Candace Owens, who has come under fire by some in the Jewish community for failing to condemn a series of anti-Semitic comments made by her friend Ye (formerly known as Kanye West), clarified her stance by affirming that the rapper’s remarks were anti-Semitic and racist.
“He hurt a lot of people. And he owned that,” Owens said in the opening of “Candace Owens” podcast episode, adding that Ye himself admitted his remarks were anti-Semitic and racist.
“And yet, for Ye, in a really bizarre way, he intentionally blew himself up—because he has been under so much pressure in Hollywood to be somebody he’s not. He has since shared that what started all of this was a series of text messages from one Jewish person. And it’s important to say one Jewish person—not the Jewish community, not the entire Jewish world,” she said.
In a Daily Wire opinion piece sharing her monologue from her show, “Breaking My Silence On Ye And The Jewish Community,” Owens explained, “I’m standing by Ye as he weathers this tremendous storm. But I also recognize that I need to make it abundantly clear that I’m standing by Dennis Prager as well, and all of my other Jewish friends and supporters who are speaking out for me, and who have endured what may have felt like a very heavy silence from me.” (Owens worked for two years at Prager University, the conservative radio talk show host’s advocacy group.)
“I think it’s important for me to state the obvious: I, of course, am not anti-Semitic whatsoever,” Owens added. “I’ve never had an anti-Semitic bone in my body. Actually, before I married my husband, I almost married a Jewish man.”
In recent weeks Ye has continued to make anti-Semitic comments, including promoting canards about Jewish control over the media and the medical profession. In a video circulated on Twitter, he read a long list of broadcast production studios as well as print and online media outlets on his phone, before noting that the executives at all of those companies are Jewish. JNS
She’s a young child and should be doing homework now. Her bedtime is in an hour.
She’s a young mother with a child who knows here stuff.
I only listened to a very small portion of that podcast, but I did not come away from listening to that with a good feeling about her views on the matter. She is still using insincere and illogical arguments to defend the the racist social media postings of NBA player, Kyrie Irving, and the semitic words of West. Incidentally, several sources have been quoted as saying that West has praised Hitler in the past.
I’m sorry, Owens may be a Conservative, but I’ve been very put off by her disingenuousness and her efforts to camaflogue the words and the actions of these blatant anti semites.
I want to point out that when I said I listened to a small portion of that podcast, and I did not come away from listening to it with a good feeling about her views on the matter, I’m referring to the podcast entitled “Why I’m Not Turning My Back on Kyrie Irving”, episode 36. I didn’t listen to any of the later podcasts. I’m talking about that specific podcast. It’s 43 minutes and 39 seconds long.
Sorry but standing by anti-Semites is wrong. Period.
You’re a racist.
Even Al Sharpton has called Kanye antisemitic