As news broke today that Adidas was prepared to terminate its partnership with Kanye West “Ye”, Candace Owens came to his defense in multiple tweets.
In a three-part tweet, Owens began, “As a company, @adidas has every right to sever ties with whomever. That said, they better pay Ye.”
“We are not going to witness Ye’s intellectual property be stolen and his life bankrupted while being told black people need to shut up about it or suffer the same consequence,” Owens insisted.
Owens explained, “Too many black celebrities in my inbox telling me that they believe what is happening to Ye is wrong but they are scared to speak out because executives are telling them to ‘stay out of it’.”
“Livelihoods are being threatened right now over association. This is wrong. Corporate messaging over the last 4 years has been that every black feeling is valid because ‘black lives matter’—even though that resulted in our neighborhoods being destroyed,” Owens lamented.
Owens also pointed out that “Now those same corporations are telling black talent to shut up or lose everything they have.”
As a company, @adidas has every right to sever ties with whomever.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) October 25, 2022
That said, they better pay Ye.
We are not going to witness Ye’s intellectual property be stolen and his life bankrupted while being told black people need to shut up about it or suffer the same consequence.
Owens then continued in a separate two-part tweet, “I do not like black people that have helped to build corporations having their entire lives threatened over comments that they themselves did not make.”
“What is happening to black commentators, podcasters, and radio hosts (I should call them out by name but I won’t) is wrong,” Owens asserted.
I do not like black people that have helped to build corporations having their entire lives threatened over comments that they themselves did not make.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) October 25, 2022
What is happening to black commentators, podcasters, and radio hosts (I should call them out by name but I won’t) is wrong.
Owens concluded with two separate tweets, the first of which was a blistering indictment of the hypocrisy permeating in society currently.
“Black people talk about killing one another: approved for the airwaves. Black people talk about aborting their offspring: approved for the airwaves. Black people are ‘associated’ with Ye: NOT APPROVED. We are saying nothing and are being attacked and threatened,” Owens declared.
Owens concluded in the last tweet, “Some of you guys must have forgot— I am black. I will not be silenced. I will not be threatened. Least of all for something that I did not do or say. STOP threatening other black artists and commentators. Corporations can dissociate from Ye but they will not steal from him.”
Black people talk about killing one another: approved for the airwaves.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) October 25, 2022
Black people talk about aborting their offspring: approved for the airwaves.
Black people are “associated” with Ye: NOT APPROVED.
We are saying nothing and are being attacked and threatened.
Some of you guys must have forgot— I am black.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) October 25, 2022
I will not be silenced.
I will not be threatened.
Least of all for something that I did not do or say.
STOP threatening other black artists and commentators.
Corporations can dissociate from Ye but they will not steal from him.
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