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Aug. 23, 2023 - Candace Owens
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Why I Used to Support “Gay Rights”
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Happy Wednesday, everybody. Huge confession today.
You probably know this if you know anything about me, but I used to support the gays.
I was very pro-LGB. If you knew me back in high school, if you knew me in college, you would have been like, yeah, Candace, that Candace girl, she supports the gays, lesbians, the bi's.
I had no issue with it.
And it's really interesting because I am now shooketh to my core a tweet that Matt Walsh sent last week.
Oh my gosh, I can't believe what I have just learned.
We're going to go backwards so that we can understand the forward and realize how I was brainwashed.
I was brainwashed by something called the Laramie Project.
Do you remember that? Let's talk about that.
Plus, later on in the show, it's debate time, the first Republican debate.
Who are you excited to watch?
Vivek and DeSantis are finally going to meet, and all my suspicions are Vivek will perform very well.
Let's talk about that and much more today coming up on Candace Owens.
Color me shocked.
Color me shooketh to my core.
Matt Walsh does a lot of tweeting sometimes.
He just says random things.
And something caught my eye, which he said that I had no idea about, and maybe you did, but I did not.
He essentially said, and I'm paraphrasing here, that the entire story about Matthew
Shepard and the Laramie Project was complete and utter crap.
Now let me tell you something about my high school upbringing.
When I was in high school, there was a very sustained effort, which I now am recognizing
may have been a propagandist effort, to get us talking about lesbian and gay issues.
And the way that this was done was that our drama production, our drama club, put on a
production, rather, of the Laramie Project.
And in classes, we talked about exactly who was behind this storytelling.
We talked about the story of Matthew Shepard and what was communicated to me, as well as all of us who were forced to go down to the auditorium and watch this play that was put on.
Was that a young gay boy was callously murdered out in Laramie, Wyoming.
Why? Because he was gay.
And it wasn't your average murder either.
He was chained to a fence and left to die.
And this spawned a national conversation about gay people being attacked, about homophobia, a necessary conversation about why it is that people can't just exist and be gay without being killed in America.
How sad. You can imagine how emotionally impacted I was by this story.
This was a young Candace.
I was a lot softer than I am now.
And I thought, how could people be okay with this?
Why aren't we all using our platforms to speak out on behalf of gay people who just want to love is love?
That's right. I thought Matthew Shepard just wanted to love his love.
I couldn't see how any human being could not stand behind this and want legislation to be pushed forward to protect these people from, yup, hate crimes.
Simply being killed because of an attribute of yourself, like being gay.
So I'm going to refresh your memory in case you aren't familiar with the story, in case you didn't have the same propaganda efforts launched upon you while you were in high school.
Here is the story as it took place.
On the evening of October 6th, 1998, Matthew Shepard went to Fireside Bar, a local hangout that was purportedly gay-friendly.
Again, this took place in Laramie, Wyoming.
It was karaoke night and the locals rubbed shoulders with workers calling in for a swift drink on their way home.
Shortly after, two young men by the name of Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney arrived.
The three men chatted briefly before leaving the bar and getting into a truck belonging to McKinney's father.
In that truck, Matthew, Matthew Shepard, this is the gay young man, was robbed of his keys,
his wallet, and his shoes, and beaten repeatedly by one or both of these men.
He was then taken from the truck, pistol whipped up to 18 times on the head, and kicked between
the legs.
Matthew was then tied to a fence, set on fire, and left unconscious.
15 hours after the attack, a student was out riding his bike when he discovered Matthew
Shepard tied to the fence, barely alive.
He initially mistook him for a scarecrow.
Matthew's face was covered in blood, aside from tear tracks on each side of his cheeks.
Now, to be clear, Matthew eventually died, and you can imagine what sort of a conversation
this sparked across the nation.
It's horrific, and this really happened.
This is actually a true telling of event.
He was killed, and for years, and after a sustained effort, we were told that he was killed simply because he was gay, except it turns out that that wasn't the truth at all.
That was the media spin, and it was quite the spin.
Now, let me just explain to you the impact of this story and this play amongst the national conversation and legislation.
There were politicians, there were celebrities, they all pledged their support and their funding to combat, you guessed it, anti-gay hate crimes.
The Shepard family themselves, obviously the devastated parents of this young boy, became campaigners for gay rights.
Their names are Judy and Dennis Shepard, and they now run the very successful Matthew Shepard Foundation, which funds educational programs and online community for teenagers to discuss their sexual orientation and gender issues.
The Laramie Project was not the only play that was produced to tell this story.
There were also numerous documentaries, dramas, books, and events that were put together based
on what we were led to believe was a wholly true story.
Men that were responsible for his death were convicted of first-degree murder and given
two life sentences.
By the way, as they should have been, you killed somebody, you chained them to a fence,
you set them on fire, and left them to die.
I don't have a problem with the sentencing of these two horrific individuals.
They were not, however, charged with a hate crime because no such idea of a hate crime
existed under Wyoming's criminal law.
But because of people talking about the story and because of people wanting to put it in
front of Congress, eventually President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard Act in 2009, a
law which defined certain attacks motivated by victim identity as hate crimes.
So yes, this is a lot of progress that took place for gay rights because of the Matthew Shepard story.
I'm going to show you, by the way, just a trailer for the Laramie Project, the play that was eventually put on at my school, which made me believe that I had to become an advocate for gay rights when I was in high school.
Take a listen. It's very emotional.
Laramie is a beautiful town.
It's secluded.
Now, after Matthew, we're a town defined by a crime.
And you're going to use our words?
No. I've never done anything like this before.
How do you get people to talk to you?
What do you ask? I've seen what appeared to be a young man who was bound to the bottom of the pole.
The perpetrators themselves were kids.
Local kids. That certainly offends us.
They wanted to teach him a lesson not to come on to straight people.
We don't grow children like that here?
Well, it's pretty clear we do grow children like that here.
I should've known these guys should not have been talking to that guy.
Hate crime's a hate crime.
You murder somebody, you hate them.
I don't know. This is America.
Love the person for who they are but condemn them for what they do.
Some people are gonna be sent to hell!
And I think you know who you are!
Someone needs to stand toe to toe with him and show the difference.
Let's come out of it.
So you get it.
Hate is not a Laramie value.
Obviously, this person was killed because people couldn't deal with his identity as a gay man.
So it was thought, at least by many individuals, including myself, until a young man named
Stephen Jimenez came around who spent 13 years of his life interviewing more than 100 people
that were connected to this case.
And landed himself in some hot water after he published his findings in a book called
The Book of Matt, Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard.
Now, he landed himself in a lot of hot water because he told the truth.
And many articles were written saying, I'm not even going to read this because it doesn't
matter anymore.
It doesn't matter what the truth is.
It's all about how we feel, where we heard this kind of a theory before.
And George Floyd's story reminds me, we don't care if the truth is, we've already settled on the narrative.
Don't let the truth get in the way of a good emotional time.
Interesting about Jimenez is that he had no intention of causing any controversy.
He actually was an award-winning writer and TV producer.
He visited Laramie shortly after the murder because he was going to write a screenplay about the case because he too felt so emotionally motivated by what took place.
When he started out, he was convinced that this was a story about homophobia, but he soon found, as often can be the circumstance when you pursue truth rather than narrative, that there was much more to the story.
In fact, this story had little to nothing to do with the fact that Matthew Shepard happened to be a homosexual.
Here's what he found out. He found out that Matthew was addicted to and dealing crystal meth and had dabbled in heroin.
He also took significant sexual risks and he was being pimped alongside Aaron McKinney.
Now, why is that interesting to know?
Because Aaron McKinney, if you remember what I mentioned earlier, was actually one of his convicted killers.
So Matthew Shepard was being pimped as a prostitute alongside one of his killers who he had occasional sexual encounters with.
How's that for a homophobic story?
You're telling me that he was having sex with one of his killers and we're supposed to believe that this crime was motivated purely by homophobia?
That doesn't add up.
It is also a fact that Matthew Shepard was HIV positive at the time of his death.
Speaking about this, Jimenez says, this does not make the perfect poster boy for the gay rights movement, which is a big part of the reason why my book has been so trashed.
Matthew's drug abuse and the fact that he knew one of his killers prior to the attack was never even explored in court.
Again, the narrative had been decided.
You can picture Derek Chauvin's trial.
It doesn't matter. We've got our guy and we say that he hates the gays.
They also didn't explore the rumor that the killers knew that he had access to a shipment of crystal meth with a street value of $10,000, which they wanted to steal.
If I had known this information, obviously, would have tremendously colored my opinion on this circumstance, being someone that is familiar with what happens when people are addicted to drugs.
I've spoken openly about the fact that I have drug addicts in my family, and I know what it does.
There's nothing that you won't do to stop getting high.
while you are high, the crimes that people commit, suddenly, was this a drug deal gone
wrong?
What are we actually talking about?
What element of this?
Why would another person that was engaging in homosexual relations kill somebody simply
because they were gay?
Were they motivated by something else?
Looking back into Matthew's story himself, he was actually from an affluent family.
He grew up in parts of his childhood in Saudi Arabia.
He was a straight-A student when he got back and enrolled at Laramie.
He spoke three languages.
He had aspirations to be a human rights advocate.
And then somewhere along the lines, he got into drugs.
It's the truth. He was a drug addict.
And then he became a prostitute who dabbled in danger, likely because he was looking for the next high.
He suffered bouts of depression, possibly as a result of being gang raped a few years earlier while he was on holiday in Morocco.
But this is not the story of the Matthew Shepard that was brought to the public eye as a symbol, a celebrated figure, rather, of the gay rights movement.
So they went with their story of a honky-dory town in the middle of America that wanted him dead.
Here's another interesting element of the story that was not made clear to me when I was in high school.
After Matthew was left tied to that fence by McKinney and Henderson, they then headed for Matthew's home.
But on the way back to his home, they encountered two young Hispanic men named Emiliano Morales and Jeremy Herrera who were just slashing tires for fun.
McKinney and Henderson got into a fight with these men, resulting in McKinney cracking open Morales' head with the same gun that he had used on Matthew.
When police officer Flint Waters arrived to the scene and grabbed Henderson, We're good to go.
well-known in the malaria community that McKinney wouldn't be the one that was striking out
of a sense of homophobia.
Some of the officers I worked with had caught him, that's the convicted killer, in a sexual
act with another man, so it just didn't fit.
None of that made any sense.
So yeah, when you look at the facts of this case, it would seem that they simply wanted
They understood he had a shipment coming, and maybe the shipment had arrived.
And they killed him, and they left him chained to offense because they were going to get that shipment.
They were going to make that $10,000.
But as I said, we don't let facts get in the way of a good emotional time in America, especially when we can further our own causes.
And this... So I look at that and I'm floored.
I am floored by just the recognition of how easily brainwashed we are by our emotions and how the media, who we believe are committed to telling us the truth, will intentionally remove the truth from the story and sell us a lie.
It is the reason why I produced my documentary, The Greatest Lie Ever Sold.
I am amazed by the condition of brainwashing, especially when it seeps into adult minds.
At least I was in high school when I believed this.
At least I was having a mind molded and shaped for me by the public school system.
What about people when you can freely pursue information on your own?
When they hear a story, they believe the media, and they go out and they protest and they riot absent any facts.
what's going on in those particular circumstances.
I want to continue to explore that narrative, which is why I wanted to pivot and tell you guys
I am so excited, obviously, about my next, actually my first docu-series coming out,
10 full episodes, Convicting a Murderer, the story of Stephen Avery,
a man that the media, Netflix in part, tried to convince audiences all around the world
could potentially be innocent.
A man that is a convicted murderer who has fiancées and girlfriends in prison because of the power of the mainstream media, the power of the Netflix network to make people believe in the possibility of innocence because, well, we hate police officers, so it's better for us to believe a plot line that police officers are just up to no good.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am so excited to present to you guys the trailer for Convicting a Murderer.
Take a look. This is a collect call from an inmate at the Calumet County Jail.
The man served 18 years in prison until DNA evidence cleared his name.
The Two Rivers man was convicted of sexual assault in 1985 but exonerated with DNA evidence in 2003.
So this is the infamous Avery Lott.
Now, two years later, he again finds himself tied to a police investigation.
Accused of murdering Teresa Hallbuck on the Avery property.
Stephen Avery's 16-year-old nephew admitted his involvement in the rape and murder of Teresa Hallbuck.
The car is discovered just around the bend.
It was just this worldwide phenomenon.
I think they framed this guy. I think he intended to crush the vehicle, but ran out of time.
Avery thinks the 36 million dollar lawsuit he filed is why he's being targeted in this investigation.
Netflix made millions of dollars from making a murderer.
But the filmmakers left out very important details.
Mountains of evidence that you have not yet seen.
The blood vial. The most egregious manipulation from the movie.
Interrogations. That's when he started beating me because I told him that he's sick.
Cell phones. And I saw melted plastic parts of a cell phone.
Interviews. Her arms were pinned behind her head.
They made Stephen Avery look like a victim.
Do you believe your brother's guilty?
I don't know if I'm a suspect.
I got nothing to hide. I'm getting sick and tired of media deception.
Evidence piling up.
Why would they omit so many different things?
Why are you editing my testimony?
I am not going to make the same mistake that the filmmakers did.
Rearranging the testimony.
They delete a portion of it at the end.
How could they claim to care about the truth?
They all know that Stephen Avery committed this crime.
911, what is your emergency?
The evidence forces me to conclude that you are the most dangerous individual ever to set foot in this courtroom.
I'm out.
you So what do you guys think?
Is this just a circumstance where you have an innocent man that was framed by the police officers?
Or do you have a willing to believe anything audience that was potentially manipulated by Netflix?
This can't be both. It's going to be one or the other.
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I'm so excited about it.
I think it's going to be a smash hit. I know true crime junkies like me are going to just absolutely love it.
And believe me, you are going to be shocked when you really recognize the power of the media to make us believe anything.
Myself included, obviously.
And that's all I have to say about that.
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So what do we have? Well, we have the first Republican debates tonight,
which I'm super excited about because I'm going to be there.
Yup, I am flying up to Milwaukee, going to watch it.
I'm just amazed that I'm even in a position where I would be invited to watch the Republican debates.
I've never seen a presidential debate, so this feels like a very fun life experience
for me.
What are we looking out for?
Well, first and foremost, a poll came out, and now it's been confirmed that DeSantis
and Ramaswamy are now tied, which was something that people did not think plausible when Ramaswamy
first rolled out his campaign.
I remember I had Vivek on early because I thought he was just interesting.
He was obviously not being backed by the establishment.
He had no money behind him, and everybody had their eggs in the basket.
It was like Trump versus DeSantis.
Nobody even thought about any other candidates.
And I just thought that he might catch a little bit of fire.
Turns out I am right. In Emerson's college poll shows DeSantis and Ramaswamy tied at 10% support each.
Both of them far trailing President Trump, who leads with 56% support, by the way, I should say.
But it's interesting to take a look at this because DeSantis...
He was at 21% back in June, whereas Ramaswamy is rising.
He was at just 2% back in June.
So what is going on? Well, people really hated me when I told you the truth about DeSantis.
I told you that did not matter how much money the donors put behind any individual.
If donors could win campaigns, right, if it was all about the donor money, we would have had Hillary Clinton for president in 2016.
That's the truth, but she had a personality problem.
She was not personable.
Everything she ever said felt like a lie.
And I'm not saying that because she's a Democrat.
In the very same breath, I acknowledge Bill Clinton is very likable.
Even though I know he's awful, he's very likable.
When he talks, when he's doing things, you're like, I kind of like this guy.
Obama, very good talker.
Even when he lies and he says nothing, it sounds like he's saying something important.
That's what we're talking about.
It's the it factor that certain candidates have, and Trump just has it.
There's something about Trump that when you see him dealing with people, he has a way
of communicating like a blue-collar worker.
You don't feel like he's above you, but he's better than you.
He's in on the jokes about himself.
It is a talent that I can't even express.
I actually don't even know how to articulate it.
It's just when you see it, when you meet him, when you're sitting across from him, whether
you're at an event, he has a way of being able to connect with individuals.
And Nisanis did not have this.
And he thought that if he launched with an influencer network, people that have got millions of followers, bashing everybody over the head for having a different thought, insulting people online.
He thought that if he had millions upon millions of dollars and donors with him, that he was going to be fine.
He thought if his wife dressed like She was Jackie O back from the dead.
Then surely people would realize she's already the first lady.
What it actually ended up reading as was really unnatural and really inauthentic.
And he's had this problem long before he ran for president, by the way.
It's the reason why Andrew Gillum almost bested him.
He barely won that gubernatorial race.
Let's not forget that. And had it not been, ironically, for Trump, he probably wouldn't have made it over the finish line.
We would have had an Andrew Gillum for governor, which is a really scary thought because he was a committed socialist and But Andrew Gillum knew how to move a room.
And DeSantis is just unable to do that.
And I'm not even quite sure that DeSantis likes people, per se.
I think he is an effective governor and he works in office.
But getting him into office was going to be a very steep climb.
And I think that a lot of Trump supporters are feeling that the way that he has disrespected Trump has not been right.
But worse than that is how his campaign has disrespected Trump supporters.
They have allowed a minority of Trump supporters who they are upset with To be who they are answering.
They are constantly saying horrible things about Trump supporters online and sort of castigating everybody for what they view to be the crimes of the few.
And I do think that there is an element, if I'm being honest with DeSantis, that resents Trump supporters.
I think he does think that they are a little redneck and backwards and middle of America.
And let me tell you, they are middle of America.
A lot of them are proud rednecks.
And that is something that he doesn't get.
It just doesn't make sense to him and his campaign.
So there has always been this disconnect.
My predictions for tonight, just to give them to you, is that Vivek is going to do unbelievably,
because I think he thrives in an academic environment.
He doesn't struggle to connect with people.
He is complimentary.
Even when he is saying something not to credit another candidate, he is complimentary.
And obviously, he is now being helped out by the fact that there was a memo that was
recently leaked talking about how inauthentic he seems, how inauthentic Pardon DeSantis
There was a memo that was leaked from the DeSantis super PAC supporting his candidacy, never back down, urging DeSantis to, at the debates tonight, take a sledgehammer to Ramaswamy.
They didn't see him coming.
They were so focused on Trump.
And they even came up with terms that he should use on stage
calling Vivek the fake, right?
So just think about a bunch of donors sitting around being like,
how can we take him down?
I mean, how inauthentic is this?
When Trump was coming up with names for all these candidates,
it was just coming out of his own mouth, lying Ted,
whatever he was saying.
It was just Trump being Trump, but it was authentic.
Well, when you have to have a donor sit down and come up with a phrase
like Vivek the fake, say it on stage, you just seem like a robot.
You're going to attack him now because they're telling you to, not because you want them to, not because you personally maybe want to attack him, but because you're being compelled to do it.
And now, of course, if he uses that term on stage, the biggest fake in the room will be Ron DeSantis.
So he's best to just stick to doing what he does best, which I think is talking about his policies.
I say all of this Not because I hate DeSantis.
I've just been trying to be honest with you about what I am reading culturally, how I've been reading the room.
Sometimes it gets me in trouble with DeSantis supporters.
Sometimes it gets me in trouble with Ramaswamy supporters.
Sometimes it gets in trouble with Trump supporters when I say that what Trump is going to suffer from now is that in 2020, Trump was gaining a ton of supporters.
Now, Trump is still Trump.
He's, like I said, leading at 56%, but he's not gaining supporters like he was in 2020.
He's losing some. Some are going to DeSantis.
Some are going to Ramaswamy, some are tired of him and his antics.
So he's going to have to figure out how to correct that, how to bring the party together.
If he secures the nomination, how are you going to get people not to feel Trump fatigue
and still want to vote for you again?
So that is what I'll be looking out for tonight.
I'm going to be very excited to be there.
The show, by the way, just to give you guys a heads up, might be a little late tomorrow
because by the time I get back, because flights are not fun out to Milwaukee, we'll probably
But anyways, that's what's on my radar.
I want to hear from you guys, by the way.
You know, we had Vivek on to answer some of your big farmer questions.
You guys seem to have responded well.
We, by the way, did offer to have a Santa's on the show.
He did not come on, so people that are...
Saying to me, oh, you're supporting one candidate.
Nope. I also went out to RFK Jr.
I will never vote for RFK Jr., but I think he's really interesting, and I think he's good for the national conversation.
I just want to speak to candidates.
I want to get them in front of the American people so that the American people can get a sense of who these people are.
You don't need to wait to be on a debate stage.
Go talk to everybody.
That's what you should be doing.
Actually campaign. By the way, why is Vivek doing so well?
Because he's hustling the hardest.
There's no question that if Every candidate in the field, nobody is doing more media hits.
Nobody is hitting the ground more.
Nobody is hitting podcasts, obscure podcasts, something I haven't even heard of, just trying to get his name out there more than a vague.
So he is, I will say, outworking his opponents.
And his tremendous jump, going from 2% to 10% since June, is largely due to his own work ethic.
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All right, guys. Speaking of which, it's time to jump into some of your comments.
And as I mentioned, we had on D.C. Drano.
That's his online moniker.
His name is actually Rokino Hanley, and he's a friend of mine.
And he is an avid Trump supporter.
Come on to the show because he was taking hits.
He was, I'm sorry, throwing some shots at Vivek.
And I love D.C. Drano.
So I was like, dude, come on the show and ask him these questions up front.
I don't know the answer to these questions.
I don't want people to think that I'm trying to provide cover for him.
And he did that.
Here were some of your questions and comments, rather, regarding that episode.
Jamie Padgett wrote, holy crap, thank you so much, Candace.
I was on the Vivek train until he said he saw no ballot fraud.
This was a must-see.
Glad to see Vivek admits what he doesn't know and is open for discussion.
Great work, Candace.
Yeah, I think I really appreciate when Vivek said, we don't have to agree, but let's disagree
sincerely, which is to say that I have said that I don't know anything about this.
I'm happy to learn about it and to answer it.
And I said, I definitely believe that there was fraud.
And DC Jano said he agreed that there was fraud.
But I do believe that Vivek, perhaps, was not reading the same reports that DC Jano
and I were reading.
Because, as DC Jano admitted, that person was kicked off of Twitter.
The person that was doing the most work exposing all of that was eventually kicked off of Twitter
before Elon Musk took it over.
So that was, I thought, a very good answer and fair.
Let's give people time to learn everything.
Let's not make the assumption that everyone knows exactly what you know.
Because they don't.
I don't.
I didn't even know some things, and I learned them with time.
Chase writes, as a current independent prior Democrat who voted for Trump twice, I really
He is not about slamming others.
He is about our country.
It's so nice to hear someone who is positive, focused on issues and policy, and is logical in his points.
Suburban, single mom.
Yes, I think there are a lot of moms who are responding well to Vivek because he seems to really stand up and fight for what he believes in, but he does it in a way that...
It's very palatable, I would say, where he doesn't find it necessary to throw pot shots.
And I think it really serves him that he is so respectful to Trump and all that Trump accomplished and all that Trump has been facing for simply being outside of the D.C. swamp.
Joyful Realtor writes, I love that Vivek is not running as an Indian American.
He is running as an American.
Yes, I would have not even entertained if he was saying, oh, by the way, reminding you guys, I'm brown.
I'm an Indian. It's like, don't care.
What are your ideas? And lastly, Antic6294 writes, voted Trump twice.
Now I'm for Vivek 100%.
He's who this country needs.
I think his policy proposals are exactly what will move us forward.
Great commentary.
I'm always willing to have him back on the show.
And also, I will openly say, if there is another presidential candidate who would like to be
on a platform and talk about their ideas, please, right, you guys, just tell me.
I will have you on the show.
As I've said, I've been out to many of them, but Vake just is hungrier right now, it seems.
And I think that that is what people are seeing and responding to.
Next set of comments are regarding the most racist person I have seen in my entire life
Remember that young woman who saw a white arm on her sister and proceeded to have a Britney Spears-level mental breakdown?
Travis writes, the worst part about this is that she will still consider herself a victim somehow.
Yeah, maybe. Or she has just really ruined her own life and is going to have a lot of regrets.
I actually want to believe the latter.
I think that she needed something this drastic to happen in order to transform her.
I think she will be so shy.
I don't think she's going to become further committed in her racism because what she did was so despicable.
It's not like the black community is hailing her and going, you go girl.
I mean, it was just weird. It was like, how can you hate a white arm?
It wasn't a figment. It was just like an arm.
And she just was like, forget my job.
Done. Hate these people.
Maybe her boyfriend will think she's cool.
Ella writes, she didn't think anything would happen from this.
Quite frankly, I am surprised that something has happened.
Now that it has, we will see the craziest of people come out of the woodwork to cry out for the injustice to her.
And she will become another icon that separates us more.
Please, Americans, stop the madness of racism.
And yes, I mean all racism.
I hope you're wrong, and I hope I'm right.
I think actually people were equally disgusted by it.
I didn't see many people making videos in support of what she did.
I didn't see any people making videos in support of what she did.
I think it was just really horrifically racist and It's kind of one of those videos that even if you are one of these pro-black activists, as some people refer to themselves as, that you kind of had to take a step back and go, what exactly are we doing here?
Because this ain't it. They wanted to distance themselves from that because it did seem that she was in a mania of sorts.
Lastly, a comment from Betty Sims.
She writes after teaching for 20 years my students saw my Facebook page and saw that I was a Trump supporter and pro-life
They reported me to the school district and I was immediately fired because they assumed that I must be a
racist Then they went after my license the assistant district
attorney stated to me that as a teacher I do not have freedom of speech my principal openly posted
her liberal views and hatred for Trump including profanity But that was okay. I am now at a Christian conservative
school and extremely happy I might urge you to also try your circumstances in the
court system because it doesn't actually work That you can have a principal that is allowed to have freedom of speech and then have a teacher that is not allowed to have freedom of speech.
I would imagine that the courts will uphold your rights for freedom of speech.
You are allowed to vote for who you want to vote for.
And you can't just say that an individual is racist because they want to vote for Trump.
So if you wanted to take that up the legal chain, I am sure that there will be a lot of organizations that will be willing and ready to assist you.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is all the time that we have for today.
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