BLACKOUT
How Black America Can Make its Second Escape from the
Democrat Plantation
Candace Owens: Blackout, Threshold Editions, New York, 2020, 300 pages.
The general gist of this great book could be summed up in the following paragraph from the book’s introduction and lifted from the blurb on the back of its dust cover:
For too long we have been lied to by Democrats who have relied upon our votes to maintain them in power, for too long we have believed that the State is sovereign; we do not belong to the Democrat Party, we do not belong to socialism, we answer to the true God, not the god of government.
From a black American’s perspective, in a series of pithy chapters, Candace Owens waxes eloquent on eleven subjects, (from Conservatism to Feminism to Socialism & Government Handouts to Slavery).
Owens’
intention is to set black Americans free from what she calls the “Democrat
plantation.” Alluding to the help the mainstream media gives to the Democrats
“despite [their] having had the most racist history of almost any major Western
political party”, Owens says,
While the intentions of Lyndon B. Johnson have been called into question, those of the media are clear: ignore the truth, deal out virtue to those on whom their favor falls, and keep blacks shackled to the Democrat plantation.[1]
I am grateful for her insights, and I am especially indebted to her for her explanation of the role of Antifa in contemporary America. It was an “Aha!” moment for me. Until now, I had thought Antifa to be a just a bunch of anarchistic Left-wing nuts, who were maybe seeking to overthrow Western democracy. However, Candace Owens’ linking Antifa to the Ku Klux Klan brings the whole thing out of the shadows and into broad daylight for all to see. Says Owens,
With the abolishment of slavery, so too went the legal right to punish blacks physically, but for Democrats, that simply indicated that they needed to get more creative. Draped in long white robes and hoods, Klansmen aimed to resist the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies, which sought to establish political and economic equality for blacks. Klan members used a variety of intimidation tactics against black and white Republican activists and, eventually, against immigrants, Catholics, and Jewish people as well.[2]
Owens
refers to the Ku Klux Klan as “The Democrat terrorist group”, saying,
Fortunately, like many others who have come before me, I have survived every media assassination attempt, but not without, as was intended, an increase in threats being made against me by the Left’s domestic terrorist group – Antifa. Clad in all-black clothing and black masks (a more modern take on the fashion of their spiritual predecessors, the Ku Klux Klansmen), their members arrive in swarms to bully, harass, intimidate, and beat conservatives in public places.[3]
Owens
then goes on to a give personal example of the time she was having breakfast in
a café when “about forty Antifa members assembled outside.” When she left the
café Antifa began screaming obscenities at her and throwing eggs and water at
her. She caught the abuse on camera.
For many liberals, it became a wake-up call to what their party had become: white gangs chasing black Republicans out of restaurants in the name of protecting the values of Democrats.[4]
I
recommend this book to everyone who loves freedom, freedom of the sort found in
the Constitution that Candace Owens refers to,
That is the vision of the Constitution, that was the vision of the Founding Fathers, and that must be the aspirational peak of young Americans, no matter what creed or color. For too long we have let these dreams and hopes be dictated to us by those who seek to keep us mentally enslaved. St. Paul writes in his Letter to the Galatians, “For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke if slavery” – how potent these words still seem today, thousands of years after they were written. A people who had been set free then voluntary chose to resubmit themselves to slavery, not in the physical sense of chains and bondage, but in the even more powerful sense of being mentally captured. This mental slavery, like some sort of twisted Stockholm syndrome, demands its addictive fix every four years, when our slave masters come rattling our cages, corralling us to pledge our permanent sacrifice: vote for us and your life will be easy; accept your victimhood.[5]
I
give BLACKOUT five stars. Do yourself a favour, buy and read this book.
