Once again, Terry Crews was dragged online yesterday (June 30th) for comments he made about the Black Lives Matter movement. He tweeted, “If you are a child of God, you are my brother and sister. I have family of every race, creed and ideology.”
He added, “We must ensure #blacklivesmatter doesn’t morph into #blacklivesbetter.”
Earlier this month, Crews was dragged after tweeting, “Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy. Equality is the truth. Like it or not, we are all in this together.”
Actress Holly Robinson Peete responded to Crews, saying, “Terry we trying to ‘matter’ and get to ‘equal’ and you are worried about better?? She added, "Another sleepless night thinking about #ElijahMcClain and I woke up worrying about how to prevent my sweet special son from meeting a similar fate and you woke up worried about *checks tweet again*… #blacklivesBETTER??”
Amanda Seales let Terry have it, saying that Crews words were “unintellectual and irresponsible.” She added, “You are developing into an enemy of the people. Ignorance will be your downfall.”
Soledad O’Brien retweeted his post and added, “Whew. This man… just… wow.”
Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King and CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, also chimed in, “we’re so far from that bridge. #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 added, “Justice is not a competition.”