CNN’s Don Lemon interviewed Terry Crews, who is best known as an actor and former pro football player. Crews has been under fire because he disagrees with BLM. During the contentious interview, Lemon twists himself into a pretzel to try and claim that BLM only applies to “police brutality” and not when it’s black on black crime.
He tells Crews that he should start his own movement if he wants to make black-on-black violence an issue.
Note how Lemon lectures Crews and won’t let him get a word in:
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THREAD: On @CNNTonight, Terry Crews explained to host @donlemon why he was rightly critical of the Black Lives Matter organization. "It was almost a supremist move where they viewed that their black lives mattered a lot more than mine." But lemon got combative real quick pic.twitter.com/TkgfU5ZAxu
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 7, 2020
Lemon couldn’t be more condescending:
After Crews argued that the BLM organization wasn't taking a stand against black-on-black crime, Lemon claimed that denouncing that crime and police brutality was "apples and oranges," and not in line with the mission of BLM (more on his point coming up). pic.twitter.com/7JvGCLyBlt
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 7, 2020
“Smug”
As the interview closed, Crews agreed that police brutality was important, but said the leaders of BLM had more to their agenda and they needed to be grilled on it. Crews was also concerned that he, in general, wasn't being allowed to speak in the broader discussion as an equal. pic.twitter.com/feyMpO8VVO
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 7, 2020