Candace Owens has drawn sharp criticism for proclaiming, “America is not a racist country,” during a conservative convention Friday after once winning a Connecticut lawsuit as a victim of racism.

Owens’ family received a $37,500 settlement from the Stamford Board of Education after she accused a group of teens of leaving her threatening and racist messages while she was a high school student in 2007.

Owens, who regularly appears on Fox News and travels to speak at college campuses, made the controversial comments Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, sponsored each year by the American Conservative Union to promote a conservative agenda.

“Stop selling us our own oppression,” said Owens, a Stamford High School grad. “Stop taking away our self-confidence by telling us that we can’t because of racism, because of slavery. I’ve never been a slave in this country.”

Owens’ comments drew sharp criticism on Twitter, where users cited her Stamford lawsuit. The 2007 incident turned scandal when the boy charged in the case was with several other teens — including the then-14-year-old son of former mayor and governor Dannel P. Malloy.

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Jemele Hill, a sports journalist for The Atlantic who was ousted from ESPN’s Sportscenter last year after making social media comments critical of President Donald Trump and of NFL owner Jerry Jones, was among those who lashed out at Owens on Friday.

“So I guess when she sued — and won — a lawsuit after receiving racist threats then she must have been in some other country,” Hill tweeted.

Others chimed in as well.

“Define irony: Candice (sic) Owens made money off of being taunted by racists, now she seeks to support them at all costs,” Dr. Johannon R. Tate tweeted on Friday.

“She makes no @%#** sense. Antithetical, hypocritical blather. How does she have such an enormous following? Is black America broken or not? Does racism exist or not? What’s your idea of ‘hand-ups’? A living wage? Affordable, accessible healthcare? “ tweeted J Emma.

“Now did racism die before or after she used the NAACP to sued her high school for racial discrimination?” Selina Meyers said.

Another tweeted, “I’ll never understand how she could suffer racists threats when she was younger and now has a platform to say it’s just a victimhood culture.”

In a 2016 open letter to Hearst Connecticut Media, Owens described the high school incident.

“One night as I sat watching a movie, a group of anonymous boys called my cell phone and left me a series of voicemails,” she wrote. “Their words, to this very day, represent the most horrific that I have ever heard uttered against another human being.”

Owens said “nothing was ever the same” after the incident.

It was announced Thursday that Owens will have a show on PragerU’s beginning on Sunday.

“I’m rolling out the Candace Owens Show with @prageru and it’s going to be EXPLOSIVE!! Thank you to @jonvoight, @therealroseanne and countless others who have kept this secret project under wraps,” Owens tweeted Thursday.

Owens’ show on the conservative educational site, billed as a weekly taped podcast, will release new episodes every Sunday, including early episodes slated to feature Hollywood conservatives Roseanne Barr and Jon Voight.