*Tamera Mowry-Housley and her husband Adam Housley are opening up about the family’s grief after losing their 18-year-old niece, Alaina.
The teen was fatally shot by a crazed gunman at a Thousand Oaks, California, bar that left 11 others dead, including a sheriff’s deputy.
When Mowry, Adam and his brother Arik sat down for an interview with “CBS This Morning” to offer solutions, the actresses was criticized on social media and accused of “cooning” for the cameras.
“I would love for this situation to be a catalyst for change. But I don’t automatically want to make it political, cause when you do that, you shut people out,” she said during the interview. “I think if we can make it about mankind, we start with ourselves. You start with decency, you start with imagining, ‘Wait a minute, what if that was my child, or my niece, or my cousin?’ It will get you in a place of just having some sort of human decency. When you focus on that, then you naturally want to start change.”
Here’s video of the interview:
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For some reason, Mowry is receiving backlash over her comments on gun control.
As reported by rollingout.com, Instagrammer @fr33_spirit3 feels that Tamera only cares because gun violence has now directly affected her family, specifically, her husband’s white family
“The problem with America is that it doesn’t matter till it happens to us/you, then we get on cameras and soapboxes @tameramowrytwo you gotta keep that energy no matter what,” said one Instagram user. “They coming for ya neck because the current energy u and your husband have was absent during the deaths of Trayvon and Mike brown. We good.”
Many agreed with a second critic who added: “@themadblackgirl so when her husband was an anchor stating Trayvon got himself killed. She didn’t come out saying anything then. That was someone’s child. But now I supposed to care. Plus celebrities using their platform to say nothing, what she say it’s not about politics. Girl bye!”
But when another user labeled Mowry as “coon” the actress quickly clapped back.
“Stop cooning @tameramowrytwo and speak on the real issues!!! Stop soft stepping and beating around the bush or her death is in vain!!!” the user commented.
“You are apart of the problem,” Tamera replied. “This is the prime example I spoke about in my interview. If you have love in your heart. You don’t talk this way. You obviously missed the message. And don’t you ever judge the death of my niece.”
What do you make of this exchange? Was the IG user out of line for coming at Mowry?
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