“Cube is promising votes he can’t deliver for money he’s unlikely to get for change it can’t cover. In poker, that means someone called your bluff.”
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Oct 19, 2020
In early October, the Trump administration rolled out its so-called Platinum Plan to court Black voters. As it turned out, the pandering-ass name only scratched the surface; the plan was cribbed from Ice Cube’s Contract With Black America (but only after Cube offered it to the Trump and Biden campaigns). In an excoriating essay, Scott Woods analyzes Ice Cube’s tactics and comes to the conclusion that the artist isn’t a shark at the chessboard—he’s a fish at the poker table.
