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.”
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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.”
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