“What’s there for the Black Community?”

Rapper Ice Cube criticized members of the Democratic Party after last week’s convention, saying that despite all the fanfare, no speakers were talking about “a contract with Black America.”

The hip-hop icon and actor urges Black Americans to make both parties “deserve that vote.” Speaking on Instagram Saturday, he mocked speakers at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) for only talking about President Donald Trump’s vote out of office in the upcoming election.

Ice Cube said small businesses with owners of Blacks were left out of the vibrations passed by Congress during the coronavirus pandemic, and he does not think Democrats have a plan for how to help troubled minority communities move forward.

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Ice Cube urges its followers on social media to ask themselves, “Where’s our f ** king bailout?”

“A lot of people stand up [at the DNC] talking and everyone really throwing it up, throwing their hands in the air like they just did not care – but what I did not hear was: what’s in it for us? “, said the rapper in a video posted Saturday.” What is there for the Black community? Besides the same old thing we got from these parties. What is there for us, for real?

“I did not hear anyone mention a contract with Black America – and I do not know why, because it is one of the most comprehensive reform documents that has happened in a long time, that could really tackle the problem. But how does it looks like they have no plans, “Ice Cube continued.

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The California-based rapper, whose real name is O’Shea Jackson, said he heard several urgent calls to “get Trump out” during the four days of the convention. But he heard nothing from DNC figures on how to solve tangible problems. Democratic leaders, ranging from senators to every American to presidential nominee Joe Biden, were heard urging supporters to vote in November, and to prevent the outcome of the 2016 presidential election against Hillary Clinton.

But Ice Cube said that encouragement only shows a plan “for the first day” after the upcoming November 3 election.

“But if you get Trump out, what then? What do we get in the first 100 days? That’s what we’re trying to figure out, what do we actually get – things they could get just like that, during the day,” he said. . “They just pulled $ 3 trillion out of an a ** and gave it to their friends. That’s US taxpayer money. That’s your money they’re just giving away.”

Ice Cube cited surveys that found that 42 percent of black-owned businesses close and he wondered how members of Congress from both the GOP and Democrats could claim that the country has no money for average citizens.

“Where’s our failing bailout? Where’s the bailout? Not the PPP loan they did not give us, where’s the bailout? I do not want to hear about shortages, I do not want to hear about what our generations will have to pay – if we do not have s ** t, they will have nothing to pay for anything. “

Newsweek reached out on Saturday afternoon to a representative for the rapper as the DNC for additional comments.