Explained: Terry Crews Controversial tweet regarding the Black Lives Matter movement
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine actor Terry Crews has spoken up about his controversial Black Lives Matter tweets and given an apology over that recently. Well, it was after the infamous death of George Floyd that Crews made some tweets that didn’t go well with many. However, it seems like the actor has now realized his mistake and wants to give an apology over the same. But what did Crews say in his apology?
Read ahead to know more about Terry Crews making an apology over controversial Black Lives Matter tweets.
Terry Crews made controversial tweets on Black Lives Matter
It became a huge matter after George Floyd died that even began a trend on social media called Black Lives Matter. However, following the death of Floyd, Terry Crews too didn’t stop from commenting on that. Hence back in the year 2020, Crew’s tweets became controversial.
One of his tweets back then read “Defeating White Supremacy Without White People Creates Black Supremacy…”. He made some more tweets on the trend of Black Lives Matter and it became viral all over the internet.
Terry Crews’ controversial tweets slammed by netizens
The 53 years old star of Brooklyn Nine-Nine actually fell in trouble after his tweets on Black Lives Matter. As netizens went on to slam the tweets of Crews a lot. However, unlike the other stars, Crews even after getting slammed didn’t delete his tweets.
Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy. Equality is the truth.
— terry crews (@terrycrews) June 7, 2020
Like it or not, we are all in this together.
Crews tweets on Black Lives are still on his social media page. Yet now he seems to have realized the mistake he did with his tweets back in 2020. Owing to this he recently opened up about his controversial tweets of him and here’s what he said about it.
If you are a child of God, you are my brother and sister. I have family of every race, creed and ideology.
— terry crews (@terry crews) June 30, 2020
We must ensure #blacklivesmatter doesn’t morph into #blacklivesbetterAdvertisement
Any Black person who calls me a coon or and Uncle Tom for promoting EQUALITY is a Black Supremist, because they have determined who's Black and who is not.
— terry crews (@terrycrews) June 8, 2020
Please know that everything I'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.
— terry crews (@terrycrews) June 8, 2020
Terry Crews gave an apology for his Black Lives Matter tweets
It was only this week when on Wednesday, The Daily Show With Trevor Noah actually had Terry Crews as the guest. Crews while talking about a lot of stuff ended up mentioning his controversial tweets that happened in 2020. He said to Trevor Noah that he wants to apologize to all who were hurt by his tweets of 2020.
He went on to call those tweets a mistake made at that time. It felt as though Crews really made wrong tweets that hurt many people’s sentiments. However, he has publicly now realized his mistake and given an apology on the same.
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