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A recent tweet from Terry Crews turned controversial. On Sunday, his tweet caught heat as he tweeted that “defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy.”

The latest tweets from @TerryCrews. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) Terry Crews was criticized Tuesday on social media after tweeting about the Black Lives Matter movement. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) 'If you are. Actor Terry Crews responded to backlash from some Twitter users on Tuesday after he wrote a tweet about “conquering negativity,” with some accusing him of spelling out a racial slur.

The ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ actor and ‘America’s Got Talent’ host has always been in the support of protests related to Black Lives Matter. The American actor has also donated money to the funds used to bail out protestors.

But Twitterati has hit him hard when Crews posted a tweet citing racism in the USA.

Despite being in support of the blacks and calling for unity during protests, the users of the micro-blogging site considered his tweet as flawed and nothing else. They think that he considered ‘black supremacy’ which an idea that can also be translated as reversed racism – to white supremacy.

In 2016, Mic journalist Philip Lewis revealed that, in the US, black supremacy and reverse racism don’t exist. Lewis said that power is a crucial aspect that creates racism. If wrongly used, it displaces people at a societal disadvantage because of their race.

History speaks that white people have held much of the economic and political power in the United States. Adding to it, laws like Jim Crow have put black Americans deprived them of their rights and privileges.

Considering this imbalance of power makes us understand why there has been so much police brutality with the blacks in America. To some extent, it also accounts for why black Americans have been more impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

However, a big proportion of Twitterati came to prove Crews’ tweet inaccurate about the historical suffering of black people. (check: Controversies Around George Floyd’s Death.)

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

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

to have “black supremacy” on the scale of what white people did would involve exacting revenge, enslaving the few survivors, cutting them off from any trace of their culture and keep them from progressing civically for GENERATIONS. open a book, listen to angela davis, something. https://t.co/h5o35KHpAd

— chris kindred (@itskindred) June 8, 2020

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

On the other hand, some considered the tweet of Crews as misguided.

Why not just stick to tweeting about things you know? Like the complexities of shucking or intricate steps involved in jiving?

But nah. Terry Crews would rather explain why the people who created and perpetuated white supremacy must be protected when dismantling white supremacy. https://t.co/Ck2rP9NEAR

— michaelharriot (@michaelharriot) June 8, 2020

Black folks: We want to defund the police and create a system that’s actually equitable and just for ALL of us.

Terry Crews: Beware of Black Supremacy pic.twitter.com/0lgGjOETMX

— Britni Danielle (@BritniDWrites) June 8, 2020

Actor Tyler James Williams came to respond to Crews’ statement and said that it may cause anger. It may also result a distraction in the cause for which the Americans are fighting at the moment. (check: George Floyd Coffin.)

Williams wrote the following:

“Our people are tired of white people who put on a good face a claim they aren’t racist while operating and benefiting from the privilege of a clearly racist system. We’re not trying to do this alone. We KNOW we can’t. But we refuse to have allies who won’t go the distance.”

I understand, Tyler. I was not saying Black supremacy exists, because it doesn’t. I am saying if both Black and Whites don’t continue to work together– bad attitudes and resentments can create a dangerous self-righteousness. That’s all. https://t.co/YLWGnpj8fl

— terry crews (@terrycrews) June 8, 2020

Later on, Crews came to put an emphasis on his original tweet. He said that many black Twitter users are criticizing him without understanding the notion of black supremacy.

Any Black person who calls me a coon or and Uncle Tom for promoting EQUALITY is a Black Supremist, because they have determined who’s Black and who is not.

— terry crews (@terrycrews) June 8, 2020

Crews’ representatives didn’t immediately respond when being asked. In the past, Crews had been accused of not supporting fellow judge, Gabrielle Union for speaking against racism in 2019.

Other celebrities came in her support while Crews didn’t speak up. Later on, on the Today Show, Crews said that his experience has been different from what Union had experienced. Some thought that Crews is invalidating her testimony.

However, Crews apologized to Union for his statement. He apologized for the second time saying that the death of George Floyd has made his rethink his privilege as a male. (Check: George Floyd Criminal Past.)

But I also see that I am privileged as man, in a society that also has sexism built in. This privilege carries over into my community as a Black man in relationship with Black women.

— terry crews (@terrycrews) June 4, 2020

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Twitter has no mercy, and if it did, it's unlikely much would be granted to Terry Crews.

'If you are a child of God, you are my brother and sister. I have family of every race, creed and ideology,' the 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' actor tweeted early Tuesday. 'We must ensure #blacklivesmatter doesn't morph into #blacklivesbetter.'

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.'

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

— terry crews (@terrycrews) June 30, 2020

In replies on Tuesday, the 'America's Got Talent' TV host was called racist names and labeled 'an enemy of the people,' told to 'read the room' and accused of actually being the rich, white-loving pro athlete he portrayed in the Wayans brothers' 2004 comedy 'White Chicks.'

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

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

'Terry, we trying to 'matter' and get to 'equal' and you are worried about better??' Peete replied, tagging her message with 'stop' and 'shh' emojis.

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. '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 ??,' Peete wrote in reference to Crews' tweet.

Terry😡 we trying to “matter” and get to “equal” and you are worried about better?? 🛑 🤫

— Holly Robinson Peete (@hollyrpeete) June 30, 2020

Seales was more critical of the NFL player-turned-entertainer, saying, 'This is unintellectual and irresponsible. You are developing into an enemy of the people. Ignorance will be your downfall.'

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

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. 'Justice is not a competition.'

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.

Justice is not a competition. https://t.co/Cdfac2V7M6

— Be A King (@BerniceKing) June 30, 2020

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'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?'

instead 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?

— Felonious Munk 🇪🇹 (@Felonious_munk) June 30, 2020

Activist April Reign, who started the #OscarsSoWhite campaign, was also incensed by Crews' tweet.

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'I’m a bit mad at myself for being even more disappointed at Terry Crews today. I thought that we had hit rock bottom,' she wrote. 'I didn’t realize I had any energy left for him, and that makes me mad.'

I’m a bit mad at myself for being even more disappointed at Terry Crews today. I thought that we had hit rock bottom. I didn’t realize I had any energy left for him, and that makes me mad.

— April (@ReignOfApril) June 30, 2020

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Meanwhile, writer Kellee Nicole Terrell simply wrote Crews off.

'You truly are worthless to us,' she wrote. 'White people can have you, especially since you love doing their work for them.'

You truly are worthless to us. White people can have you, especially since you love doing their work for them

— Kellee Nicole Terrell (@kelleent) June 30, 2020

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

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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. Anything.”