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Terry Crews' #blacklivesbetter tweet draws heated criticism - Los Angeles Times
Jun 30, 2020 3 mins, 19 secs
Twitter has no mercy, and if it did, it’s unlikely much would be granted to Terry Crews.

That triggered a trend-setting response similar to the one Crews got earlier this month after using the phrase “Black Supremacy” in a tweet that added, “Like it or not, we’re all in this together.”.

Crews also got constructive feedback from people including Bernice King, the youngest daughter of civil-rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr.

Actress Holly Robinson Peete and comic Amanda Seales were among those criticizing Crews.

She also tweeted about having a sleepless night thinking about Elijah McClain, a Black man who died last year after being put in a chokehold by police.

You are developing into an enemy of the people.

You are developing into an enemy of the people.

Bernice King addressed Crews with a broader explanation.

“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,” she tweeted.

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.

“For Life” actor Felonious Munk urged Crews to “deal with the present” before worrying about a hypothetical situation.

"[C]an 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?,” he wrote in one tweet, then continued in another, "[I]nstead of being concerned with a hypoghettical concern about a future that may never exist, can we deal with the present and centuries of past oppression?”.

“I’m a bit mad at myself for being even more disappointed at Terry Crews today.

I’m a bit mad at myself for being even more disappointed at Terry Crews today.

Meanwhile, writer Kellee Nicole Terrell simply wrote Crews off.

“White people can have you, especially since you love doing their work for them.”.

White people can have you, especially since you love doing their work for them.

Representatives for Crews did not respond immediately to The Times’ request for comment.

Previously, the actor stood by his opinion, replying to a Twitter user, “I’ve learned that people will take anything you say and twist it for their own evil.

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