Hollywood star Terry Crews, who is black, is facing social media backlash again because he warned Black Lives Matter activists against turning the movement into “black lives are better.”
“If you are a child of God,” wrote the “America’s Got Talent” host, “you are a brother and sister. I have family of every race, creed, and ideology. We must ensure #BlackLivesMatter doesn’t morph into #BlackLivesBetter.”
One writer and Black Lives Matter activist, Kellee Nicole Terrell, responded to Crews, whom she said is “worthless to us.” She added, “White people can have you, especially since you love doing their work for them.”
Journalist and podcaster Ira Madison described the Christian actor as “truly embarrassing” because he keeps “displaying your poor reading comprehension and lack of critical thinking.”
Twitter user Melody Kewl told Crews, “You could have left out that last sentence,” claiming, “No one wants to be better. We want to be treated fairly and equal.”
Here are a handful of the other criticisms the 51-year-old star faced:
One conservative Twitter user, Mindy Robinson, wrote, “I was wondering why Terry Crews was being ‘cancelled’ in comments on Twitter, only to find out it was over a message about equality. Equality means equal, not better than. It’s why I was so against ‘believe all women,’ because it unfairly makes a woman’s word worth more than a man.”
This is not the first time the “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” actor has faced intense backlash. In early June, he was slammed because he tweeted, “Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy.”
Actor Orlando Jones rebuked Crews for calling for unity.
“Black supremacy?” he wrote. “We represent 13% of U.S. population, hold no institutional power [and] gaslight our coworkers. We got 99 problems and your math isn’t the only 1.”
Darryl Wharton-Rigby, a screenwriter, responded, “We have officially entered The Twilight Zone on a day when [Sen.] Mitt Romney marches for [Black Lives Matter] and Terry Crews does the thing he does.”
“Every time I think Terry Crews has done the worst,” added author Frederick Joseph, “he always does more.”