Right-wing political commentator Candace Owens blames former president Barack Obama for damaging race relations in the US.

Speaking on Fox & Friends on Sunday, Owens opened up about her newfound friendship with rapper Kanye West and jabbed the former president for allowing racial tension to heighten during his time in office.

'It’s been so black and white, the conversation, and I blame Obama. His eight years in office did a lot of damage in terms of race relations in this country,' she said.

Speaking on Fox & Friends on Sunday, Candace Owens blamed former Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for adding to racial tension in the US

She said: 'I blame Obama. His eight years in office did a lot of damage in terms of race relations in this country'

She also said she '100 per cent' supported a summit on race to be held at the White House

She said that Obama and Hillary Clinton shoulder the blame for heightened racial tension

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She added that Hillary Clinton also shoulders part of the blame.

'Hillary [Clinton] didn't help much when she kept calling everybody racist and sexist, so the language has changed and the rhetoric has changed,' she said on the show.

In the interview Owens, a controversial YouTuber who is an outspoken critic of Black Lives Matter, detailed how the Republican party has ignored the black community.

'I think Republicans – I hate to speak in terms of Democrats and Republicans – but particularly regarding Republicans, they really gave up on blacks. They said okay 93 per cent of you are voting for Democrats so they didn’t really embrace the black community,' she said.

'When I met with some of them, it was like an uphill battle. I was like this can be done. And I think they were just kind of feeling sort of defeated after seeing the numbers for so many years,' she added.

In the interview she said she supported a potential White House summit on race relations and suggested having figureheads like Kanye West and Colin Kaepernick have an open conversation at the conference.

'100 per cent I support it,' she said.

In the interview she also gushed about her new friendship with the Gold Digger rapper.

'It has been crazy how much a seven word tweet can impact your life positively and negatively. It's been a wonderful couple of weeks for me,' she said.

Kanye dished out praise for Owens - a controversial YouTuber who is an outspoken critic of Black Lives Matter - on Twitter, saying he liked the way she 'thinks'

Owens, who works for the right-wing group Turning Point USA, quickly responded begging for a meeting with the 40-year-old rapper

Kanye West was spotted after meeting with conservative commentators Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk in Los Angeles on Sunday

Kanye tweeted this photo of a whiteboard that Owens used during their meeting

On April 22 he tweeted: 'I love the way Candace Owens thinks'.

Owens, who works for the right-wing group Turning Point USA, responded by begging for a meeting with West.

'I'm freaking out. @kanyewest .... please take a meeting with me. I tell every single person that everything that I have been inspired to do, was written in your music. I am my own biggest fan, because you made it okay. I need you to help wake up the black community,' she tweeted.

On Sunday April 29 that meeting finally came to fruition as Owens, West and conservative commentator Charlie Kirk were seen exiting a meeting in Calabasas in Los Angeles.

'I don’t even think that he’s conservative. I think that he’s just a free thinker and wants to feel how he feels out loud and that hasn’t been allowed whatsoever,' she said on the rapper-turned-fashion designer on Fox.

'He is a really tremendous individual and he has this vision of love that both sides can come together. I don’t know if you saw on Twitter but he’s only following me and Emma Gonzales. We couldn’t be more different characters but he’s trying to say something there…that is it possible that people who have such different visions and passionate about such different things can come together and have a different conversation,' she said.

'He really has this vision of love that’s really optimistic and super inspiring,' she added.