{"id":1981130,"date":"2023-07-24T08:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T12:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-rapper-ice-cube-a-cancel-culture-target-for-working-with-trump-urges-people-to-fight-for-your-rights\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T08:27:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T12:27:55","slug":"watch-rapper-ice-cube-a-cancel-culture-target-for-working-with-trump-urges-people-to-fight-for-your-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-rapper-ice-cube-a-cancel-culture-target-for-working-with-trump-urges-people-to-fight-for-your-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Ice Cube, targeted by Cancel Culture for Trump collaboration, urges fight for rights."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-rapper-ice-cube-a-cancel-culture-target-for-working-with-trump-urges-people-to-fight-for-your-rights%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1981130&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Hollywood Sensation\u2064 Ice Cube Urges Americans\u2063 to Fight Against \u2062Cancel Culture<\/h2>\n<p>Hollywood sensation and rapper Ice Cube discussed the dangers of \u201ccancel culture\u201d during an appearance on Piers Morgan\u2019s show, urging Americans to fight\u200c against the practice.<\/p>\n<p>Cancel culture refers to the mass shunning and silencing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-finally-discovers-china-uses-u-s-media-to-attack-the-united-states\/\" title=\"CNN Finally Discovers China Uses U.S. Media To Attack The United States\">public figures<\/a> over opinions or \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-rapper-ice-cube-a-cancel-culture-target-for-working-with-trump-urges-people-to-fight-for-your-rights\/\" title=\"Rapper Ice Cube, targeted by Cancel Culture for Trump collaboration, urges fight for rights.\">actions\u2064 deemed\u2063 unacceptable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPeople are very \u2064polarized in \u2064all kind of ways. People\u200b are \u200cafraid to speak out because of the cancel culture that we have today.\u2064 So I just think, you \u2063know, people are afraid, and they\u2019re running to their corners,\u201d he said last week on TalkTV\u2019s \u201cPiers \u200bMorgan Uncensored.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn a way, it is a cancer, cancel culture,\u201d Morgan said. \u201cIt behaves like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt does, because\u2063 it makes not \u2062only the person that\u2019s getting canceled, they\u2019re trying to\u200d shut them up, but\u200c anybody\u2019s watching nowadays shut up, \u200cbecause they say \u200bif it can happen to\u2062 this guy, \u2062it can happen to\u2062 me,\u201d Cube said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo by smashing somebody who says\u2063 something that you might not like and canceling them, \u2064it actually reverberates throughout\u2064 the whole community. And everybody now is watching\u2063 what they say all the time,\u201d\u200c he added.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan said it \u2062\u201ccrazy\u201d it is for cancel\u2064 culture to be occurring in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Cube was\u200c asked how to fight it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSay what \u200cyou\u2064 want to say, \u2064and to hell\u200d with the consequences,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou got to be willing to fight \u200bfor\u200b your rights\u200c and fight for\u200c what you believe in,\u201d the actor and entrepreneur said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if you\u2019re a person who believes in freedom of speech, you have to \u200cfight and\u2062 say what you feel and let the chips \u200bfall where they may and stand \u200don \u2064that,\u201d Cube said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may not be an \u200ceasy road, but I think\u2062 you feel better about yourself \u2064when you say what\u2062 needs to be said\u200c at the time\u2062 it needs\u200c to \u2064be said\u200d and not afterwards, where you go home and think, \u2018I should have\u200b said this when that guy was there,\u2019 or \u2018when\u2064 I was there, I should have said that and\u2062 I didn\u2019t.\u2019 That haunts\u200c you more.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Ice Cube&#8217;s Experience with Cancel Culture<\/h3>\n<p>Ice\u2062 Cube has been the target of cancel culture himself for working \u2064with then-President Donald Trump in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper\u2019s efforts with\u2063 the White House revolved around\u200b his \u201cContract with Black America,\u201d a proposal to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-closes-season-with-inspire-change-ad-football-is-over-but-systemic-racism-goes-on\/\" title=\"NFL Closes Season With \u2018Inspire Change\u2019 Ad: Football Is Over But \u2018Systemic Racism\u2019 Goes On\">address racial inequality<\/a> in the \u2063U.S.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Shoutout\u2062 to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/icecube?\">@icecube<\/a> for \u2062his willingness to step up and work with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> \u200b Administration to help develop the \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PlatinumPlan?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PlatinumPlan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ICYMI: \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V0qOAp0lwR\">https:\/\/t.co\/V0qOAp0lwR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leaders gonna lead, haters gonna hate. Thank you for leading! <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katrina \u200cPierson (@KatrinaPierson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatrinaPierson\/status\/1316125906444918785?\">October\u2062 13, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For \u200bpartnering with Trump, however, Cube was attacked on social media\u200c and accused of \u201cworking \u2064with the Darkside.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Every side\u200c is the Darkside for\u2063 us here in\u200b America. They\u2019re all the same until something changes\u200c for \u2063us. They all lie and they all cheat \u200dbut we can\u2019t afford not \u2063to negotiate with whoever is in power or our condition in this country \u200cwill never change. \u200dOur justice is bipartisan. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xFIXXpOs8B\">https:\/\/t.co\/xFIXXpOs8B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ice Cube (@icecube) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/icecube\/status\/1316483389663244288?\">October\u2063 14, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Among his critics\u200c was Ibram X. Kendi, a Boston University professor and writer known for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/louisville-mayoral-candidate-slams-broken-system-after-shooter-bailed-out-by-blm-associated-fund\/\" title=\"Louisville Mayoral Candidate Slams \u2018Broken System\u2019 After Shooter Bailed Out By BLM-Associated Fund\">radical racial activism<\/a>, who accused the rapper of \u201clying to himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Before we talk truth to power, we must talk truth to ourselves. Cube is \u200blying to himself that he can get Trump to deliver Black progress in exchange for\u200d Black votes\u2063 when Trump hasn\u2019t brought \u2064progress for his own supporters. The process starts brother \u2063by talking truth to yourself. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iaECTgJhvr\">https:\/\/t.co\/iaECTgJhvr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ibram X.\u200c Kendi (@ibramxk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ibramxk\/status\/1316751801358708741?\">October 15, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>CNN published an Op-Ed by history professor Peniel E. Joseph \u200bwith the headline \u201cWhy Ice \u200dCube\u2019s political logic is so dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joseph denounced the rapper for \u2062working with Trump \u2064and the GOP, which he called\u200d \u201ca refuge for the architects of \u200dracial division, scapegoating, and hatred.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Ice Cube&#8217;s Battle Against Cancel Culture<\/h3>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\" class=\"one-half\">\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-question\">Should Americans\u200c abandon cancel culture?<\/div>\n<div id=\"pollFormBox\" style=\"display: none\">\n\t\t<label>Yes<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t<label>No<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-disclaimer\">\n<p>\t\tCompleting this poll entitles you to The Western Journal news updates free\u200d of charge. \u200bYou may opt out\u2063 at anytime. \u200dYou also agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/terms-service\/\">Terms of Use<\/a>.\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results\" style=\"display: none\">\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-yes\" style=\"width: 0%\">\n<p>\t\t\tYes: 0% (0 Votes)\n\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-no\" style=\"width: 0%\">\n<p>\t\t\tNo:\u2062 0% (0 Votes)\n\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/ice-cubes-foolish-ego-driven-collaboration-with-the-trump-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Beast<\/a> assailed\u2062 \u201cIce Cube\u2019s \u200bFoolish, Ego-Driven Collaboration With\u200c the Trump Campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat Black male \u200cpublic figures like \u2063Ice Cube \u2026 think that their collaboration with\u2064 an overtly racist\u200c administration will uplift Black Americans \u200coffers a living definition of hubris,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Cube was also\u2063 slammed in 2020 over posts he made on Twitter that some said were anti-Semitic.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-rapper-ice-cube-cancel-culture-target-working-trump-urges-people-fight-rights\/\">Watch: Rapper Ice Cube, a Cancel Culture Target for Working \u200cwith Trump, Urges People to &#8216;Fight for Your Rights&#8217;<\/a> \u2062 appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood star Ice Cube joined Piers Morgan&#8217;s show to address the perils of &#8220;cancel culture,&#8221; urging Americans to resist it. This culture involves ostracizing and silencing public figures for their deemed unacceptable opinions or actions. 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