NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
It’s time for a black exit.
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.
Black
Americans have long been shackled to the Democrats. Seeing no viable
alternative, they have watched liberal politicians take the black vote
for granted without pledging anything in return. In Blackout, Owens argues that this automatic allegiance is both illogical and unearned.
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. Instead, Owens offers up a different
ideology by issuing a challenge: It’s time for a major black exodus.
From dependency, from victimhood, from miseducation—and the Democrat
Party, which perpetuates all three.
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. 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.
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.
