the position and she said it only pays thirty thousand dollars I said well Sarah it's thirty thousand that I'm more than I make now so I'll take it and so I started there and I was a political coordinator working with the different political parties on behalf of the white house and then I was honored to become the director of black outreach and so that was all of the policies and issues that relate to the black community in the Bush administration we were working in the public liaison office to get those people to the table the the african-american organizations and and and people who were aligned with the different things that we're doing from a policy standpoint we were doing that in addition to traditional things like Black History Month and black Music Month and things like that so it was we were charged with getting the black community aware of the things that the Bush administration at that time we're doing how did it go do you do you think that it was something something that went Greek or not so much because I remember being a youth when you had President Bush there and I just thought this man is a racist I mean look I come from a black family and uh I can't believe he's in office everything he's doing is to harm us so how was it like what was it like trying to get the word out about the positive things that he was doing for the black community it was tremendously challenging and was challenging in part because we didn't have Facebook we didn't have Twitter to the way the social media is now right so we could have influencers and people we need to do a podcast and we can do you know just direct messaging to people it was do the traditional means of communication so it was difficult we remember on the backdrops of Hurricane Katrina and that decision and we were on the backdrops of other things that happened and people if we thought the attacks against President Trump were bad back then the attacks against President Bush or horrific in terms of the black community I remember years later he was asked what was the thing that you hurt you the most that you've just most regret he said he said when I was called a racist he said it bothers me to my core because I know that's not who I am and that's what that's what people do on purpose they they use identity politics and they attack people on things about race because they know it cuts through the coal so I had people come to me to this day leaders of major african-american organization that said parents we had more access to the White House we had more opportunities to have a seat at the table and to talk about some substantive things in the Bush administration than we did all eight years of the Obama administration so to me that was a point of pride knowing that we were had an open dialogue and open take a seat for people who wanted to work all we just asked to just be willing right just be willing to work with us and we'll work with you right and that it's jarring to me because now that I'm on the other side of it to grow up and think that the president former President Bush was a racist and not ever once pausing to consider why I believed those views it really shows you how much the media had sort of a stranglehold and you're right this is before social media this is before the area of Technology and the era of Technology and I get that question all the time which is Candace why do you think you've been able to have more of an impact and people that came before you brilliant people that came before me much smarter than I dr. ben Carson is a literal brain surgeon you're like all right you're a brain surgeon no he's actually a research this guy and he and I spoke about it you know I've had an opportunity we know a few times now and I told him about the blex it movement blacks exiting the liberal ideology and the Democrat Party and what I've done differently is culture right like I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said before or something that I'm saying that dr. Thomas soul hasn't written a book on but I've understood that the war that we're fighting is cultural and and you can't bring politics to a cultural fight right so you can't think that you're gonna sit down you're gonna have Milton Friedman and Thomas Sol you know talking about capitalism right and and that's going to change the minds and hearts but you can think that if you're willing to harness social media and you're on Twitter and you're on YouTube and you're and you're making bringing a conversation down to where it feels like they're talking to their brother and sister and you're using humor you're using satire you can start to change hearts and minds pretty quickly it's absolutely true and I think that you know people always surprised by me when they see me or they think that I'm just someone who had just came to the party or someone who has just been on the Nationals like no I just didn't have social media I've been this conservative this passionate back when I was in high school right I've been this way I just didn't have the platform the good thing about people like you can this is that you have the platform and the platform is now available to literally congratulations on million Twitter followers it's a million bub you mob you haven't congratulated me on a million yeah yeah I'm not it's it's the platform and it's the way to come to me to communicate directly to people without the filter of the of the cable news or the of the pundits that people always relied upon and that's the power it's really powerful to have a platform it's really powerful to have a have this social media when we use it to benefit our our people and I think that's what we have to continue to do is have to continue to speak out have to continue to find you know creative ways to do that and to get our voice out because if we don't a they're gonna say either silence you or be they will just prevent you from even being able to get to have a platform I think they're actually starting to see that that they realize that they never predicted that social media would create this hole and they would no longer be able to control the narrative and really how Trump one was that he harnessed the power of social media absolutely and they're starting now to try to control social media platforms we're seeing that obviously we're a prettier you right now yeah and they're they're in a war with Google right now god bless them for standing up to Google and YouTube in banning our videos and trying to deep platform us knocking conservatives off of Facebook off of Twitter I've seen it happen to so many people I'm so we really do have to understand the threat that that poses that they sense that they've lost control right and I think that nothing scares them more than the idea who's in control of black Americans well you know it's it's so funny I remember when something happened I think it was Kanye West and somebody said this is what happens when Negroes you don't read new I said no actually this is what happens when Negroes do read because if you go back to slavery and and Jim Crow the whole point was to keep african-americans from being able to read crap because if you because you know this because you study history does the slaves that came over to America were the strongest they were the ones that were able to survive the ships coming over here they had to be able to be the absolute strongest to survive coming over to America and then be able to work as hard as they were built to be the strongest that's why they went and actually got those and inspected them because they needed to have these strongest people here so when you look at us fast forward today the descendants of these strong both strong physically and strong mentally Africans who came over to this country this is who we are this is our DNA and so then what they knew they said if we take these strong individuals strong minded strong physically individuals and allow them to read allow them to write allow them to progress we're done right they will rebel they will take over and that is exactly what is happening politically culturally when we learn how to read when we learn what how to know what our power is when we start to think for ourselves then we are we loose the shackles that they try to put on us and sometimes it's liberalism sometimes that socialism says whatever it is those shackles are we become freer and this is what we are I think experiencing now more than ever before in history we are seeing free thinking African Americans especially Millennials stopping and saying you know what I may not be Republican that's fine I may not be Democrat but I'm going to stop and think about the things that I hear president Trump say the things that I hear Candace Owens say the things that I might see Paris Dennard say because if I'm able to use my own mind and make up my own decisions then I believe they're gonna trend towards the right I think they're gonna trends towards what's in our DNA which is being conserved right is that our core and we keep talking about freedom and I love that you use this word because I just read an article about me recently and it said the popularizing of the term the Democrat plantation with my face and why it's so wrong because they know that this clicks with people when I say that you are stuck on the Democrat plantation that is exactly what I mean you are not free you are doing free labor for people that are not servicing you whatsoever they're not helping you they're not they're doing nothing for you so to me when I look at blacks that support this party blindly know nothing about their history know nothing about the fact that as you mentioned the people that were in support of Jim Crow were the Democrats the people that you know put slavery into place and have held this were the Democrats the the terrorism that we went through the domestic terrorism with the KKK those were the Democrats so when you look at me and you call me an Uncle Tom and you called me a I feel bad for you I feel bad for you that you're so uneducated that you have not yet realized that you are doing free labor for a party that has done absolutely nothing for you and all it would take was opening a book you know Kenna's one of the Arthur Brooks the former head of a EEI American Enterprise Institute he said I'm a conservative and a bit because I believe in the free enterprise system and I care about the poor because I believe that the free enterprise system is the only way the only mechanism to help bring people out of poverty into the middle class and into fast barity absolute fact and that I'm like if more conservatives and Republicans would talk like that and articulate that because that is how you start to change minds because we you get put into a system there the properties it's a system of poverty it's a system of welfare it's an it's not not and look we know the facts that they're more white people on welfare than our black people but when you look at these urban communities there's there it's systemic and you don't get out of the cycle of poverty and I believe it's by design it's because the free enterprise system a free market there's no opportunities for growth there's no opportunities to advance in the communities because they're not that's why I'm thankful for the opportunity zones right that's amazing it'll begin and I like the fact that I call opportunities because it allows people to have the freedom to choose and to have jobs and to advance and this is what we need more of but it is the conservative free-minded things that Thomas imagined if Thomas soul had Twitter you know when it's just Thomas soul quotes and he's that powerful but in his heyday right I mean if him doing podcasts him doing these things all of these great intellectual thinkers on the right that have been there that didn't have the platform that you now have we would be able to change minds earlier but now actually we're able to do it in this capacity right and I always say like I'm so grateful to them because I'm just able to springboard I mean they laid the groundwork right so it's easy for me now when I needed to learn really fast how wrong I was right I'm really really wrong how do I fix it I went onto YouTube and I watched Thomas souls about every single topic and issue and I got his book and Walter Williams I just went under and relearned everything but here's what the problem is and here in and I want to know you think about this in order a huge thing that a huge component of what you need to leave the left is humility do you know how much humility it took for me to say I was wrong about everything and I know nothing right I mean that's how you got to be a pretty humble person and have no ego especially if you've gone so far left that you're on Facebook and you're on Twitter defriending your friends calling them all Nazis calling them racists how do you then say oh wait you know what my bad I was wrong I think that's what people struggle with is that sometimes they just stay on the left because they've gone so far into the Looney Toon direction yeah that they're afraid to say hey you know what I'm sorry I was wrong and I'm relearning this well it's it's and I think that it's the humility factor that you just articulated but it's also the fact that we on the other side it's the demonization that happens it's you know if you say you know what I was wrong I realized the errors of my ways I educated myself and realized that I am going to be more aligned with the Republican Party or more conservative values and principles but then when they do that the hell that they have to go through so then because of the narrative that is put out because of the the brainwashing and the the power of the the mainstream media then they're like why would I come out I even do it right I always say like being a conservative black conservative say it's got to be like weed being gay in the 80s like I mean like that mean like talk about like you got to deal with your family you got to deal with it with the public persona I mean it's it's horrid m'a the stigma that is attached to being a black conservative the thoughtless stigma that is attached to it's completely thoughtless I mean they throw out the exact same words horrific terms things I think so I had to look up I didn't even know what a bed wench was and so I looked it up and they're allowed to use racial slurs or a lot of say whatever they want the fact that on primetime CNN they were allowed to say about Kanye West who was it Bakari sellers sure that Negroes don't this is what happens when Negroes don't read and they all started laughing and they never even had to retract the statement could you imagine if on Fox News right or if Donald Trump right got up and said well this is what happens when negro I mean it's jarring to me what you're allowed to do in that space of liberalism they are allowed to say anything that they want about black conservatives anything that they want but if it was said about black liberals the world would implode it's it's the truth and we see that even in their policies right some of the things that they're able to propose and to you know no one thought Obamacare could happen oh no actually it happened right and so when you look at the issue of the Advanta side you know and these other issues you know you say well this can't happen oh it's happening you give them an inch they'll take it and this is what it's going to happen so you'll be unheard of a Republican or conservative set these things but it's okay it's justified it's because you're a black conservative so your your life really doesn't matter this is this is this is this is what they're really saying they're saying Candis because you happen to be conservative in Paris because you happen to be Republican you know your life your your your trajectory your career path your your good name it really doesn't matter so we can say what we want we can do what we want we can create any means that we want about you without any repercussion because you really don't matter you really don't matter that's and that's exactly right and here's something that I've also noticed and I say this people I challenge them to find me a person you can let me know if I'm right or wrong but I say I have met so many black liberals that have gone conservative but I've never met a black conservative s gone liberal shouldn't that tell you that there's something that on the conservative side there is some layer of a nucleus of truth that it's once our eyes are opened right we don't go away from conservatism we realize what is happening in this country what has happened in the past and I challenge when I say it show me show me the black conservative that went liberal well you know the good thing that you're doing Candis is that you are creating I call like a safe haven right the movements that you're starting and the things that you're doing especially with with the other things that you're doing even internationally you're creating this a sense of community and you're letting them know that you're not alone for so for so many years it was just cake holes James right yeah it was just K by herself it was just some of the other notables that we know in the black conservative movement now you're saying if you want to be a black conservative not only are you going to be supported but it's okay we're going to you a platform and encourage you right and we're in and we're gonna grow the body right so it's more powerful to be in numbers than to be standing by yourself so when when when when somebody attacks you I know that I have Candace Owens having my back and all of Canada followers and that's what these conventions it's like I got a look around the room and know you're not alone and that we are fighting a cultural war but we can win you can write the number I'd the truth is on our side right that's the number one thing you have to realize the truth is on our side so we're going to win I really believe that I won't talk to you what about the president yeah I want to talk to you about your support for him yeah how did that start you know what during the 2016 campaign I said I want to have a winner I don't care who it is somebody has got to lose someone someone if we lose we're gonna be lost for a generation right the Democrats will control everything for a good generation and I said we've got to win I've worked with you McCain lost Romney lost we cannot lose I got sick of losers all right and I think senators funny thing there's somebody that loves to win we're gonna win so much gonna be sick of it it's a completely and then I said I believe that it has to be a governor or somebody who was a successful seal to lead the country where we need to go after we saw for eight years with the senator and so I kept watching Donald Trump and I kept listening to Donald Trump as he stayed right there in the center stage meaning he had the support he was number one and I said this man can win and I believe that he should run I didn't have a problem at that and I said as and then and then CNN said we'll we'll give you a contract and I was on national television supporting the president but it was funny I was on television and during the campaign somebody in the Trump war room said who is that guy and actually frankly it was Steve ban and said I was sold they said who is that guy and they said well that's apparent he said is he on our team is he one of our people I said well no he's just out there supporting the president by himself they said he said what he said go down there get him on board with the campaign as one of our surrogates so two days later the racist Steve's been and he identified me right and then Brian lands a Hispanic American came to my office and said we want you to join the campaign and our media team because you're doing great work and and you're doing it on your own we want to be able to help us support you and I did that and you know it was it was challenging I had never gotten death threats before I had never been called all kind of things that I've just had to Google and googling these things I'm googling like oh this is wrong okay this should be blocked this shouldn't be allowed to be said and and I was just so impressed by his message and the directness of his message especially to the community because for so many years I've heard people talk about urban America but they wouldn't talk about the realities in many of the places of urban black America and this president was talking about he wasn't just talking about it to gain points at black audience he was talking about it in white audiences and I think people got upset about that said no that's what you need to do that's that's the courage that's to talk talk about my community anywhere you go everywhere you go right and I said this is somebody I can get behind because I believe he's not beholden to any party structure he's not beholden to any special-interest he's going to say what he believes and means what he says and I can get behind somebody like that and I have been proud to stand with him and support him publicly and privately because I think he is doing an amazing thing for the country but more specifically for the black community I really do believe that he is a rare moment a rare window of opportunity for the black America to wake up and to realize that we have not been a part of this American dream because we've been lied to and used and abused and sold this concept that there's somehow a virtue in victimization like all you have to do is figure out where you can plug into the victim complex and what does that yield absolutely nothing nothing what about is it yield to be a black lives matter remember shouting in the streets screaming after after a death it's absolutely nothing actually if it earned you anything it's perhaps a chance to be arrested and then you have it on your record for the rest of your life right and and yet this is what our community has been sold as opportunity right and he's somehow reversing it by saying hey black America here are the stats what do you have to lose the most important turn of the century question for black America what do you have to lose answer of course was absolutely nothing right I want to now talk about your support for him and and and to get back to the core of this which is talking about social lynchings sure and it's something that I need to do more work on and we have to get you talking about this at blex at rallies and speaking to black America about this because it's very serious and I don't know how we conquer it I was turning I turned on my social media actually I turned on Twitter and I saw a clip that was going viral on CNN it was a clip of you and you were debating a CI a former CIA member write about White House clearances and this was after Trump had announced that he was going to be revoking security clearances for people for certain individuals the individuals name that you were debating bill Mudd Phil Mudd right and you expose something that nobody knew outside of DC about why these people that were formerly in the CIA like to keep their clearance badges can you explain to me what it was that you said yeah one of the things I said that some of these CIA agents might be upset about President Trump revoking their clearances because it's gonna lose it's gonna if there's a monetary value to it everyone in DC knows that once you leave federal government if you are able to keep your security clearance and higher level security clearances are the better but if you're able to keep your security clearance it makes you more profitable in the private sector because they they believe that you have more access and more ability to to help the private interests by which they work for not illegal not a crime just a fact right and so when you start to strike and take away your clearance it could have a negative impact on your bottom line so they're just taking money out of the pocket President Trump said hey I'm just gonna start revoking clearances right these guys his former CIA guys are thinking hey that's money out of my pocket I make a lot of money because I have contracts right because I have access right consulting and contracts worth within the private sector bill apparently just did not like that oh nobody knew it so it in Phil's defense you expose something and that not many Americans knew and so if what it did was it paint it showed you how disingenuous the media was up in arms our voguing security clearances and and here you presented this fact not many people knew I certainly didn't know and I watched this man bub did you ever see the school oh my do gotta you gotta see this explode I watched this my hidden he exported and employment Percy Percy implodes and he just can't believe that on live air he's saying this that he's obviously very articulate he's caught me said calm you know he's like you know this is what it is it's Washington DC you guys make money because of this and he implodes and that he explodes and and he just starts getting angry I mean he starts screaming at the screen and at this point you realize oh my goodness Paris has got him and he's very uncomfortable and what did he say to you in particular he said something that was just like he's like you have ten seconds to respond that's what he said ten seconds he's like you have 10 seconds to like either take that back or respond to this and he made no sense but there was threatening is he mean they were threatening this former CIA guy of course obviously the clip goes viral on Twitter and and who retweets the other than President Trump right right i retweeted and I was like because it was jarring because it just instantly put an end the hole in virtue of singling oh we must still have these really you don't need you scary clothes why are you pretending you need them and then something amazing happened right you get retweet it's like the high of like this is you know what I mean the high of social media yes Paris has got them and within what felt like to me less than 24 hours and maybe it was a week who knows I I turn on the news and it says that parents are artists dismissed from CNN yeah or or is a be now being investigated yeah for a 2009 sexual assault claim yeah damn me to hashtag me too yeah I got I got the me to movement on me and it was interesting but my birthday was August 18th this event the the hit was August 23rd and then literally I think literally a five days later I get a call from the Washington Post and he's saying he's asking me about this report that I had never seen and I said well can you send me the report and he goes no I can't tell you I can't give it to you because there's things you haven't seen in here I said so someone anonymously gave you this report he goes no I know how I got it I said okay so somebody from the mccain institute grabbed my former employer it was affiliate with arizona state university leaked this dock this HR document to the washington post and on the phone with the reporter i said well why me why now and he says well you've been on television supporting president Trump and in his past issues I said oh this is about President Trump of course it's about this was about I thought it was about justice I thought it was about somebody was grieved you know that's no there was no active accused there was nothing of that sort and so they CNN immediately suspended me with what that day at The Washington Post article came out and then they put me under investigation and I got a lawyer whose fantastic Jennifer McGrath and she immediately went after them and and and and I couldn't even get access from of the to the report from ASU I called for eight hours trying to get the access to the document my attorney the next day after the Washington Post article comes out was able to get a issue to give me the document you know who would have access to documents like that the former CIA person right right maybe maybe and here's the funny thing that a lot of people don't know and in less than 10 seconds Phil Mudd a person who I actually worked with at the McCain Institute there it is and I had actually hired him to appear on a panel for 750 dollars to do a debate for us and so there was a direct connection between you know Phil Mudd getting upset me having a prior existing relationship with him professionally working after McCain a student that some while ASU McCain's to gets the document to the Washington Post and then CNN has a matter of suspense me so that's a scene and I said well if this is so bad why don't you just immediately fire me if it was so egregious if there was any validity to all these claims that were in the report which actually was debunked because Arizona State University actually put out a report a second declaration document that said I never did any of that didn't violate their harassment policy so then there's that they'd already hired you right assuming that they already had done a background check but magically after you embarrass a former CIA man I had been vetted nine vetted by the White House to be on the on a commission by the president through the FBI all of these things had happened since since that thing occurred I asked I said will you just tell the public CNN will you just tell the public that you cannot collaborate anything in the in the report could you tell the public that you cannot all the things that came out in this investigation was inconclusive No so you'll probably put me that I say I'm suspended which meant I'm still paid which meant I'm still under contract with you I can't appear anywhere else during the midterms of course but after all the investigation is over you don't do anything to clear my name right and so you know this is what they attempted to do I got off of social media because I wanted to be respectful of the investigation and not aggravate them in any way but that's okay because who came in Candace Owens with rocks do it and I said and I said I thought I said I wish I could just respond but the moment I was I got back on after this investigation witch hunt was over I was really saying thank you to you and we're tweeting the things that you said but and then I wrote an op-ed and I just said I won't be silenced now because if they do this to me that they're able to do this to me they will do it to somebody else they stopped it and I said this is me next week you know what I'm saying I mean the second you make an imprint I mean and to see that you have to watch it bub like this debate you just to watch a former salmon would just implode and then explode and then to see the virality of it and then to watch them go after him I said this is a social lynching this is a social lynching and what they want to do is destroy his character right and they also want to make sure he can't go anywhere else because now they put a stain on him it's like it's the stain that they put and you know who brought this to my attention the first time and I've been cognizant of it ever since and I always speak up when I see black conservatives bearing the brunt of this Clarence Thomas mm-hmm Clarence Thomas brought this up he called them high tech lynchings right that and I went back and watched that clip I mean I would I would encourage everybody to read his book my grandfather son it will tell you a lot about the character and where this man comes from and to your earlier point he was a liberal and became conservative has not gone bad but I saw that and I watched him talk about no notes just talk about that high-tech lynching that modern lynching that happened and I said my god it's happening all over again it's happening all over again and they're not going to stop it their goal is systemic silencing to remove the platform so if you're able to get a platform you know on Sina I was the only paid african-american Republican Trump supporter on the network you had some that were Republican light but none ever supporting the president and I would go walk anywhere I can be walking around Los Angeles New York DC anywhere african-americans will come up to me and say you're Paris Dennard I can be in the grocery store I made a club I'd be anywhere your parents do not can't take it selfie with you can I have your autograph I don't agree with everything that you say but I appreciate the things that you say I watch you overwhelming support that I got in the streets if you will we're from black people right the effect the positive impact that I know that was having on that platform was the reverse of what they thought they were trying to make me into a character they were trying to make pinned me up against any I would debate anybody see were really debating about it right but they could put me up because anybody and I would stand on my own it was black people coming up to me they always thought that it we black people turning against me no no the biggest support that I got it not him not the faceless cowards that are on social media but the people who are actually in the street people who coming up to me were Oh the majority overwhelmingly african-american what that told me was the people watching I'm having an impact on and they are there there there's a connection just just yesterday young a young millennial African American woman came up to me she goes I love what you do on television I admire you so much I look up to you and she she goes can I can I just had to come up and say hello to you this is the reality of what it is and this is why they tried to they tried to silence me I see right when you get to that point right where they realize that okay we've tried to say this ignore this person we've laughed at this person and they arrive at the point where they're gonna fight you right right and I feel like what is the word I'm blanking on it right now when there's a placed on your head like an they're gonna kill you dead or alive it's a what what no but no like a base issue like a ransom but they issue you know like back in the day the wanted posters there's a bounty about yes back in the day the wanted posters there we go they issue a bounty they I really do feel the media issues a bounty and then they say okay we tried it we tried to smear this person we tried to ignore his person we laughed at this person we tried to smear this person nothing really worked and then they go all out and then there's a bounty and and then the assault that comes it's unbelievable it happens over and over again and the question that we have to ask ourselves as conservatives is how do we help how do we fix this there are so few black conservatives yeah that are able to make a difference that are able to produce moments like you produce on CNN where people are just around the world applauding right and going yes I get it the point has been driven home do you feel that conservatives did enough to stand up for you absolutely not and I will tell you this Candace I said it they I was surprised by what once one person told me you'll be surprised by the people who do reach out to you and support you and you'll be even more surprised by the people who don't Wow and I was you know I don't want to say that I was taking those but I was taking notes like okay this person didn't say one word to me publicly which I get but or privately yeah you can just you can text me you can send me email like you don't want to take too many hits on socially I get that yeah nothing you become a pariah they stink they keep their distance so one of the things that we have to do we have to support one another I've always said there are some things that you say that I might say that one hurts all right well like this this one might not get the read you know but but but to your to your to your credit you have a platform and Elaine that in a voice that is uniquely yours and you say things only Candice all once was put on this earth to say right and there are things in ways that I say things to articulate things and have have an influence in a platform may create create it just for me but we have to have them all together in this in this mosaic of black conservatives because even amongst black Republicans or black conservers we're not a model I think how we figure out nice but we have to support one another right and that's the problem though is that the what somebody said to me is that the reason why Republicans and conservatives don't stand up for one another is because the unlike the left we aren't collectivist right right but the way that collectivism benefits the left is that they're all in lockstep they all defend each other or they all don't say anything or attack one another they never attack one another right and yet I see like a circle firing squad all the time on the right and and it's almost like they're there they're competing to be the left do it I want to be the conservative voice that's louder so in in a situation like that I'd say oh great Paris is down now I can be the only black yeah exactly and that is something that we have to stop as conservatives and realize that if you see one of us thinking that is a movement that is sinking right conservative thought we're at a brink of we are on the brink of losing America set your ego aside they stand up and speak out when you see something as horrific and as obvious as what happened to you play out you use your platform and you use your voice to say something about it we have to so I think black conservatives have to do that I think all concerns have to absolutely every major organization has to do that every major or giving us the same platform as they give other people but in addition to that Candis we have to fight back we do and that is what a lot of times we do sometimes we don't have the resources which I understand but we need to we're connected to too many people that might that do have the resources so that when we see something that happened you've got quickly got a lawyer right god I've got a legal team that has put out a notice of claim against ASU as we speak you've got to go after these people and hold them accountable that's what I love that the first lady is like oh no no I've won two lawsuits thank you very much love it love it we do not fight back we allow them to have the power and to silence that's right it won't be enough for us to say oh it's really bad what they say it about Candis Owens recently on this attack and so but what are we gonna do about it write it we've got to take it to the next level we have to be on the offense because this 2020 election the the soul of the country and the future of the black family and the black community is they are all at stake and we've got to not play defensive politics with it we've got to be on the offense and so when something like this happens we've got to rally together yes to support each other but we also have to be willing to fight back right because a lot of times we don't take it and we take the hit and we just sit there and we suffer early offense is so necessary so I don't know if you know this but I was actually the first conservative who spoke out against the me2 movement I got roundly condemned on the left and the right I was attacked oh so inappropriate why because the left obviously chose something like rape right was something that nobody would ever want to critique right because they knew that's how they're gonna get power we're gonna create this movement and take down people because we know that you're not gonna be comfortable enough to attack to attack an argument that's based on sexual assault and rape things that make people uncomfortable to talk about the writing was on the wall the second that I saw this movement with no facts right they don't care it's just nice and it's happened believe women every full stop I've you know I've never told a library I'd never I'm a woman never not even when I was nothing just came out truthful and honest we should listen we shouldn't listen to women but you cannot believe this is belief facts is what you should believe belief facts initially due process believe men don't believe women believe facts and there should always be a due process and I spoke out against this and I got slammed left to right and I held my ground people saying to delete to tweet and trying to get me deep platforms and I said no because the writing is on the wall and then what happened Brett Kavanaugh happens right and everybody changed their tune and realized oh wow they might be weaponizing sexual assault they might be weaponizing the topics of rape and sexual assault to go after people and D platform them and now people realize that but that early there is no topic that is above debate there's no topic that we should not be able to have an intellectual discussion about and and we have to realize the left is purposely creating these rules yeah because they're trying to silence conservatives and make them uncomfortable to have that intellectual conversation and and it's it's even deeper than that and they don't want you to it's not even to the point of talking about our tweeting about it it's the make America creator get hat right it's remember well before coming to we had the young african-americans that were entering on the hill who got kicked out of there ooh BRR 's because they they had mega hats on and we had the young african-american who went into the Cheesecake Factory and and was harassed and and and it was Anna had to leave because cuz he had the hat on so when this happened to them it was kind of like oh like whatever and I brought that up at all of the Paris is that that's irrelevant that their lives don't matter right great who cares he'd be able to take it no what they're trying to do now is they're trying to silence your no one cared when you had an Obama or the old hat or the t-shirt or at all but now what they're trying to say is you know Alyssa Milano whatever if you wear the hat it's the new KKK it's new hood no no it's not she really gets it she gets it she's clear we've got to have we can't we can't back down now wear the hat and wear it boldly and proudly and and and be proud of who you are and what you stand for and the only thing I wear at airports just so you know I travel six days a week I wear my mag a hat every airport because of just what you said right you have to double down right have to let liberals know you're not gonna bully me I'm not afraid to support this president and you do get it you do get attacked I had a woman attacked me in Denver Airport yesterday and and say to me how dare of course she look like her scene Blasi forward and she says how dare you wear that hat to support a racist and a white supremacist and then ask him what has he done that's been raised that's what I asked her I said can you point to me one policy or one thing that he has said that makes him a white supremacist or a racist I think if he was a white supremacist I know before you black honey right you don't have to tell me when something's racist I'm black right I'll be the first to know when something's racist because it'll be against me right you don't have to tell me when something when someone is a misogynist because I'm a woman right so I'll be the first to know if he puts in place a policy that is gonna negatively impact women don't undermine me don't think that I'm so an intellectual that I need you as a white person to tell me when somebody's racist right and can as we've seen this before we saw with Jim Crow we've seen liberal policies put on the on the on the necks of black Americans to keep them in a spotter silenced them or to hurt their economic mobilities and we've seen them put these liberal policies too on us and this is what you're doing now it's it's just in a different formats and it's the the political way that they're doing it it's the trying to silence us it's trying to make us ashamed of being a conservative or ashamed to speak out or a shame to wear the the Maggie hat this is what they want to do and then they put intimidation on it and they then they add celebrities and give celebrities a voice to do it and so that everywhere you turn everywhere you look you you are it's bad for you to be that but the great thing about what you're doing in terms outside of politics but in this cultural space but I think it's fantastic is you're providing that place of acceptance you're providing that place of X of security and support and if we don't have that there'll be a generation lost and silenced because they feel that they just it's not worth it right it's not worth it to speak out it's not worth it to be a leader it's not worth it to put my neck out and run for office or or to speak out against things that I see that the Liberals might be doing to me on my campus or at my job or with with with them or with the actual media and so I think what we have to continue to do is to support the things that you're doing and the support the other organizations that are out there that are giving the platform because without the platform they that they know that that is the power they know they know your power they know our strength and they know that the the effectiveness of our voices and when that happens they have to date they stop at nothing to destroy you and it's not just destroyed the platform its destroyed all it's the collateral damage it's your family it's your friends it's your it's your fiancee I mean your people sainted fiance I mean he doesn't know what he's getting into okay are you positive right but but but but the best revenge is success it is and president Trump is showing a success to his policies and you continue to fight back are showing success and and and me fighting back and you supporting and having these platforms like this with pregger you this is us showing that we're going to fight back and it's going to it positively shows what success looks like and we're going to keep fighting what we need is is our allies I mean we need allies and and I've been blessed obviously Prager you they I mean Bob you guys know you're getting into are you sure are you sure yeah but I mean right yeah and but you guys know you know what it is and you know what we're doing right now you know how scared they are of black people waking up and they see me as target number one right now because I'm gonna continue to use my platform to get the truth out to black Americans to make sure that you defend when they socially Lynch someone and the way that they did which was despicable and not enough people spoke out about it and I really do think that what we're doing is gonna make a difference and I just want to make sure that the the Clintons are alive to see black Americans I just that's what I really what the if I 20-20-20 is my vision I really do believe that we're gonna crack the black vote we're gonna open hearts we're gonna open minds we're gonna see our community do better so we always rap the podcast it's doing a little fun thing are you ready you didn't tell them did you okay so Bob gets his timer out and then we say pretend that you are speaking to the entire world you get two minutes okay and you get to launch a vibration something that you get to uniquely say to the world if this could take catch fire right now two minutes on the clock what is your idea or your concept or the thing that you want to say am i ready there we go I will not be silenced they have tried to silence me for many years as a young black Republican conservative speaker thought leader but it won't work what they did to me they will try to do to you it's very real their tactics are very real and they mean to do harm but we've got to fight back if we don't fight back they will totally eradicate my voice in your voice this is not this is not games this is not something to play around with this is something we have to take very seriously the future of our country the future of black America is contingent upon us rising together and not allowing the liberal extreme left to totally destroy our community once again I'm gonna fight back I need you to fight back I need you to support Candace I need you to support me I need to support the movements that are going on in this country because movements change lives movements are positive and this movement that we're in right now can have a transformational effect on the future of our country I'm not gonna back down and you shouldn't either god bless that was great that was good that was amazing Wow you've heard it first that was awesome thank you guys for watching the latest episode of the Candace Owens show I hope you guys enjoyed the conversation as much as I did as many of you guys already know Prager U is a 501c3 nonprofit organization which means we need your help to keep all of our content free to the 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