

Most damaging to Owens’s core thesis - that black Americans have to escape the victim mentality allegedly imposed on them by Democrats - is her continual insistence that black Americans are victims of the Democrats. She bizarrely asserts that FDR was known for ‘theatrically harping on the struggles of minorities’. Well-researched and intelligently argued, Blackout lays bare the myth that all black people should vote Democrat-and shows why turning to the right will leave them happier, more successful, and more self-sufficient.She tiresomely rehashes the fact that the original Ku Klux Klan were Democrats, as if contemporary Democrats would not line up to spit on the grave of Nathan Bedford Forrest. Weaving in her personal story, which ushered her from a roach-infested low-income apartment to1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, she demonstrates how she overcame her setbacks and challenges despite the cultural expectation that she should embrace a victim mentality.

Owens explains that government assistance is a double-edged sword, that the Left dismisses the faith so important to the black community, that Democrat permissiveness toward abortion disproportionately affects black babies, that the #MeToo movement hurts black men, and much more.

From dependency, from victimhood, from miseducation-and the Democrat Party, which perpetuates all three. Instead, Owens offers up a different ideology by issuing a challenge: It's time for a major black exodus. She contends that the Democrat Party has a long history of racism and exposes the ideals that hinder the black community's ability to rise above poverty, live independent and successful lives, and be an active part of the American Dream. In Blackout, Owens argues that this automatic allegiance is both illogical and unearned.

Seeing no viable alternative, they have watched liberal politicians take the black vote for granted without pledging anything in return. Political activist and social media star Candace Owens addresses the many ways that Democrat Party policies hurt, rather than help, the African American community, and why she and many others are turning right.īlack Americans have long been shackled to the Democrats.
