I am question period was America great
that we're trying to replicate what rich
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right answer your question that's
Candace Owens defending Donald Trump as
part of a panel at the revolt TV Summit
repartee I wasn't interested in her
defense of Donald Trump and things got
pretty heated let's watch would you say
make America great again which period
are we talking about the period when
women couldn't vote the period when we
were hanging from trees
I'll answer oh like the crack era which
period in America are you trying so I
actually think that I would I would
totally Rock a hat right now that said
make black America great again because
my period was America great that we're
trying to replicate what rich Iranian to
your question whichever was right
whichever was so great you here's the
thing that you guys are forgetting
America was actually one of the front
slavery was all over the world all over
the world America I'm not saying it's
okay so why are you saying oh you're
just gonna boo when I say I'm a slavery
was all over the world which is a fact
why are you booing a fact because you're
making like people that look like us you
can't make light of that that ain't
nothing he brings don't finish the
sentence how am I making some
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so what she was trying to say and did
say eventually is that America was one
of the first countries to she said free
our ancestors nope it was one of the
last so it's just revisionist history
and then the question is why why are you
doing revisionist history because that
money is real nice right
I mean look come on are we gonna are we
gonna pretend like she isn't influenced
by the same influences that have changed
the political ideology of individuals
like dave rubin and here's the thing
when you are a grifter yeah there's an
upside to that because you get to
collect that money and you live a nice
lifestyle and you don't have to work as
hard as individuals who are trying to
put the truth out there but at the same
time
grifters aren't ever able to back up
their arguments and then you're you find
yourself in these awkward situations
where you might get asked to do a panel
you might get an offer you might get an
offer where you get paid a lot to do a
panel like this I don't know if she got
paid for this or not but then you have
to somehow defend the nonsense that
comes out of your mouth in your YouTube
videos and you can't because the facts
don't back up your argument yeah I mean
I'm curious it I would love to have
interrogated her on that so was she
referring to reconstruction period we're
there for a very brief period in the
south after the Civil War when the
southern racists were thoroughly
defeated there was a brief moment where
african-americans were allowed to own
land and start their own businesses and
we had a black governor of Louisiana I
doubt she's referring to that okay but
you know what happened after that is Jim
Crow and for a hundred years then they
robbed them of that land they burned
down their businesses and as tea I
pointed out hung them from trees and
didn't allow them to participate in the
political process and so that's
stretched all the way into the 1960s and
in the 1960s in the civil rights
movement the burning of black churches
and we can go on and on so it is an
incredibly fair question the TI is
asking what America are we talk
about or you know when and that's the
whole point of making America great
again which is making it great for the
people that were in charge the white
right-wingers that's what the reference
is to it wasn't great for
african-americans so oftentimes it's not
great for Latinos or Asians etc and that
statement basically says I don't give a
damn about you I don't care that it
wasn't good for you in fact I'd like to
return to a time where it was terrible
for you and that's why in a ten analysis
it is indefensible yeah it is
indefensible that was even though I
enjoy watching people like Candice Owens
get their comeuppance and get confronted
by people who actually know what they're
talking about that was pretty difficult
to watch right because first of all she
immediately pivots to doing what people
like her do all the time which is they
start answering a completely different
question and I like the fact that T I
was privy to that knew it was gonna
happen and held her accountable held her
feet to the fire and demanded an answer
to his question and she failed to
provide a real answer that was backed up
by real facts and the thing that drives
me crazy is that in this society where
people are hungry for resources and I
get it it's tough to go out there and
try to make a living in the media it
really is but at the same time think
about the damage you do in accepting the
type of influence that she has decided
to accept think about how many people
you hurt through pushing this false
narrative and this revisionist history
and one other thing I want to note you
know Brooke Thomas made this point off
air and I wanted to share her point with
you because I thought it was a good one
that panel should have had more black
female representation and when I say
that I'm not referring to the Katrina
Pearson's and Candice Owens of the world
I'm talking about black journalists
female journalists who have gone out
there who who report the news who know
the facts and could have actually added
something of substance to that
discussion
Lindsey Evans who is at ABC and they're
a wonderful job as a moderator in that
last debate might have been a good
option look I it's hard to put together
panels so but we do have to keep that in
mind
another great progressive was on the
panel killer Mike in that case but
lastly on Candace Owens look a writer at
the root called her aunty ruckus Joe is
amused by and she really doesn't care
about black or white there's only one
color she cares about it's green and so
it's convenient that at the time when
she started taking money from right-wing
organizations is when she switched from
progressive to being a right winger a
and she doesn't have any thing to facts
to back up her so-called ideology but
she does get paid a lot of money in
speeches and and and these different
organizations to go out there and say no
it's mainly black people's fault that
they're not doing better they've had
every opportunity in America and that is
a gross and inaccurate thing to say so
it was way past time that she get called
out live so I love what T I did there
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