Saying it wants to foster critical thinking and “challenge the status quo,” a group of Black conservatives has scheduled an HBCU homecoming campus tour.
Blexit—an organization founded by conservative commentator Candace Owens—is taking a tour called “Educate to Liberate” to 10 campuses this month. According to the Blexit website, the mission of the tour is about “sparking powerful conversations on HBCU campuses.”
The tour will feature Blexit members Stephen Davis, Anthony Watson, Topher, Savannah Craven, Craig Long, and the so-called BLEXIT Student Movement team.
“The tour aims to challenge conventional thinking about education, personal empowerment, and cultural narratives among America’s youth, according to the website that has a partnership with the Charlie Kirk-backed Turning Point USA.
What HBCUs will Blexit tour?
According to a promotional flyer, the tour is next scheduled for Jackson State University on October 10. The tour will then move to Tennessee State University, Florida A&M University on October 17, North Carolina Central University on October 23, Howard University and Hampton University on October 24, Bowie State University and Lincoln University on October 31. Previous events were held at Johnson C. Smith University and Alabama State University.
What is Blexit?
Candace Owens, who has spent several years campaigning for what she calls a black exit, or ‘blexit’, from the Democratic Party and what she says is “permanent victimhood.”
“Blexit is a Renaissance,” Owens told Fox News in 2018. “Blexit is the black exit from the Democratic Party. It’s the black exit from permanent victimhood, the black exit from the false idea that we are somehow separate from the rest of America.”
Its website, in laying out the group’s “vision,” says that it wants a “better future for minority communities”, through a series of educational, justice and economic reforms, and seeks to “change the narrative that surrounds America’s minority communities – with a particular focus on African-Americans.”
The HBCU Blexit tour comes on the heels of a group of right-wing provocateurs being swiftly removed from Tennessee State University’s campus in Nashville last month after attempting to spark debate and promote inflammatory rhetoric about DEI and immigration.
