“Race doesn’t matter in America “ - Ice Cube

[BaggerofTea]

Nah. White people even used Obama to say we've all made it.. It past time black people stop looking to entertainers for leadership.

What?

Breh, there is no asian, white or Hispanic equivalent like yourself that seeks to align themselves with people who hate them.

This phenomena is a display of rank cowardice

 

[Afro]

Never saw I'd see the day where we would have a "post-racial" Ice Cube

I gotta redo my whole Bingo board

 

[Regular Developer]

I don't get where he said "Race doesn't matter in America" . I went to the 12 minute mark and listened for 2 minutes. Is it further along or earlier?

 

[Voice of Reason]

Any Black person saying that race doesn't matter is an idiot that does not know history and should be ashamed of themselves.


Ever since reconstruction cacs have been trying to uphold white supremacy it's literally written into laws and official documents from that era. Black folks only really only got a foothold in this country in the 1970's when the CRA and VRA passed by Johnson started to have an impact.

 

[Da King]

Classic @BrothaZay troll thread

 

[King_Kamala61]

Nah. White people even used Obama to say we've all made it.. It past time black people stop looking to entertainers for leadership.

Right. Lol we literally got paid black politicians that should take the heat literally for not working for us, but like Malcolm X said...the Negro is politically too immature to realize this, thus we propagate the pastors and entertainers to be our driving force of political arena and issues.

Ain't no way we should be looking at Lil Boosie, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, LeBron James or Floyd Mayweather for anything political.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

As an individual, no, as a race, fukk yes.

Look at graduation rates from high school/college by race for example.

Or look at the professions. We make up ~12% of the country, but we damn sure aren't even 10% of the C-suite, Doctors, Lawyers, Judges, etc.

But we are over-represented when it comes to early mortality, dropping out of school, etc. It's easy to use your personal experience as 'what everyone else is experiencing" but that ignores that these are systemic issues that affect many black Americans.

Things like Affirmative Action are in place because systemically, our #s are waaay below other races, so it's kinda ironic hearing that we're all equal while ignoring the data. I know it's not your intention, but these are very similar to the Republican speaking points that suggest that we should do away with programs that HELP BLACK PEOPLE CATCH UP.

But is that all systemic, or do more of us need to hustle more? We don’t value education, and push our kids as much as other races. A lot of us have children out of wedlock, and have more single earner households. And you have to admit, when it comes to grammar, kids hearing their parents speaking without using conjunctions is going to affect their speech. Are we making sure our kids are doing homework, or are they running the streets? Are we pushing our kids to go into STEM? Are we going to therapy to work on our issues? I don’t think the standards should be lowered for us. I think we need to meet the standards. Then a certain number of spots should be open for us, but affirmative action is gone now.

 

[frush11]

Smart man,its not what he said.


Hes speaking on the elites and Republicans and Democrats using race to keep the races infighting. Its really the number one strategy they have to keep people voting at this point. Not to mention keeping the poor from untiting against the wealthy/corperations.

And he's telling that to Tucker Carlson off all people.

You can't make this type off shiit up.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Right. Lol we literally got paid black politicians that should take the heat literally for not working for us, but like Malcolm X said...the Negro is politically too immature to realize this, thus we propagate the pastors and entertainers to be our driving force of political arena and issues.

Ain't no way we should be looking at Lil Boosie, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, LeBron James or Floyd Mayweather for anything political.

Exactly. Conservatives love saying we shouldn’t glorify rappers. Then, as soon as a rapper says something remotely conservative, or critical of the black community, it’s “Hey, listen to that rapper.” I don’t care to hear stories of success from entertainers, or athletes, because the average person is not going to be involved in those industries, and there is a high failure rate across the board.

 

[ThatTruth777]

That's not what he said, that's what zay titled the thread

 

[King_Kamala61]

Exactly. Conservatives love saying we shouldn’t glorify rappers. Then, as soon as a rapper says something remotely conservative, or critical of the black community, it’s “Hey, listen to that rapper.” I don’t care to hear stories of success from entertainers, or athletes, because the average person is not going to be involved in those industries, and there is a high failure rate across the board.

I don't know what to classify myself as...Imma visual artist..maybe entertainer? IDK. But it's daunting as time to be a poignant, vocal membe r in our community cause I do not have the credibility to speak up, but the shyt I do say just seems like crazy talk to our people. I just don't get it why we can't get right. And it's not the inner city or ghetto folk that is having issues with understanding the political processes, it's the college educated black folks.

 

[MarcP]

UM, SO THAT'S WHO YOU CONNECT WITH. SO, I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE MAKE A LOT OF MONEY OFF OF THE RACES FIGHTING AGAINST EACH OTHER AND BICKERING. AND THEY'RE THE ONES WHO PUSH IT IN OUR FACE ALL THE TIME THAT WE'RE SEPARATE.

He said that while talking to Tucker god damn Carlson.

 

[TEKBEATZ]

 

[fact]

cant wait until you have a gay relative

its easy to forget theyre people until its your niece or nephew

bet it'll be world class juelzing outta you tho

It’s either him or his own son or daughter, the only folks that are that concerned about who other people are fukking, are either dreaming about glizzys, or they own kid is gay, and they are projecting.

 

[Big Blue]

Not saying he is 100% correct, but, all of you replying to this thread...

Most of y'all were born after 1980/1990. Is there something you have not been able to do that you might have otherwise been able to do if you were white?

And it can't be, "if I was white, my grandparents would've had money and I could've gotten into Harvard due to their connections." That applies to establishment old money types who are less than 1% of the population.

Are you brehs really this stupid? You think generational wealth only applies to the 1 percent???