Actor and rapper Ice Cube has slammed the Democratic Party for failing to make lives better for Blacks despite 60 years worth of promises. Compare that to President Trump.
Trump bailed out traditionally Black colleges just as they were at the breaking point. He established enterprise zones that revitalized many Black neighborhoods and returned jobs to those areas.
Under Trump Black unemployment reached its lowest point ever. And the number of Blacks living in poverty shrinks to its all-time low.
And don’t forget it was Trump that delivered on prison reform. He delivered on all of the promises Blacks have gotten from Democrats in the past sixty years in only four years.
Why didn’t Ice Cube mention that? Let’s see what Blacks do in Im expect we will se3 more of the same.q
2024, but I don’t expect too much. In election years, Democrats break out the same old promises and do nothing but Blacks still vote overwhelmingly for them. Ice Cube did support Trump in 2020 based on his accomplishments and not on his promises.
Kyle Forgeard asked Ice Cube:
“When you kind of supported Trump and stuff like that, what did you think about it, because you’re [in] Hollywood, you know, there’s a lot of, like, propaganda and stuff like that. What was that like, getting flak for that?”
Ice Cube answered:
“I never supported Trump or Biden. I never asked to speak to the Republicans or the Democrats,” the artist replied. “I created a document called ‘The Contract with Black America’ that spelled out a lot of different issues that we believe were the reasons why [there] was so much unrest after George Floyd was killed.”
Forgeard:
“[Do] you think there’s like a stigma amongst like the African-American community to Republicans and stuff like that?”
Ice Cube:
“I don’t know what’s going on in the African-American community when it comes to that, you know? I mean like black people have supported Democrats, you know, overwhelmingly for 50, 60 years, and nothing has changed. So, something’s got to change.”
.@icecube is right, black people can’t keep blindly supporting Democrats anymore 💯 pic.twitter.com/FdPm5LwDwr
— Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) May 22, 2023
The movie star also explained how his “Contract with Black America” was well received by Democrats and Republicans, both of whom reached out to him prior to the 2020 election:
“I released the document and everybody wanted to talk to me. The Republicans asked to talk to me and the Democrats. I went to talk to both of them about the contract. The Republicans asked could they implement some things from the contract into their proposal. And I said the document was open for anybody to use in any way they desire.”
He described how he met with Democrats, who told him, “’We like 90% of what’s in there and we’ll talk to you after the election about it.’ And I said ‘Okay.’ And I felt like, after that, everybody started to pile on and say that I was for Trump and I was for this and I was for that. It’s not true.”
However, Ice Cube has also previously expressed that Democrats placated him until after the 2020 election, but never followed through on holding a meeting.
Ice Cube says Biden still hasn’t spoken with him about his contract with black America…. pic.twitter.com/zRVjcGRrrg
— SHO’NUFF (@IAMSHO_NUFF) October 24, 2022
The 55-year-old’s document regarding black Americans includes a reparations plan, federal baby bonds, and “a one-time interest free loan for home ownership” to qualified black Americans from the Federal Reserve.
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While what he said is true they’ve actually done nothing but damage to the country…only themselves.
Ice Cube is correct but the key is that the devildemocommiecrats never intended to help blacks, just to keep them on the plantation, voting for more handouts!!!!! If one will take a real and objective look at history one will see who the racists are, democrats!!!!! It was southern democrats who formed and sustained the Ku Klux Klan, created and enforced Jim Crow laws, created and enforced school segregation, have destroyed the black family with welfare regulations that kept blacks from improving themselves through working, and have kept black children from getting a good education because an educated person is harder to subjugate!!!!!!!!!!
Ice Cube is an artist and is dead wrong. Trump only allowed those Obama initiatives to be implemented to bull the naive. Trump did not and would not think of anything to help the black community. Cube should take a serious look at all Trump and Republican s have done and are doing to roll back the progress blacks have made despite their efforts. Then again he more closely fits the definition of Republican. He’s rich and that’s his money is talking.