Candace Owens Tryin’ to Get her Black Card Back

Shirley Jones Luke
2 min readApr 1, 2024

Girl, please!

Candace Owens, the Black Conservative who has made a career out of slandering the Black community, is trying to get her Black Card back. Owens appeared recently on the Breakfast Club, a popular show in the community, to make her case to Black America. While Owens did tell some truths on the show,” white people hate Black people” and “the government is not going to do anything for us,” most of her words rang hollow.

Owens has always been one to push the envelope with her rhetoric. Usually, she supports some initiative that doesn’t favor Black folk. In addition, she’s made some nasty statements about Breaona Taylor, George Floyd, and others murdered by the police. To backtrack on what she said is disingenuous and gaslighting at its worst.

But some Black people want to extend Owens an invitation to the cookout.

Come on, ya’ll! Really?!

Owens does not deserve to be invited to any Black function unless it’s with her fellow Black conservatives. She is not welcome at our functions. Owens can’t diss Blacks for years and then switch up and try to make things all good. It doesn’t work like that. If Owens were true to her roots, she would know that.

Candace Owens is an intelligent woman who could have used her platform to illuminate…

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Shirley Jones Luke

Shirley is a poet and writer. Ms. Luke enjoys reading, fashion and travel. She is working on a manuscript of her poems and an essay collection.