Rapper Ice Cube, whose real name is O’Shea Jackson, has demanded that Hollywood pay out reparations to black people for its alleged history of racism, according to the Daily Wire.
The rapper appeared on “The Breakfast Club” radio broadcast with Charlamagne tha God, saying that “all the studios” which contributed to black pain need to literally pay for what they have done. Ice Cube did not make mention of any other race or group that has been discriminated against in the United States—only black people.
“Virtually all the studios who contributed in our narrative, in our pain, in our misrepresentation, in stealing our history and giving it to white people for over a 100 years, so I think these studios that we know and love should kick in to a studio that’s ran by black people with no outside influences, and whose movies and projects are owned by those black people,” he said.
Ice Cube appears to be under the assumption that black people cannot create and produce their own stories, which is not only possible, but is being done right now. His statement raised eyebrows among critics that say he believes a form of segregation is permitted so long as it works to his advantage.
Ice Cube is not only a proponent of black people having their own space, but he has also expressed ardent support for anti-Semitic voices, such as Louis Farrakhan, who compared Jews to “termites.” Fox ‘Soul’ Network even aired Farrakhan for the Fourth of July.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar went after Ice Cube for his anti-Semitic beliefs, saying that it is a “very troubling omen for the future of the Black Lives Matter movement,” according to Fox News.
Ice Cube continued by saying that Hollywood needs to give more ownership to black directors and writers who put their own projects together.
“Those black artists, those black directors and writers, and people who put the projects together should own the projects—and these studios, they can license the projects, the movies, or the TV shows or whatever, or they don’t have to,” he said.
“We can put them on our own streaming services. I just think it’s a form of reparations from the entertainment industry if they all had to invest a certain amount of money into the studio each year as payment for all the damage they’ve done to black people.”
Ice Cube went on to say that because black people make up around 13% of the population, they should receive 13% “of the pie.” This operates under the assumption that 100% of the black community is involved in Hollywood.
“We catching hell no matter who in office, and we always have. So we need to think about who’s gonna support this plan, and try to better the whole country … try to do it in a [sic] across the board, broad manner, because … stomping out little fires here and there, it just ain’t gonna cut it,” he said.
“We are 13% of this country — more, 13.5 — and we deserve 13.5% of the pie, straight up, across the board. …We’re not trying to get to reform. We need equality, straight up. … Why reform a system that was geared towards our demise? We need to be equal.”
Charlamagne echoed support, saying, “Yeah, f**k reform,” adding that “we gotta tear the whole system down; dismantle the whole mechanism of white supremacy.”
Ice Cube went on to say that he does not feel free in America, despite being a multi-millionaire, saying “[There’s] no way to feel free in America because I’m connected to our people, you know, so I actually feel the pain.”
“You feel it in your bones,” he continued. “That’s how I feel when I see something happen to one of us in the street. I feel it in my bones, and so I don’t feel free. I feel like that person. I feel like that can happen to me; that can happen to one of my sons; that can happen to my daughter; that can happen to my nephews, nieces, my father. That can happen to my mother.”
“How the hell are you going to feel free in this country just ‘cause you got money? That ain’t s**t,” he concluded.