Faithwire
  • Watch
  • Go!
  • Podcasts
  • Contact Us
  • Newsletter
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • News
  • Politics
  • Coronavirus Updates
  • Faith
  • Opinion
  • Christmas
  • Set Free Course

Terry Crews Faces Backlash for Warning Against BLM Turning Into ‘Black Lives Are Better’

AP Photo/Richard Drew
AP Photo/Richard Drew
Share Tweet
By Tré Goins-Phillips
Editor

June 30, 2020

Hollywood star Terry Crews, who is black, is facing social media backlash again because he warned Black Lives Matter activists against turning the movement into “black lives are better.”

“If you are a child of God,” wrote the “America’s Got Talent” host, “you are a brother and sister. I have family of every race, creed, and ideology. We must ensure #BlackLivesMatter doesn’t morph into #BlackLivesBetter.”

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

— terry crews (@terrycrews) June 30, 2020

One writer and Black Lives Matter activist, Kellee Nicole Terrell, responded to Crews, whom she said is “worthless to us.” She added, “White people can have you, especially since you love doing their work for them.”

Journalist and podcaster Ira Madison described the Christian actor as “truly embarrassing” because he keeps “displaying your poor reading comprehension and lack of critical thinking.”

Man Defending Home From BLM Protesters Is an Attorney Who Has Fought Police Brutality

Twitter user Melody Kewl told Crews, “You could have left out that last sentence,” claiming, “No one wants to be better. We want to be treated fairly and equal.”

Here are a handful of the other criticisms the 51-year-old star faced:

I’m a bit mad at myself for being even more disappointed at Terry Crews today. I thought that we had hit rock bottom. I didn’t realize I had any energy left for him, and that makes me mad.

— April (@ReignOfApril) June 30, 2020

We’re so far from that bridge, Terry. #BlackLivesMatter is, in part, a rallying cry and a protest slogan to galvanize people into doing the justice work needed to derail the deaths, dehumanization and destruction of Black lives that racism causes.

Justice is not a competition. https://t.co/Cdfac2V7M6

— Be A King (@BerniceKing) June 30, 2020

can we climb the mountain that it will take to make Black lives actually matter before you start worrying about a slippery slope on the other side of it? https://t.co/ZUFq1X1bxR

— Felonious Munk 🇪🇹 (@Felonious_munk) June 30, 2020

this is the only acceptable thing to do to Terry Crews' phone pic.twitter.com/0saXxWmMP3

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) June 30, 2020

One conservative Twitter user, Mindy Robinson, wrote, “I was wondering why Terry Crews was being ‘cancelled’ in comments on Twitter, only to find out it was over a message about equality. Equality means equal, not better than. It’s why I was so against ‘believe all women,’ because it unfairly makes a woman’s word worth more than a man.”

This is not the first time the “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” actor has faced intense backlash. In early June, he was slammed because he tweeted, “Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy.”

Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy. Equality is the truth.

Like it or not, we are all in this together.

— terry crews (@terrycrews) June 7, 2020

Actor Orlando Jones rebuked Crews for calling for unity.

“Black supremacy?” he wrote. “We represent 13% of U.S. population, hold no institutional power [and] gaslight our coworkers. We got 99 problems and your math isn’t the only 1.”

Darryl Wharton-Rigby, a screenwriter, responded, “We have officially entered The Twilight Zone on a day when [Sen.] Mitt Romney marches for [Black Lives Matter] and Terry Crews does the thing he does.”

“Every time I think Terry Crews has done the worst,” added author Frederick Joseph, “he always does more.”

Latest

  • News

    ‘Miracle’ Landing: Florida Pilot Passes Out — Passenger with No Flight Experience Takes Over with ‘Hand of God’

  • Entertainment

    Marvel’s ‘Scarlet Witch’ Actress Reveals Her Real-Life Connections to Witchcraft, Says She’s ‘Witchy’

  • News

    ‘A Psychological Prison’: Taliban’s Latest Demand Leaves Women in Tears as Afghanistan Reels in Poverty, Desperation

  • News

    New Warner/Discovery President ‘Un-Cancels’ JK Rowling After She Was Sidelined for Defending Women Amid Transgender Craze

  • Life

    ‘A God Thing’: They Adopted a Severely Handicapped Baby Despite Doctors’ Warnings, and It Changed Everything


Navigation

  • Watch
  • Go!
  • Podcasts
  • Contact Us
  • Newsletter
  • Staff
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram

Subscribe to the Newsletter

Sign up to get our newsletter your inbox every day.

Newsletter Signup

Do you want to read
more articles like this?