


In a Facebook status, Owens says she wants to help the owners’ already-struggling business after people began boycotting his establishment. To try to assign responsibility or any meaning to a homicidal maniac writing a manifesto, which, by the way, also cited Spyro the Dragon, the child’s cartoon he also cited Nelson Mandela as a source of inspiration. Candace Owens, a conservative commentator, and political activist has started a GoFundMe account for the Parkside Cafe owner in Birmingham. “The audacity of you to bring up the Christchurch shooting manifesto and make it seem as if I laughed at people that were slaughtered by a homicidal maniac is in my opinion absolutely despicable,” she said. But it won’t raise any more as the campaign was suspended after comments by both Owens and the business owner. From 2010 to the beginning of 2020, over 9 billion has been raised on the platform, with contributions from over 120 million donors. Candace Owens started a GoFundMe for a Birmingham bar owner that raised over 200K. Our efforts toward talking about this have to start from a place of mutual respect.” GoFundMe is an American for-profit crowdfunding platform that allows people to raise money for events ranging from life events such as celebrations and graduations to challenging circumstances like accidents and illnesses. But I do think that laughing at it is a real problem because these are real families who are impacted by this violence.

“You’re, of course, not responsible for somebody writing that document. “This feels a lot like your reaction to being named in one of those manifestos,” Belew said. Belew called out Owens for downplaying the threat of white nationalism, saying it reminded her of one of Owens’ seemingly dismissive tweets involving the Christchurch mosque shootings. Owens statement was challenged by fellow panelist Kathleen Belew, an assistant professor of U.S. GoFundMe has suspended conservative political commentator Candace Owens’s fundraiser for an Alabama cafe whose co-owner criticized the George Floyd protests. Black-on-black crime is a huge issue in America right now, but people don’t like to talk about that …” She continued: “In fact, I would argue that right now, we have a social environment that is hostile towards men and does not inspire masculinity or being a man and what it means to be a father figure in the household.
