Who is Candace Owens, seen with Ye in White Lives Matter shirts? She wore the controversial top at the Yeezy Paris Fashion Week show, and is a political commentator and co-founder of ‘Blexit’
- Owens, a black American activist, is a familiar name in US politics and an outspoken critic of the Black Lives Matter movement, the moon landing and Covid-19
- She has revealed that during her senior year in high school she was traumatised by bullies who sent her voicemails with death threats and graphic racist insults
American conservative, political commentator and activist, Candace Owens, 33, is the latest name to be strung alongside yet another Kanye West (or “Ye”) controversy.
An outspoken host and commentator, Owens, whose full name is Candace Amber Owens Farmer, is a more familiar name in the political arena. Her recent move with Ye has recently made her the talk of the town in the fashion scene, too. Here’s what we know about her:
Bullied in high school and received racist death threats
Owens was raised in Stamford, Connecticut. During her senior year in high school, she had a traumatic experience with bullies, an incident that scarred her for years. Per CT Post, in 2007, Owens had accused a classmate of sending her voicemails that were “threatening to kill her and spewing graphic racist epithets”.
She recalls the experience as “terrifying”, but, in hindsight, it also “seems really juvenile”, Owens is quoted on CT Post. The bullies were “largely stupid and really mean”, she said, adding that “they probably just used everything they could think of that would hurt a black person. It’s like they went through their entire social studies curriculum,” referring to the offensive words and expletives hurled at her then.
The experience led Owens to quit and be home-schooled instead. It took her several years to get past the incident, and finish school.