Live with Candace Owens! | Interviews

happy Martin Luther King jr. day everyone my name is will Witt I'm here with Prager University and Candace Owens who is the director of urban engagement for turning-point USA we are behind the scenes shooting her two new videos that she's putting out for Prager University how are you doing today I'm doing well happy MLK Day yeah yeah where'd you fly from I flew from New York oh man yeah that's far it's warmer here it definitely is a lot more yeah what videos are you shooting today for us I am doing my favorite which is um dear celebrities no one cares what you think I think it's high time that we told them exactly what's on our minds as regular people and I am also shooting a video about the much talked-about black card and what it means to me or what it doesn't mean to me so mm-hmm that's great that's awesome and so why have you chosen this path to go on for your career you know in many ways when I think about my life I feel like this path almost chose me particularly my greatest idol in life and my best friend is my grandfather and he grew up in a segregated south and our dinner stories growing up with him at the table were about the KKK and just really having an understanding of how our race got here when you realize that a lot of black people have stepped into this illusion and what I like to refer to as the Democratic plantation and they don't understand that there is another way and another path for them other than relying upon the government to tell them what they can and should be it's like it's a calling that's bigger than me so I just want to use my voice as much as I can and how have you seen the Democratic Party put down the african-american community I mean okay you got time I think we we can thank them for slavery the KKK we can get thank them for Jim Crow laws we can thank them for the welfare system which people cannot get off of now and don't understand how harmful it is and I think the biggest thing is just a deterioration of black confidence the idea that black people are fighting for the right to have government handouts because they don't get believe in themselves and that they can go out and do these things by themselves with nobody else's help so yeah tons of things they've done yeah they're not told that they can do things by themselves they're just told that their victim and they deserve all these different things without you know being incentivize for it so what do you think that Martin Luther King would think about the modern-day black lives matter movement oh come on I mean we're talking about a group that has actually led to more black deaths we're talking about a group that is focused on statistics that are bear-like actually non-existent they're focused on the 16160 unarmed black men that are killed by police officers every year and they're not focused on the 800 black babies that are being boarded every hour so I think that he would feel that they were largely ignorant and I think that it would sadden him to know that we have come so far there is no more systemic racism in place we have everything in front of us and all we have to do is grab it and we have people that are trying to reverse us and put us back into the past by scaring us with a solution of racism I think it would sadden him deeply and so then you think Martin Luther King's values on race and equality would line up better with a conservative today than with the Democratic Party of course no questions asked that's the easiest question to answer the Democratic Party is absolutely counter to what his dream was his dream was that his children would be judged by the content of their character and not by their skin the Democratic Party teaches you to only value your skin it tells you what you should or should not think because of your skin color that is the exact opposite of what he had envisioned for us this sounds more like an MLK nightmare and so that goes along with you know the president we have now Donald Trump african-americans are told to hate our president essentially and so what do you what have you seen Donald Trump do for the african-american community that's positive Donald Trump the greatest gift that he is giving right now is reversing regulations he's trying to get the government outside of individuals home than outside of every single layer of what we do we wake up and the government controls everything he's out there fighting a war for us every single day to go back and going back to what I spoke about self-confidence it's every single black person should be so grateful that he's here and it's unfortunate that the Democrats have so successfully created this illusion and they can't think past it I think Donald Trump came at just the right time I think we almost lost this country and I'm hoping that I can add my voice and maybe people can see what he trying to do for the black community which is just inspire them to go out and get what's right in front of them he's doing it huge he's doing so what you see is the next steps for the african-american community moving forward so that they can progress in society I think it starts with a mass exodus from the Democratic Party first and foremost and then it also starts with making them believe in themselves and extracting themselves from this government narrative this democratic government plantation and yeah I think those are the next steps starting black businesses and showing them that structure relying on the family again the welfare system what they did the number one thing that we're facing is breaking down black families it incentivizes them not to marry their spouses building back black homes and education is the number one thing that everyone should be talking about because it's because of a Mis education that black people are in the predicament that we are today yeah you have 80% of black families that have only one parent in the household it's terrible what's going on so you breaking the mold being a black woman conservative how is that for you I'm sure there's just tons of hurdles you have to overcome with that there are a lot of hurdles and it's funny because that's one of the questions that I get the most is how do you deal with it and the truth is I feel I feel blessed and I'm able to be in this circumstance having people say mean to me mean things to me online doesn't really mean anything in the scope of what we're doing this movement is so much bigger and I inspire other black people to speak out my inbox is absolutely filled with black people that are in school saying I know something's wrong I know something's off I disagree with my parents it's about waking up one person that wakes up and another person that wakes up the next person I'm not scared I feel that this is people say oh you're so brave this is not brave everyone should have the fearlessness to speak out and say what they believe that's amazing you're doing amazing things you're an inspiration to tons of people out there and look forward to seeing your two videos that are going to be coming out they're gonna be great gonna be great the best the best will win with Craig are you Candace Owens a black urban engagement a turning point USA thank you thanks guys