Terry Crews Just Handed A Knock Out Punch To BLM Proponents At CNN

CNN host Don Lemon pressed actor Terry Crews on comments he made about the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement last 6 July.

Using Crews' very popular weet that "we must ensure #blacklivesmatter doesn’t morph into #blacklivesbetter" as a jumping-off point, Lemon told the "America’s Got Talent" host that he "stepped in it."

Crews eloquently explained to the triggered host who wants to push a personal agenda that his statement is a warning to the movement's extremist. He accused "militant-type forces" in BLM of making severe violent threats if their demands aren't met and said other Black people "who are talking about working with other whites and other races ― they’re being viewed as sellouts or being called Uncle Toms."

Crews said a "dangerous self-righteousness" was developing in BLM that viewed its followers as "better." It’s "almost a supremist move," he added, as if "their Black lives mattered a lot more than mine."

Lemon reminded Crews that the late civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. was considered extreme in his day and that it's easy to paint BLM as extremists. Uhhmmm ... Fact check: King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi.

"Black people need to hold Black people accountable," Crews added.

"Black Lives Matter is about police brutality and injustice ... not about what’s happening in Black neighborhoods," Lemon countered. This begs the question, why is BLM not addressing black-to-black violence?