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Corey B. King
2 min readJan 25, 2020

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Terry Crews Was Wrong, and So Are Most Of You

Terry Crews unleashed a firestorm when he didn’t support, actress, Gabrielle Union in her allegations of racism against America’s Got Talent, in an interview on the third hour of the Today Show.

Let me say right off the cuff that Terry was wrong. Even if he hadn’t experienced or seen any racism, he could have just remained silent. But Terry Crews is indicative of many heterosexual Black men. They will defend Satan himself, before they will defend a Black woman. It’s just par for the course.

The part that bothers me the most about this, is not Terry’s lack of support, but social media’s reaction to it.

Black Twitter Feminists reminded us that they supported Terry when he made his sexual assault claims, against Hollywood talent agent, Adam Venit. Well, that what the fuck you are supposed to do. You are not doing anyone any favors by supporting them, any decent human being would do that. But while I have your attention, the same way y’all rally around Gabby, it would have been nice if you had the same energy for Kamala Harris, with your fake feminist asses!

Ashy Hotep Twitter saw this as an opportunity to pile on with “I Told You So” about Terry Crews, and to poke extra fun of Terry’s assault. This is the same group of ashy assholes who wanted Terry to risk being blackballed in Hollywood, and possible catch a case, by…

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Corey B. King
Corey B. King

Written by Corey B. King

Writer, Professor. Published my second book, I Have Some Shit to Say, memoir/essay collection in 2018! You can find me on Twitter at @coreybking

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