It is Candace Owens and not Ibram X. Kendi who is the true anti-racist. While he is fixated on the color of his skin, she is concerned with the efficacy of Principles and Values, whatever their ethnic origin.
In a Sept. 6 talk with Ben Shapiro, Candace recalls she was amazed to discover that one of her best friends as a child, an Asian girl, was constantly harangued by her parents about her marks, her homework, etc., topics rarely mentioned in her own household. At the same time she was often teased if not bullied by Black friends for her erudite use of the English language, their taunt basically being that she was an uppity bitch trying to act White. Such attitudes are hardly conducive to success in the real world, she argues, and it is in fact Culture and not systemic Racism that is the primary cause of the failure of a significant number of Black Americans to partake of the benefits available to them. White liberal guilt, ironically, merely exacerbates that syndrome, the bizarre acceptance by millions of Caucasians who have never so much as entertained a racist thought, that they are nevertheless the cause of the violence, drug abuse and poverty evident in so many of America’s inner cities. For Candace, most of the traits described by the Smithsonian as typical of White Western Culture [i.e., the work ethic, a willingness to defer gratification, the nuclear family, etc.], are not merely eccentricities of that Culture but indispensable components of a successful life, components, she insists, that are almost invariably the targets of derision in the Hip Hop Culture.
In late 2018 Candace launched the Blexit movement designed to incite Blacks to abandon the Democratic Party whose “progressive” narrative, she argues, by defining them as victims of White oppression, merely prolongs them in their state of psychological servitude. While she was initially met with nothing but resentment from her own people, she has now, apparently, received thousands of expressions of gratitude from Blacks who maintain she in fact set them on the path to becoming free, whole, functional human beings.