Candace Owens
Quick Facts Candace Owens
- NameCandace Owens
- Birth Year1989
- Birth month04
- FatherRobert Owens
- NationalityAmerican
- Birth Place Stamford, Connecticut, the U.S
- EthnicityAfrican-American
- ProfessionPolitical Commentator
- Education Stamford High School, University of Rhode,
Candace Owens is an American political activist who supports President Donald Trump, believes that the life of every citizen in the United States matter, and no one should be discriminated on the basis of the color of their skin. She believes in the value laid down by American conservative party.
Candace is involved in different kinds of work. She is a public commentator, blogger, and YouTuber. As per reports an average income of $22,000 per annum. She has a net worth of $300,000. Her marital status is single.
Candace Owens Early Life, Education
Candace Owens was born in Stamford, Connecticut, the U.S. on April 29, 1989. Her father name is Robert Owens but her mother’s name is not disclosed. Due to some domestic problems between her parents, she was brought up by her grandfather and mother named Robert Lee Sr. and Nola Alexis Owens. Her childhood days were not as blissful and blessed as they should have been.
Candace graduated her high school from Stamford High School and she went to the University of Rhode Island for further studies. She studied journalism in order to complete her undergraduate degree but she quit college after her junior year. She did not give any reasons as to why she left her studies.
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Candace experienced discrimination against people like herself from a very early age. When she was in senior high school, she was bullied by someone on the phone. The conversation on the phone was full of racism and she was threatened with life. She did not know what to do but she complained and an investigation was underway to find the culprit.
Furthermore, the investigation got its result and they found the one who was behind the racist phone calls. The culprit was none other but a 14-year-old son of the Dannel Malloy who happened to be the Mayor during that period. Her family sued the educational institution for not being able to protect her from such ill doings, she got a compensation of $37,500 for that incident.
Candace Owens Personal Life
Candace Owens’s professional life is known to all but there is less or to say exactly ‘nil’ information about her private life. Her boyfriend, affairs, and news about her getting married to someone and became a spouse or being engaged to someone have never reached the media or public at large.
Some speculate that she is keeping her private life a secret and some believed that currently she is focusing on her career and that is why she is not in a relationship with anyone as of yet. Or it could be that she has not found a perfect match for herself and is still waiting for her soulmate.
Candance is also active in social media sites with 460,000 followers of official Instagram, 983,000 followers on official Twitter and 800,668 followers on her official Facebook page.
Candace Owen’s Career
Candace started her early career as a worker at fashion magazine Vogue. Later in 2012, she worked in a private equity firm as an administrative assistant.
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Candace wanted to stop the online bullying and wanted to compensate the victims who are bullied online. For that, she launched SocialAutopsy.com in 2016 which helped to track the bullies and punish them legally. Her project was crowdfunded by Kickstarter.
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But she was criticized for her project SocialAutopsy because it would leak the private information of people who are online. At first conservative and progressive parties were against it but later on, conservative party’s support was with her and she became conservative overnight. But that project failed and the website was not created.
During 2015, she formed a new website Degree180 which used to post anti-conservative and anti-Trump content. But she started to post positive feeds about the conservative party and became a supporter of the conservative party of President Donald Trump.
From the year 2017, she started a YouTube channel and also a website Red Pill Black which supported black conservatism in the United States and helped them in their various issues. On November 21, 2017, she became the director of urban engagement in Turning Point USA.
Candace Owens Political Views
Candace states that she didn’t have any political opinion till 2015. When she started understanding politics, she thought that the ideals and philosophy of Liberal Democrat were best, but later she became a conservative and Trump supporter. On one occasion she even said, “The left hates America, and Trump loves it.”
Candace has been described by The Guardian as Ultra-conservative, New York Magazine and the Colombia Journalism described her as right-wing. Furthermore, The Daily Beast states her as far-right and the Pacific Standard called her alt-right.
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In 2018 Owens launched the Blexit movement to encourage African Americans to left the Democratic party and joined the Republicans. But she could not continue the movement as its name coincides with the United Kingdom’s movement Brexit which was created to withdraw Britain from the European Union.
Candace Owens Views on Black Lives Matter
Candace opposes the movement of Black Lives Matter and expressed her feeling that the people engaged in that movement are trying to gain favor by pretending to be a victim. They have now formed victim mentality due to some happenings in the past which was against them and which caused them a lot of trouble.
Candace Owens Opinions
Candace believes that Abortion is bad for society and it is inhumane. She opposed the Me Too Movement saying that it depicted women as weak, and less intelligent. She does not believe in climate change and thinks it propaganda to pull money from the Americans. She supports LGBT rights.
Candace Owens Net Worth
Candace Owens is associated with many jobs and hence it is difficult to calculate her earning and salary in total. She earns a reportedly $22,000 per annum from her various jobs and currently has a net worth of $300,000.
The information regarding her other assets like house, cars, and jewelry is not listed anywhere but her political attachment and her work demands house and cars of a good standard. So we guess that she must have a good house with all the requirements of a modern house and must have a car which is technologically advanced and looks good.
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