Candace Owens — The Moment Everything Changed For Me | My Red Pill Journey

The second song, Amazing Grace, and I'm gonna tell you why I love that song. First and foremost, I walked down the aisle to Amazing Grace when I got married. And the song is always, I never knew the history of the song. It's just a song that when you hear it, it does something to you. You feel it. There's something about amazing grace that you feel. And so I thought to myself, Let me actually look up this song, Amazing Grace, where does it come from?

Where does this hymn come from? The story of Amazing Grace is? It was written by a man named John Newton. He was a British man. And he didn't grow up with any theological basis. He had no religious convictions in his youth. He was sent to the Royal Navy. He was forced to go there in that time. And for after a few years, he switched lifestyles, and he joined the African slave trade. He used his ship and his vessel to transport slaves from Africa.

And in 1748, there was a storm at sea, off the coast of Ireland, which he did not think he was going to survive. And he reached out, and he said, God, police have mercy on me. Have mercy on me. And he survived. Six years later, he gave up seafaring altogether. And he decided to dedicate his life to Christian theological studies. And he was ordained in the church of England. And, uh, he began writing hymns, and he wrote Amazing Grace.

He actually wrote it as a song that was supposed to go with the New Year's Day sermon. And the song actually didn't pick up in Britain. It didn't pick up. It never became popular until years later, it did pick up in America. It picked up in America in the South. When religion, there was a revival of Protestant religion in the South. And it also picked up amongst the slaves. Suddenly, the slaves began singing this hymn as they would work, amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me.

And you can, when you listen to slaves sing hymns, when you listen to the heart and the soul that was behind them singing in the hymns, it's an incredible, incredible experience, to really process people that were in this horrendous position, singing this hymn that was written by somebody who had a spiritual awakening about Savior, about grace, and about God. And I think the reason that the song means so much to me, and I think to every single person, why you instantly want to sing along, is because we're all the wretched, right?

That saved a wretch like me. That is exactly how I feel, the blessing that I feel every single day, that I get to stand on stage, and I get to have not just a second chance, a third chance, a fourth chance, a fifth chance. Because I was a wretch, right? I made terrible decisions when I was young. Kingface talked about the decisions he made when he was young. Brandon talked about him being arrested, Brandon Tatum, right?

All of us led these paths. were down these paths, um, that were so meaningless, and so harmful, and so hateful. And then we were saved. I was saved simply by conservative principles, right? That is the chance that God gave you conservative principles. Go back to your root, figure out who you are, right? And I realized that while I was living my life liberal. While I was going around thinking that I was free, because I was following no rules, right?

Liberalism and leftism, there are no rules in life, you should do and say and be whatever you want to be, and not be respectful to other people. Don't acknowledge truths. You can live in lies, 'cause being you can lie and lie and lie. That's a form of freedom. And I lived that way. I lived that way, for 20 some years, until that thing that was supposed to feel like freedom started to feel like bondage. I realized nothing in my life was real.

Nothing that I had was tangible or real, not my relationships, not my friendships, nothing was real, uh, because we were all building ourselves upon a lie, a foundational lie. When I lost my grandmother in 2013, that was the beginning of a turning point for me, my grandmother was really the only mother that I knew, and she raised all of us in the way that grandparents are able to raise, it seems like everyone in the family, cousins, brothers, sisters.

We all felt that we were raised by my grandmother and my grandfather. And when my grandmother was taken into the hospital in 2013, they thought she'd be out in 48 hours. But I got on a plane anyway, and I went down to Fayetteville, North Carolina, to see her, and I had this big, expensive bag. I had just started working in private equity. And as soon as I got a check, even though I was some $100,000 in student loan debt, I went and bought a fancy bag so I could fit in, um, and look cool.

And my grandmother, she must have known that she wasn't gonna make it out of the hospital, because she took time to speak to me and each of my siblings, and all of my cousins individually. And the last words she said to me. The first thing she said to me was Candace, You need to forgive your mother. So, random. We weren't talking about my mother. We weren't talking about my upbringing. I had a tough one. And then she said, I worry about you.

I worry about you in New York City. I worry about you because you're losing yourself. And I laughed it off, and I said, Grandma, it's fine. I got on a plane. In 24 hours, she was dead. So it was an incredibly, it was a moment for me, because I suddenly started thinking about my grandmother and reflecting upon the upbringing and reflecting upon the ways that they had raised me. The things that I had run from. Growing up in my grandfather's home, there were nothing but rules.

We had to be sitting around the table, reading the Bible, before we head to school, he would ask us questions. He would not serve us a plate in the morning. He would ignore us if we didn't say good morning. It was just a sign of respect. You don't come down here, you don't sit down and ask for us food until you greet the person that is serving you, and you say good morning. He ran a tight ship, and that ship was filled with love, a lot of rules, but more love.

And it shaped me and my sisters when we were young. He planted the seeds of conservatism that I would be able to harvest later. My grandmother and my grandfather believed in the family structure. My grandmother grew up in Tortola, British Virgin Island. She had a lot of issues health wise. And she was because she was considered crippled, because she walked a little funny. She was treated horribly, had a horrible upbringing, a horrible life.

My grandfather grew up in a segregated South. And so he had to work from a time he was five years old, laying out tobacco to dry in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Uh, picking cotton in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Five years old. Wrap your head around that five years old, getting up before the crack of dawn. Otherwise, the Carolina sun is too hot. So you have to get up, and you have to do man work, right? At 5 a.m. in the morning.

Crack of dawn. And my grandfather did it. He never complained. And what was remarkable is, uh, never once in our house, so when he would share the stories of his upbringing, never once when my grandmother would share the stories of their upbringing. Did they ever complain? It was just what happened. My grandfather, despite surviving attacks from the Ku Klux Klan, never once, in our household, said a bad word about white people.

It never happened. Right? My grandfather would just say it was a different time. In fact, regarding the Ku Klux Klan. He talks about that story with such tremendous pride. He says, The KKK would come around and spray bullets in our home, and my daddy would grab the shotgun and shoot back at them boys, all right? Boys, calling these terrorist boys, right? That strength, um, that victor mentality, uh, that my grandparents had, never complaining.

Uh, it's so special. It's so special. It's the same victim mentality when you looked just a few generations ago. And you look at the boys whose average age was 22 years old that left their home country to go land on the beaches of Normandy, right? Look at the images of those boys in World War II, the courage. Watch the documentaries about the conversations that were had. They knew they were going to die. They were 20 years old.

People that were 18, flying and doing all of these things, pilots, that knew they didn't have fuel, that were flying towards Midway, and knew that they made the decision to turn around. They weren't gonna make it back. The courage, the strength, the way that these people fought, and the way that these people lived, the principles that they had, the values that they had. Those are the things that made America great, that made America unique.