When Chickens Come Home to Roost: Why I'm Not Defending Candace Owens From Laura Loomer

Thank you Great Society’s “New Frontier”, Selda, Bob Barnett, Jody Medina Precit, Sonja Kuhn, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.Education is elevation, y’all. Let me set the table real quick before I get into this drama, this mess.I came across a clip of Candace Owens and Laura Loomer going back and forth, and before we even unpack this little circus, I want y’all to feel me on the most important news of the day. What happened yesterday is really showing how they trying to take us back to the plantation, take us back to Jim Crow. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is what started to remove the legal machinery that ensured segregation throughout the South. In 1964, the year before the bill passed, only about 7% of Black folks were registered to vote down South. A year after passage, in 1966, we saw over 50% of Black folks down South registered to vote. That’s what’s at stake when courts and politicians start chipping at voting rights again. That’s the real story. And while the real story is unfolding, we got these MAGA tokens out here doing the work of distraction for free.Now let me get into Candace Owens and Laura Loomer. Trigger warning, for the folks in the back: it’s about to get real racist. It’s about to get real anti-Black. But it’s gonna make sense in a minute.What Loomer Said, and Why It MattersLaura Loomer went on a tirade where she literally called Candace Owens a “nappy-headed Black b***h” and a “resentful ghetto Black b***h.” She mocked Candace’s diction. She mocked Candace’s degrees. She accused Candace of being jealous of pretty white blonde girls and trying to steal their men in Greenwich, Connecticut. Then she pivoted to telling y’all she ain’t a racist person. Feel me?Let that marinate. Loomer used textbook racism, textbook anti-Blackness, textbook white supremacist rhetoric, and capped it off with the disclaimer that she’s just not a racist. Thinking deeply about shallow s**t, that is the whole MAGA brand in one sentence. The performance of racial innocence right after the racist performance.But here’s the part that should land harder than the slurs: Loomer was able to force the administration’s hand. She went on this unhinged racist rant and then made a demand that the President of the United States issue a Truth Social post supporting her. And he did. Reporting indicates Susie Wiles was staunchly opposed and said this was a very bad idea, but Trump’s team conceded anyway. That is the question that should haunt every conservative reading this: why did Donald Trump concede to a lunatic? Owens herself has floated the rumor — and yes, even she admits it’s just a rumor — that Loomer has something on Trump tied to relations she allegedly had with him on Air Force One years ago. I’ll be real with y’all: Candace, Laura, Donald, all three of y’all are full of the same stuff they flush down toilets, so the credibility argument from any of them is losing on me. My grandfather always told me that a broken clock gets it right twice a day. In these days, maybe you change your batteries and tell time a little different. But here’s the thing about time. Time keeps score.Why I’m Not Defending CandaceLet me be crystal clear. I’m not a racist person. I don’t hate Black people. And I’m calling Candace Owens out for the same reason I’m calling Laura Loomer out: when y’all try to act like people are not racist, it always blows my mind that Black conservatives can only understand racism when it’s put on their own body. A lot of y’all claim to be Christians, but the way you come to understand racism is through a selfishness that is not Christ-like.The exact language Laura Loomer is using on Candace Owens right now is the exact stuff Candace Owens thought was cool and permissible when she was benefiting from it. The chastising of Black folks for not taking accountability. The lectures about Black women’s hair, Black women’s bodies, Black communities, Black culture. Candace was at the front of that line for years, getting white conservative checks for it. Now she ain’t benefiting from it no more, and she’s doing her best to appeal to Black people. When she went at Erica Kirk and said Erica Kirk was doing her best Janet Jackson rendition, she was reaching for Black cultural references to climb back into the fold. Repeat me one more time, to my Black conservative free-thinking Republicans: y’all loved having y’all presence tokenized around these folks, but inevitably in a system of capitalism, tokens will always be spent.We always say tokens get spent. What we’re seeing with the way these Republicans are doing y’all, Black Republicans, is that y’all were always already disposable. And now that a lot of y’all are trying to come back into the fold, trying to come back around Black folks, we remember what you said and what you did. Just like you was chastising the community for not taking accountability, for not taking responsibility, before you allowed back around this stuff again, you got to take responsibility and accountability for the climate you helped create.The Greenwich Bar Story Is the Whole ThesisLoomer described, in her own words, how traumatizing it was for her to go on a play date as a young blonde girl in Connecticut at the home of a wealthy white blonde girl with blue eyes. She said her mommy and daddy didn’t love her, and now she sees Erica Kirk as that white blonde girl who got everything she wanted. Then she turns around and tells a story about Candace Owens being a Black girl from the hood who used to walk into ritzy bars in Greenwich and steal the hottest white guy and ruin the popular white girl’s relationship. She said this was satisfying to Candace. So now Loomer is calling Candace a nappy-headed ghetto Black b***h with a vendetta against blonde white women, while simultaneously revealing she has a vendetta against blonde white women. That ain’t it, though.The honest read is this: a lot of y’all that got hoodwinked and bamboozled by your proximity to whiteness thought these white folks didn’t feel about you the way you said they didn’t feel about us. When chickens come home to roost, you got to embrace that chicken. Recognize that regardless of how good your diction is, how many degrees you have, how likable you try to be, at the end of the day a lot of these folks always saw you as a slur waiting to be deployed the moment you stopped being useful.Accountability Without an Escape HatchA lot of these conservatives, not even just the Black ones, a lot of these Trump devout loyalists are starting to see the writing on the wall that the same vitriol and violence Trump pushed out is now coming for them too. So they’re trying to backpedal. Nah, man.I got homeboys and family members who regret the bad actions that placed them in being incarcerated. They want to disavow the people they used to run with. The judge would tell them, yeah, that’s good you acknowledged what you did was bad and you want to disavow it, but you still got to deal with the consequences of your actions. How is it that these conservatives believe they can discursively move around the climate they created and benefited from and just say whoops, my bad? I got a cousin locked up 15 years. Whoops, my bad. He’s still in jail though. He’s still got to deal with the material reality his actions brought about.How is it that so many of these conservatives, all of a sudden right now, are trying to ask for the exact forgiveness they never wanted to give nobody else? Self-serving, man. What would Jesus do? Sault, take it with a grain of crack cocaine, okay?Don’t Let Them Sell You Jill Stein AgainWhile y’all watching the MAGA girls fight, I want to take this opportunity to redirect a different misplaced beef. Unpopular opinion: a lot of the smoke folks have for the Green Party should actually be smoked for Candace Owens and for Donald Trump supporters.In 2016, Jill Stein received about 1% of the vote. Hillary Clinton still won the popular vote. Hillary Clinton lost a bunch of Electoral College points due to states she lost. Instead of dealing with the faulty leadership of the Democratic Party, y’all want to capitulate to Jill Stein. Y’all always could see Jill Stein had no power, has no power, has never had power, would not have any power right now. You can put all the third-party candidates together in 2024, give every single one of them votes to Kamala Harris, and Kamala Harris still loses.Even if 100% of Black folks voted for Kamala Harris, Donald Trump would have still won. Over 85% of the Black community voted for Kamala Harris in 2024, and there’s still certain Black people who want to chastise the Black community, telling us we’re the reason Kamala lost. Let’s focus on the numbers, man. The math don’t lie.Donald Trump was able to stack the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade and gut Chevron deference. Did Joe Biden stack the court? He didn’t. Did the leftists have the ability to pack the courts? No. I don’t know any offices the Green Party holds. I don’t know any positions they hold. How is it that we can blame people that are positionless for decisions made by people with positions? Facts over feelings, y’all. For some reason, feelings and emotions can become centered when they’re yours, but when they’re somebody else’s, you don’t care.On Solidarity, Disagreement, and That Plaque on My WallIt’s a bunch of people I rock with that I disagree with on this. It’s a bunch of folks who rock with me that I disagree with on this. And that is okay. The question becomes, do we have the emotional intelligence and capacity to have a crucial conversation where we vehemently disagree?It’s the reason why I got that Malcolm X standing right next to that Fannie Lou Hamer on my wall. When it comes to Black ideology, when it comes to Black position, there is always a multiplicity of how we position. Do I think Fannie Lou Hamer had the same politics as Malcolm X? Some similarities, a lot of differences. But me being able to appreciate them both is the work. We can talk about how great Assata Shakur was and then turn around and chastise Black folks for taking on the same tools of democracy you say you’re trying to defend. That contradiction is why so many of these conversations go nowhere.I’ll close with this. The Loomer-Owens feud is a Sports Center highlight reel of what racial capitalism looks like when the contract runs out. They was never colleagues. Candace was a token. Tokens get spent. Loomer is reminding her, and reminding all of us, on national air. The lesson ain’t to feel bad for Candace. The lesson is to stop sending other Black folks to that same plantation expecting a different harvest. Time keeps score. It’s keeping score on Candace, on Laura, on Donald, on every Black conservative free-thinker who thought their proximity to whiteness was a passport instead of a lease.Education is elevation. Research over MeSearch. Let that marinate.Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Five Key Takeaways#1 Tokens always get spent. Candace Owens being publicly degraded by Laura Loomer with the same anti-Black language Owens defended for years is racial capitalism doing exactly what racial capitalism does. The currency of Black conservatism is acceptance, and acceptance is always conditional, always revocable, always priced in slurs.#2 Loomer’s Greenwich bar monologue accidentally tells the truth. She projected her own resentment of pretty blonde white girls onto Candace Owens, exposing that the white grievance industry runs on the same wounds it accuses Black women of having. The performance of racial innocence right after textbook anti-Blackness is the whole MAGA brand.#3 The real news is the Voting Rights Act, not the catfight. Black voter registration in the South went from roughly 7% in 1964 to over 50% by 1966 because federal machinery dismantled the legal architecture of disenfranchisement. Every modern attempt to roll that back is the through-line we should be tracking while these tokens distract us.#4 Stop misplacing the smoke. Jill Stein got 1% in 2016. Third-party candidates in 2024 combined could not have flipped the result. Even at 100% Black turnout for Kamala, Trump still wins. The faulty leadership of the Democratic Party and the Black conservatives who normalized Trumpism deserve the heat, not positionless leftists.#5 Accountability is not a vibes-based reset. My homeboys locked up for 15 years cannot vibe their way out of consequences, and neither can conservatives who built the climate they’re now trying to backpedal from. You don’t get to chastise folks for not taking responsibility and then beg for forgiveness you never gave. 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