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Candace
Owens
Candace
Owens
is
making
some
eye-raising
decisions,
from
meeting
up
with
Joe
Budden
for
an
upcoming
interview
to
defending
Beyoncé.
Candace
Owens
has
long
positioned
herself
at
the
forefront
of
Black
conservatism
in
America,
quite
often
criticizing
the
Black
community
in
the
process.
And
that
hasn’t
gone
unnoticed,
with
many
Black
people
disparaging
her
for
behavior
that
ultimately
comforts
the
worst
of
white
right-wingers
and
conservatives,
such
as
promoting
the
fallacy
that
George
Floyd
wasn’t
killed
by
former
Minneapolis
police
officer
Derek
Chauvin.
But
as
the
United
States
is
in
another
tense
election
year,
Owens
seems
to
be
shifting
her
stance
ever
so
slightly
within
the
past
few
days
with
two
moves
–
the
first
being
a
surprise
meeting
with
media
personality
and
rapper
Joe
Budden.
Owens
shared
a
photo
of
her
meetup
with
Budden,
which
reportedly
took
place
in
Nashville,
Tennessee
to
her
Instagram
Stories.
The
caption
simply
read,
“It
happened.”
Budden
had
previously
expressed
admiration
for
Candace
Owens,
remarking
on
The
Joe
Budden
Podcast
that
he
doubted
that
she
would
ever
call
in
to
make
an
appearance.
The
author
would
respond
on
her
own
podcast
last
week,
saying:
“I’m
going
to
take
you
up
on
your
offer,
publicly.”
The
news
of
the
interview
and
the
photo
spread
like
wildfire
across
the
internet,
with
many
expressing
their
displeasure
over
the
situation.
HOT97
radio
host
Peter
Rosenberg
made
his
position
plain
in
a
post
on
X,
formerly
Twitter,
writing:
“So
sick
of
the
idea
that
conversations
need
to
be
had
with
bigots,
trolls,
and
immoral
a-holes
…exchanging
ideas
among
smart
good
people
is
useful
…
hearing
a
hateful
hack
babble
on
about
hate
is
not
worth
anyone’s
time.”
This
follows
a
surprising
position
that
Owens
took
in
defending
superstar
singer
Beyoncé’s
latest
single,
“Texas
Hold
‘Em”.
from
a
slew
of
detractors
believing
it’s
not
truly
a
country
song.
“Some
people
are
saying
that
this
is
not
very
country,”
Owens
said
of
Beyoncé’s
new
song.
“I’m
going
to
defend
Beyoncé
on
that
point
because
Beyoncé’s
kind
of
always
been
country.
She’s
more
country
than
Taylor
Swift
ever
was
for
sure.”
She
continued:
“Beyoncé
is
from
Houston,
Texas.
She’s
always
had
a
twang…
[Taylor
Swift]
put
on
a
fake
twang.
Everyone
was
okay
with
it.
You
can’t
say
that
Taylor
Swift
can
do
it,
and
Beyonce
can’t.”
