Oct. 4, 2023 - Candace Owens
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| So it's the one-year anniversary since I put on the White Lives Matter shirt in Paris during Paris Fashion Week next to Kanye West. | |
| And when I saw these memories popping up on my phone and on my Facebook, I was like, oh, we got to talk about that because it is without question easily the most iconic thing that I've ever done in my career, the most viral thing I've ever done in my career, and that obviously is due to the fame level. | |
| of Kanye. Well, now he goes by just Ye. | |
| And reflecting on that time, it was just so crazy because I could have never imagined the response that we got to putting on these shirts of saying something that was so obvious and reflecting upon just that period, first and foremost, me being postpartum. | |
| Literally the entire time that I was on this trip, I was still breast pumping and still dealing with all the emotions of that. | |
| And then you get a Whether or not you will get on a plane overnight to come to Paris. | |
| And I kid you not, when I tell you this was a last minute trip, I mean to say that we decided to book the tickets at 9 p.m. | |
| the night before. My assistant woke up to a text from me, which I think I sent her at 11 p.m., which said you need to be on the 11 a.m. | |
| plane, so you could imagine the scramble that she had to do packing to get to Paris and | |
| I had to do packing to get to Paris and to make it in time for his show, which was happening | |
| the next day. Had no idea what he had in mind. He had asked me to just be there. And then | |
| when I walked in, he held up the shirt and said, will you wear this? And there was no | |
| conversation about it. There was absolutely no conversation about it because I think we | |
| both understood that it had to be done. You know, often on this show, I talk about the | |
| natural equilibrium of the world and how I believe that when the pendulum swings one | |
| way it will necessarily have to swing the other way. | |
| And when he held up the shirt, I understood it was one of those moments. | |
| It was one of these moments where we had to commit ourselves to swinging the pendulum. | |
| I mean, the madness that had ensued because of Black Lives Matter, the lies that were being told, people saying that this is really just about equality and we're saying Black Lives Matter because it should. | |
| And the phrase doesn't mean anything. | |
| It doesn't imply that Black Lives Matter more. | |
| And so I knew the artistic and the creative direction behind what Kanye wanted to do. | |
| He wanted to test a theory. | |
| You know, people genuinely aren't bothered. | |
| And this isn't about a movement of people that are trying to make white people beneath, | |
| somehow beneath black people, which we saw examples of them in the streets, bowing down, | |
| shining their shoes. | |
| I mean, what took place in this country after George Floyd was sickening. | |
| It was reverse racism, or as I like to call it, racism. | |
| It's just racism. | |
| There's no such thing as reverse racism. | |
| And as people were told that they were made to feel guilty, that they had to be guilty | |
| for being born white, that they had to account for the sins of their great, great, great, | |
| great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great ancestors, people that had never | |
| owned slaves were now somehow being made to feel guilty about slavery by people who were | |
| never slaves. | |
| This wasn't some great reckoning that we saw with Black Lives Matter movement. | |
| Highly what was being done was the highest levels of fraud that was being committed. | |
| And my documentary that we had created was meant to expose all of that. | |
| And so by putting on a simple shirt that said White Lives Matter, we were testing the theory because truly if you believe that that's implied, this shirt wouldn't upset you. | |
| But of course it did upset people because how dare you say that? | |
| How dare you say that White Lives Matter? | |
| I remember the next morning waking up in Paris and just the phone going off like crazy, all of these headlines. | |
| And I remember Ye called me. | |
| He was staying in a different hotel than me that was just one block up. | |
| And he said, so, how are you feeling? | |
| And I said, I don't really know what to feel processing, just the world processing this. | |
| And he said, you know, originally I wasn't going to say anything because I wanted the shirt and the art to speak for itself. | |
| And I didn't want to answer the question, what did you mean by White Lives Matter? | |
| Why would you wear this shirt? | |
| What's being implied here when you say White Lives Matter? | |
| But then he said, now I think it's important to answer the question. | |
| Why did you wear a shirt that said White Lives Matter? | |
| The answer is simple, he said, because they do. | |
| It's just such a Kanye way of processing everything. | |
| Yeah, because they do. White lives matter as well. | |
| And that should have been abundantly clear. | |
| And it was so simple and in front of us. | |
| Anyways, it's one of the greatest memories that I have throughout my entire career. | |
| I'm grateful that Kanye included me in that show. | |
| I'm grateful for the madness that followed it. | |
| I'm grateful that we created such an iconic moment and such an iconic shirt. | |
| And I kid you not when I say that I have that exact shirt hanging up in my gym today because it's something that obviously for the rest of my life I will never forget. | |
| And in conclusion, in case people forgot in all of the Black Lives Matter rhetoric that also, yes, white lives matter because they do. | |
| Alright, ladies and gentlemen, if you like this video, you are definitely going to like the full episode even better. |
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