This document discusses two social media influencers that impacted the author's views on conflict resolution. The first is Brandon Tatum, a former police officer and conservative political commentator. The second is Candace Owens, a conservative author and activist. The author explains how they were both impacted by different life experiences that shaped their beliefs, and how they engage in discussions with others who disagree with them. The author relates to both influencers because they share similar views, and sees how having open conversations about disagreements, like the influencers do, can help resolve conflicts.

1. Review all of the Discussions: Conflict Resolution Resources –
Influencers, TED Talks, and Websites. After reviewing all the
resources presented, create your thread.
This week, identify the one resource that impacted you the most
that you shared and identify one resource that impacted you the
most that was shared by one of your peers and make it using
500 words
In your thread:
Introduce your classmates to the resource you shared that is the
most impactful
Introduce your classmates to the resource that was shared by
one of them that was the most impactful
Explain why you selected these resources
Explain how these resources impacted your thoughts and ideas
on conflict resolution
Explain how these resources are personally applicable to you
Use this information to incorporate into the questions:
The resource that I shared that is the most impactful are the
influencers Candace Owens and Brandon Tatum. The first
influencer is Brandon Tatum he is known for being an American

2. conservative political commentator, former police officer and
football player. He Born in Forth Worth, Texas, Tatum was
an All-American football player in high school. His father,
Bobby Tatum, was a captain in the Fort Worth Fire Department.
His great uncle, Jack Tatum, was an Ohio State All-American,
NFL All-Pro, and a Super Bowl champion with the Oakland
Raiders. Tatum was featured in the US-Army All-American
Game, which showcases the top 78 high school football players
in the nation. Tatum committed to playing on a full athletic
scholarship from the University of Arizona in 2004. Tatum
played at Arizona for 5 years and entered the NFL Draft in
2010. After he After going undrafted in the NFL Draft, Tatum
became a police officer in Tucson, Arizona. He rose to
prominence in early 2016 for a viral video about a campaign
rally for U.S. President Donald Trump. Following the rally, he
said in the video that he felt unsafe because of those who
protested against the event. He went viral a second time in
September 2017 for a video where he expressed his opposition
to players "taking the knee" during the national anthem at NFL
football games. Tatum later then Tatum resigned from the
Tucson Police Department in October 2017 to join Liftable
Media a conservative content producer that owns and
operates The Western Journal and The Conservative Tribune. He
then served, as director of urban engagement for the
conservative action group Turning Point USA before founding
his own media company in late 2019 and sells his own shirts
and hats.
The second social media influencer I chose is Candace Owen.
She is a American conservative author, political commentator,
and activist. She was along with With her siblings, Owens was
raised in Stamford, Connecticut, by her grandparents from
around the age of 11 or 12, after her parents divorced. She was
the third of four children. She said her paternal grandfather
Robert Owens, a Black American, was born in North
Carolina. Owens is also of Caribbean American heritage

3. through her grandmother who is originally from Saint Thomas,
U.S. Virgin Islands. She is a graduate of Stamford High
School. Owens pursued an undergraduate degree
in journalism at the University of Rhode Island. She dropped
out after her junior year because of an issue with her student
loan. Afterwards, she worked as an intern for
Vogue
magazine in New York. In 2012, Owens took a job as
an administrative assistant for a private equity
firm in Manhattan, New York, later moving up to become its
vice president of administration. In 2015, Owens was CEO of
Degree180, a marketing agency that offered consultation,
production, and planning services. Owens launched
SocialAutopsy.com in 2016, a website she said would
expose bullies on the Internet by tracking their digital footprint.
By late 2017, Owens had started producing pro-Trump
commentary, and criticism of liberal rhetoric
regarding structural racism, systemic inequality, and identity
politics. then in 2018 she went on to be apart of Blexit. She is
also currently released a book called Blackout.
They both relate to conflict resolution is because they both went
through different life paths that led them to be where they are
now. They have different beliefs about things then other people
but they have discussions and conversations on there channels
with people to discuss them. They both relate to me view wise
because we have things in common on how we view many
diffferent things and topics.