Another week, another Terry Crews tweet that is being talked about for all the wrong reasons.
Tuesday morning, the Brookyln Nine-Nine star tweeted, “If you are a child of God, you are my brother and sister. I have family of every race, creed and ideology. We must ensure #blacklivesmatter doesn’t morph into #blacklivesbetter.”
His tweet was met with fierce backlash.
It’s like Terry Crews is becoming his character in white chicks pic.twitter.com/j8YJZnqjjY
— ???????????????????????? ♥️ (@karimadukes) June 30, 2020
Terry Crews is threatened by a world that treats all Black people fairly, because he enjoys the benefits of being the token Black person.
So as we fight for equality, he shifts his tactics to reminding white America, that still he stands out. Still, he is their favored token. https://t.co/wHh12ixNS0
— ✨Doreen✨ (@DoreenGLM) June 30, 2020
It’s truly embarrassing how you keep displaying your poor reading comprehension and lack of critical thinking
— Ira Madison III (@ira) June 30, 2020
This is unintellectual and irresponsible. You are developing into an enemy of the people. Ignorance will be your downfall.
— Amanda Seales ????????✊???? (@amandaseales) June 30, 2020
Earlier this month, Crews also received backlash for a controversial tweet about “Black supremacy.” Sharing similar sentiments as he did on Tuesday, he wrote, “Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy. Equality is the truth,” he wrote. “Like it or not, we are all in this together.”
This tweet caused his former Everybody Hates Chris co-star, Tyler James Williams, to call him out on his dangerous rhetoric. Williams tweeted to Crews, writing, “Terry, brother, I know your heart and you know I have love for you and always will. No one is calling 4 [B]lack supremacy & the narrative that we are hurts our cause & our people. We’re just vigorously vetting our ‘allies’ because time & time again they have failed us in the past.”
“Our people are tired of white people who put on a good face [and] claim they “[aren’t] racist’ while operating and benefiting from the privilege of a clearly racist system,” he continued. “We’re not trying to do this alone. We KNOW we can’t. But we refuse to have allies who won’t go the distance.”
Our people are tired of white people who put on a good face a claim they “arnt racist” while operating and benefiting from the privilege of a clearly racist system.
We’re not trying to do this alone. We KNOW we can’t. But we refuse to have allies who won’t go the distance.
— Tyler James Williams (@TylerJamesWill) June 8, 2020
I’m not trying to call you out @terrycrews. You know it’s all love always ❤️. But we’re rightfully angry right now and fed up with anyone not with our cause wholeheartedly.
I don’t want to see that energy pointed your way or diverted from the cause.
— Tyler James Williams (@TylerJamesWill) June 8, 2020
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