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‘You Can Be Angry and Sin Not’: Terry Crews Talks to Trevor Noah About Overcoming His Anger, Racial Reconciliation

Crews described dealing with his anger as though he were playing a game of chess, saying, “And all of a sudden, everything about the energy toward anyone that I was angry at was a thoughtful, methodical move.”

Later in the interview, Noah asked Crews about a controversy surrounding a tweet Crews posted in 2020. 

“Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy. Equality is the truth,” the tweet said. “Like it or not, we are all in this together.”

“What I meant was…if we don’t start this movement with the idea of reconciliation, we are just postponing a greater war,” Crews clarified to Noah. “And my whole thing is, I didn’t hear a whole lot of reconciliation. Because reconciliation doesn’t mean agreement.”

“There’s a story about the wisest man in the world. It was Solomon. And two women came to him and they brought a baby,” Crews said, describing the account from 1 Kings 3 where two women claimed to be the mother of the same child. “So Solomon, the wisest man, says, ‘Okay, what we’re going to do is cut the baby in half.’”

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“And one woman said, ‘Yes! That’s the way we do it.’ But the other woman said, ‘No. No, save this baby. In fact, give it to her,” Crews went on to say. “That’s reconciliation. It doesn’t mean you get the result you want. It means you’re saving it. Because dividing it is going to kill it.”

“And when I look at America, dividing it is going to kill it,” Crews said. “We have to reconcile. White and Black, male and female, Republican [and] Democrat—we have to find a way to reconcile, or we’re going to kill what we have.” 

Noah expressed that reconciliation cannot take place without accountability. Crews agreed, adding that, considering the timing of the tweet, it was a mistake that he regrets. He apologized to anyone who misunderstood his intent and was hurt by the tweet. 

Nevertheless, Crews stands by what he meant by the tweet, which is more fully fleshed out in his book. 

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“Because of this need for approval that I was addicted to, it’s a matter of also exercising the will to take disapproval,” Crews said. “Sometimes, standing up for the right thing, not everyone is going to like you.