Actor Terry Crews has opened up about overcoming a porn addiction that nearly torpedoed his 30-year marriage.
Though Terry Crews has been open about his porn addiction since 2015, he hasn&#8217;t detailed the full extent of the toll it took on his marriage to Rebecca King Crews. Speaking with &#8220;<a href="https://people.com/celebrity/terry-crews-says-porn-addiction-almost-destroyed-his-marriage-fame-made-it-worse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">PEOPLE Every Day</a>,&#8221; Crews and his wife said that the addiction pushed them into thinking about marital separation.
&#8220;The best piece of advice I ever got was a good friend of mine, he was the first guy I called when Rebecca was like, ‘don’t come home.’ He said ‘Terry, you need to get better for you,’&#8221; the actor explained. &#8220;You have to understand that was a watershed moment. In my culture, as a man in sports, you do things to get things. You do good things to get cookies, you know? You work hard to get money, you do these things to get sex, but to actually improve just for yourself, that was a foreign thought.&#8221;
Crews later added that his cultural upbringing as a black man in Detroit made him reject the idea of therapy as something only &#8220;crazy&#8221; people do.
&#8220;Culturally, you have to understand, where I grew up, I grew up in Flint, Michigan, African American culture, going to therapy was admitting you’re crazy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was something that you didn’t do. Also, sports culture was one where anger helped you. It was aggression, it was competition, everything had to be perfection or nothing. So, you’re talking about things that help people as a man, it got me really, really far business-wise but it was disintegrating my family.&#8221;
Crews said that his success actually made the situation worse by giving him a safe space to hide.
&#8220;Success is the warmest place to hide,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I had so many people that were telling me I was great and there was no problem. Hollywood didn’t care. It still doesn’t care if you lose your family, it happens every day. They’re like, &#8216;Hey man, now we can put you in three movies!’&#8221;
&#8220;So fame just made it worse,&#8221; said Rebecca. &#8220;So it’s really true that power and success amplifies what’s going on inside you. And that is why I couldn’t help him and I’m thankful and I’m lucky that he made the choice to do that.&#8221;
Rebecca said that she began to see &#8220;real behavioral&#8221; change in Crews beyond his porn addiction.
&#8220;I say he’s still earning it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But the truth be told, progressively, I saw what I felt was real fruit, real change, real behavioral change in my spouse. It was in the way he stopped reacting angrily to everything. It was in the newfound patience that I saw with me and with his children. Once he healed his own trauma, he was not reflecting and deflecting his pain as anger to the rest of the world.&#8221;
RELATED:<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/terry-crews-defund-pornhub"> Terry Crews: ‘Defund Pornhub’</a>
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Actor Terry Crews essentially gave the world a big &#8220;I told ya so&#8221; on Wednesday after he was lambasted by the Left, including CNN host Don Lemon, for challenging their racial narrative and warning Black Lives Matter activists against slipping into &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/equality-is-the-truth-terry-crews-warns-against-black-supremacy-gets-slammed-with-backlash">black supremacy</a>&#8221; ideology.
The former NFL player used his own words to caption a video of entertainer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-nick-cannon-white-people-are-a-little-less-closer-to-animals-true-savages">Nick Cannon</a> spewing anti-white rhetoric, which Crews said was rooted in the kind of ideology he warned against.
&#8220;We have to include this white voice, this Hispanic voice, this Asian voice. We have to include it RIGHT NOW, because if we don&#8217;t [&#8230;] it&#8217;s going to slip into something we are really not prepared for,&#8221; Crews posted, quoting himself. &#8220;Terry Crews &#8216;THE TALK interview&#8217; June 16th, 2020,'&#8221; he added.
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&quot;We have to include this white voice, this Hispanic voice, this Asian voice. We have to include it RIGHT NOW, because if we don&#39;t&#8230;
&#8230;it&#39;s going to slip into something we are really not prepared for.&quot;
&#8211; Terry Crews “THE TALK interview” June 16th, 2020 <a href="https://t.co/BkC4yEmwgg">https://t.co/BkC4yEmwgg</a>
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During a &#8220;Cannon&#8217;s Class&#8221; podcast that hit the internet this week, the 39-year-old former Nickelodeon star said whites are inferior to blacks, adding that white people are “savages,” the “only way that they can act is evil,” and they “have to rob, steal, rape, kill … in order to survive.”
“Melanin comes with compassion, melanin comes with soul,&#8221; Cannon said. &#8220;We call it soul. Soul brothers and sisters. That’s the melanin that connects us. So the people that don’t have it, and I’m going to say this carefully, are a little less.”
In reaction to Crews&#8217; pointed tweet, one Twitter user told the actor &#8220;no black person&#8221; will have his back: &#8220;You going so hard against Nick Cannon, but when you fall, NO BLACK PERSON will have your back. Watch.&#8221;
&#8220;When I was young, I was never afraid of the KKK,&#8221; Crews responded. &#8220;It was people like you. The threats, the intimidation, discouraging free thought, and &#8216;the insult of acting white.&#8217; My heart breaks because your behavior only reveals you don’t know how powerful you are.&#8221;
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When I was young, I was never afraid of the KKK&#8230;
It was people like you. The threats, the intimidation, discouraging free thought, and “the insult of acting white”.
My heart breaks because your behavior only reveals you don’t know how powerful you are. <a href="https://t.co/vgJU9TCgmZ">https://t.co/vgJU9TCgmZ</a>
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Crews has repeatedly criticized the far-left Black Lives Matter organization (which, as Crews noted, advocates for a host of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-what-we-believe-page-disrupt-the-western-prescribed-nuclear-family-dismantle-cisgender-privilege?%3Futm_source=twitter">left-wing causes</a>, such as radical gender ideology and disruption of the nuclear family), mainly warning against anti-white ideology.
“Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy,&#8221; Crews tweeted last month. &#8220;Equality is the truth. Like it or not, we are all in this together.”
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Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy. Equality is the truth.
Like it or not, we are all in this together.
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The actor was swarmed with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/equality-is-the-truth-terry-crews-warns-against-black-supremacy-gets-slammed-with-backlash">backlash</a> from the Left over the warning.
In response, Crews posted, &#8220;I was not saying Black supremacy exists because it doesn’t. I am saying if both Black and Whites don’t continue to work together – bad attitudes and resentments can create a dangerous self-righteousness. That’s all.&#8221;
During his appearance on daytime talkshow “The Talk,” Crews reiterated his tweets and noted that he&#8217;s been shamed and called racist names like &#8220;Uncle Tom&#8221; for challenging the Left&#8217;s narrative on race as a black man.
“I’ve been called all kinds of things, like an Uncle Tom,” he said. “Simply because I’m successful, simply because I worked my way out of Flint, Michigan.”
Things really heated up when Crews appeared on CNN with host Don Lemon.
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-cnns-don-lemon-battles-with-terry-crews-over-black-lives-matters-agenda">The Daily Wire</a>, &#8220;Lemon repeatedly cut off actor Terry Crews during an interview on Monday as Crews tried to talk about the difference between saying that black lives do matter and supporting the Black Lives Matter organization, a far-left <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/12/make-no-mistake-blm-radical-neo-marxist-political-movement/">neo-Marxist</a> group.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-cnns-don-lemon-battles-with-terry-crews-over-black-lives-matters-agenda">WATCH: Terry Crews, CNN’s Don Lemon Battle Over Black Lives Matter’s Agenda</a>

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As leftists call for defunding the police, actor Terry Crews has called for the defunding of adult entertainment website, PornHub.
&#8220;DEFUND PORNHUB,&#8221; the actor tweeted on Tuesday, tagging the anti-porn organization &#8220;Fight the New Drug.&#8221;
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DEFUND PORNHUB<a href="https://twitter.com/FightTheNewDrug?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FightTheNewDrug</a>
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Terry Crews has raised a lot of eyebrows over the past few weeks for criticizing the more radical elements of the Black Lives Matter movement, and his followers were not exactly enthusiastic about his newfound anti-porn stance either.
&#8220;You might as well tweet all lives matter at this point,&#8221; tweeted one user.
&#8220;Dude, no. Masturbation is healthy, self love is healthy. PornHub gives safe platforms to sex workers – to say nothing of the artists who got kicked off Tumblr – and generates revenue for them. Are there issues with the industry? Absolutely. Is going after PornHub the answer? No,&#8221; tweeted another user.
Other users agreed with Terry Crews in his call to defund PornHub, though the actor gave no specifics on how the goal would be accomplished.
&#8220;Amen Brother I’m with you [,] that and all pornography sites they are dangerous they keep people in serious bondage to sin,&#8221; tweeted one user.
&#8220;Amen! I ask for our Heavenly Father to step in and heal the affliction of addiction of ANY &amp; EVERY kind in the mighty matchless name of His Son &amp; our Savior Jesus Christ, amen,&#8221; tweeted another.
As protests mounted following the tragic death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, PornHub, like many corporations, jumped into the political fray by saying it stands with the Black Lives Matter movement.
“Pornhub stands in solidarity against racism and social injustice. If you are able, we encourage you to give to organizations,” the website tweeted over the weekend, tagging civil rights organizations like Bail Project, Black Visions, Freedom Fund, Southern Poverty Law Center, and the NAACP.
“We pledge to support by donating $100,000 to organizations actively fighting for equality. We hope you will join us,” it added.
In response, the anti-porn activist outfit Fight the New Drug <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pornhub-says-it-stands-against-racism-here-are-some-racist-videos-it-hosts">immediately criticized</a> PornHub for its claims of solidarity by noting the many racist videos it hosts on its site.
“No you don’t. If you’re anti-racism, why do you host the following videos on your site?” the organization noted. “‘Black Slave Punished by White Master’ – ‘White Cops F*** Black Chick, Force Boyfriend to Watch’ – ‘Gang Banged by Blacks” – ‘Skanky N****r gives a Blowjob’ – ‘Black Slave Girl Brutalized.&#8217;”
Some Twitter users pointed out that typing the N-word in PornHub’s search engine yield hundreds of results far too graphic to be repeated in print.
Actor Terry Crews <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/terry-crews-faces-backlash-for-saying-black-lives-matter-shouldnt-turn-into-black-lives-better">became the subject of controversy</a> last month when he warned that Black Lives Matter could morph into &#8220;black lives better.&#8221;
“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 <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/blacklivesmatter?src=hashtag_click" data-focusable="true">#blacklivesmatter</a> doesn’t morph into <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/blacklivesbetter?src=hashtag_click" data-focusable="true">#blacklivesbetter</a>,” he tweeted.
Later, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-don-lemon-black-lives-matter-movement-is-not-about-all-black-lives-matter">actor sparred</a> with CNN anchor Don Lemon about the mixed-messaging of the Black Lives Matter movement by focusing so intensely on police brutality while ignoring the deaths of black people in other areas.

Terry Crews: ‘Defund Pornhub’

Entertainers bow in near-unison to Cancel Culture dictates. We see it everywhere, from white actresses quitting voice roles for biracial characters to celebrities denouncing their white privilege in cringe-worthy videos.
When the most popular movie of all time, “Gone with the Wind,” got temporarily pulled from HBO Max, no prominent star spoke in its defense.
No Spielberg, Coppola or Tarantino rose up to say, “enough is enough.”
The atmosphere in La La Land couldn’t be more tense following the rise of Black Lives Matter and the fallout from George Floyd’s death at the hands of a white police officer. Stars probably fear a “problematic” tweet from their past, one long since forgotten, could resurface to wreck both their present and future.
Their concern is justified given the ferocity of the speech police, but it’s hardly the portrait of bravery we often hear from the glitterati, like when Charlize Theron <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/may/07/charlize-theron-is-being-called-brave-for-gaining-weight-for-a-role-heres-why-thats-a-problem">“bravely” gained weight</a> for a film role.
The following figures deserve to be called “brave” … and then some.
Terry Crews
The muscle-bound star of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Idiocracy” is no culture warrior. Or, at least he didn’t start out that way.
Crews simply got dragged into current events – twice. Following Harvey Weinstein’s precipitous downfall, Crews revealed a man had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-terry-crews-details-sickening-incident-when-paul-bois">sexually groped him</a> years earlier, and he finally felt comfortable speaking about it.
More recently, Crews dared to suggest BLM’s rhetoric may not be as unassailable as the press insists. The far-left group, he suggested, “<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/terry-crews-slammed-suggesting-black-lives-matter-could-morph-black-n1232549">must ensure #blacklivesmatter doesn’t morph into #blacklivesbetter</a>.”
That caused a media firestorm, with most outlets presuming Crews had uttered classic “wrongthink.”
The former football star could have apologized and/or cut a large check to BLM to atone for his sins.
He did neither.
Instead, he correctly noted a frightening number of <a href="https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/6/terry-crews-declares-all-black-lives-matter-after-/">black children have died</a> in the wake of BLM’s ascendance. He also acknowledged the cultural forces lined up against him, and gently told them <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/terry-crews-doubles-down-on-desire-to-unite-people-despite-leftist-outrage-i-decide-to-die-on-this-hill">to pound sand</a>.
“Are all white people bad? No. Are all black people good? No. Knowing this reality – I stand on my decision to unite with good people, no matter the race, creed or ideology. Given the number of threats against this decision – I also decide to die on this hill.”
He offered nuance, positive thoughts and, most of all, didn’t immediately beg for forgiveness like 99 percent of his peers might have done.
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J.K. Rowling
The mind behind the Harry Potter realm may be the toughest person on this list. Why? Cancel Culture, and the media, have done everything they can to punish her for speaking her mind.
Rowling is both an ardent liberal and full-throated supporter of trans individuals. Still, she stepped off the LGBTQ reservation when she spoke against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/threats-to-cancel-j-k-rowling-grow-amid-transgender-controversy">erasing the concept of sex</a> and questioned elements of the far-left’s platform on trans issues.
For that she was assaulted in the press, mocked by peers like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stephen-king-swipes-jk-rowling-trans-women-are-women">Stephen King</a> and denounced by the very stars she made famous, including Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe.
This week she doubled down on her views via a lengthy series of Tweets. She’s not backing down, even after news outlets reach out to her publisher and film studio contacts to see if they’ll be canceling her officially next.
It’s a not too subtle pressure campaign, but so far it’s not working.
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Adam Carolla
Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel bonded years ago and, by all accounts, remain the best of chums. Kimmel followed a more traditional path and found fame via “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” Carolla, in turn, failed to duplicate Howard Stern’s radio fame and found himself out of a terrestrial radio gig in 2009 following a format flip.
Then Carolla channeled his inner entrepreneur.
He created “The Adam Carolla Show” podcast and blazed his own trail. In the process he created what he calls his “pirate ship,” a company immune to the PC Police or, later, Cancel Culture.
Only Carolla can fire himself.
The Libertarian-leaning comic essentially gave that crowd the finger via this summer’s “I’m Your Emotional Support Animal: Navigating Our All Woke, No Joke” culture. The hilarious book starts with a disclaimer-slash-promise. No apologizing for jokes. Ever.
Cancel Culture knows not to knock on his door.
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Ricky Gervais
The British comic’s take-no-prisoners approach isn’t new. He’s been slaying and flaying his targets for some time, but he’s grown bolder in recent years.
We all know why. He takes extra pleasure angering the PC scolds, and it’s infectious.
Earlier this year he torched woke Hollywood at the Golden Globes, and he’s regularly rejecting calls to censor his stand-up. He broke down why Cancel Culture exists and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gervais-says-the-woke-mob-wants-to-shut-you-up">its true purpose.</a> during an illuminating podcast chat.
He also refused to budge during a woke Hollywood Reporter roundtable most recently, when far-left comic Kumail Nunjani worried his comedy would <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/kumail-nanjiani-ricky-gervais-comedy-harmful-actor-roundtable-a9599156.html">embolden hate</a>.
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Anthony Cumia/Dave Landau 
The duo’s very existence on a platform Cumia created warrants their inclusion on this list. It doesn’t end there, though.
Cumia, repeatedly fired from terrestrial and satellite radio for his brash antics, finally had enough in 2014. He created his own “pirate ship,” to paraphrase Carolla, letting his fans directly access his material sans middle men on what he later dubbed Compound Media.
The result? The kind of unexpurgated comedy that once was the norm. Anything goes, with Cumia and Landau embracing the notion that jokes are just that – jokes. The duo treats “The Anthony Cumia Show” like a comedy workshop, riffing through ideas that are often as funny as they are tasteless.
Don’t like that brand of humor? No one is forcing you to sign up. Ain’t that America?
Their uncensored commentary on the relentless riots, in particularly, offer a tonic to those aghast at the corporate media’s gaslighting on the matter.
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Dean Cain
The erstwhile Superman uses social media to share uplifting messages, chat with fans and, occasionally, share his right-of-center views.
He did more than that recently. During a Fox News appearance Cain slammed Cancel Culture and worried he wouldn’t be able to say, “Truth, justice and the American way” if he played the Man of Steel now.
He’s right, of course. The 2006 film “Superman Returns” <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/dean-cain-superman-american-way/">stripped “American way” out of that iconic phrase 14 years ago.</a>
Honorable Mention: Actors Nick Searcy and James Woods routinely stand up to the PC police no matter the cultural conditions.
More from Christian Toto: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/toto-shouldnt-hamilton-get-canceled-next">Shouldn’t ‘Hamilton’ Get Canceled Next?</a>
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On Monday night, alleged news anchor Don Lemon brought actor Terry Crews onto his program to <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1280365670404743168">lecture</a> him for expressing unauthorized view points. Crews, who is black, has argued that Black Lives Matter should have more to say about black-on-black violence. Lemon explained that Black Lives Matter does not mean &#8220;all black lives,&#8221; but specifically that small minority of lives that are taken in police shootings. According to Lemon, BLM has an intentionally narrow focus, and that focus simply cannot make room for the thousands of black lives lost every year due to black-on-black violence.
Even if this were true, it would be a paltry defense. If police brutality is all that Black Lives Matter cares about, then it should be called Police Brutality Matters. And even if it was called Police Brutality Matters, and it did stay on that topic, valid criticisms could be made about the choice to focus on a problem that is relatively small in comparison to all of the other dangers faced by the average black person, especially in the inner city. But as it happens, Black Lives Matter does not limit its advocacy to police brutality. It engages on a whole host of issues that have little to do with preserving black life or holding law enforcement accountable.
Indeed, the organization&#8217;s website reads like a feminist blog or a gender studies syllabus. Here is some of its &#8220;<a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/">What We Believe</a>&#8221; mission statement:
<blockquote>We make space for transgender brothers and sisters to participate and lead.
We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence.
We build a space that affirms Black women and is free from sexism, misogyny, and environments in which men are centered.
We practice empathy. We engage comrades with the intent to learn about and connect with their contexts.
We make our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children. We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work “double shifts” so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work.
We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.
We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).
We cultivate an intergenerational and communal network free from ageism. We believe that all people, regardless of age, show up with the capacity to lead and learn.
We embody and practice justice, liberation, and peace in our engagements with one another.</blockquote>
Under the &#8220;<a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-matters-2020/">What Matters</a>&#8221; tab, there&#8217;s even more to add to the progressive wish list:
<blockquote>BLM’s #WhatMatters2020 will focus on issues concerning racial injustice, police brutality, criminal justice reform, Black immigration, economic injustice, LGBTQIA+ and human rights, environmental injustice, access to healthcare, access to quality education, and voting rights and suppression.</blockquote>
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So, BLM advocates for trans rights, gay rights, women&#8217;s rights, voting rights, economic justice, environmental justice, healthcare access, education, and &#8220;queer-affirming networks,&#8221; and against the patriarchy, cisgender privilege, &#8220;trans-antagonist violence,&#8221; ageism, sexism, the nuclear family, and &#8220;heteronormative thinking.&#8221; This is nothing but a list of every item on the Left&#8217;s agenda — in some cases, the Extremely Far Left&#8217;s agenda.
I wonder: how many average black people, if you were to conduct a poll, would mention cisgender privilege, the patriarchy, trans-antagonism, the nuclear family, and heteronormative thinking as problems that especially worry them? I imagine a fair number of wealthy white girls at an expensive university would cite these as important issues, and probably everyone at a gay pride rally would agree with most of BLM&#8217;s mission statement, but why are the priorities of gay activists and liberal white girls so prominently represented by an organization that calls itself Black Lives Matter?
And, given the expansive focus of this organization, why can&#8217;t it find room to so much as mention the murder of black Americans by other black Americans? Black people are murdered at a rate <a href="https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htius.pdf">6 times higher than whites</a> historically and over <a href="https://www.politifact.com/article/2015/may/21/updated-look-statistics-black-black-murders/">90 percent</a> of those murders are perpetrated by other black people. How can BLM mention trans people four times in its mission statement and yet make not one mention of the thousands of victims of non-police violence in our cities?
Black life is indeed being devalued, destroyed, and discarded on a massive scale and at an alarming rate. A message of &#8220;black lives matter&#8221; is desperately needed. But almost all of this destruction, with rare exception, is happening within the black community and by the black community. A Black Lives Matter movement that ignores this fact cannot hope to be effective in preserving and defending black life.
That is why it is fortunate for BLM that they don&#8217;t care about preserving and defending black life, at least that is not their true point or goal. They are, as their own words clearly show, a far-left political advocacy group that cares solely about advancing far-left political interests. The name is nothing but a front (a clever front, we must admit). As Don Lemon told Terry Crews, Black Lives Matter isn&#8217;t fighting for all black life, or even most black life. If someone wants an organization that fulfills that purpose, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-don-lemon-black-lives-matter-movement-is-not-about-all-black-lives-matter">they&#8217;ll have to form it themselves</a>.

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WALSH: Here Are All Of The Far-Left Issues The BLM Org Cares About More Than Defending ‘All Black Lives’

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CNN&#8217;s Don Lemon said during an interview with actor Terry Crews on Monday that the Black Lives Matter movement was not about &#8220;all black lives matter&#8221; because the movement primarily focuses on police brutality.
The interview came in response to remarks that Crews has made on social media recently about the Black Lives Matter movement that has triggered the political Left.
&#8220;The Black Lives Matter movement was started because it was talking about police brutality,&#8221; Lemon said. &#8220;If you want an all black lives matter movement that talks about gun violence in communities, including, you know, black communities, then, start that movement with that name. But that’s not what Black Lives Matter is about. It’s not an all-encompassing [movement].&#8221;
&#8220;So if you are talking about — if someone started a movement that said cancer matters,&#8221; Lemon continued. &#8220;And then, someone comes and says why aren’t you talking about HIV? It’s not the same thing. We’re talking about cancer. So the Black Lives Matter movement is about police brutality and injustice, in that manner. Not about what’s happening in black neighborhoods.&#8221;
Crews pushed back on Lemon&#8217;s premise by noting that &#8220;when you look at the organization, police brutality is not the only thing they are talking about.&#8221;
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Growing increasingly indignant, Lemon tells Crews that BLM should NOT care about black-on-black crime since it&#39;s not in their mission, and tells his guest to start that organization himself. He also compared it to saying &quot;cancer matters&quot; and people asking &#39;what about HIV?&#39; <a href="https://t.co/g6xsaqKOKn">pic.twitter.com/g6xsaqKOKn</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1280361909972328448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ben Shapiro, Daily Wire editor emeritus and host of &#8220;The Ben Shapiro Show,&#8221; commented on the video from NewsBuster&#8217;s Nicholas Fondacaro by writing: &#8220;So apparently we cannot point out that black lives taken by those who are not cops matter, even though those deaths are far more common. Because it&#8217;s all about police brutality. But it&#8217;s not &#8212; the BLM rubric has come to include everything from removing statues to reparations.&#8221;
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So apparently we cannot point out that black lives taken by those who are not cops matter, even though those deaths are far more common. Because it&#39;s all about police brutality. But it&#39;s not &#8212; the BLM rubric has come to include everything from removing statues to reparations.
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1280461990528520192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>CNN HOST DON LEMON: All right, everyone, please listen to the segment because actor and activist Terry Crews is facing backlash for tweeting, &#8216;we must ensure black lives matter doesn&#8217;t morph into black lives better.&#8217; Here is how he explained it: &#8216;are all white people bad? No. Are all black people good? No. Knowing this reality- I stand on my decision to unite with good people, no matter the race, creed or ideology. Given the number of threats against this decision, I also decide to die on this hill.&#8217; Terry Crews joins me now. Terry, man, you stepped in it. You say you are willing to die on this hill. You&#8217;ve taken a lot of heat for this. Explain what you were thinking and why it&#8217;s so important that you die on this hill.
ACTOR TERRY CREWS: Well, again, I wanted to bring up the fact that you know, there are some very, very you know, militant type forces in black lives matter. And what I was issuing was a warning. You know, it’s one of those things where I have been a part of different groups, I&#8217;ve been apart of different things and you see how extremes can really get, can go far and can go wild and when you issue a warning, hey, a warning is seen as detrimental to the movement, how can you ever, ever have checks and balances? You know, in a 60s and 70s, airplanes went down all the time. And the reason they found out why they did was because the pilots could never be questioned. And when you have the leaders of the Back Lives Movement, who are now talking about, if we don’t get our demand, we are going to burn it down. Other black people who are talking about working with other whites and other races, they&#8217;re being viewed as sell-outs or called &#8216;uncle toms&#8217;. You start to understand that you are now being controlled. You&#8217;re not being treated as loved, you&#8217;re actually being controlled. Someone wants to control the narrative and I viewed it as a very, very dangerous self-righteousness that was developing that really viewed themselves as better. It was almost supremacist move where they viewed their black lives mattered a lot more than mine.
LEMON: Okay, so, let me jump in here. There’s a lot that you said. You think that Black Lives Matter is — you said it’s — you think it’s an extreme movement?
CREWS: No, this is the thing. It’s a great mantra. It’s the true mantra. Black lives do matter. But, when you’re talking about an organization, you’re talking about the leaders, you are talking about the people who are responsible for putting these things together. It&#8217;s two different things.
LEMON: Okay, I got you. I got you. I got you. Terry, you realize that, even during the civil rights movement, that Dr. King was seen as extreme. That movement was seen as extreme. To people who don’t want to make change, movements are seen as extreme. You can paint them, easily, as extreme when they are not.
CREWS: This is very true. But also, you know, when you talking about MLK, you&#8217;re talking about Nelson Mandela, and even Malcolm X. They all realized that you had to have a non-racial component to these kind of movements or there will be resentment. There will be get back. One of these people will tend to [inaudible] I don’t want to move from one oppressor to the next.
LEMON: Who’s the next oppressor? Who is the next oppressor?
CREWS: When I — when I describe this. When you look at the city of Chicago, there are nine children who’ve died by gun violence, by black-on-black gun violence, with — from June 20th, all the way to today. And you talking about, even with the Atlanta child murders, there were 28 kids who — who died in two years. You’re talking about a month and you have nine black kids. And the Black Lives Matter movement has said nothing about this kind of thing.
LEMON: What does that have to do with equality though, Terry? I don&#8217;t understand what that has to do with equality because, listen, there&#8217;s crime, there are people in those communities, those people aren&#8217;t just being nonchalant about gun violence. I lived in Chicago. There are many people who are working in those communities to try to get rid of the gun violence. The gun culture in this country is prevalent, but I don&#8217;t understand what that has to do with a movement that is for equality for black people. It&#8217;s not mutually exclusive that if you care about equality for black people that somehow you&#8217;re going to stop random violence or unfortunately kids from being shot. It just seems like apples and oranges.
CREWS: You know, it&#8217;s not that way. You know, this is the thing, black people need to hold other black people accountable. I said the same thing — this is the black America’s version of the me too movement. If anything’s going to change, we, ourselves, need to look at our own communities and look at each other. And say this thing cannot go down. This is the thing, too. There are a lot of great, great people there who are held hostage. Who are held hostage by people who, literally, are running these neighborhoods with violence. And then, claiming that black lives matter. When you look at the parents of these little kids who are mentioning, saying, hey, man, why aren’t they speaking up for me, too? When I look at this whole thing about — you know, it’s about who is controlling the narrative. It’s got to be all black lives matter. And what’s happened is that because I even challenged it, because I even questioned or — and warned people, I became &#8212;
LEMON: Terry. You’re a high-profile person. You’re writing things out there. You know you’re going to get backlash. You know people are going to respond to what you are saying on Twitter. So I don’t think you should be surprised by that. You know, I have skin as tough as an armadillo because of what I do and I think maybe you should adapt that. But here’s what I have to say. The black lives matter movement was started because it was talking about police brutality. If you want an all black lives matter movement that talks about gun violence in communities, including, you know, black communities, then, start that movement with that name. But that’s not what black lives matter is about. It’s not an all-encompassing. So if you are talking about — if someone started a movement that said cancer matters. And then, someone comes and says why aren’t you talking about HIV? It’s not the same thing. We’re talking about cancer. So the black lives matter movement is about police brutality and injustice, in that manner. Not about what’s happening in black neighborhoods. There are people who are working on that issue. And if you want to start that issue, why don’t you start it? Do you understand what I’m saying?
CREWS: But, when you look at the organization, police brutality is not the only thing they are talking about.
LEMON: I know that, but I agree with that&#8217;s not black lives matter movement is about, Terry. Black lives matter is about police brutality and about criminal justice. It’s not about what happens in communities, when it comes to crime, black-on-black crime. People who live near each other, black people, kill each other. Same as whites. 80-some percent of white people are killed by white people because of proximity. It&#8217;s the same thing with black people. It happens in every single neighborhood. But again, I’m not saying it’s not important that those kids died but it’s a different movement.
CREWS: Listen, I understand what you’re saying. I totally understand. It is about police brutality. That should never be accepted. I am not saying that that’s not it. But they are — there’s more there. And when I look, if they have more on their agenda, we need to ask them about what else is on that agenda, other than police brutality. And that’s all I’m doing. Questioning. Warning. Watching. And if that bothers you, now, that bothers me.
LEMON: I’m over. I&#8217;m over, Terry.
CREWS: We’re equal. I should be able to say something truthful.
LEMON: I got to go. I got to go. We’ll see you. Terry, thank you for coming on. I appreciate it.</blockquote>

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CNN’s Don Lemon: Black Lives Matter Movement Is Not About ‘All Black Lives Matter’

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CNN host Don Lemon repeatedly cut off actor Terry Crews during an interview on Monday as Crews tried to talk about the difference between saying that black lives do matter and supporting the Black Lives Matter organization, a far-left <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/12/make-no-mistake-blm-radical-neo-marxist-political-movement/">neo-Marxist</a> group.
Lemon pressed Crews about a recent series of statements the actor tweeted that drew scrutiny from the political left because it countered its prevailing narrative.
&#8220;I wanted to bring up the fact that, you know, there are some very, very, you know, militant type forces in Black Lives Matter,&#8221; Crews told Lemon. &#8220;And what I was issuing was a warning. You know, it’s one of those things where I have been a part of different groups, I&#8217;ve been apart of different things and you see how extremes can really get, can go far and can go wild and when you issue a warning. Hey, a warning is seen as detrimental to the movement, how can you ever, ever have checks and balances?&#8221;
&#8220;And when you have the leaders of the Back Lives Movement, who are now talking about, if we don’t get our demand, we are going to burn it down,&#8221; Crews continued. &#8220;Other black people who are talking about working with other whites and other races, they&#8217;re being viewed as sell-outs or called &#8216;Uncle Toms.&#8217; You start to understand that you are now being controlled. You&#8217;re not being treated as loved, you&#8217;re actually being controlled. Someone wants to control the narrative. And I viewed it as a very, very dangerous self-righteousness that was developing that really viewed themselves as better. It was almost supremacist move where they viewed their black lives mattered a lot more than mine.&#8221;
&#8220;Okay, so, let me jump in here,&#8221; Lemon interjected. &#8220;There’s a lot that you said. You think that black lives matter is — you said it’s — you think it’s an extreme movement?&#8221;
&#8220;No, this is the thing. It’s a great mantra. It’s the true mantra. Black lives do matter,&#8221; Crews responded. &#8220;But, when you’re talking about an organization, you’re talking about the leaders, you are talking about the people who are responsible for putting these things together. It&#8217;s two different things.&#8221;
Lemon immediately soon cut him off and then tried to paint his comments as lacking historical context to past movements.
&#8220;Okay, I got you. I got you. I got you,&#8221; Lemon said. &#8220;Terry, you realize that, even during the civil rights movement, that Dr. King was seen as extreme. That movement was seen as extreme. To people who don’t want to make change, movements are seen as extreme. You can paint them, easily, as extreme when they are not.&#8221;
&#8220;This is very true,&#8221; Crews responded. &#8220;But also, you know, when you talking about MLK, you&#8217;re talking about Nelson Mandela, and even Malcolm X. They all realized that you had to have a non-racial component to these kind of movements or there will be resentment. There will be getback. One of these people will tend to [inaudible] I don’t want to move from one oppressor to the next.&#8221;
Crews transitioned into talking about the numerous black children that have been shot in recent weeks in inner cities and asked why Black Lives Matter did not raise their voices about those black lives.
Lemon responded by saying that Black Lives Matter is about police brutality and not about blacks who were killed in shootings and other criminal acts.
&#8220;That’s not what Black Lives Matter is about,&#8221; Lemon said. &#8220;It’s not an all encompassing. &#8230; So the Black Lives Matter movement is about police brutality and injustice, in that manner, not about what’s happening in black neighborhoods. &#8221;
Crews responded by saying, &#8220;But, when you look at the organization, police brutality is not the only thing they are talking about.&#8221;
&#8220;I know that, but I agree with that&#8217;s not [what] Black Lives Matter movement is about, Terry,&#8221; Lemon responded in an apparent attempt to avoid directly addressing Crews&#8217;s comments. &#8220;Black Lives Matter is about police brutality and about criminal justice. It’s not about what happens in communities, when it comes to crime, black-on-black crime.&#8221;
WATCH:
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TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>CNN HOST DON LEMON: All right, everyone, please listen to the segment because actor and activist Terry Crews is facing backlash for tweeting, &#8216;we must ensure black lives matter doesn&#8217;t morph into black lives better.&#8217; Here is how he explained it: &#8216;are all white people bad? No. Are all black people good? No. Knowing this reality- I stand on my decision to unite with good people, no matter the race, creed or ideology. Given the number of threats against this decision, I also decide to die on this hill.&#8217; Terry Crews joins me now. Terry, man, you stepped in it. You say you are willing to die on this hill. You&#8217;ve taken a lot of heat for this. Explain what you were thinking and why it&#8217;s so important that you die on this hill.
ACTOR TERRY CREWS: Well, again, I wanted to bring up the fact that you know, there are some very, very you know, militant type forces in black lives matter. And what I was issuing was a warning. You know, it’s one of those things where I have been a part of different groups, I&#8217;ve been apart of different things and you see how extremes can really get, can go far and can go wild and when you issue a warning, hey, a warning is seen as detrimental to the movement, how can you ever, ever have checks and balances? You know, in a 60s and 70s, airplanes went down all the time. And the reason they found out why they did was because the pilots could never be questioned. And when you have the leaders of the Back Lives Movement, who are now talking about, if we don’t get our demand, we are going to burn it down. Other black people who are talking about working with other whites and other races, they&#8217;re being viewed as sell-outs or called &#8216;uncle toms&#8217;. You start to understand that you are now being controlled. You&#8217;re not being treated as loved, you&#8217;re actually being controlled. Someone wants to control the narrative and I viewed it as a very, very dangerous self-righteousness that was developing that really viewed themselves as better. It was almost supremacist move where they viewed their black lives mattered a lot more than mine.
LEMON: Okay, so, let me jump in here. There’s a lot that you said. You think that Black Lives Matter is — you said it’s — you think it’s an extreme movement?
CREWS: No, this is the thing. It’s a great mantra. It’s the true mantra. Black lives do matter. But, when you’re talking about an organization, you’re talking about the leaders, you are talking about the people who are responsible for putting these things together. It&#8217;s two different things.
LEMON: Okay, I got you. I got you. I got you. Terry, you realize that, even during the civil rights movement, that Dr. King was seen as extreme. That movement was seen as extreme. To people who don’t want to make change, movements are seen as extreme. You can paint them, easily, as extreme when they are not.
CREWS: This is very true. But also, you know, when you talking about MLK, you&#8217;re talking about Nelson Mandela, and even Malcolm X. They all realized that you had to have a non-racial component to these kind of movements or there will be resentment. There will be get back. One of these people will tend to [inaudible] I don’t want to move from one oppressor to the next.
LEMON: Who’s the next oppressor? Who is the next oppressor?
CREWS: When I — when I describe this. When you look at the city of Chicago, there are nine children who’ve died by gun violence, by black-on-black gun violence, with — from June 20th, all the way to today. And you talking about, even with the Atlanta child murders, there were 28 kids who — who died in two years. You’re talking about a month and you have nine black kids. And the Black Lives Matter movement has said nothing about this kind of thing.
LEMON: What does that have to do with equality though, Terry? I don&#8217;t understand what that has to do with equality because, listen, there&#8217;s crime, there are people in those communities, those people aren&#8217;t just being nonchalant about gun violence. I lived in Chicago. There are many people who are working in those communities to try to get rid of the gun violence. The gun culture in this country is prevalent, but I don&#8217;t understand what that has to do with a movement that is for equality for black people. It&#8217;s not mutually exclusive that if you care about equality for black people that somehow you&#8217;re going to stop random violence or unfortunately kids from being shot. It just seems like apples and oranges.
CREWS: You know, it&#8217;s not that way. You know, this is the thing, black people need to hold other black people accountable. I said the same thing — this is the black America’s version of the me too movement. If anything’s going to change, we, ourselves, need to look at our own communities and look at each other. And say this thing cannot go down. This is the thing, too. There are a lot of great, great people there who are held hostage. Who are held hostage by people who, literally, are running these neighborhoods with violence. And then, claiming that black lives matter. When you look at the parents of these little kids who are mentioning, saying, hey, man, why aren’t they speaking up for me, too? When I look at this whole thing about — you know, it’s about who is controlling the narrative. It’s got to be all black lives matter. And what’s happened is that because I even challenged it, because I even questioned or — and warned people, I became &#8212;
LEMON: Terry. You’re a high-profile person. You’re writing things out there. You know you’re going to get backlash. You know people are going to respond to what you are saying on Twitter. So I don’t think you should be surprised by that. You know, I have skin as tough as an armadillo because of what I do and I think maybe you should adapt that. But here’s what I have to say. The black lives matter movement was started because it was talking about police brutality. If you want an all black lives matter movement that talks about gun violence in communities, including, you know, black communities, then, start that movement with that name. But that’s not what black lives matter is about. It’s not an all encompassing. So if you are talking about — if someone started a movement that said cancer matters. And then, someone comes and says why aren’t you talking about HIV? It’s not the same thing. We’re talking about cancer. So the black lives matter movement is about police brutality and injustice, in that manner. Not about what’s happening in black neighborhoods. There are people who are working on that issue. And if you want to start that issue, why don’t you start it? Do you understand what I’m saying?
CREWS: But, when you look at the organization, police brutality is not the only thing they are talking about.
LEMON: I know that, but I agree with that&#8217;s not black lives matter movement is about, Terry. Black lives matter is about police brutality and about criminal justice. It’s not about what happens in communities, when it comes to crime, black-on-black crime. People who live near each other, black people, kill each other. Same as whites. 80-some percent of white people are killed by white people because of proximity. It&#8217;s the same thing with black people. It happens in every single neighborhood. But again, I’m not saying it’s not important that those kids died but it’s a different movement.
CREWS: Listen, I understand what you’re saying. I totally understand. It is about police brutality. That should never be accepted. I am not saying that that’s not it. But they are — there’s more there. And when I look, if they have more on their agenda, we need to ask them about what else is on that agenda, other than police brutality. And that’s all I’m doing. Questioning. Warning. Watching. And if that bothers you, now, that bothers me.
LEMON: I’m over. I&#8217;m over, Terry.
CREWS: We’re equal. I should be able to say something truthful.
LEMON: I got to go. I got to go. We’ll see you. Terry, thank you for coming on. I appreciate it.</blockquote>

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Actor Terry Crews doubled down on his desire to unite people, regardless of race, after leftists whipped up an outrage cycle over remarks that he made early last week about &#8220;black lives matter.&#8221;
On Saturday, Crews wrote on Twitter: &#8220;Are all white people bad? No. Are all black people good? No. Knowing this reality – I stand on my decision to unite with good people, no matter the race, creed or ideology. Given the number of threats against this decision – I also decide to die on this hill.&#8221;
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Are all white people bad?
No.
Are all black people good?
No.
Knowing this reality- I stand on my decision to unite with good people, no matter the race, creed or ideology.
Given the number of threats against this decision- 
I also decide to die on this hill.
&mdash; terry crews (@terrycrews) <a href="https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/1279493774679261185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Crews&#8217; tweet comes several days after he received backlash from leftists after warning people against allowing &#8220;black lives matter&#8221; to morph into &#8220;black lives better.&#8221;
Crews wrote on Twitter: &#8220;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&#8221;
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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 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/blacklivesmatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#blacklivesmatter</a> doesn’t morph into <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/blacklivesbetter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#blacklivesbetter</a>
&mdash; terry crews (@terrycrews) <a href="https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/1277955144332668930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Crews was subjected to vile racial remarks over his tweet, including some who <a href="http://archive.is/oc59W">accused</a> him of being a &#8220;white supremacist in black skin.&#8221;
Crews also derided those who hold a victim mentality, writing: &#8220;Intelligent decision making sometime requires you to forget what you’ve lost, and evaluate the situation as it exists today. This is not the oppression Olympics.&#8221;
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Intelligent decision making sometime requires you to forget what you’ve lost, and evaluate the situation as it exists today.
This is not the oppression Olympics.
&mdash; terry crews (@terrycrews) <a href="https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/1279280831219920896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In early-June, Crews generated outrage from the political Left when he tweeted: &#8220;Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy. Equality is the truth. Like it or not, we are all in this together.&#8221;
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Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy. Equality is the truth.
Like it or not, we are all in this together.
&mdash; terry crews (@terrycrews) <a href="https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/1269772603524169728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Crews continued, &#8220;Any Black person who calls me a coon or and [sic] Uncle Tom for promoting EQUALITY is a Black Supremist, because they have determined who&#8217;s Black and who is not.&#8221;
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Any Black person who calls me a coon or and Uncle Tom for promoting EQUALITY is a Black Supremist, because they have determined who&#39;s Black and who is not.
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Crews later replied to critics who responded to his &#8220;black supremacy&#8221; tweet, including a person who wrote to him: &#8220;I love you as a friend Brother Terry. But I disagree with you 100%. No such thing as Black Supremacy. That is a tactic that Racist whites use to counteract our rebellion to their horrific treatment of us. It&#8217;s called Gas lighting. Black pride isn&#8217;t anti white.&#8221;
Crews responded: &#8220;I agree. I&#8217;m not discussing white people here. There are &#8216;gatekeepers of Blackness&#8217; within our own community who decide who&#8217;s Black and who&#8217;s not. I have often been called out for not being &#8216;black enough.’ How can that be?&#8221;
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I agree. I&#39;m not discussing white people here. there are &quot;gatekeepers of Blackness&quot; within our own community who decide who&#39;s Black and who&#39;s not. I have often been called out for not being &quot;black enough&quot;. How can that be? <a href="https://t.co/Tt9Og866x6">https://t.co/Tt9Og866x6</a>
&mdash; terry crews (@terrycrews) <a href="https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/1269830932346703872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Please know that everything I&#8217;ve said comes from a spirit of love and reconciliation, for the Black community first, then the world as a whole, in hopes to see a better future for Black people,&#8221; Crews added the next day. &#8220;I believe it is important we not suffer from groupthink, and we keep minds of our own, and be allowed to ask difficult questions to each other. I believe this dialogue is important as we get through this trauma together. I love you.&#8221;
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I believe it is important we not suffer from groupthink, and we keep minds of our own, and be allowed to ask difficult questions to each other. I believe this dialogue is important as we get through this trauma together. I love you.
&mdash; terry crews (@terrycrews) <a href="https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/1269999181713666049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Terry Crews Doubles Down On Desire To Unite People Despite Leftist Outrage: I ‘Decide To Die On This Hill’

Actor Terry Crews is facing more blowback on social media for daring to criticize the more radical elements of the Black Lives Matter movement.
In a tweet on Tuesday, the &#8220;Brooklyn Nine-Nine&#8221; star appealed to God and called upon people to see each other as equals.
&#8220;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 <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/blacklivesmatter?src=hashtag_click" data-focusable="true">#blacklivesmatter</a> doesn’t morph into <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/blacklivesbetter?src=hashtag_click" data-focusable="true">#blacklivesbetter</a>,&#8221; he tweeted. 
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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 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/blacklivesmatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#blacklivesmatter</a> doesn’t morph into <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/blacklivesbetter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#blacklivesbetter</a>
&mdash; terry crews (@terrycrews) <a href="https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/1277955144332668930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Immediately, people on social media scolded Crews, accusing him of suggesting that the BLM movement&#8217;s perceived desire for equality is an attempt at fomenting notions of black superiority.
&#8220;There are Asian Americans who hate their own community and worship white people too. Guess white supremacy cuts across all races, creeds, and ideologies,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1277972653282750465?s=20">tweeted</a> Eugene Gu.
&#8220;This is unintellectual and irresponsible. You are developing into an enemy of the people. Ignorance will be your downfall,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/amandaseales/status/1277991994648748033?s=20">tweeted</a> Amanda Seales.
&#8220;Terry. What in the actual hell? This is the very definition of a strawman argument. Why would you suggest a movement created to advocate for the prosecution of cops/citizens responsible for racially motivated killings could somehow morph into &#8216;we’re better,'&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/chescaleigh/status/1278007175315689472?s=20">tweeted</a> Franchesca Ramsey.
&#8220;How fast does Terry Crews think black equality is gonna come? How in his mind do we spend 400 years under the boots of white supremacy and then all of a sudden leapfrog white people into being their oppressor after a few weeks of protests?&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/Travon/status/1278015205541163009?s=20">tweeted</a> Travon Free.
&#8220;We can&#8217;t even get to black lives equal yet. This is the goal. We never said only black lives matter, we never said black lives matter more. We say black lives matter because in today&#8217;s society black lives do not matter to a lot of people and are in danger,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/LittleMissFlint/status/1278011747224489987?s=20">tweeted</a> Mari Copeny.
Terry Crews <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/equality-is-the-truth-terry-crews-warns-against-black-supremacy-gets-slammed-with-backlash">has been critical</a> of the more radical elements of Black Lives Matter ever since the movement kicked into high gear following the tragic death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. Earlier this month, the actor warned black Americans against the urge to become black supremacists by separating themselves from white people.
&#8220;Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy. Equality is the truth,&#8221; said Crews. &#8220;Like it or not, we are all in this together.&#8221;
After facing intense backlash for that comment, Crews explained that he meant for blacks to form alliances with white people as opposed to creating resentment between races.
&#8220;I was not saying Black supremacy exists because it doesn&#8217;t. I am saying if both Black and Whites don&#8217;t continue to work together&#8211; bad attitudes and resentments can create a dangerous self-righteousness. That&#8217;s all,&#8221; he said.
In an appearance on &#8220;The Talk,&#8221; Crews also lamented about the &#8220;gatekeepers&#8221; in Black America who decide what thoughts will be heard.
“I’ve been called all kinds of things like an Uncle Tom,” Crews said. “Simply because I’m successful, simply because I worked my way out of Flint, Michigan.”
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Terry Crews Faces Backlash For Saying Black Lives Matter Shouldn’t Turn Into ‘Black Lives Better’

On June 7, actor Terry Crews sent out a tweet in which he appeared to call out the idea of “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,” Crews tweeted.
For his tweet, Crews received <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/equality-is-the-truth-terry-crews-warns-against-black-supremacy-gets-slammed-with-backlash">significant backlash</a>. Tyler James Williams, who co-starred with Crews on “Everybody Hates Chris” responded to the actor’s initial tweet, leading to the following reply from Crews:
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I understand, Tyler. I was not saying Black supremacy exists, because it doesn&#8217;t. I am saying if both Black and Whites don&#8217;t continue to work together&#8211; bad attitudes and resentments can create a dangerous self-righteousness. That&#8217;s all. <a href="https://t.co/YLWGnpj8fl">https://t.co/YLWGnpj8fl</a>
— terry crews (@terrycrews) <a href="https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/1269823820522614784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
On Tuesday, Crews appeared on “The Talk,” where he was asked about the tweet.
“I compare that tweet to cussing in church because what’s wild is you have the message, but then if you use a cuss word, nobody is really hearing what you&#8217;re saying,” Crews stated.
<blockquote>The cuss word I used in this instance was “black supremacy,” and this is what I want to really reiterate to you and explain. My thing was, what I said was, defeating white supremacy without white people could create black supremacy.</blockquote>
The actor went on to claim that in “black America,” there are “gatekeepers,” meaning a group of people deciding who is and is not really black, and that he has been “discounted from the conversation a lot of times” because he is married to a “mixed-race” woman.
“I’ve been called all kinds of things like an Uncle Tom,” Crews said. “Simply because I’m successful, simply because I worked my way out of Flint, Michigan.”
The actor then stated frankly that “black people have different views.” He added that if someone is white, they’re allowed to be anywhere on the political spectrum, but if someone is black, it’s assumed that they “have to be one thing.”
“Even Joe Biden said, hey man, you don&#8217;t vote for me, you ain&#8217;t even black,” Crews noted.
Crews called this kind of thinking, that there is a standard of political behavior by which black people are supposed to abide “a supremest move” because “you have now put yourself above other black people.”
The actor then said that he was told that such a type of supremacy “couldn’t exist,” and that he rebutted that notion by citing the Rwandan genocide
“In 1994, in Rwanda, there was a genocide, and it was all black people, and there was one sector that viewed themselves as over the other. A million people died,” the actor said. “And, you know, I was told it can&#8217;t happen in America – and I’m here to tell you, that&#8217;s the first mistake. Any time anybody says, ‘Oh, that could never happen here,’ that&#8217;s exactly when it starts to happen.”
When asked if he regrets using the term “black supremacy,” Crews said that he couldn’t regret it as he wants “the dialogue to come out.” He added that there is perhaps better terminology for the idea.
The actor said that he himself has “experienced supremacy,” including being told that “the white man is the devil” and seeing black groups that view their suffering as making them somehow better than, rather than equal.
<blockquote>What we&#8217;re trying to do, I think a lot of times with the social and economic and political issues we have right now, we&#8217;re providing those kind of answers. But this is a spiritual problem. Supremacy can&#8217;t really happen, but spiritually it can – in your head, you can look at yourself, and you can develop a dangerous self-righteousness that could really hurt what we&#8217;re trying to do right now.</blockquote>
“We have to include this white voice, this Hispanic voice, this Asian voice,” Crews concluded. “We have to include it right now because if we don&#8217;t, it&#8217;s going to slip into something we are really not prepared for.”
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Crews continued to advance his position in an Instagram post on Friday, quoting Martin Luther King Jr., who <a href="https://youtu.be/U-An0Muqlg4">said</a>: “Black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy, and that God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow men, but that God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race, the creation of a society where all men will live together as brothers and all men will respect the dignity and the worth of all human personality.”
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Terry Crews Explains ‘Black Supremacy’ Tweet, Complains Of Ideological ‘Gatekeepers’ In ‘Black America’

On Sunday, former professional football player-turned-successful actor Terry Crews warned against &#8220;black supremacy,&#8221; emphasizing the need for black and white people to work together and that &#8220;equality is the truth.&#8221;
“Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy,&#8221; he wrote via Twitter. “Equality is the truth.&#8221;
&#8220;Like it or not,&#8221; he added, &#8220;we are all in this together.&#8221;
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Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy. Equality is the truth.
Like it or not, we are all in this together.
&mdash; terry crews (@terrycrews) <a href="https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/1269772603524169728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Crews&#8217; comments come at the height of the &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; movement, an activist group that calls for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-what-we-believe-page-disrupt-the-western-prescribed-nuclear-family-dismantle-cisgender-privilege">disruption of the nuclear family</a> and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-issued-demands-urged-crowd-to-disrupt-white-capitalism-at-weekend-l-a-rally">defunding of police</a> nationally.  The group is years old but recently picked up steam following the death of George Floyd, who died last month after a police officer had his knee on the 46-year-old’s neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds during an arrest, as shown in viral video footage. The officer at the center of the arrest has since been charged with second-degree murder.
The comments quickly went viral, garnering over 140,000 likes, 22,000 retweets, and 21,000 comments by Tuesday morning.
Crews’ “Everybody Hates Chris” co-star Tyler James Williams responded to the post, accusing Crews of hurting the BLM cause and black people.
“Terry, brother, I know your heart and you know I have love for you and always will,” Williams wrote. “No one is calling [for] black supremacy [and] the narrative that we are hurts our cause [and] our people. We’re just vigorously vetting our ‘allies’ because time [and] time again they have failed us in the past.”
“I understand, Tyler. I was not saying Black supremacy exists, because it doesn’t. I am saying if both Black and Whites don’t continue to work together– bad attitudes and resentments can create a dangerous self-righteousness,&#8221; Crews responded. &#8220;That’s all.”
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I understand, Tyler. I was not saying Black supremacy exists, because it doesn&#39;t. I am saying if both Black and Whites don&#39;t continue to work together&#8211; bad attitudes and resentments can create a dangerous self-righteousness. That&#39;s all. <a href="https://t.co/YLWGnpj8fl">https://t.co/YLWGnpj8fl</a>
&mdash; terry crews (@terrycrews) <a href="https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/1269823820522614784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Activist and author Kevin Powell bashed Crews for the tweet, and condescendingly told him to &#8220;please read books.&#8221;
“This makes absolutely no sense, makes every Black self-hating assumption that Black folks would actually try to do harm to White people in major ways, when there is no proof in history of any such behavior even remotely close to White supremacist behavior,&#8221; posted Powell. “Please read books, sir.”
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This makes absolutely no sense, makes very Black self-hating assumption that Black folks would actually try to do harm to White people in major ways, when there is no proof in history of any such behavior even remotely close to White supremacist behavior. Please read books, sir.
&mdash; Kevin Powell (@kevin_powell) <a href="https://twitter.com/kevin_powell/status/1269789858576334848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;That&#8217;s not what I&#8217;m saying Kevin. At all,&#8221; Crews retorted, later noting online that he&#8217;s come to understand anything he says will get &#8220;twisted.&#8221;
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That&#39;s not what I&#39;m saying Kevin. At all. <a href="https://t.co/RTaz9YInZ3">https://t.co/RTaz9YInZ3</a>
&mdash; terry crews (@terrycrews) <a href="https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/1269827841442496512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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“Black supremacy? We represent 13% of US population, hold no institutional power [and] gaslight our coworkers,&#8221; said &#8220;American Gods&#8221; actor Orlando Jones. &#8220;We got 99 problems and your math isn’t the only 1. #StrongerTogether.”
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Black supremacy? We represent 13% of US population, hold no institutional power &amp; gaslight our coworkers. We got 99 problems and your math isn&#39;t the only 1. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StrongerTogether?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StrongerTogether</a> <a href="https://t.co/cprFHDQMVJ">https://t.co/cprFHDQMVJ</a>
&mdash; Orlando Jones (@TheOrlandoJones) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheOrlandoJones/status/1269788877784522765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Crews is not as publicly political as most Hollywood celebrities, who nearly all lean far-left. In 2016, for example, Crews posted a message clarifying that he does not affiliate with any political party, maintaining that our issues can&#8217;t be solved by government.
&#8220;I am NOT Anti-Trump, Pro-Hillary, Anti-Bernie, Pro-Trump, Anti-Hillary, Pro-Bernie, or AntiPro-any write in candidate, regardless of what you read on the Internet,&#8221; he posted at the time. &#8220;I firmly believe NO government can solve my problems, and I choose no political affiliation because I like THINKING FOR MYSELF.&#8221;
&#8220;I am PRO-CAMACHO,&#8221; he joked. &#8220;Love, Terry Crews.&#8221;
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I am NOT Anti-Trump, Pro-Hillary, Anti-Bernie, Pro-Trump, Anti-Hillary, Pro-Bernie, or AntiPro-any write in candidate,&#8230;
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