Just like professing one’s faith in Christianity is becoming more and more controversial thanks to wokeness and changing societal norms, now it’s becoming controversial to suggest that obviously good things are good, as Terry Crews found out in 2019 when he said that people need fathers and exercise…an obviously true statement that led the woke left to attack him.
The background is that Crews tweeted about fatherhood following an Obama speech. Speaking in Oakland, California, Obama said, when speaking to a crowd of African American boys, “If you are really confident about your financial situation, you are probably not going to be wearing a eight-pound chain around your neck. Because, ‘Oh, I got a bank account.’ I don’t have to show you how much I got. I feel good.”
Crews weighed in on the matter after Derecka Purnell, a woman, wrote an op-ed on that Obama speech for The New York Times. Tweeting about it, he said, “Another thing that bothers me is that this OP-ED was written by a WOMAN about how boys should be taught to grow into successful young men,” he tweeted Feb. 24. “How would she know? MEN NEED TO HOLD OTHER MEN ACCOUNTABLE.” He followed up by saying, “I REPEAT: Women can speak with us. Just not FOR US,” when a commenter on Twitte said it was “counter productive” to kick women out of the conversation.
He then tweeted out a video of an appearance of his on “The View” in which he said, “There are things that you need from your father. Your father starts out he gives you your name, he tells you who you are… He gives you your inheritance and that doesn’t mean money. You inherit his story. … Your father gives you … your security. … I’m talking about your confidence. Because when your father tells you, you can do something, you believe that you can do it.”
Watch that video here:
Well, predictably, the wokies came for him with their knives out, furious that he would dare to suggest that kids need fathers. Crews, however, refused to back down. Instead he tweeted about standing by his comments, saying: “Me: Human beings need exercise. #Woke Twitter: FUCK you! I don’t exercise! I have NEVER exercised and I’m fine! My kids CAN’T exercise because they were hurt so now you’re mocking them! I demand you take that back and apologize! Terry Crews do better.”
He also said: “I have another very controversial statement to make, and I will since I’m “canceled” anyway. As a human being there are things you can only get from your mother.” Similarly, he said, in a tweet that was later deleted, “But they will be severely malnourished,” in response to a comment comment that “love is not gendered. A child will not starve with only one gender loving them.”
And in another tweet, he wrote, “Nope. There are things a person can only get from their mother. But there are also things a person can only get from their father. I would never render either unnecessary. And if you are missing one— you need a good representation of either/or in your life at some point.“
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