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'''Candace Amber Owens Farmer''' (born April 29, 1989, in Stamford, [[Connecticut]], age {{age|1989|4|29}}) is a [[conservative]] [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] producer, political commentator, intellectual,<ref>https://www.prageru.com/presenter/candace-owens/</ref> and founder of the [[Blexit]] movement. She is especially well known for leaving the anti-Trump [[Democrat plantation]] to join the conservative movement against [[Antifa]], [[Black Lives Matter]], and the Left. On [[PragerU]], she runs The Candace Owens Show, a series of intellectual debates between other intellectuals and herself. On [[The Daily Wire]], she runs Candace, where she hosts panel discussions with an emphasis on [[popular culture]].<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/show/candace</ref> Subsequently, the [[lamestream media]] quickly labeled her as a "white supremacist" in many failed smear attacks due to her open opposition to [[liberal bigotry]].<ref>https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/08/07/perverted-leftists-call-candace-owens-a-white-supremacist/</ref>
In April 2019, after being too [[uppity]] for white liberals to handle anymore in refuting the [[Southern Strategy]] and the [[U.S. "Party-switch" myth]],<ref>[https://thehill.com/homenews/house/438042-candace-owens-blasts-hearing-on-white-nationalism-in-house-testimony-this Candace Owens blasts hearing on white nationalism in House testimony]</ref> the left-wing [[PolitiFact]] absurdly called the statement “False” while providing skewed "evidence" for its conclusion.<ref>[https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/apr/10/candace-owens/candace-owens-pants-fire-statement-southern-strate/ Candace Owens stated on April 9, 2019 in a House Judiciary Committee hearing: The Southern strategy is a "myth" that "never happened."]</ref> The page claimed that [[Republicans]] in the 1960s appealed to Southern racism when [[Richard Nixon]] initially opposed school busing as a brisk means of desegregation; keeping context in relation, the latter notion was considered to be very liberal measure during the time and was likely opposed by many [[conservatives]] who strictly feared setting precedents for further expansions of federal government power (and not over the issue of race) that occurred under the [[1964 Civil Rights Act]] and the [[1965 Voting Rights Act]]. In addition, PolitiFact also ridiculously made an assertion that Nixon's adherence to [[strict constructionism]] in [[Supreme Court]] nominations was also an appeal to Southern racists, despite the fact that such has no specific relation to [[racism]]. The article went on to cite quotes by Republicans during that time, such as [[RINO]] [[Lamar Alexander]] during 1969, who vaguely asserted that there had been a strategy to appeal to conservatives in the South; it's also important to note that ''while Nixon did win the 1968 election with a number of Southern states, this did not include the [[Deep South]], which strongly leaned for segregationist [[Democrat]] [[George Wallace]]''. The article would go on arguing that "coded language" was a mechanism to appeal to racists in the South, despite outright providing insufficient evidence to directly back up the notion.
In October 2018, Owens had a misunderstanding with [[Kanye West]] over the use of a tradename on the design of a clothing line to promote Blexit: “I am blessed to say that this logo, these colors, were created by my dear friend and fellow superhero Kanye West.”<ref>https://pagesix.com/2018/10/27/kanye-west-designed-t-shirts-urging-black-people-to-bail-on-democrats/</ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/27/watch-candace-owens-announces-blexit-the-black-exit-from-the-democrat-party/</ref> West clarified a misunderstanding: "I introduced Candace to the person who made the logo and they didn’t want their name on it so she used mine."
<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1057382888520499201</ref> In a blog post, Owens apologized for misunderstanding and "any undue stress or pain the effort to correct [this] rumor has caused him, his business relationships, or his family. He simply never designed them."<ref>https://candaceowens.com/blog/808s-and-heartbreak/</ref> On August 28, 2020, Owens announced she was around 6 months pregnant.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CEcl9MmFLhe/?igshid=1muv2rwldw4p8</ref>
==Dispute with Ben Shapiro, criticism to Israel & conversion to Catholicism==
She has been critical of Israel's actions in the Israel-Gaza War of 2023, which is why she leaves conservative Zionist commentator [[Ben Shapiro]]'s Daily Wire.<ref>{{cite web|title=Candace Owens leaves Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire following Israel criticism and antisemitism accusations|url=https://www.newarab.com/news/candace-owens-leaves-daily-wire-following-israel-criticism|publisher=The New Arab|date=March 23, 2024|date-access=May 2, 2024}}</ref> In 2024 Owens expanded the phrase Christ is King within American political circles in response to Shapiro. <ref>{{cite web|title='Christ Is King' Is Not the Slogan Some White Nationalists Want It to Be|url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2024/march-web-only/christ-king-antisemitism-russell-moore-candace-owens.html|editorial=Christianity Today|date=March 28, 2024|date.access=May 2, 2024}}}</ref> In addition after this, Owens converted to Catholicism.<ref>{{cite web|title=Candace Owens converts to Catholicism|url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/candace-owens-converts-catholicism|editorial=National Catholic Online|date=April 23, 2024|date-access=May 2, 2024}}</ref>
==See also==
[[Category:Pro First Amendment]]
[[Category:Millennial and Gen Z Conservatives]]
[[Category:Catholic Leaders]]