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Actor Terry Crews Talks About the Importance of Fatherhood – and Gets Blasted by #Woke Folks
Posted at 7:30 pm on February 27, 2019 by
Sister Toldjah
Actor Terry Crews. Screen grab via ABC’s “The View”.
“America’s Got Talent” host and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star Terry Crews isn’t afraid to mix it up when it comes to
discussing issues some view as “controversial.” This week as no exception.
It all started on Sunday. Crews linked to an opinion piece from the
New York Times written by human rights lawyer Derecka Purnell in which she criticized remarks former President Obama made at a town hall earlier this month.
He was speaking to a group of young black men, and Purnell
took issue with what she saw as Obama’s shaming of black culture:
He and the basketball player Stephen Curry discussed mentorship, masculinity and mass incarceration. But his scolding of black boys drew the most attention.
“If you are really confident about your financial situation,” Mr. Obama told the crowd, “you are probably not going to be wearing a eight-pound chain around your neck.”
“Because you know,” he continued, “‘Oh, I got a bank account.’ I don’t have to show you how much I got. I feel good.”
His comments disappointed me because they’re part of problematic practices, like calling out black children for having ghetto names like mine or wearing Air Jordans. Such remarks by Mr. Obama reflect his administration’s failure, and to an extent that of My Brother’s Keeper, to tackle the systemic inequality that shapes black people’s lives in America.
Crews’s
response: “If a successful black man can’t advise the black male youth of the next generation, who will? THE STREET. That’s who.”