Right-wing activist Candace Owens testified before Congress on a hearing for combating white supremacy, claiming it’s not a top issue for minorities in the United States.
“If we’re going to have a hearing on white supremacy, we are assuming that the biggest victims of that are minority Americans,” Owens said Friday before the House Oversight Joint Subcommittee.
“And presumably this hearing would be to stop that and preserve the lives of minority Americans, which based on the hierarchy of what’s impacting minority Americans, if I had to make a list of 100 things, white nationalism would not make the list,” she said.
Owens, 30, said black-on-black crime and the war on masculinity were two issues more important to black Americans than white supremacy.
Earlier this year, Owens went before the House Judiciary Committee, where she asserted that there has been no rise in hate crimes.
In May, Owens quit as communications director for Turning Point USA. Her resignation followed calls to resign from several chapters of TPUSA after she said, “If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine.” However, she said she quit to spend more time on her podcast and book writing.
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