Conservative commentator Candace Owens recently announced a new campaign she called “Blexit,” which specifically encourages black Americans to leave the Democratic Party.
Owens made the announcement and debuted the Blexit movement’s designs, which features words “Blexit” and “We Free” to a cheering crowd in Washington, on Oct. 27.
“Blexit is a national movement of minorities that have awakened to the truth. It is for those who have taken an objective look at our decades-long allegiance to the left and asked ourselves ‘What do we have to show for it?’” she wrote.
The Blexit movement is focused on the 2020 elections; Owens said the campaign will target major cities in the United States that she said has been “destroyed” by Democrats, including Chicago, Philadelphia, and Detroit.
“The Blexit movement will spend 2019 holding rallies in every major city in America the Democrats have destroyed,” Owens said on Oct. 27.
Blexit Designs
“Blexit is a renaissance, and I am blessed to say that this logo, these colors, were created by my dear friend and fellow superhero Kanye West,” Owens said at the summit, while holding up a Blexit cap.“I introduced Candace to the person who made the logo and they didn’t want their name on it so she used mine. I never wanted any association with Blexit. I have nothing to do with it,” West wrote.
‘Americans First and Foremost’
Blexit is a play on “Brexit,” the name for Britain’s movement to leave the European Union.On Oct. 27, Owens said: “Blexit is the black exit from the Democratic Party. It’s the black exit from permanent victimhood, the black exit from the false idea that we are somehow separate from the rest of America.”
According to Owens, Blexit is about encouraging black Americans to exit the Democrat “plantation.”
The black community has been victim to the narrative fed to them, according to Owens.
“Our options are simple. We can accept the left’s narrative that we are not American, that we have more in common with the criminal caravan at the border than we do with our brothers and sisters of this country,” she said.
“We can accept that we’re victims, that we can’t do without government handouts, that we’re too stupid to get into schools on the basis of our own intellect.
“Or we can decide ... that we are long last ready to snatch a piece of this American Dream.”
Owens said the Blexit logo signifies unity among Americans.
“Every American who wears this logo realizes that when we all come together, when we refuse to allow the media to divide us, to pit us as men versus women, as black versus white,” she said on Oct. 27.
“When we all come together we’re the first to understand that the colors of this country are red, white, and blue.”
In her speech, Owens acknowledged some of the left’s labels on the black community.
“We can fully recognize that this is, in fact, our country,” she said. “That while Hillary Clinton viewed us as ‘super predators,’ CNN views us as ‘token negros who don’t read,’ Donald Trump views us as Americans.”
Record High
Trump approval among black voters has risen to a record 40 percent, according to a Rasmussen poll released on Oct. 29.Trump has spent considerable effort to appeal to black voters, asking them to consider how electing Democrats for decades benefited them. Trump promised them jobs, safety, and education.