Candace Owens — BLEXIT ATLANTA Candace Owens Opening Remarks

Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, please give a big welcome to your plexic founder, Candace Owens. Hello What's up, Atlanta? Yes. I love this. Of all the things that I do, this is the thing that I love to do most, being in a room with free people, free minds. You know, when me and my creative director made that video that you just saw, that music video, I was nostalgic for something, those images that you see, probably made you feel something, like seeing the black family together, right?

That old school feeling of the black family together. And when I started having an awakening, which is what I call it, which happened for me a couple of years ago, I asked myself some important questions. The 1st thing, was what happened to black TV? When I was growing up, it was the Hutstables, the Winslow's, the Jeffersons, I was watching Nick at night, and I was seeing black families together. There was a literal show called Family Matters.

Steve Urkel, sometimes he was Stefan, right? Stefan was cute. Very cute. And now you wake up today and try to think about that same types of TV, they don't exist anymore. It's been taken away. Now we have love and hip hop. What is that doing to black minds? What is that doing when we're not being told that our families should be together, but we should be pursuing a hip hop lifestyle, baby mamas, multiple fathers? This is what the children are seeing.

Our lifestyle has completely shifted because the media has completely shifted and made things negative. So I said, what do I want to do with Blex? I wanna create an experience, right? I want to remind people what it was like so we can wake up and realize what we've been missing. This country has fallen apart. We've been further together and yet we're more successful. We've made so much progress. And yet the theme of racism seems to be tearing the country apart.

What you're going to see tonight is the story of Black America. First and foremost, we have to start with where we are. I'm going to come out and speak to you later, but there are some people that I want you to hear from first. Every single person that hits this stage, we don't have big names. We don't pay people to come here and speak and get you wild up. We actually have people that have real stories. Black Americans that have woken up and realize that something is really, really wrong right now within our culture.

So I hope you guys enjoy the show. Up first, we have an amazing speaker, but 1st and foremost, we have to be realistic about where we are today, because that video you saw is not where Black America is today. Right now, we are essentially in a wilderness, and I will show you what it feels like today. Thank you guys so much. Enjoy the show. The great society rests on abundance and liberty for all. What happens to a dream deferred bird?

Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun, or fetch you like a sore, and then run. Does it stink like rotten meat or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?