Tyrese has clarified his comments about “wanting to be Latino” after sharing a video of a father receiving his dream truck from his children.
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In response to the backlash, Tyrese posted a photo of himself wearing a sombrero and poncho with the caption: “Of course we ARE we are beyond powerful, influential, and successful, but imagine if we TRULY all linked up like other communities have linked? Poured and built up on each other Instead of moving as fragmented as are moving now and being so insecure and competitive a.k.a. Dysfunctional. We are the most powerful culture in the WORLD… this is why they are so threatened and intimidated by the idea of us ever linking up!!”
“We have what it TAKES to take over the WORLD!!! We are nothing trying to do it ALONE!! Please chime in…. Would love to know your thoughts on this….,” he continued. Tyrese clarified that the post was made a week before Black History Month, as reported by Baller Alert.
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The singer’s original post confused fans and even accused Tyrese of being “anti-black” when he later clarified in the caption that he wished more unity among the Black community and asked his followers for their thoughts.
“Sometimes I wish I was born Latino…. I mean the Latin community is grounded in family, loyal, entrepreneurs, businessman, and women literally represent the dream, the grind the hustle doing whatever it takes to stick together against all odds ## If us is black culture was more grounded in these integral magical nuances of us we would be dominant…. I’ve learned a lot from the Jewish community sticking together eating dinner every Friday together. I’ve learned a lot about the Muslim community throughout all my travels in the Middle East. They have a father structure where they honor their fathers the Middle East the thinking in the mentality is that they would much rather have a son over a daughter because they know that there is nothing like the leadership of a FATHER and a man being the head of the household… I have no idea how we lost our way.. We can’t get anything done and accomplished, as a fragmented culture… insecure, threatened by each other m… Competitive towards our own race, killing ourselves every single day frivolously the majority of us is black men and the millions are locked up in prison.
Of course we ARE we are beyond powerful, influential and successful, but imagine if we all linked up like other communities have linked? Poured and built up on each other Instead of moving like fragmented and dysfunctional…. We have what it TAKES to take over the WORLD!!! We are nothing trying to do it ALONE!! Please chime in… Would love to know your thoughts on this…”
Here are some of the reactions to Tyrese’s Instagram posts:
