Ice Cube: If You Believe in Freedom of Speech, Now’s the Time to Fight

Rapper Ice Cube discussed the dangers of “cancel culture” and declared that now is the time to fight for freedom of speech during an interview with Piers Morgan on his “Uncensored” show.

“People are very polarized in all kinds of ways. People are afraid to speak out because of the cancer culture — cancel; I said cancer — cancel culture that we have today,” Ice Cube said.

“So I just think, you know, people are afraid, and they’re running to their corners,” he said

“In a way, it is a cancer, cancel culture,” Morgan said. “It behaves like that.”

“It does, because it makes not only the person that’s getting canceled, they’re trying to shut them up, but anybody’s watching nowadays shut up, because they say if it can happen to this guy, it can happen to me,” Cube responded.

“So by smashing somebody who says something that you might not like and canceling them, it actually reverberates throughout the whole community. And everybody now is watching what they say all the time,” he added.

Morgan observed it was “crazy” it is for cancel culture to be occurring in the US.

“Say what you want to say, and to hell with the consequences,” ICE Cube said.

“You got to be willing to fight for your rights and fight for what you believe in,” the actor and entrepreneur said.

“And if you’re a person who believes in freedom of speech, you have to fight and say what you feel and let the chips fall where they may and stand on that,” Ice Cube said.

“It may not be an easy road, but I think you feel better about yourself when you say what needs to be said at the time it needs to be said and not afterward, where you go home and think, ‘I should have said this when that guy was there,’ or ‘when I was there, I should have said that, and I didn’t.’ That haunts you more.”

The rapper faced being canceled in 2020 for working with then-President Donald Trump.

Ice Cube’s efforts with the White House revolved around his “Contract with Black America” to “address racial inequality” in America.

The move gave birth to Trump’s “Platinum Plan” campaign pledge to provide nearly $500 billion in capital access to black communities.

However, Cube was attacked on social media and accused of “working with the Darkside.”

Ibram X. Kendi, a Boston University professor and writer known for his radical racial activism, attacked the rapper accusing him of “lying to himself.”

Since I admittedly know zero about rap (and I’m proud of that BTW) I consider this guy an actor, and a pretty decent one at that. He’s made me laugh on numerous occasions.

And yes, although he stated it cost him 9 MILLION dollars, he had the common sense to refuse to take a covid shot just to do a movie......too bad jamie foxx didn’t follow suit.

Ice Cube & Ibram X. Kendi keywords, sorted, duplicates out:

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Rapper Ice Cube Calls on Black Americans to Ditch Democrat Party [05/20/2023]
BSU drags its feet in releasing contract with racist speaker Ibram X. Kendi [01/22/2023]
Ice Cube Confirms He Missed Out on Multimillion-Dollar Acting Gig Over COVID Shot [11/23/2022]
CBS's Kendi: Gun-Rights Advocates Are Like People Who Fought for Slavery [06/20/2022]
The Double Terror of Being Black in America [05/21/2022]
Boston University professor says Republicans are 'party of white supremacy' [04/17/2022]
University of Virginia paid CRT proponent Ibram Kendi more than $500 per minute for lecture [02/13/2022]
INSIDER Ice Cube says Chris Tucker turned down $12 million to return for 'Friday' sequel due to 'religious reasons' (I'm impressed) [12/31/2021]
Lauren Groff, Ibram X. Kendi among Carnegie Medal finalists [11/08/2021]
Tucker Carlson: Virginia governor race is about where we go as a country [11/02/2021]
Ibram X. Kendi: 'Horrifying' His Daughter Said She Wants to Be a Boy [11/01/2021]
Ice Cube backs out of $9M Sony, Jack Black flick after refusing vax request [10/30/2021]
Activist, historian, writer among `genius grant' recipients [09/28/2021]
Meet Bettina L. Love, A Critical Race Theorist Coming To A School Near You [08/12/2021]
Critical Race Theory tested in American court, deemed unconstitutional [08/06/2021]
What Conservatives Don't Understand About the Black Community [08/03/2021]
bram Kendi: 'So Many Students' Have Come to Me 'Angry' They Didn't Learn About Systemic Racism, Slavery in School [06/09/2021]
Jane Austen Is The Latest Victim Of Upper-Class Whites' Obsession With Race [05/18/2021]
Ibram X. Kendi, False Prophet [04/26/2021]
Congress Should Probe The Military's Investment In Anti-White Extremism [03/18/2021]
IceCube detection of a high-energy particle proves 60-year-old theory [03/10/2021]
Netflix Partners with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi for Three Projects Based on His Books [01/18/2021]
Ice Cube to Speak at Zionist Organization of America Gala [11/13/2020]
Candace Owens on Lil Wayne's Trump support: Liberals laughed at idea of 'Black Exit' by Dems [10/31/2020]
'What's happening out there' with Black men and Trump? (Washington Post worried) [10/24/2020]
Ice Cube Gets It -- Almost [10/22/2020]
Racist Antiracism Teaching Comes to the Suburbs [10/20/2020]
You Ain't Black! Biden Loses 50 Cent and Ice Cube [10/20/2020]
CNN Cancels Rapper Ice Cube Interview After Trump Adviser Reveals He's Working With Administration To Help Blacks [10/16/2020]
Ice Cube defends advising Trump on plan for Black Americans [10/16/2020]
MAJOR COUP: Rapper Ice Cube Helped Donald Trump Develop the Platinum Plan for Black America [10/15/2020]
Sen. John Kennedy refers to Ibram X. Kendi as 'some butthead professor' at ACB confirmation hearing [10/13/2020]
Why The Left Is Attacking Amy Coney Barrett For Adopting Kids From Haiti [09/29/2020]
Twitter CEO Dorsey Gave $10M to 'Antiracist' Scholar Who Spewed Racist Hate at Barrett [09/28/2020]
How to Be an Anti-Intellectual: A lauded book about antiracism is wrong on its facts and in its assumptions. [08/24/2020]
Dems Have Taken Advantage of the Black Vote for a Long Time -- and Rapper Ice Cube Has Had Enough [08/23/2020]
Nick Cannon: Now Black People Turned on Me!!! After Apology to Jewish People [07/17/2020]
Ice Cube Responds to Accusations of Anti-Semitism [another 4Fs: Fascist-Filthy-Farrakhan-Fan] [07/16/2020]
Ice Cube calls Kareem Abdul-Jabbar a Judas for taking '30 pieces of silver' after the NBA legend criticized him and Nick Cannon for anti-Semitism which will damage BLM [07/16/2020]
Fox 'made Nick Cannon APOLOGIZE to keep his Masked Singer job' after anti-white and anti-Semitic podcast as Ice Cube slams Kareem-Abdul Jabbar for taking '30 pieces of silver' following criticism from the NBA legend [07/16/2020]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Where Is the Outrage Over Anti-Semitism in Sports and Hollywood? [07/15/2020]
Rand Paul introduces police reform Bills and gets a cheap shot from Ice Cube [06/24/2020]
Ice Cube Rips Twitter Over 'Censorship' After Being Locked Out [06/17/2020]
Ice Cube: 'Will Trump Be the First President to Nuke a U.S. City?' [06/02/2020]
Ice Cube: 'Will Trump Be the First President to Nuke a U.S. City?' [06/02/2020]
Rapper Ice Cube, Who Benefited From School Choice, Denounces Trump, Who Supports It [03/26/2020]
Shooting reported at Del Mar Racetrack before Ice Cube concert [09/02/2018]
Hamilton's Thomas Kail to Direct Oliver! Movie Remake Starring Ice Cube [01/18/2018]
Ice Cube Confronts Bill Maher on His Show for Saying the N-Word [06/10/2017]
University of Florida Professor: Wanting Black People to Get an Education is "Racist" [04/18/2016]
John Heilemann to Ice Cube: Ferguson, Baltimore Were 'Police Brutality' [04/12/2016]
Ice Cube's son went through a 2-year process to play his dad in 'Straight Outta Compton' [08/20/2015]
Gangsta Rapper 'Ice Cube': Obama Haters are Like Whites Who Don't Like the Black Kid at School ... [06/17/2014]
What's Trending for Conservatives? 'Racism Talk Breeds Disunity' [09/07/2013]
Antarctic IceCube observatory to hunt dark matter (NSF study 'In Search of Neutrinos') [12/23/2010]
Don Imus – The Language of Race [04/13/2007]
Our MTV Unplugged Poll: Which Show Was The Best? What Band or Person Performed? [11/02/2006]
Ice Cube Raps Schwarzenneger in new album [08/01/2006]
Ice Cube Joins Voices Against Oprah [05/26/2006]
Communism and human nature (Bolshie Mod sez, Arise ye kittens of the earth!) [04/05/2005]
Ice Cube Attacks America's Presidents (Ronald Reagan) [03/15/2004]
Chicago Police Apologize to Ice Cube (oops!) [08/04/2003]
Chicago Police Apologize to Ice Cube [07/23/2003]

Ice Cube started off with NWA singing songs like “F__k the Police” and other anti-cop songs. Then he turned into a fairy standard mainstream - fairly noncontroversial - actor. Let’s see where he ends up next.

5 posted on 07/24/2023 7:34:45 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)

Barbershop was a good movie.

“Man, F___ Jesse Jackson!”

Cube has always had conservative leanings, but he’s in too deep with the political black community to ever fully commit to conservatism. He also espouses some very outdated views on what it means to be conservative, for instance, he still thinks you have to be rich to be Republican.

He’s pro 2A whether he’d ever publicly admit it or not. Give a listen to A Gat Is Man’s Best Friend, a pro gun song if there ever was one, and very funny to boot.

I was just told while picking up my inhaler that Netflix is showing sound of freedom. It’s not. I wonder if she heard that on tv media ? Is so the gas light just got brighter.

15 posted on 07/24/2023 10:50:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)

His Freudian slip of “cancer culture” is insensitive...but accurate.

And nobody with two brain cells to rub together gives a rat’s fuzzbutt about the supposed “insensitivity.”

Huh.

First, it’s Fitty speaking Truth about L.A. and No-cash bail.
Now, Ice talkin’ Truth about “cancer culture”[sic].

When these high-profile rappers from truly mean streets start agreein’ with a suburban white boy like me...??

What’s the world comin’ to?

Tell you ONE thing: best keep an eye on the sky, ‘cuz it’s gettin’ REAL!

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