{"id":1508588,"date":"2022-06-09T07:21:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1508588"},"modified":"2022-06-09T07:21:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:21:11","slug":"tyruss-memoir-shows-how-he-defeated-victimhood-with-hard-work-and-reinvention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tyruss-memoir-shows-how-he-defeated-victimhood-with-hard-work-and-reinvention\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrus\u2019s Memoir Shows How He Defeated Victimhood With Hard Work And Reinvention"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftyruss-memoir-shows-how-he-defeated-victimhood-with-hard-work-and-reinvention%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1508588&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/tyrus-e1654612200346.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u201cJust Tyrus,\u201d the new memoir by Fox News commentator Tyrus, details his independent streak that conservatives can learn from, rooted in the commonsense individualism of a biracial, fatherless young man who defeated victimhood and landed high-profile gigs with household brands such as Snoop Dogg and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>William F. Buckley\u2019s highbrow, harpsichord-plucking, snobbish, WASPy, country club conservatism is waning. Tyrus\u2019 rugged, homegrown, free-thinking The Hulk and John Wayne-inspired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2014\/07\/what-exactly-is-a-conservatarian\/455754\/\">conservatarianism<\/a> is rising.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The oldest child of a then-illegal biracial marriage, Tyrus (legally named George Murdoch) tells of horrific domestic violence against him and his white mother by his black father, who attempts to throw a young Tyrus out the window of their cramped, high-rise Boston apartment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After a California move, a dysfunctional white stepfather bashes out a 13-year-old Tyrus\u2019 front teeth, inspiring a subsequent vengeance beating by Tyrus, who eventually grew to a dominating 6 feet 8 inches tall and 350 pounds. Beating his stepfather led Tyrus to depart home at age 16, his belongings in a trash bag, sparking years of couch surfing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During a childhood with no consistent male role models at home, Tyrus felt drawn to masculine, heroic archetypes flashing across TV \u2014 especially WWE superstars. Social science data suggests Tyrus is an exception: a poor, abused, fatherless child who graduated college and successfully turned his Hollywood fairytales into realities, rather than dropping out of high school or perishing in gangbanging street violence. As rising generations of fatherless, latchkey kids suffer from opioid overdoses and other postmodernism-induced ailments, Tyrus\u2019 story of triumph is that much more inspiring.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>A Story of Sin<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s painful to read the harrowing obstacles Tyrus faced while suffering from a racist grandfather who couldn\u2019t stand his own grandson\u2019s skin. He told Tyrus\u2019 mother she was lucky any white man would have her after she slept with a black man. Tyrus\u2019 first girlfriend hid him under her bed for five hours after her racist family unexpectedly showed up.<\/p>\n<p>While he\u2019s honest about such wrongdoing against him, Tyrus is also honest about his own sins, including using a chair to crush the orbital socket and collarbone of a loving foster mother worried about his soiled playground clothes. Tyrus says that is his biggest life regret. It happened at age 7, and she quickly forgave him. He also details regret about a stint dealing drugs while living in Nebraska pursuing collegiate football.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Working Hard<\/h2>\n<p>Tyrus eventually used his daunting physique to land L.A. nightclub bouncer gigs, which turned into bodyguarding for Snoop Dogg. He later details the grueling workouts and mandatory weight loss to fulfill his childhood fantasy of snagging roles in the WWE spotlight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s high-concept entertainment built around heroes and villains,\u201d he writes, dismissive of those who whine (he doesn\u2019t name them, but many establishment pearl-clutching Republicans fit) about WWE\u2019s low-brow inauthenticity. \u201cThe art of simulating combat is revered, especially in Japan. It\u2019s considered an art form, in fact. At its heart, that\u2019s what professional wrestling is. Not to mention the fact that you have to be in incredible shape to perform at the highest levels that professional wrestling demands.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tyrus sums up his life: \u201cI am or have been a blue-chip, all-American, talented college athlete; a college graduate; a liar, cheater, manipulator; an animal enthusiast; a smart-ass (a personal point of pride); a rude bully; a lost, angry bar cook. I\u2019ve been fucked over, hated on, fired, passed over, judged; a target of attempted lynching (but it didn\u2019t work out for them); a police brutality survivor; \u2018that n-gg-r,\u2019 \u2018a n-gg-r,\u2019 \u2018my n-gg-r\u2019 [slurs printed in original]. I\u2019ve had a gun to my head twice; had my heart broken; had it put back together again\u2026but I\u2019ve never been a victim.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Skepticism of Victimhood, Capable at Reinvention<\/h2>\n<p>Arguably, skepticism of victimhood underpins what Tyrus reported was his most popular Fox News segment: skewering the hypocrisy of Black Lives Matter. While he says he\u2019s personally experienced some rare over-policing, he\u2019s rightly incensed by people unfairly demonizing police while trying to excuse their actual crimes. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, these BLM sympathizers are abetted by weak district attorneys funded by billionaire George Soros and Vice President Kamala Harris, who elevate criminals over actual victims. Tyrus\u2019 money line in the Fox segment: \u201cIf you choose to resist arrest, that doesn\u2019t make you Rosa Parks. That makes you a criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This sense that Tyrus rejects victimhood leads him over and over to reinvention \u2014 beyond a broken home, beyond broken football dreams, beyond political labels. He said he voted for Barack Obama twice, in part for the aspirational nature of the first African-American president. But Tyrus also has warm words for former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump changed my mind, he affected the way I think,\u201d Tyrus writes. \u201cI like how important it was for Trump to expose the system for the common man. When he gave speeches and when he dealt with the press, he was very deliberate about putting information out there; for the most part, it gave voters a chance to really understand how ugly the back of the political kitchen was.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A former Never Trumper, Tyrus\u2019s journey toward respecting the 45th president shouldn\u2019t surprise, given Trump was a fixture on the WWE scene. They are both scrappy showmen at heart in a sport rejected by Beltway elites.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>The Right\u2019s Big Tent<\/h2>\n<p>One topic Tyrus doesn\u2019t touch was the long-running feud between Trump and Tyrus\u2019s former employer, Snoop Dogg. Snoop made a video with a <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/news\/id.42729\/title.snoop-dogg-staying-quiet-about-trumps-criticism-over-lavender-video\">mock assassination of Trump<\/a> and later <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/news\/id.45065\/title.snoop-dogg-channels-ice-cube-to-give-donald-trump-his-death-certificate\">depicted Trump\u2019s corpse<\/a> in a remake of Ice Cube\u2019s\u201cDeath Certificate\u201d cover. But Snoop put that behind him after Trump issued a last-minute pardon to Death Row Records co-founder Michael \u201cHarry-O\u201d Harris, absolving Harris of attempted murder and kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love what they did,\u201d Snoop said, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/01\/19\/i-love-what-they-did-snoop-dogg-on-trump-granting-clemency-to-pal-harry-o\/\">according to the New York Post<\/a>. \u201cLet them know that I love what they did. It is amazing what the work of God can actually bring to life to make people understand that there is a God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Snoop\u2019s evolution in some ways parallels Tyrus\u2019 own evolution away from race-infused divisiveness. \u201cJust Tyrus\u201d is a roadmap for conservatives navigating America\u2019s shifting cultural and racial landscape \u2014 it\u2019s a profile of a \u201cBig Tent\u201d voice the right should welcome.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Carrie Sheffield is a senior policy analyst at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwv.org\/people\/carrie-sheffield\/\">Independent Women&#8217;s Voice<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steamboatinstitute.org\/person\/carrie-sheffield\/\">Tony Blankley Fellow for American Exceptionalism at The Steamboat Institute<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJust Tyrus,\u201d the new memoir by Fox News commentator Tyrus, details his independent streak that conservatives can learn from, rooted in the commonsense individualism of a biracial, fatherless young man<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}