Actor Terry Crews sparked controversy this week with a tweet that appeared to be critical of the Black Lives Matter movement, in which Crews has the gall to suggest that white people and black people actually need to work together to defeat racism. Reaction to Crews was swift, accusing him of hurting the cause.
Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy. Equality is the truth.
Like it or not, we are all in this together.
— Terry Crews (@terrycrews) June 7, 2020
Monday night Crews appeared on CNN anchor Don Lemon’s primetime show to defend his perfectly reasonable sentiment. The conversation turned to what Black Lives Matter stands for and that is where Lemon reverted to absolute gaslighting regarding the movement’s Marxist ideologies and goals.
Don Lemon says black lives don’t matter unless they’re being taken by cops and that you should start your own movement if you want to make black-on-black violence an issue. pic.twitter.com/NVHRc9rpO9
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 7, 2020
After a condescending statement to Crews that he should grow thicker skin, Lemon proceeded to explain that Black Lives Matters originated around the issue of police brutality, not broader issues, and that is all the movement is about. He likens it to an anti-cancer charity being criticized for not battling HIV. But this is nonsense and Crews knows it, and he begins to point out why.
In the critical exchange Crews says, “But when you look at the organization, police brutality is not all they are talking about.” Here Lemon jumps in with “I know that but that’s not what the Black Lives Matter movement is about.” At this point Lemon simply talks over Crews, not allowing him to make his factual point regarded the stated aims of Black Lives Matter.
Lemon’s own statement makes no sense on its face. He says he knows that police brutality is not all that Black Lives Matter is about, but that still police brutality is all that Black Lives Matter is about.
All of this stems from a confusion that I laid out in these pages last month surrounding the dueling definitions of the term Black Lives Matter. Lemon is talking about the general statement of support for black lives and an effort to improve the criminal justice system. Crews is talking about a Marxist organization that, among other things, wants to destroy the primacy of the nuclear family.
The good news is that a discussion of the chasm between these meanings is happening now. It’s even almost happening on CNN. More and more Americans are seeing the disconnect between the laudable but vague meaning of Black Lives Matter and the Marxist meaning. In the black community, the latter Black Lives Matter movement is being called out by some now, including grieving parents, for its willful blindness over the deaths of black Americans as a result of crime.
hiv positive donnie is married to a white male. what a piece of useless democrap feces. what is more important is the hypocrite gay donnie is actually clueless on the history of black terrorist movement.
-black terrorist movement need to kill a few more children, only than will the black community wake up.
-cut off the head and the body of the serpent will die. this is true for any political movement. marxism failed in Russia and in China. the only country where it still exists in shithole cuba.
Well, this is what is needed: Black Leaders leading this discussion, not looking to Biden or Pelosi to use it for more black exploitation.
Terry Crews is a great guy. I’m glad he’s in the discussion now.
P.S. – Don Lemon is a thin-skinned coward.
BLM is about power for white Democrats, that’s it.
@Nathan Blue:
very true. when the majority of the civilized black wake up,to late. black terrorist movement has destroyed 50% of black business in major cities. pedophie joe is just a whore liken to his potential running mate, none of which are capable of running a country. AD creepy joe, another pathetic joke in America
An incident which, of course, was NOT police brutality. But, what’s facts to a liberal?
Lemon’s position is like arguing that Hitler’s “Final Solution” was all about ending Jewish predatory lending practices. Crew would be making the argument, based on the overwhelming evidence, that it was about anti-Semitic genocide.
Police brutality happens and it isn’t racial. It is driven by passion, usually after a struggle or chase. It shouldn’t happen, but cops aren’t machines, they are human beings. BLM is not about righting any wrongs and never has been; that is a premise based on false accusations. It is about power and racism.