Terry Crews reveals why he no longer reacts when someone uses the N word
“In my culture, if somebody called you nigger, you knock them out, no matter what, no questions asked, don’t even hesitate.”
“Well the thing is, usually when you do that, you go to jail, you can’t prove somebody called you a nigger unless it’s recorded and it’s your word against, somebody’s laying on the ground, you just assaulted somebody.”
“The jail is full of black men who were baited by a word and had to had to follow the rules.”
“Here’s the thing that changed for me and this is where I Learned what I could control, there are no niggas, there’s no such thing you might as well call somebody a leprechaun.”
“There’s no such thing as a nigger, and I said holy cow, I can get mad about someone calling me something I’m not.”
“The thing I like to say is, Bill Gates, if you call him broke, he just look at you and go go in his helicopter and fly away, he wouldn’t even be threatened by that.”
“But here’s the thing, if you really do think you’re a nigga, that’s when it affects you, that’s when you wanna fight and I said but I’m not a nigga and I realized that there was so much I could let wash off.”
The DSA momentum isn’t about the DSA, it’s about people.
I see all the quibbling and bickering, but not a lot of understanding.
People in NY cast votes for candidates they think actually care about what they’re going through. Same way they did for Mamdani.
But instead of reflecting, the establishment continues to project. We’ve seen it before, it’s partly how we got here.
I don’t imagine that what happened in New York could happen in Baton Rouge … yet. And when I say yet I mean YET. If a people first, economic liberation movement finds its political stride in South, its curtains.
It’s hard for a lot of Black southerners I know to critique the Dems, an elder of mine recently told me she votes Democrat OUT OF RESPECT FOR DR KING.
(I told her Dr. King might’ve been DSA, because he held some very strident anti-capitalist/anti imperialist views. She then told me to worry about my weight and not about Dr King’s legacy. That actually happened 😂😂😂😂😂😂)
I’m not saying that’s going to change, but I am saying those same people I talk to (particularly the ones under 45) aren’t frustrated. They’re tired. Frustrated needs a rally. Tired needs a change. They’re ripe for new voices.
The best outcome here would be a meeting of the minds. It would Robin reminding Batman of the ideals he started with, and Batman educating Robin on the structural realities of the world we live in, and how we make allies in that world. They then shake hands and vandalize the Joker’s reflecting pool.
That won’t happen though. Political intractability is by design. Politicians fight for their existence while forgetting about yours.
You do not matter. Threats to power matter. Threats to systems matter. They built it the way they wanted it, they’ve been milking it for years. They want their milk cheap while yours gets more expensive.
We say politics is a beauty pageant, but in actuality, it’s a slaughterhouse. You think you’re the butcher, when really, you’re the cow.
But man. Somewhere there’s a candidate that just wants you to have a living wage and healthcare. Just wants your kid not have to die in a foreign war. Maybe they can’t even get it done, but that’s sincerely what they want.
I hope you get to vote for them.
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 All mayor Mamdani-backed candidates won New York primaries in clean sweep, per CNN
- Brad Lander
- Claire Valdez
- Darializa Avila Chevalier
All three of them rejected AIPAC’s money