THE MESSAGE:

Candace Owens graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the University of Rhode Island. After graduation, Candace took a job as an administrative assistant for a private equity firm where she became vice president of administration. In 2015, she quit her job and founded the website 'Degree180', which creates internet content largely targeted at millennials.

In the Blurb section of this blog, Candace talks about her experiences and makes some interesting points. “You keep a group captive by keeping it divided against itself. The way I see it, we are all victims."

THE BLURB:

BLACK MEN GETTING SHOT BY POLICE ISN’T ABOUT RACISM.

Candace tells of her story:

I should mention first that I am not a “stereotypical” black girl. I don’t have a name that’s hard to pronounce, and I don’t speak in colloquialisms. My mother kept my head in novels, which afforded me a leg up in my academics, and consequentially, in life.

My mother didn’t finish high school. Her brothers all went to various colleges.

I roomed with a Muslim woman. She and I didn’t speak for weeks. Today, that Muslim woman is one of my truest friends and I now know that Islam is a beautiful religion.

We tend to rely upon information, over our own experiences, which is a dangerously flawed manner of learning.

Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience. I see ignorance, on every side, from people who believe there actually IS a “side.”

White people feel they are being accused of racism, black people feel that a real problem is being overlooked, and no one is understanding. We are ALL the ignorant products of our media, and this only ends with forgiveness. Our programming can only be overridden by real experiences.

AND THEN TO CONFUSE THE ISSUE WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING:

A narrative exists that black men are constantly harassed by the police and routinely brutalized with impunity, even when they have done nothing wrong, and there is an “epidemic of police shootings of unarmed black men.

In reality, this narrative is false. Data shows that although white men experience such violence less often, the disparity is consistent with the racial gap in violent crime, suggesting that the role of racial bias is small.

The media’s acceptance of this false narrative poisons the relations between law enforcement and black communities throughout the country and results in violent protests that destroy property and sometimes even claim lives.

A study by the Crime Prevention Research Center’s John R. Lott Jr. and economist Carlisle E. Moody at the College of William and Mary finds that white police officers may be less likely than their black counterparts to use deadly force against black suspects.

MOODY

LOTT JR.

This study has been largely ignored by the media, but the pair’s findings align with previous studies that indicate racism does not play a significant role in the deaths of black Americans at the hands of police. Lott and Moody examined 1,333 more cases than are in the FBI data set and their findings show that white officers’ use of force is generally “race neutral.”

1. A White ex-cop who shot an unarmed black man in the back and killed him gets 20 years in prison. A bystander's video recording showed Walter Scott hurrying away as patrolman Michael Slager fired at him from behind. Scott was struck five times, officials said.

2. The World News Daily Report web site published an article reporting that police in Kentucky had shot a white coal miner after mistaking him for a black man:37-year old Jason Morris had just finished his night shift in a mine operated by the Bell County Coal Corporation and was boarding his vehicle to head home, when the deputies arrived. Seeing a dark faced individual enter a brand new Lincoln Navigator worth more than $75,000, the officers believed he was an African American man attempting to steal a vehicle.After he ignored three shouted warnings from the deputies, Mr Morris was shot five times. The report was entirely fabricated.

3. Police officers who shot a black man in Salt Lake City were cleared by the local district attorney. In a body cam video, Patrick Harmon is seen complying with officers. Though he is seemingly distraught, he stands near his bike and takes off his backpack as police had ordered. As the three officers on the scene prepared to handcuff him, he takes off. One of the officers can be heard saying, "I'll f---ing shoot you!" Then Officer Clinton Fox opens fire, striking Harmon three times. Another officer fires a Taser shot at the same time. Harmon died at a hospital later that night.