Rapper Ice Cube posted a video to Twitter criticizing the Democratic Party for pushing “the same old thing” following the DNC.
“A lot of people getting up [at the DNC] talking and everybody really eating it up, throwing their hands in the air like they just don’t care. … What I didn’t hear was: What’s in it for us?” the rapper asked in the video posted Saturday. “What’s in it for the black community? Besides the same old thing we’ve been getting from these parties. What’s in it for us, for real?”
“I didn’t hear anybody mention a contract with black America — and I don’t know why because it’s one of the most comprehensive reform documents that’s come about in a long time that could really address the problem.”
“The way it look, they don’t have a plan,” Ice Cube continued. “Everybody is talking about, ‘Get Trump out. Get Trump out. Get Trump out.’ If you vote, that’s going to happen on the first day, so now what? Trump out, now what? What? What do we get in the first 100 days? That’s what we’re trying to figure out. What do we actually get?”
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— Ice Cube (@icecube) August 22, 2020
Ice Cube’s video has since gone viral, garnering more than 1 million views and 19,000 retweets.
The rapper also published an op-ed for the Hill in July titled “With an energized civil rights movement on the streets, Ice Cube demands concrete results with his Contract with Black America.”
“Do we actually believe Biden and the Democrats will make real differences unless we make them commit to wholesale change? MLK himself doubted the political will of the White liberal. The objective is not handouts to assuage white guilt, nor do we want White’s equality diminished either. We need White’s to look within and be honest about how they benefit from white privilege, and always will, unless our society reimagines what America should have looked like in the beginning and does the hard work of reform to get our country where it should be,” he wrote.
The rapper and actor has also criticized Republicans and President Trump in recent years. He released a song in 2018 titled “Arrest the President,” which has lyrics such as, “Let’s meet at the White House / Run in and turn the lights out / They treat it like a trap house / These muthafuckas never take the trash out.”
