MUST-WATCH: Candace Owens Gives Her Thoughts On Ahmaud Arbery Case
Very polarizing opinions have surfaced in the wake of the Ahmaud Arbery case, and in a recent Facebook video, Candace Owens explained the media’s role in shaping the narrative.
“So let’s just start with just the case and how it’s been being reported,” said Owens. “So first, you are hearing that it is a modern day lynching that should instantly, if you are a black American and American, make your ears perk up a little bit because there are not really modern day lynchings that are taking place in America. There are not lynchings taking place in general. I mean, even at the time, at the height of the civil rights movement, when black people were actually being lynched, it was approximately thirty five hundred black people that were lynched from the entire period of 1882 all the way up until 1968. All right, so that’s actually a very low number relative.
“Not saying that lynching is okay, obviously, but a very low number relative to the population that we had at that time with a population that we had all the way up until 1968. So lynchings are not common in general. The idea that people are going around lynching people in 2020, America, you can already know and you can smell that something is wrong with the story.”
“So I finally look at the video I’m expecting based on all of the rhetoric, on all of the articles, just saying that it’s an example of a modern lynching. I’m fully expecting to see a video of a mob of white people, maybe with a rope, maybe with some guns, just marching down the street towards a black person so that they can kill him and make a mockery of him. That’s what you should have expected based on the rhetoric that was perpetuating it. Everybody was outraged left and right because of this 10-second clip. Well, I actually watched the video and it left me with more questions than answers.”
Owens pointed out key findings in the cell phone video of the shooting, like the fact that Arbery ran towards the pick up truck, not away from it.
“First and foremost, he was not being pursued in the video. Obviously, it looked like he was running towards the car. And then when the two people who had guns, he went around and he attacked the person. So that actually left me with a lot of questions of like what is going on in this circumstance? Who was recording this video? Because the person who was recording the video was obviously catching up to the situation. He hadn’t been trailing this person.”
Owens also pointed out that most people who would be referred to as “avid joggers” don’t necessarily make it a point to run in khaki shorts, considering they would be less than comfortable to run in.
“Secondly, I noticed in the video and after reading reports that he’s wearing khaki shorts. So just an easy question to ask is if you are just a jogger and he is being described in the media as ‘an avid jogger’, an avid jogger, which is something he does all the time. I do not know any avid joggers that jog in khaki shorts.”
Media coverage of the situation painted a picture of white men “hunting down” a black man until additional footage that gave the situation some context and perspective.
“The media and everybody was issuing a verdict that this was some crazy situation where a couple of white people woke up and thought, ‘You know what? Today, I want to lynch a black person and I think this is the right guy. I see someone. Let’s go for it. Let’s get in our pickup bed and go find ourselves a black person.’ But people rarely pause to think because people are desperate to foster this race narrative in this country. And because there’s not many examples of people being lynched or black people being pursued on foot by white people. The media really drummed this one up,” Owens continued.
Owens explained her loathing of reactions surrounding crimes like these with the public not being able to pick apart the details of the case and make a reasonable assessment of what truly happened, and instead automatically reverting back to race as the motivation.
“They are calling this ‘a modern day lynching’,” Owens said. “This is not motivated by race. There is no reason for people to be injecting race into this narrative. Argue it on the basis of whether you think a citizen’s arrest is valid. You know, argued on the basis of whether you think that a Ahmaud Arbery deserved to die. I don’t see a single person who has made the argument that they think that this man deserved to die. But arguing it on the basis and pretending that this was racially motivated, it’s stupid. I mean, it’s incredibly stupid.”
“You know, we have a culture issue in black America because we constantly accept this lie that somehow we’re the societal victims. You know, when in fact, we look at the stats, if you want to start playing the race game, we’re gonna be the ones that look bad. You know, we represent 13 percent of the population, but we account for 40 percent, approximately 40 percent of all of the murders in this country. Whereas white people account for 61 percent of the population, more than half of the population, and they commit less murders than we do.”
“You can’t just go around pretending that we are the people that are constantly being oppressed when we know that black people kill white people at two times a higher rate than the other way around. And I’m not saying this, by the way, to say all black people are horrible, you know? That’s not the purpose of this. The purpose is to have a more honest conversation about what is going on in this country. The purpose is that every single time a murder happens, it doesn’t mean that it’s racially motivated.”
“Sometimes things just go wrong. Obviously, a lot of stuff went wrong in that video that we saw, you know, that 10 second clip of that person running. A lot of things went wrong.”
“You know, first and foremost, I bet the person who had the gun wasn’t expecting him to be lunged at. Obviously, if he was ‘out to hunt the black person,’ OK, he wouldn’t have – he would have shot him at a distance. When you’re out hunting you don’t wait for the thing that you’re hunting to grab your gun and go back and forth. Obviously, we’re not going to be able to prove the standard that he wanted to hunt him, but wanted to wait until the guy grabbed him or his gun and wanted to wrestle with him. That’s not I mean, that just defies common sense.”
“If he wanted to kill the guy, he would have fired off a couple of shots before he got anywhere near him. I think he wanted to make the guy stop, you know, and intimidate him and wait for the cops to get there because he was convinced that this was the guy that was recently burglarizing his home. Unfortunately, Ahmaud Arbery who has a history, you know, of crime lunged at him and things went off from there. And it’s unfortunate that, you know, this person ended up dead in a situation that it didn’t need to ever, you know, culminate into a death.”
Owens explains that considering the fact that Arbrey was unarmed when he approached the men and lunged at them, the charges would not be murder, but manslaughter as the shooters may plead self-defense.
“But what’s gonna happen is gonna be a manslaughter charge and the defense is going to argue for self-defense. He might entirely get off on a self-defense on a self-defense claim in this case, because like I said, Aubrey did charge him. You know, you can see the scuffle. You did charge him. Now, I’m not saying he should. I’m saying he could. So save your outrage for when that likely or could happen.”
“You know, from everything that I’m seeing of people perpetuating this and pretending that, you know, this is anything more than just election fodder, when our media declined, they all had the video of him trespassing on property and none of them published the video until yesterday because they want black Americans angry. They want black Americans to constantly believe that we’re being oppressed and that white men are trying to kill us at every turn. You know, they could have easily given the videos more context. They could have published the video of of him entering the property. They could have told you about the 9-1-1 calls that were coming throughout the neighborhood and everyone would have quieted down a little bit.”
“But black Americans are so reactive. We’ve got people that are wearing ‘I run Ahmaud’ T-shirts showing up to protests showing up, you know, getting ready to riot. If this person doesn’t get this or doesn’t get that, because we never pause to think.”
“I can think of no other race that does this, literally no other race that does this.”
“From what I’m hearing, more is going to come out about this story. We already know that, Ahmaud Arbery has a history with mental health issues, that he’s been arrested before. From what I’m hearing, there’s a lot more of this story that people don’t understand. And as I said, even if it comes out that he was responsible for burglarizing that entire neighborhood for a month, you know, that doesn’t necessarily justify people jumping in their truck and trying to make a citizen’s arrest. But what it what it does stipulate to – it should stipulate to at least everybody is that this situation is not about race. It’s just about somebody being in your neighborhood that shouldn’t have been on private property, someone calling 9-1-1 and things getting botched.”
“So people, you can be upset with me. I really don’t care. I’ve never been a person that cries when, ‘Oh my god Candace you didn’t take the bait?’ You know, ‘Oh, Candace you’re not allowed to be black anymore, because you didn’t senselessly defend someone.’ You know, ‘No matter what, you defend your own.’ That is stupid, bottom feeding mentality. There are plenty of examples of innocent black people who are killed that I speak out about. Black on black crime obviously happens way more often. Over 90 percent of black people are killed by other black people. And there’s never any rioting, protests or any marching about it, because somehow if we do it to our own, it’s OK. You know, just just be more honest, have a more honest discussion about things and stop taking the bait every election year. Like, how can it literally be every four years with this stuff? And nobody’s waking up. Grow up, have a more adult conversation, Argue the real tenants of this case. I mean, there’s plenty of room to debate what happened here without pretending it’s white America after black America again. Even the articles, by the way, ‘We visited the neighborhood where this happened and there were Trump 2020 flags and MAGA flags in some of the windows.’ I mean, how can you be so gullible to not realize this is just about making you angry and emotional? In another election year? That’s the part I don’t understand. Like how can we just keep falling for it?”
“Sometimes I do get exhausted with it because people are just foolish and they take the bait all the time. And I’m just like, is black America ever going to wake up and stop allowing themselves to be a punchline in a white liberal leftist narrative? So far, the answer is no.”
“So you get to a point where you’re not going to have to do as much charity because black Americans have evolved mentally. Right? Have gotten to a point where we’re more successful academically, have gotten to a point where we can debate things. Debate the actual facts of a situation, not the emotions of a situation. When black Americans can step out of the media brainwashing. That’s the sort of things those are the sort of things I look forward to in the future. And unfortunately, we live in an era of black false prophets and the ones that are trying to tell the truth get castigated. So I will leave it at that. And I look forward to being castigated in the comments. Bye, guys.”
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