Terry Crews has landed himself in a lot of hot water lately due to his Twitter activity, such as his bad take on single parenting and his subpar apologies to Gabrielle Union. Maybe ol’ mate needs to log off for a while because Terry Crews has found himself embroiled in some more controversy on Twitter, this time over his comments about “black supremacy.”
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After sharing several messages on Twitter in support of Black Lives Matter and the George Floyd protests, Terry Crews proceeded to throw a wrench in his good work by tweeting: “Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy. Equality is the truth. Like it or not, we are all in this together.”
Hoo boy, Terry Crews really opened up a can of worms with a side of controversy with this particular Twitter post, didn’t he.
Terry technically isn’t completely in the wrong here – it’ll take the efforts of everyone to completely root out racism. It’s just that he missed the point and conveyed it in a really tone-deaf way.
As Mic editor Philip Lewis Lewis explains, Black racism and reverse racism doesn’t exist especially in the US due to the country’s historical power imbalance that’s always favoured white people.
That’s why bringing up a scenario like “black supremacy” is just so ridiculous because the idea of just reversing things so that Black people had all the power and started oppressing white people is so far removed from reality and what the Black community is trying to accomplish that it’s pointless to even talk about it.
To the surprise of no one, this “black supremacy” tweet from Terry Crews drummed up a heap of reactions on the internet. Many people, including notable celebrities like Jodie Turner-Smith and Tyler James Williams called out Terry over his comments as being a bit misguided, inaccurate, and problematic in how it is diverting attention away from the real issue.
As Terry is wont to do from time to time, he doubled down on his “black supremacy” comments by trying to explain himself to some of his critics before straight up attacking “any Black person who calls [him] a coon” or “Uncle Tom” as a “Black Supremist” when all he’s trying to do is promote “equality.”
Terry Crews’ latest Twitter controversy has drummed up a lot of heated discussion about “black supremacy”. But maybe the lesson here is knowing when not to tweet. Perhaps it’s time Terry take a break from social media for a bit because there are bigger things to focus on than controversial takes on Twitter.
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