When Trump advisor Katrina Pierson announced Ice Cube helped the administration with this last minute “Platinum Plan” for Black Americans, folks began to drag him online. Soon after, Cube clarified his involvement with the plan. Deets inside…
N.W.A. to….MAGA?
Ice Cube previously developed a "Contract With Black America" plan, which we're still not clear on how it will help black women specifically. It seems Cube believes the Trump campaign when they said they would take it in, despite the fact we see barely any of his initiatives in the finalized "Platinum Plan."
Trump advisor Katrina Pierson hopped on Twitter to shoutout rapper/producer/actor Ice Cube for his involvement in developing the “Platinum Plan” alongside the Trump administration. And it caused a sh*t load of controversy on social media. The White House advisor thanked Cube for “his willingness to step up and work with” Trump on the “Platinum Plan,” which promises to help black businesses.
Shoutout to @icecube for his willingness to step up and work with @realDonaldTrump Administration to help develop the #PlatinumPlan
ICYMI: https://t.co/V0qOAp0lwR
Leaders gonna lead, haters gonna hate. Thank you for leading!
— Katrina Pierson (@KatrinaPierson) October 13, 2020
"Shoutout to @icecube for his willingness to step up and work with @realDonaldTrump Administration to help develop the #PlatinumPlan ICYMI: https://cdn.donaldjtrump.com/public-files/press_assets/president-trump-p... Leaders gonna lead, haters gonna hate. Thank you for leading!,” she tweeted.
It's interesting who the Trump Administration chooses to "listen to" and who they chose to ignore, as multiple black people from academia and politics attempted to Work with Trump early on in his candidacy and Presidency. All have been ignored except for entertainers who don't come tot he table with experience and academic expertise in the areas they speak on.
Trump’s “Platinum Plan” promises to “increase access to capital in black communities by almost $500 billion” by creating 500,000 black-owned businesses and 3 million new jobs for the black community. It also claims to give the black community “access to better education and job training.” The Platinum Plan pledges to strengthen Trump’s immigration and policing policies in order to protect jobs and communities. It's important to note, this is not $500B of new money. This is almost all money that is already in place for various roads to help certain groups, and Trump's administration has yet to use it for what it is there for. But, suddenly, a month before the election, he suddenly remembered it's there.
You can read the full plan here.
Cancel culture didn’t waste any time on calling Cube out for working with Trump on the “Platinum Plan,” so he took to Twitter to explain. He said he reached out to both the Republicans and the Democrats to discuss the development of policy plans to aide the black community. He said Republicans responded while Dems said they would address his "Contract with Black America" after the election.
Facts: I put out the CWBA. Both parties contacted me. Dems said we’ll address the CWBA after the election. Trump campaign made some adjustments to their plan after talking to us about the CWBA.
— Ice Cube (@icecube) October 14, 2020
“Facts: I put out the [Contract with Black America],” Cube tweeted. “Both parties contacted me. Dems said we’ll address the CWBA after the election. Trump campaign made some adjustments to their plan after talking to us about the CWBA.”
It's also important to note, the Biden Harris platform (WHICH HAS BEEN AVAILABLE HERE SINCE EARLIER THIS YEAR) already addresses much of what Cube is asking for. The rapper/actor continued to explain himself on Twitter, responding to fans who questioned why he would align himself with the Trump administration who has proven to be liars and proven to use black people for photo ops and smoke screens to prove they're not racist. People also have been pointing out that Trump gives them nothing they ask for in the end.
Peep the tweets:
Every side is the Darkside for us here in America. They’re all the same until something changes for us. They all lie and they all cheat but we can’t afford not to negotiate with whoever is in power or our condition in this country will never change. Our justice is bipartisan. https://t.co/xFIXXpOs8B
— Ice Cube (@icecube) October 14, 2020
Black progress is a bipartisan issue. When we created the Contract With Black America we excepted to talk to both sides of the isle. Talking truth to power is part of the process.
— Ice Cube (@icecube) October 15, 2020
Cube said he did it for the betterment of the black community:
I will advise anybody on the planet who has the power to help Black Americans close the enormous wealth gap. https://t.co/l0HylC5JCV
— Ice Cube (@icecube) October 15, 2020
And he made it clear he didn’t endorse anyone:
I haven’t endorsed anybody. https://t.co/kmP99DdZug
— Ice Cube (@icecube) October 15, 2020
We're playing semantics with the word endorse. If you're saying you want an administration to incorporate your platform, and you claim they did, you certainly aren't going to disavow people from voting from them to enact your plan like they promised. Cube, by the wway, was encouraging people NOT to vote at all just a few motnhs ago. We guess it's ok to vote now that a set of demands he came up with to speak on behalf of the black community is being "looked at" by Trump? Even though these demands are already in the Biden harris plan in far more detail?
A few days before the controversy, he shared a video talking about his “agenda for black Americans” with his “Contract with Black America” and said he was pushing it on everybody.
“The problems facing America are too deep and wide to simply reform one area or another,” the contract said. “Long-lasting solutions demand a comprehensive thorough ‘rethink’ of America so that each new approach in each area supports the success of the others. This Contract with Black America will provide conceptual approaches in several areas.”
The contract details 13 areas of improvement, including prison reform, bank lending, police reform and the elimination of all confederate monuments.
DON'T KILL THE MESSENGER #CWBA #ContractWithBlackAmerica pic.twitter.com/8NqthXp268
— Ice Cube (@icecube) October 11, 2020
Again, almost all of this is directly and better addressed by the Biden Harris plan.
Political commentator Bakari Sellers said Cube got tricked by the Trump administration:
Biden has a black agenda & a racial equity agenda.
He has a black female VP who will help oversee COVID recovery for a virus which from a health & economic POV devastated black communities.
He will appoint a black woman to the SCOTUS.
& @icecube fell for something shiny.
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) October 14, 2020
"Biden has a black agenda & a racial equity agenda," he tweeted. "He has a black female VP who will help oversee COVID recovery for a virus which from a health & economic POV devastated black communities. He will appoint a black woman to the SCOTUS."
Civil rights activist Shaun King hopped on Twitter to point out Cube never endorsed Trump:
Ice Cube didn’t endorse Donald Trump. Period.
Never has.
Never would.— Shaun King (@shaunking) October 15, 2020
Black Americans have expressed their thoughts about Cube working with the Trump administration on the policy plan. Here are some reactions below:
The wild thing is that Eazy E went to a fundraiser at the George HW Bush White House in 1991 and got criticized about *for the rest of his life.* Ice Cube apparently forgot about that when he decided to collaborate with an infinitely worse administration.
— jelani cobb (@jelani9) October 15, 2020
Black men are breaking my heart with this caping for Cube-cum-Trump. Apparently y’all want to be to 2020 what white women were to 2016. And this is why to be Black+Woman is to have to serious consider DAILY, what it means to get too close to either group. Traitorous MFs.
— Brittney Cooper (@ProfessorCrunk) October 15, 2020
I am anti Trump. I believe he’s an existential threat to the nation.
I’m sure he’s giving Ice Cube @icecube nothing more than lip service to siphon Black votes.
But it’s not Cube’s fault Dems don’t want to talk specifics about Black people until after they get our votes. https://t.co/CGlWJ1IEJc
— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) October 15, 2020
The Tr*mp administration gave people rent money for one month in the midst of a pandemic as unemployment skyrocketed and Ice Cube thinks he about to aid black people in the fight for economic liberation cause he said so?.... THIS IS WHY HARRIET COULD NOT FREE ALL OF THE SLAVES.
— jiggaman (@jiggyjayy2) October 15, 2020
Ice Cube dissed Eazy E on "No Vaseline" for having dinner with HW Bush.
Nearly 30 years later, here he is palling around with a massively worse and more racist President.
It's pretty damn shameful to see... https://t.co/XPPKKQIWrX— Kevin D. GrĂ¼ssing (pronounced Grew-Sing) (@KevDGrussing) October 14, 2020
We already knew Ice Cube was working for donald trump, it's only official now.
— Black Professor (@WonderKing82) October 14, 2020
What's fucked up about this Ice Cube situation, he didn't have the courage to say he was working with Trump, he used BLACKNESS as his platform to speak on Trump behalf. He's a coward, we had to learn about his partnership with Trump from a white woman 20 days before an election.
— Black Professor (@WonderKing82) October 14, 2020
3 weeks ago Ice Cube acted as if he was still vacillating between Biden and Trump while quietly working with Trump. I called it manipulation of the Black Male Vote and I was right.
— . (@shOoObz) October 14, 2020
Anyone else find the timing of the release of the “Platinum Plan”…sketchy? Trump has been in office for the last four years and Black Americans are just now being presented with a policy plan days before the presidential election? And none of this plan was enacted these previous 4 years?
Yeah, this milk isn’t clean at all. Thoughts?
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