While they might be few and far between, there are those within the entertainment industry that don’t blindly just go along to get along in order to keep their spot in the hierarchy of Hollywood and/or the music business. One of those “renegades” has increasingly become more vocal about it lately, as evidenced by his recent interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
Rap icon and actor Ice Cube spent a day with Carlson to clear the air on how he feels about certain topics, including those in power, the fact he turned down a $9 million movie role because he didn’t want to get the COVID vax and race.
Ice Cube’s take on race was particularly interesting, because he actually puts into action what he talks about wanting for the black community. But, he also has a very common sense take on how race is used and how often.
Carlson asked Ice Cube about the use of the race card in society.
"We’ve been talking almost all day now,” Carlson said before setting up his question. “You haven’t mentioned race a single time. You’ve mentioned economics, rich and poor a number of times. Do you think that we overplay the role of racial conflict in American life?”
Ice Cube responded without hesitation:
Yes. I think race, it takes up too much space. There’s people that we all have in our lives who are same race that we can’t stand, and there’s people in our lives from other races that we get along with way better. So, it’s not about race. It’s not about color and gender and this and that. It’s about who do you connect with? Who do you vibrate with? You know what I mean? Who’s on the same wavelength? Who wants to be the same kind of person? Who wants to do the right thing when you want to do the right thing? That’s who you connect with.
So, I think a lot of people make a lot off of the racists fighting against each other and bickering, and they the ones who push it in our face all the time that we’re separate.
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Carlson interjected for a moment to ask whether Ice Cube agrees that there seems like there’s more of it in recent years than there used to be.
“Yeah, it seems like it’s like you’re stuck in a bad movie and can’t get out — like you can’t find the exit, and it continues to play on the screen, and you’re just running around looking for the exit,” Ice Cube said. “And this bad movie continues to just haunt you day by day by day by day. That’s what we’re caught in — a never-ending, winless battle of race and color, and ‘we’re worried about where you from.”
It’s refreshing to hear a take from any entertainer — regardless of color — almost, in a way, repeat the old Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. quote that you shouldn’t judge people based on the color of their skin, but the content of their character.
Just don’t let the activists hear you downplay one of their most historically effective tactics — race hustling. Although, to be fair, I don’t think Ice Cube is too scared of the mob.
Like he used to rap back in the day, “Today was a good day.”
For the full interview, watch below (Note: the conversation about race begins around the 11:35 mark):
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