'We should have put a White Lives Matter t-shirt on Lizzo': Candace Owens defends Kanye West in Paris and says black Americans should be more outraged that obesity, abortion and 'black on black crime' are the biggest killers in the community
Candace Owens claims that the black community is paying more attention to the Yeezy 'White Lives Matter' controversy than issues actually impacting them. The conservative commentator said on Tuesday's episode of her DailyWire+ show that if Lizzo wore one of the shirts black people would care about obesity
By Sophie Mann
Daily Mail
October 4, 2022
Conservative commentator Candace
Owens has publicly spoken out against the Black Lives Matter movement
for years, calling it a fraud, a scam, and an organization that does not
actually care about the lives of black Americans
Candace Owens has defended Kanye West for his 'White Lives Matter' stunt, saying black Americans should be more outraged that obesity, abortion and 'black on black' crime kill more people in the community than cops.
The right-wing commentator appeared alongside West at the Yeezy season 9 fashion show in Paris on Monday evening where both wore White Lives Matter t-shirts, and models - including Bob Marley's granddaughter - wore them on the catwalk.
The pair have since come under fire from a range of celebrities, including Gigi Hadid, and activists who said they were promoting violence by using the slogan.
On Tuesday, Owens said in her DailyWire+ podcast that it was a 'lie' that using the slogan distracts from the Black Lives Matter movement and blasted 'vicious' online trolls for targeting her and the rapper.
She added that high rates of abortion, 'black-on-black crime' and obesity were also the biggest killers in the black community.
Owens then took aim at singer Lizzo, saying: 'We should have put a White Lives Matter T-shirt on Lizzo.
'Maybe we could have gotten a lot of attention about obesity and how it's actually killing black Americans.'
Candace Owens took aim at Lizzo
in her defence of wearing a White Lives Matter t-shirt. 'We should have
put a White Lives Matter T-shirt on Lizzo. Maybe we could have gotten a
lot of attention about obesity and how it's actually killing black
Americans,' she said. Pictured: Lizzo performing at Madison Square
Garden on Sunday
Owens started off her podcast by saying: 'Usually I begin every episode with a question of the day…
'The big one being, why did Candace Owens and Kanye West wear White Lives Matter T-shirts last night at his Yeezy season nine show here in Paris?
'A T-shirt that says White Lives Matter, which should be implied, right? White lives matter. Black Lives Matter. Asian Lives Matter. It should be implied.
'Yet people are angry and they are being vicious online because they can't believe that we have the audacity to detract from the [Black Lives Matter] movement, which is a lie.
'If black lives matter, then some of these things that we have been talking about on this show, things I've been talking about throughout my entire political career, would be getting attention, not the t-shirts, right?'
She continued: 'These actual statistics that matter. And here are just a few of them…
'…Abortion in America has contributed to the greatest decline in black population since the first black slaves arrived.
'When you say to people today that 20 million black infants were aborted, they…don't even bat an eyelash…
'They tell those same black people that they need to be outraged when a Planned Parenthood clinic shuts down… and yet a T-shirt is what got attention last night.
'But that's not the only thing that's killing black America… We also know obesity is killing black America. You know what we should have done?
'We should have put a White Lives Matter T-shirt on Lizzo. Maybe we could have gotten a lot of attention about obesity and how it's actually killing black Americans.
'Obesity is the number one killer in America…Black Lives Matter told you it was police shootings, right?
'And made you think that thousands of black men were dying at the hands of police…Absolutely not.
'I think in the year 2020…nine unarmed black men were killed by police. Nine of them.
'But obesity is killing people at a very high rate and black women have the highest rates of obesity.
'So the number one killer and, of course, we sit at the top of it, black women, 56.9% of us are classified as obese.
'But we shouldn't talk about that. Why? Because it didn't have a T-shirt on it that said White Lives Matter.
'Talk about criminality. No one wants to talk about it if you're not talking about a police officer…
'People don't want to talk about the fact that black people are slaughtering other black people.
'People don't want to talk about black on black crime…But hey, that wasn't wearing a White Lives Matter T-shirt, so who cares?'
On Monday, Owens attended the Yeezy season 9 fashion show in Paris, which sparked criticism after creator West sent models down the runway in his t-shirts.
West was also pictured wearing one of the shirts himself, as was right-wing commentator Owens.
Since the YZY Season 9 show in Paris on Monday, West has posted and deleted a number of messages to his Instagram, including one that read in all capital letters, 'EVERYONE KNOWS THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER WAS A SCAM NOW ITS OVER YOU'RE WELCOME' [sic].
The outspoken star appeared to be reinforcing a lack of faith in the cause, which has developed a reputation for staging mass street protests regarding the perceived mistreatment of minorities around the world, in addition to having leaders that misuse funds.
Earlier Tuesday, West roasted stylist and contributing Vogue fashion editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson after she branded the the 'White Lives Matter' t-shirts 'violent.'
West, 43, posted a picture of Karefa-Johnson wearing a colorful mish-mash of an outfit on his Instagram and wrote, 'This is not a fashion person You speak on Ye Ima speak on you Ask Trevor Noah.'
The jab was apparently making reference to Noah speaking out about West's public behavior that targeted his ex-wife Kim Kardashian and her then-boyfriend Pete Davidson, calling it 'terrifying to watch.' West subsequently called Noah a racial slur.
In a separate post, Ye zoomed in on Karefa-Johnson's boots, which appear to be Women's Black Veneda Carter Edition Boots by Timberland. West wrote, 'I KNOOOOOOW ANNA HAAAATES THESE BOOTS.'
Karefa-Johnson had posted to her Instagram a screed about the 'White Lives Matter' t-shirts modeled on West's runway that included calling the collection 'deeply offensive, violent, and dangerous.'
'I'm fuming ... collecting my thoughts,' she wrote before labeling West's actions 'indefensible behavior.'
She later wrote that she was among those who 'suffered in that room' and was working through the 'trauma' of the experience.
West hits out at Vogue contributing editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson who
called his season 9 collection of YZY 'offensive' and 'violent'
Karefa-Johnson shared some of her musings of disgust at the YZY season 9 show
Supermodel Gigi Hadid was quick to defend Karefa-Johnson against West's online attacks, writing, 'You wish u had a percentage of her intellect [sic].'
'You have no idea haha.... If there's actually a point to any of your sh*t she might be the only person that could save u.
'As if the 'honot' of being invited to your show should keep someone from giving their opinion ..? Lol. You're a bully and a joke,' she added.
Hadid and Karefa-Johnson have worked together in the past, with the stylist telling ELLE earlier this year that she shares a 'true friendship' with the model and there is 'deep respect and trust' between them.
Actress Jodie Turner-Smith also hit out at Kanye's latest tirade, sharing on her Instagram Story: 'I thought he said he was trying to bring people together???
'Fake and disgusting and embarrassing please go touch some grass and stop sharing your toxic thoughts.'
Vogue parent company Condé Nast and Karefa-Johnson have been approached by the Daily Mail for comment.
Regarding the show itself and the 'White Lives Matter' t-shirts, several members of the music and academic community have spoken out against Kanye's show.
In the hip-hop community, outspoken rapper Boosie Badazz, who famously bragged about paying prostitutes to perform oral sex on his son, then 12, and nephew, then, 13, called out West
Boosie said: 'After all we been through as a race you put this disrespectful s**t on? U give no f**ks about how blacks have died n suffered to the hands of the white man n u say Bush don't like black people... really n****a.'
While extremely left-wing Temple University Professor Marc Lamont Hill tweeted the picture of West together with Owen and wrote: 'Kanye West decision to wear a 'White Lives Matter' shirt is disgusting, dangerous, and irresponsible. Some of y'all will rush to defend him. You should ask yourselves why…'
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