Candace Owens is at the receiving end of several backlash again, and this time it is about her uncouth utterances following George Floyd’s Death.
Confession: #GeorgeFloyd is neither a martyr or a hero. But I hope his family gets justice. https://t.co/Lnxz0usrp5
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) June 3, 2020
Candace Owens stirred up the Black Lives Matter conversation last week when she assailed George Floyd as “neither a martyr or a hero” in video on Twitter TWTR+5.08% . Her message was later amplified by President Trump after she talked about the protests in a chat with Glenn Beck.
As that clip went viral, a Birmingham, Ala. cafe owner Michael Dykes, according to AL.com, sent out a message in which he called protesters “idiots” for memorializing Floyd. He said the cafe should increase prices as a “protest tax” and employees who participated in the protests should resign.
“Mr. Floyd was a thug, didn’t deserve to die but honoring a thug is irresponsible,” he said.
Owens followed up with a GoFundMe page to help the owner. The campaign quickly raised $205,000 before the site suspended the account “because of a repeated pattern of inflammatory statements that spread hate, discrimination, intolerance and falsehoods against the black community at a time of profound national crisis. These actions violate our terms of service.”
Candace Owens also recently downplayed Ahmaud Arbery’s Death by saying that “Ahmaud Arbery was not just a jogger”.
After raising $205,000 in a few hours @gofundme decided to halt my campaign for the Parkside Cafe in Alabama. At their discretion, they deemed that funds raised for a conservative business constitutes “intolerance”
They WILL however give the funds raised thus far to the cafe… pic.twitter.com/Mfw88iDKRi— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) June 7, 2020