“Despite that, the org spent nearly $1 million more than it earned, with its total payments to employees nearly doubling. “Last year, the foundation received $2,342,820 in contributions, less than a third of what it raised the previous year,” the Daily Beast reports. However, according to the Daily Beast, the BLEXIT Foundations tax filings show how their finances have been misused and are currently drying up. During this time, Owens declared that BLEXIT would give back to the Black-owned businesses destroyed in the ‘#BLM riots’. The foundation found significant success during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, receiving a total of $7,446,352 in donations.
According to Owens’ 2020 book, Blackout, BLEXIT wants to “redress” how the Democratic Party has hurt rather than helped the African American community. Inspired by Brexit, Owens and Brandon Tatum founded BLEXIT, a non-profit organisation encouraging African Americans to quit the Democratic Party and join the Republican Party in 2018. She has also founded the BLEXIT Foundation. Since then, she officially registered as a Republican and continues to criticise the ‘liberal myths’ of structural racism and systemic inequality on her Daily Wire podcast Candace. In 2018, Owens was praised publicly by both West and Trump for her intellect and ability to see past the dubiousness of the Democratic Party. This encompasses Owens’ general argument against the Democratic Party: that they brainwash Black Americans. Explaining this ‘blip’ in her political life to the conservative political commentator Dave Rubin, on his show The Rubin Report in 2022, Owens said, “I just thought I had to be a democrat and a liberal.” This is an argument frequently used by Owens and West: that because of their skin colour, they were made to believe, by liberals, that they could not be conservative. But in 2015, she founded a marketing agency and anti-conservative blog called Degree180, where various criticisms were made about the Republican Party, Trump, and the size of his penis. Her content was well received by white conservatives as she provided them with a shield: as while she espoused racist rhetoric about Black people (specifically targeting the Black Lives Matter Movement), her acceptance into the Republican Party was – and still is – used as a way to protect conservatives from being called racist.īefore 2017, Owens claimed she was apolitical. She gained popularity in 2017 when she started making pro-Trump videos. She was previously the director of communications at the conservative advocacy group Turning Point USA, and founded the popular website and YouTube channel Red Pill Black, which promotes Black conservatism in the United States. Owens is an African-American conservative activist.
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