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Aug. 8, 2023 - Candace Owens
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Ne-Yo Walked Back His Apology
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So yesterday we briefly discussed Hollywood and how one component of being allowed access to the club is that you have to agree to support a lot of demonic causes.
one such demonic cause, of course, would be to harm children, to harm children, to support
the mutilation of children in any capacity.
If you don't support it in Hollywood, then you just need to stay mum.
And we talked about Neo, who sat down on a podcast and talked about really just what
is happening, the strange dynamic of parents who are not parenting their children.
Your parents are saying, well, my child told me that they wanted to be a fish, and so I
let them in the bathtub for three days.
It's very bizarre. And it's perhaps more bizarre that we don't see more sane adults speaking out against it, that essentially what we really have is a scenario where the inmates are running to prison.
And that's what toddlers are, by the way.
That's what children are. They're inmates. Once you have kids, you know they've got ideas.
If they could eat sugar for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, they absolutely would.
It is the role of parents to speak up and to say that it's not okay.
And so Neo very honestly critiqued the idea of a son coming up to you and saying, I'm a daughter, or a daughter coming up to you and saying, I'm a son, and asked the question, you know, what are the parents doing?
And then just as everybody applauded him and said, wow, this is so brave to see somebody do this in Hollywood, we were immediately met with an apology from him, which was posted onto his Instagram.
Or so we thought it was an apology from him.
So I reported yesterday on this apology from him.
It definitely took place on his Instagram.
But it turned up that his publicist had access to his Instagram.
And his publicist, basically, probably was thinking rationally and said, no, no, no, no, no.
You know how it is in Hollywood, Neo.
You'll lose your platform.
You'll lose everything. You won't be called to perform at events unless you sacrifice yourself to Satan.
So his publicist was doing his job protecting Neo's brand amongst Hollywood, making sure that Neo could make money.
You sacrifice your soul for money.
That's how Hollywood works.
That is the trade. As soon as you give them your soul, they will open up the world for you.
The part of giving up your soul is not protecting children anymore.
It means not being a man anymore.
That's the part that bothers me the most.
Our society is failing because we don't have strong men.
And I intimated to you guys yesterday That it especially impacts me when it is black men.
Seeing black men walk down the carpet wearing ball gowns.
The red carpet wearing ball gowns.
This is what we're seeing. The humiliation of black men is what we are seeing in Hollywood.
It seems like a humiliation ritual.
So you can imagine my shock, my surprise, and my absolute elation when I saw that Neo reversed his publicist's apology.
He essentially went on a rant.
And here's what he had to say.
Get ready. I think it's going to make your day.
Take a listen. I normally don't give too much of a damn about what y'all think about what I do, what y'all have to say about what I say, whatever.
I normally don't care because like I said, opinions ain't special.
Everybody got one. However, this is something I feel very strongly on and I need y'all to hear this from the horse's mouth, not the publicist's computer.
So check this out. First and foremost, I do not apologize for having an opinion on this matter.
I am a 43-year-old heterosexual man raising five boys and two girls, okay?
That's my reality.
Now, if my opinion offended somebody, yeah, sure, I apologize for you being offended because that wasn't my intention.
My intention is never to offend anybody.
However, I'm entitled to feel how I feel.
I'm absolutely entitled to feel how I feel the same way you are entitled to feel how you feel.
I ain't asked nobody to follow me.
I ain't asked nobody to agree with me.
I was asked a question and I answered the damn question.
Okay? I have no beef with the LBGTQIA plus community whatsoever.
I ain't got no beef with y'all. Do whatever the hell it is you want to do.
Do what you want to do with your kids.
However, somebody asked my opinion on this matter and this is how I feel.
I will never be okay with allowing a child to make a decision that detrimental to their life.
I will never be okay with that.
I definitely plan to educate myself a little bit more on this matter.
However, I doubt that there's any book Anywhere or any opinion that somebody's gonna tell me that's gonna make me okay with letting a child make a decision like that.
That's just period, point blank, and that's how I feel.
If I get canceled for this, then you know what?
Maybe this is a world where they don't need a neo no more, all right?
And I got no problem with that.
I'm a hustler, all right? I'll figure it out.
I got kids to raise, and I'm gonna do that regardless.
So with that being said, Y'all have a good day.
I love everybody. Live how you want to live.
Love how you want to love. But your opinion is yours.
Speak your opinion as much as you damn well feel like it.
Because as I said, they're not special.
Everybody got one and you're entitled to it.
I'm entitled to mine. Alright?
Y'all feel how y'all want to feel.
Have a great day. It's Neo.
Peace and love. Round of applause for Neo.
That was amazing. I love when he says, if this gets me canceled, then maybe we've gotten to a point in the world where you just don't need a Neo.
If me being allowed to have a platform means that I have to say things that are not true, to say things that I believe to be backwards, to say that I think it is okay to do things that are detrimental to a child, if that's what it takes for me to have a platform, then maybe this is not the world for me.
Is it that hard? Was that really such an act of courage?
For some reason today, it seems like a tremendous act of courage for people to just speak rational sense because they're not allowed to speak rational sense.
Hollywood is enslavement.
They are owned by their agents, and their agents are owned by media narratives, corporate narratives, billions and trillions, really trillions of dollars that operate to make people believe these sorts of nonsense things.
So, kudos to Neo.
I cannot tell you how encouraged I was to hear him say that.
I love when he says, you know, I'm going to get educated.
I guess I'll read some of your books, but I don't know what's going to be in this book that's going to make me believe that common sense is just, just obliterate common sense.
Obviously, kids should be allowed to make decisions that are detrimental to themselves.
I don't know what I could read in a book that's going to convince me that my two-year-old should drink bleach.
We're at that place in society right now.
But right now, if there's enough media peer pressure, there's just enough people in the media that say, hey, your two-year-old, let him drink bleach.
And suddenly you'll start to see celebrities going, no, I realize that my two-year-old said he wants to drink bleach, and so I should let them.
My one-year-old, actually, the other day, I was cleaning the bathroom.
She tried to grab some toilet bowl cleaner and drink it.
She got quick hands. I grabbed it.
I think there is enough media pressure these days that if suddenly the scientists came out and wrote some papers and said, actually, you know, toilet bowl cleaner is good for a one-year-old.
And then enough celebrities said, I allow my child, I could see, said she wants to drink it.
So it must be natural that you would see a climate of individuals began to demand something that foolish.
People losing their platforms are saying, I don't think your children should drink bleach.
That is where we are at right now in society.
So kudos to Neo for saying I am willing to use my platform because I will not say things that are so evidently untrue.
Moving on, because I do think that there are even more stories in the media that we should talk about where people are showing you that the media only has as much power as you give it.
Obviously, at the end of last year, Kanye West got into a lot of hot water.
But what was interesting to me at that time was there was a letter written by a very powerful, the most powerful man in Hollywood without question, Ari Emanuel, which essentially said that, Because he's anti-Semitic.
And all of the corporations got in line in lockstep and they canceled him.
Obviously, you know the story.
He lost his deal with Adidas. He lost his deal with Gap.
And by the way, I am not saying that his comments should not have been condemned.
But what a world in which one person can write a letter in Hollywood and say that everything you've ever done in your life work should be destroyed.
I mean, there were talks that Apple should pull all of his music, that people shouldn't have access to even listen to his music.
That is a compelling and interesting component.
So you have to imagine that today, somewhere in the world, Ari Emanuel is shaking his head in frustration because he wrote a letter.
He said Kanye West is canceled.
The media is supposed to have that power to make or break somebody when they say something.
Imagine Ari's frustration that despite this strongly worded letter, yesterday, Kanye West, for the first time in a long time, took the stage with Travis Scott in Rome, and he was met with this crowd.
Take a listen. Praise our way out the gray dark.
They've been speaking praise God, walking out the graveyard.
Back to life! Gonna take two when I'm on one.
That look out like no one.
Keep it real tight like your tongue.
I mean, how is that possible?
The media already canceled Kanye West again and again and again.
Well, I'm going to tell you how it's possible and something that I have realized since I have been in politics.
People that come from nothing and people that come from everything are never going to speak the same language.
People that believe that a concerted media effort and that a powerful Hollywood agent can Basically, unexist someone, right?
Are people that don't understand people.
That's really what it comes down to.
They don't understand why it is that some people follow an antihero.
What it is that Kanye has given to them that they maybe didn't check the messages from Ari Emanuel on the letter A. That was sent.
That said that they couldn't speak to him.
Why did Travis Scott allow him on stage?
Ari Emanuel's got so much power.
Travis Scott, don't you want a career?
Well, it's because there is something that Kanye West has given Travis Scott that Ari Emanuel will never understand.
Something that Kanye West's music has given to a lot of people.
Me among them. Obviously, you guys know the kind of peer pressure campaign that I faced at the end of last year to say horrific things about him, and I declined to do so.
Not because I thought that everything that Kanye West was saying was right, not that
I thought that anything he was saying was right, but because the idea that people can
make you say things because they have enough power and they have enough influence is patently
wrong and backwards.
It is a form of slavery that I don't want to accept.
If I want to say something, I want to say it because it means it, because it's coming
from my heart, because I mean it, right?
Because the words have meaning, not because I'm scared.
Not because I'm scared to lose money, influence, or scared to lose friends.
I didn't like that.
I didn't like that despite the fact that every single person in the world was condemning
and canceling and trying to put Kanye into poverty.
They still wanted me to add on to the pile because they were powerful.
People were powerful. And I decline to do so.
Because I'm not somebody that comes from everything.
I'm not somebody that even comes from something.
I'm somebody that comes from nothing.
And I understand what his music has contributed to people in their hearts and in their minds.
And that is why he has a loyal following, even when people agree that he has done something wrong.
Kanye West is not somebody that can be canceled.
And I say this to people over and over and over again.
He will always appear back.
And it's because he has the people.
Not the Hollywood agents, maybe not even the wife anymore, not the connections, not the deals, but he has the people.
And unless you can cancel the people, you can't cancel Kanye.
Alright, if you liked this video, you're going to like the full episode even better.
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