Trump, Ice Cube, and the Racist Roots of Black Capitalism
Black capitalism, touted by the Trump Administration as the way forward, was promoted by Republicans as a counter to the Black Power movement. It cannot help us now.
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7 min readOct 16, 2020
“Leaders gonna lead, haters gonna hate,” Black MAGA ambassador and onetime Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson tweeted this week — to Ice Cube.
Black Twitter immediately jumped on the irony of the original N.W.A being down with the GOP. Ice Cube quickly defended his actions, claiming that while both parties had reached out to him regarding his Contract With Black America (CWBA), Republicans were willing to move quickly on his recommendations.
Perhaps Cube should have considered more closely what an association with the GOP would demand of his reputation. In this late stage of capitalism, Republican money is blood money.
He isn’t the only Black man down for that particular cause. “Today is historic because for the first time you have a…
