Candace Owens — Freedom Feels Nice – But It's Hard

I want to tell you guys about Black City, and how I began this, and how something that started so small, is now even bigger and beyond my biggest dreams, because I've realized that what I thought was just the intentional targeting of the Black community, was really something that began as an experiment in the Black community, and all of the issues that the Black community has been facing since, you know, the 1960s, is now being proliferated, and these are now these are American issues.

It's not black or white. If you are American, you are in this country, you are facing a government that wants absolute control over you and your household, and that's the truth. So, uh, I just want to begin by telling you guys about just that, right? How the government did this and why Blexit was started, was me recognizing and waking up one day and realizing that my entire life was a lie. I went through the public school system, talking about that demonic education, and it was less obvious coming up in the '90s.

that I was being brainwashed. I came out of the public school system, and at 18 years old, I knew a few things were definitely true. I knew that Republicans were racist, that anybody that lived in the South was racist, anybody that said y'all or honky tonked, they were racist. They wanted to send the worlds backwards, right? Um, and I knew that if I wanted to be a productive member of society, I had to align with the left, the left progressive, it even sounds better, right?

Liberalism sounds so much better than conservatism, um, I knew that, uh, women were suffering under men and the patriarchy, and then in order to be a woman, uh, that was appreciated in this society. I had to sort of throw off your clothes, right? Put your breasts on the internet if you want to really feel what freedom is like, and the only reason they're telling you to put your clothes on is because they're trying to make you conservative, and men are trying to restrict you.

I knew a lot of things. It's just that, it turns out, none of them were true. And it took me, kind of, growing up in this society, in this, in this far left bubble of the school system, existing under the Department of Education, to make myself very miserable, and I didn't realize I was miserable, because I was being told that these things would make me, would render me more free. When you hear that mother talking about, well, why are all your children saying they're non binary and all of this?

It's because I'm sure that they are learning in the same capacity that I learned when I was in school that these isms make you more free. It gives you an identity, right? This is who you can be in the world. It feels safe. You are somehow a better person, even though on the inside, you're suffering. You're suffering from maybe it's depression. You're suffering from the realization that you don't know what you are in this entire world.

Fortunately for me, because I was raised by my grandfather, always in the back of my mind, and that's why I so do believe in the seeds of Christianity and the seeds of conservatism in our youth, because it's so much easier to go back once you've been exposed to it. Fortunately, for me, I had a granddad, uh, that was no nonsense, and, who I talk about on every stage, and if you've ever heard a Canisone speech, you know that I mentioned my granddad, uh, because he saved my life before I even knew my life needed saving.

And that is so true of that entire generation. We know, you know, the World War II generation, and the way that they did things, the value of work ethics, right? The belief that what it meant to be, a man, was to work with your hands and to provide for your family. These are the ideas that we should all be fighting to conserve. Fortunately for me, I had a grandfather who grew up in times of real racial strife. There's no question that there was real racism, systemic racism, that existed in this country at some point.

It makes me laugh so hard that they have perpetuated a lie, that Canis Owens says racism doesn't exist. Nope, of course, racism did exist. Racism does exist, and if you're paying attention, racism will always exist, because human beings are human beings. There's always gonna be a Japanese person who hates Chinese people. A white person who hates a black person, a black person who hates white people. Human beings have a component of hate that we are never going to be able to officially conquer.

There's no system that's going to make everybody love everybody. That's part of the lie that the left sells you, that if you just keep giving them more money, and you keep aligning yourself with their ideals, that they're gonna turn this world into the magic kingdom. Actually, I shouldn't say that. Disney's creepy now. That's probably exactly what they want, the world to be the magic kingdom. We're out of, we're not doing that anymore.

Um, but, you know, so this this idea of race, this of racism. Of course, racism actually existed systematically, no more, but it did when my grandfather was growing up, and he grew up on a sharecropping farm, and he faced the real Ku Klux Klan, like, not the imagined clan that CNN comes up with every other week. The real clan, right? He was one of 12 brothers and sisters, his first job was given him when he was five years old.

He didn't go to school. He went to lay tobacco out to dry in the Carolina Heat. To beat the heat. He would raise, he would wake up at about 4 o'clock in the morning, 4:30. Um, so that it was before the sun came up. Five years old. It's incredible for me to think about what my grandfather lived through what his day to day was, right? And I always tell people, when I'm speaking to them, just put yourself in your granddaddy's shoes, because what the world was back then, and there seemed to be so many less problems, and screaming and yelling, compared to what the world is now, and how to make you understand how unbelievably privileged we all are.

If you are sitting in this room and you are breathing in America, you are a privileged person. Perspective is so needed, right? And so hearing these stories, hearing my grandfather talk about what it was like living under segregation. I say with children, the majority of what they learn is caught, right by their parents, it's not caught, you're observing them. You're seeing how they function. I got to see my granddaddy in the house with my grandmother, and they were just, just good people, married from the time they were 17 years old.

He was married to my grandmother until her dying day. My grandfather just passed last year. So I saw a functional relationship in a household that was filled with Christianity, a household that was filled with love, and a household where my grandfather very much believed in rules and regulations, and believed that if you wanted to be free, you had to understand that freedom only comes from personal responsibility. Let me explain to you what I am talking about.

Personal responsibility. I just had a conversation with Larry Elder, and we were talking about this, and I wrote about this in my book, which I know you all own, and you all read twice. absolutely. But a lot of the reason when you look up and you see that people on the left, you're thinking to yourself, what are they outside screaming about? Why are they like constantly upset, right? It's like the loudest, longest toddler march for the last 5 years, right?

And it reminds me, my son, he's 15 months, and that's, you know, he's he's a bit, he literally actually sometimes walks around like this. little protester. And I just think, how could you be a functioning adult in a society and do this? Where is your, do you ever go to work? Do you have any responsibilities? And the answer is no, because they're shirking responsibility. It's the hardest thing in the entire world is to be personally responsible.

And yet it's the very definition of freedom. If I look at you in the face and I say, you are free. 100% you are free. First, you're like, yay, that's amazing. I'm free. Imagine that. Imagine that day, that day when the civil rights bill passed and suddenly inked, LBJ inks it, and civil rights movement. Oh, you are free in society. can do whatever you want. Imagine the 1st day after slavery. You are free. Go do whatever you want.

Yay. And then suddenly, whoa. Whoa. I'm free. Right? I can just go do whatever I want. Now, I have to go figure out what it is that I want to do, right? I have to go figure out what it is, how I'm going to provide for my family. I have to go figure out who I am in this world. Freedom, it feels the word feels nice, but it's hard. It is hard. It means you have to make something of yourself.