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50 cent retracts Trump endorsement..🤷🏽‍♀️ (Original Post) helpisontheway Oct 2020 OP
Lol! Seal the deal with another spin.... unblock Oct 2020 #1
Hmm... Mike Nelson Oct 2020 #2
Too late. He'll forever have that trump stench on him. brush Oct 2020 #3
Same with Ice Cube. cwydro Oct 2020 #5
Ice Cube is a little different. He's well intentioned but under informed and naive. brush Oct 2020 #6
Sorry, I think Ice Cube is an idiot. cwydro Oct 2020 #8
Okay, that's your opinion. But what do you think about his... brush Oct 2020 #10
As I said, I think he's an idiot. cwydro Oct 2020 #17
Why are you avoiding the issue of how descendants of enslavement... brush Oct 2020 #20
There were others that pushed the Contract with Black America JonLP24 Oct 2020 #21
Cube NEVER supported Trump, don't see that anywhere uponit7771 Oct 2020 #24
He's also an unapologetic antisemite. EllieBC Oct 2020 #9
Pls check this link. It's good information on what you say. brush Oct 2020 #13
Ok he's apologized for now. EllieBC Oct 2020 #14
Kareem Abdul Jabbar has also reached out to help educate him. brush Oct 2020 #16
What an idiot. cwydro Oct 2020 #4
It's hard to understand why people get aboard a sinking ship. panader0 Oct 2020 #7
Go away spanone Oct 2020 #11
... Nevilledog Oct 2020 #12
maybe he can renounce wordly things and become a monk. nt msongs Oct 2020 #15
He supported Bush also. He is just a Republican . JI7 Oct 2020 #18
Oh god.. so he's not a jon voight james wooder.. Cha Oct 2020 #19
Woo, we got Fiddy Cent back! Tarc Oct 2020 #22
Fuck him, no really this is some sell out shit. uponit7771 Oct 2020 #23

brush

(53,876 posts)
3. Too late. He'll forever have that trump stench on him.
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 05:16 PM
Oct 2020

What a dumb SOB. trump is an out and out racist and he endorsed him.

brush

(53,876 posts)
6. Ice Cube is a little different. He's well intentioned but under informed and naive.
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 05:44 PM
Oct 2020

Naive in allowing trump's campaign to latch onto part of his platinum plan and under informed in thinking it's ever a good idea to trust trumpers. I say his intentions are good as he spoke in an interview with journalist Roland Martin that he specifically wants programs aimed towards helping African American descendants of enslavement. He feels that that demographic group, gets lost in the shuffle with bills and programs which encompass all POCs and other minorities. I tend to agree with that African Americans are the most visible minority and have historically been the most targeted victims of racism and are the victims of hundreds of years of the most vicious and continued racism (see George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and on and on and an on).

Japanese Americans were compensated for WWll internment. Jewish holocaust victims were compensted. Native Americans, though still poorly treated, many tribes have sovereign nation status and casino businesses. Nothing had ever been done to address the hundreds of years of stolen, unpaid labor that African Americans endure. And there's always excuses like, "well I wasn't alive during slavery and I had nothing to do with it", while benefiting presently from getting first preference over African Americans in hiring, promotions, housing opportunities and on and on and on and on.

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
8. Sorry, I think Ice Cube is an idiot.
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 05:56 PM
Oct 2020

And I used to be a fan.

From Fuck the Police to supporting trump? Pfft.

brush

(53,876 posts)
10. Okay, that's your opinion. But what do you think about his...
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 06:01 PM
Oct 2020

idea of wanting legislation to help specifically African American descendants of enslavement?

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
17. As I said, I think he's an idiot.
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 06:43 PM
Oct 2020

Maybe he means well, but I doubt he knows what he’s talking about.

You’re defending a trump fan? Ok.

brush

(53,876 posts)
20. Why are you avoiding the issue of how descendants of enslavement...
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 06:56 PM
Oct 2020

have been treated, and continue to be treated, horribly by this nation?

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
21. There were others that pushed the Contract with Black America
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 07:01 PM
Oct 2020

Ice Cube used his name and platform to help push those proposals. He offered to work with both parties while the Democrats told him after the election.

However, the CBC has already proposed much of what it is in the CWBA but has stalled due to the GOP.

EllieBC

(3,042 posts)
9. He's also an unapologetic antisemite.
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 06:01 PM
Oct 2020

My opinion of him has never been too high. Though my opinion of rap in general isn’t too high. Too much misogyny and homophobia and too many apologists for it.

EllieBC

(3,042 posts)
14. Ok he's apologized for now.
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 06:09 PM
Oct 2020

He’s done this several times. Sorry, I’m not very trusting of repeat antisemites.

panader0

(25,816 posts)
7. It's hard to understand why people get aboard a sinking ship.
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 05:47 PM
Oct 2020

Governor Ducey from my state of Az did it when trump came to town. He mocked
Biden by stuttering---JJJJJoe. With donnie standing to his side, smiling. Ducey, you'll
never be reelected.

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