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Actor and America’s Got Talent host, Terry Crews, is apologizing for his controversial remarks about the Black Lives Matter protest!
Terry recently appeared on The Daily Show With Trevor Noah and apologized for his previous tweets made against the Black Lives Matter movement in the summer of 2020 following the murder of George Floyd, reports Yahoo! Entertainment.
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
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If you are a child of God, you are my brother and sister. I have family of every race, creed and ideology.
We must ensure #blacklivesmatter doesn’t morph into #blacklivesbetter
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“ I’m going to let you know, I really do want to apologize to anybody who was offended by these tweets, and was hurt deeply,” Crews said.
“Because as an example, as an African American man, a Black man here in this country, I did not want to give the perception that we’re supposed to gloss this over and forgive the death of George Floyd, the murder of George Floyd. And I want to apologize to everyone right now who was ever offended, because it hurt.”
This is unintellectual and irresponsible. You are developing into an enemy of the people. Ignorance will be your downfall.
— Amanda Seales 🇬🇩✊🏾 △⃒⃘ (@amandaseales) June 30, 2020
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Nearly two years later, he admits the tweets were a mistake.
“I just wanted peace. And I guess it goes back to my approval. It goes back to my need for approval, it went back to that,” Crews said. “And again, it was a mistake. It was a mistake to tweet that out at that.
Terry😡 we trying to “matter” and get to “equal” and you are worried about better?? 🛑 🤫
— Holly Robinson Peete 💃🏾♍️ (@hollyrpeete) June 30, 2020
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According to Crews, the overall message of his tweets was to convey.
Terry, what's going on, man? I know you're better than this, and Twitter isn't the space for the conversation. Holler at me. Inbox me. I'm concerned, brother. Blacklivesmatter isn't supremacy: it's common righteous sense. It's respect. it's love.
— Cheo Hodari Coker (@cheo_coker) June 30, 2020
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“The need is for us as a people to actually come together and really, really be what we need to be to this country because it’s our country. This is our country,” Crews said. “We died and fought, and I’m not giving it away. This is our inheritance.”