Ice Cube has drawn up a Contract With Black America to create the “more perfect union” that all Americans deserve. Ice Cube and Trump’s campaign has spoken about giving $500 billion to the Black Community. But Black Twitter is wondering if Ice Cube’s Contract is with Black America or Trump? Ice Cube and Trump haven’t always seen eye-to-eye, so what’s changed?
Darrick Hamilton, in the Preface to the Contract, says “This Contract with Black America strikes at the heart of racism and presents a blueprint to achieve racial economic justice. It was written in the backdrop of the killing of George Floyd, which set off a wave of protests not seen since the Civil Rights Era of the 1950’s and ’60’s, and a global pandemic in which the Black mortality rate is more than double the White rate and in which 45% (nearly half) of Black-owned businesses closed. That the impact of something presumably random, such as a pandemic, however catastrophic, can be so linked to one’s racial identity is highly problematic – and further evidence that, as a nation, we are failing miserably. This links to a larger political and economic vulnerability, whether we’re in a pandemic or not: the immoral devaluation of Black lives has been ingrained in America’s political economy and is long overdue for a reckoning.
This Contract with Black America is a patriotic pathway to promote our shared prosperity and achieve racial economic justice.†Read more here. Contract With Black America. 2021, A Contract With Black America: Addressing Racial Racial Inequality. 15 October 2020
Ice Cube and Trump’s campaign have spoken and Cube said that he reached out to Joe Biden’s campaign but was told that they would look at the issue after the election. On Wednesday, Trump’s administration announced that Cube wants the money to go into black people’s hands, to help build the community and they made a few changes before agreeing on the terms. My thoughts are Trump will say anything to get the black votes. We all heard him telling the Proud Boys to “Stand Back and Stand By”. Why does Cube think that Trump will stick to his word? My belief is that by Cube doing this now instead of waiting until after the election, some black people may believe Trump and vote for him. Cube has made it very clear that Biden’s camp has offered to consider the contract until after the election but Trump has agreed to it with a few changes.
See Ice Cube’s interview here with TMZ.
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