Ice Cube and Symone Sanders on White Privilege | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
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Actor, producer and rap icon Ice Cube joins Symone Sanders, David Gregory and former Rep. David Jolly on the Real Time panel for a discussion about race, white privilege, and policing.
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When is Ice Cube going to apologize to the Korean, white, and Jewish communities for the plethora of racist statements he has made against them?
Most teflon dude ever. Went mainstream and nobody ever brings it up. This interview was right after Bill's comments. But if Ice Cube brought it up today, Maher would definitely bring up the Death Certificate album.
When he becomes white.
@@user-vr5zk9ox8d seems like u lost the debate bad
@@TheBaptist07 Cool story, thanks for the helpful input 👍
@@user-vr5zk9ox8d wow seems like u lost the response to the response debate too
*Anyone says anything* *Crowd claps and applauds*
Night Owl Because there's an applause sign
Night Owl in true Liberal sheep fashion
they both clap AND applaud...That's some next level stuff right there, they're already in 2030
+paulo souza LMAO!!!
Low IQ, low information audience.
Bill seemed like he was in a "let's hurry up and move on" mood from the beginning
I am a white male conservative and I felt myself agreeing with Ice Cube a lot. There are words that should not be said and there are bad cops. Good cops should not try to hide the actions of bad police officers. I was in the Army and am fully aware that when I wear a uniform I have to have a certain level of professionalism and part of that is protecting those who you swore an oath too. If one of your brothers or sisters uniform will not follow the law then they themselves broke that path and need to be removed!
Well maybe good black people shouldn’t hide the actions of shitty black people then ….
Words that should not be said should be met with words filled with education & love, but those bad words should still be allowed to be said. Censorship = Tyranny
Next week on Real Time, Snoop Dogg lectures us on being respectful to women
loooooool dont @ me
Okay buddy, good luck finding a wife.
Missed the entire point lol
🤣🤣🤣
Yep, everybody FUCKING HATES RAYMOND!!!
This is painfully hypocritical. The words Ice Cube has used to describe women and other ethnicities have been brutal and he has never apologised.
We Black we get a pass period
If yall never had slavery then maybe we would chill but nah we on yall ass😅💯
Stfu. Blacks have been slaves if this country. Stop trying to equate and minimize or plight.
@@haroldmercer67810P, /Ll
@@haroldmercer6781 this a joke?
If you don't let it go its never going to end.
That’s kind of his purpose. To create the situation that put you one up on somebody permanently.
Nah. Black people (or POC in general) don’t have to just let it go. Racism exists today, and while it isn’t as bad, your ideology will not help fix matters AT all.
Raymond This Is Why you won't get it go.... A FEAR OF 'WHITE EXTINCTION' IS PROVOKING RACIAL BIAS AMONG AMERICAN WHtITES
@@Kyoudontknowme objection assumes a fact not in evidence
@@Kyoudontknowme yeah, if we STOP TALKING about hitler, it'll erase the history of the gassing that occurred. Why do they keep bringing it up?
That moment when Cube looked at the audience after saying 'I accept your apology," shows that man has never forgiven anyone anything in his life.
Maybe. I read your comment before seeing it happen in the video. Made me think it was gonna be really dramatic. But I kinda saw it as the applause threw him off because he was still talking
@@hellamodest ...he was still dragging Bill over the coals..,yes sir he was, and he was not done so he was mad that the audience thought rightly that the attack over, because...after saying, "I accept your apology." one is supposed to actually accept it and stop attacking. Cube was not ready to accept so he continued the attack. He should have said I will accept your apology once I am done humiliating you on your show... I hate Cube for this interview. Bill does not have any black man's blood on his hands. The Cube is a man who admits to having black men's blood on his hands. He talks about the N-word being like a knife from a white man, but he has stabbed black men with real lives, wtf?! Cube has corrupted black youth into taking other black lives, and gives white youth a reason to say the n-word while singing his songs... It was like Hitler telling someone how they were wrong for making a Jew joke. Total blindness for the one who is the real problem (Cube) for black people. Cube has done more harm for Blacks alone, than Bill has done wrong in his entire life.
He accepted an apology personally, and treated it as if it was a personal attack. When it obviously wasn't. What a c&nt.
Joey just by the way he looked at the audience you can see that he's never forgave anybody in his whole life? You know for your comment I could say that you are not very smart but I don't know you but the people closer to you they do.
@@jesu3369 huh? Learn to write English before calling people dumb.
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ahh yes, this timeline....who knew Ice Cube was the purveyor of N-word forgiveness. Delusion, ignorance and self hatred are now the hallmarks of progressives. Google BLACK SLAVE OWNERS; then cry those sweet little liberal tears, reminiscent of the night back in november when you libtards learned majority of whites stopped caring about being called a racist. when the truth fucking hits you. Remember, remember the 8th of November. When your whiteness became amazing When you were free from cries of BIGOTRY, RACIST, SEXIST, HOMOPHOBE Smile and revel in your whiteness and who the fuck shaved that ape and named it Symone
White privilege is when you have slaves like Hillary Clinton and then pretend you are some human rights warrior. lmfao
Oh here we go. Another one who's butthurt that his pres is a lying bag of shit who can't run a business let alone a country. Liberal is still better than being a Trump-fluffing republicunt any old day of the fuckin' week.
You can see Bill's facial expression just saying "oh give me a break"
lol Why are you americans trying to turn this into a small thing that doesn't matter and why is cube still in hollywood? In any nation except for your american nation and your slave britain two of the most hated nations in the world people who say the things that ice cube has said get thrown in prison for spewing dangerous racist hatred. I'm not saying I would agree with this I'm just trying to make you understand the situation. You americans are so used to racism being so through the roof in your country to a point that cube saying the things that he's saying seem just a little annoying to you.
@@FriendlyCroock fuck ice cube. No one needs to apologize to him for an off-color joke.
@P Q And maybe you should blame your nation's racism for it cause we all know the power of american influence on the world.
@P Q And let's not pretend that black supremacy is not a thing in america as well. So give me a break. Some of the biggest racists I've seen in your american nation were black.
Bill Maher is a dork. 💯
Ice Cube lecturing on being a good person and not victimizing people is real cute. Lol
Lol
Better than Listening to Epstein excuses
Thank you Ice Cube and Bill Maher. Talk it out with each other. Cancel culture is out of control.
Nope, sorry but Ice came across as a Moe Run here but you do you
Big Time
Accountability goes both ways on this.... Has Ice Cube and all of the gangsta and hip-hop rappers who banged out the word 'nigga' millions of times in their songs, ever considered the cultural impact and message they are sending? People of all walks of life rap along with the lyrics of those rap songs that mentions the word 'nigga' repeatedly... What do we suppose hearing the word over and over again in a song will eventually do to the minds of the listener? We can't be surprised when others loosely use a degrading word, when we've made it OK to publicly demean and degrade ourselves using it.
ABB a.k.a. AstralBooBaby exactly. well said. there is a problem that we should be addressing but ice cube is not the qualified person for the job
ABB a.k.a. AstralBooBaby did you watch the video.he literally just answer all the shit you said
ABB a.k.a. AstralBooBaby Exactly!!!!
Anthony Dixon Just because someone responded to what I pointed out, doesn't negate MY right to state and reiterate my option on this matter.
The Last Word gh
Nice! Now will Ice Cube apologize to the Koreans and the Jews? :D
They already said nobody tell him about 4Chan
Just them? So there is a lot more just say other suppressed minorities
Jews?
Very well said with class and sheer knowledge behind both ice cube and symone's words. I love how cube kept his composure even though he was hurt and a little irritated, and then when bill kept acting as though he was trying so urgently to move past cubes speaking, he looked for her to calm the storm, and she swooped right in with the most intelligent kill shot . ❤️...#respect...#lovemyblackppl....#knowledgeiskey...100...
you don't own a word
Bruh the word is said daily and it’s in songs. Anyone can say it lol. I say it with my friends just like you do
If we will keep going with putting so much emphasis on white and black as we do, sooner or later we will lose focus from what is really important and that is standing up to a racism, together no matter if you are white or black. Education is extremely important but how we deliver it has a huge impact on its reception. We should start from what unite us, rather than divides because as we form stronger relationships we will naturally change and get better with everything.
There really isnt gonna be a "white & black" in USA in another 25-35 years...Explosion of mixed marriages of all races and creeds here...Only thing we re gonna be is American...and probably Communist
You do realize addressing black and white is part of standing up to racism, right?
None of it will matter...In 25 years blacks whites and latinos will intermarry so often , the only color we will be is Red White and Socialist
@@nessleezley’all do realize it’s been qwhites pushing the race thing forever right , I don’t want to waste my time debating with people that’s history illiterate, If more qwhytes were more actually educated then they pretend to be it wouldn’t be a debate it’s a fact that whyte America is the reason for this problem in the U.S
@@nessleezle, yes , but until you speak the truth of the matter and admit to all the anti white discrimination and racism against white people, this conversation is for show and make believe only.
You either die a legend, or live long enough to star in family comedies.
Nice meme copy and paste
Honorable Catsmeat we all know it russia is probably one of the country's where you don't wanna grow up or something lol
Honorable Catsmeat and if you are a normal black person would they still kill you?
@@OP-er9tm So what? Donald Trump has done more than any of us too. Whats your point? Does money determine who knows better or who is right?
lol Why are you americans trying to turn this into a small thing that doesn't matter and why is cube still in hollywood? In any nation except for your american nation and your slave britain two of the most hated nations in the world people like chocolate ice cream get thrown in prison for spewing dangerous racist hatred. I'm not saying I would agree with this I'm just trying to make you understand the situation. You americans are so used to racism being so through the roof in your country to a point that cube saying the things that he's saying seem just a little annoying to you.
Is anyone else tired of getting moral lectures from MILLIONAIRE CELEBRITIES? And also HYPOCRITES?
Then why are you watching Bill Maher in the first place?
ultramegajon oh dear God like you wouldn't believe man
No...especially when those millionaires made career based on being in poverty
Michael Davis Ice cube lived on the rich side of Compton his entire childhood dummy. 😂
I think you'll find that millionaires often are those that have a voice in our society. Regardless of what you think of income disparity etc, I think it's commendable to use that voice. Bill got some heat for what he said (which I think he deserved), and then things moved on. I am still a fan, but think that the conversation that was had was completely appropriate.
Props to Bill for letting these to speak to show their true colors.
What true colors?
Racist belligerent black supremacist Pos
Bill will never make a show about holocaust
@@cristinacristina9964the truth of the Holocaust is that 12,000,000 Christians and gypsy's got executed as well. That isn't mentioned very often. And that is a travesty in it's own right. Lord Jesus rest those poor people's souls.
@@scottmcquarrie7295what are you babbling about?
This was when IceCube was deep in the music industry and their agenda now he's a full on Conservative! I'm glad he woke up.
Let me get my popcorn for the comments.
let me get my pop corn too
You sharing?
UnoriginalUsername25 fuck ice cube, anybody should be allowed to say any word any time anywhere, free speech! the moment u say one group of people can't say a word then u turn into the racist. fuck this pc culture and people's feelings, grow the fuck up ice cube
dave123xxx free speech will only go so far in the streets. dont be like that. its morally wrong what bill said.
dave123xxx You can legally say whatever you want, what Ice Cube is saying that you shouldn't. Its in poor taste. The question really is, why do you want to say it? What context is it so necessary that the mere suggestion that you shouldn't say it enrages you so?
America is a a silly place
BarnBeastPetite it's not that funny when you live there...help.
A pathetic childish place
i like your comment
It's the republicans. They freed the slaves. They passed the civil rights act. Only to destroy white democrats.
Matt G sanity? Like in electing a Trump for president?
"Just stop talking about it" - Morgan Freeman
he and Denzel are on Point ...Cube and TI...Up the creek w out a paddle but have their pockets lines w Benjis
I like the way he said it. Because if we don't both have equal opportunities to speak freely, then we can't tell each other when we crossed the line. Freedom of speech don't mean a line won't be crossed, it means you're free to cross that line, and I'm free to react. #chairshots
I'm a white man raised in a high-income home with an associate degree in a technical school with a couple of certifications under my belt... It's been a year and I'm still looking for work. Did I miss the memo?
harryc657 What's your point mate?
Got all these news anchors and certain circles talking about whites having some kind of special advantage... Like, I fulfilled every checklist in their 'privileged' list. From a high-income home to being as white as they come, and after several months of searching I still can't get a job. I am a walking paradox to these people.
harryc657 oh lol "walking paradox" 😂
That's because you don't know what white privilege is.
I'm black and I thought the joke was funny as hell and I don't mind the N-word as long as it's used the proper way and not used to insult someone
we need more people like you brother. If everyone was as sane as you, there would no racism today.
Well said man, it is about intent, need more people like yourself!
I dare say most black people didn't think that much of it either. I thought the context and timing was comedicaly perfect. If black folks really cared that much, there would have been more comments on this video by black people. But yours is the first I saw after scrolling down alot.
Michel Lalin n
There are extreme people on both sides arguing while rational people like us see people as individuals not as a "THEY".
‘That’s our word now’, just helps to maintain a divide. If it’s our word then it’s all of ours.
Bill looks uncomfortable af. Was he hoping that they would come on and give him a pass.
Ice Cube: "What does make you think, that it was cool to say that?" Me: Gangsta rap made me do it.
That's true actually. The hip hop industry constantly glorifies the word and so both black and white fans of the music think it's 'cool' to use the word.
Me: it's a free country
wow I never though Ice Cube is going to make me understand how that word actually hurts them even if its not with bad intention and I respect that but if they really want the word to disapear stop using it themselfes as well not use them in songs. If its just a forbiden word for white people it just comes out like a mom after swearing telling the child not to swear which we all know its not going to happen.
Eric Wright constantly defended the use of the word in a non-negative connotation
@@magibubu Gee, maybe if they stop saying it to each other, the rest of the world will stop. Alot of foreigners think its a "good" word and its not.
did anyone else cringe when the audience started applauding as soon as ice said "I accept yo apology"
the way the crowd panders to ice cube is sickening
Not at all, i loved it
Nope
I did. I will never apologize for something I've never done. My entire family tree has never done. Ice cube is being a big baby
Yeah it was way too early lol
I've been watching a documentary on Tubi called Reclaiming The Throne and I have learned sooo much!
Bill Maher's face, priceless!😂
Especially just after the 6:00 mark when the lady was telling Bill they need to go on a group field trip to black museums.
Hilarious that a rapper who struggled against censorship is now policing someone else's language. *Hilarious*
hilarious that you must've not watched the video and listen to him explain as to why.
People who are oppressed need to speak louder than those who aren't.
yeah but you can't blame rappers for slavery and jim crow laws
My belief is that in a hundred years the word will have no meaning, why we encourage the disparity only heightens an illegitimate stereotype that propagates a divisive discourse. It's just a fucking word, let it go.
did you not read the sarcasim
Imagine being a multimillionaire, with a mansion, fast cars, generational wealth, part of the richest 1% of people on the planet and having the gall to come on tv and tell people living in poverty, struggling to put food on the table, in a trailer that they’re privileged because of the melanin content of their skin.
Bravo!
Have you heard glutathione? It can cure the darkness of your skin and this artificial white skinning drugs could not cure human stupidity and ignorance.
Cube is a puss.
Lots of poor white folk got a problem with hearing what must be said.
Like Chris Rock said. There are no poor white kids wishing to switch places with him. And he is rich. Naw. I am going to ride this white thing out.
In an 18 July 1952 letter, Martin Luther King wrote to his future wife, Coretta Scott, about his beliefs as a minister and proclaimed: “Let us continue to hope, work, and pray that in the future we will live to see a warless world, a better distribution of wealth, and a brotherhood that transcends race or color
The day people learn what the difference between hating or discriminating against another based on the color of skin and every other thing they call racism this world will begin to heal.
To the woman who spoke second. That word you hate so much will never be gone until it stops coming out of your own mouths.
Correct
The black culture is not looking to get rid of the word amongst each other we making it plain and clear that you as a white person from the caucuses mountains have no historical right to even think of using that word plain and simple black folks can say it because it’s apart of the BLACK culture WE redefine the terminology hence that word is not for you and culture to embrace or speak on so stfu and stop using the mf word
True
However, you cannot disagree with what she said , because it is true.
If you listened closely you'd know, we don't want the word "gone, we just want it to come from a place of love which, generally speaking, cannot happen when it is delivered by a white person based on our countries history. As always, it's about context, not language.
My dad was part of the KKK in 1950s. Even though he changed some of views in later part of his life, he always said there is a difference between "our people" and "their people" every time I challenged him on any race issues. Looks like Ice Cube also subscribe to my dad's "our and their people" theory.
Your dad isn't wrong. There IS between races. No matter what the SWJs say.
+The Radical Conservative I should have been more clear. Of course, there are genetic differences of different races. That's why people have different skins colors, hair and heights, but my dad believed that individuals should be treated different because of races and obviously, that's wrong. Here Ice Cube is saying that Bill cannot say something but other black people can. How is that okay? Either nobody can say it or everybody can.
Saltonion Layspack why do white people want to say the word so bad?!?! Do you want to use racial slurs towards Jews and Spanish people to? No, you just want to do it with black people. Look at yourself and ask why... 🤔
Nay Mc wut bout if you're hispanic 🤔
Nay Mc: why do Black people care so much? If it is so important not to use it, don't use it. I know I am not going to use it. Don't get on my ass because someone, who happens to be white, does something you don't like.
Ice Cube always stood up for his people
Tf is “his people”
No he didn't. He bitched out like a giant soft fuckin pussy and played the bitch ass race and victim cards that chicks use. He threw his "friend" of 20 years under the bus. If that's "standing up" to you, then you're in one bitch ass culture.
Look up 'semper fi' ...learn a thing or 2
Any group that wants to be defended by Ice Cube has already lost my respect. Let's hope there aren't many people who want his defense or share his views.
Ice Cube delivers a message like a 6th grader. The message is important but the way he says it is juvenile.
6 year's later im still waiting on that 2nd question
What ever happened to letting the past, go? I'm Native American and we never get any recognition of Native American race. Are women and villages, we're pillaged and rapped. We don't have Native American pride month or Native American week. If your gonna bring up slaves and racism, look what happened to the peaceful Native American culture. Let's speak on that!!!!
THIS
👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I'm black, but blacks have been brainwashed - so there is no going back unless whites (especially Liberals ) start to ignore the race baiting politics. But again, Democrats can't win without them, so it's never going to happen.
Richie Silversmith Sad thing is, you can never have peace on stolen land.
mexicans had their land stolen too by greed. black people are amongst the most privelaged. a lot of black people tend to say shit and do shit, but if another person would do the same thing it was wrong. Also, people get offended way to easily, like saying faggot. The cops are not bad either.
I would love to see Thomas Sowell and Ice Cube have a discussion on Bill's show.
Ice T wouldn't show up.
Thomas Sowell is way too smart for ice cube. Sowell is a Harvard grad in economics. Icecube has a street degree and a William Howard Taft Highschool degree. And an over emotional heart.
OMG, that would be amazing. Ice was literally spouting talking points. He even contradicted himself when he said "I don't get pulled over all the time", well, he's still a black man ain't he? So what changed? Most likely his behavior.
@@crasherxtreme the fact that all you bring is school shows you don't understand intelligence
@@filyp1984 oh OK. Cuz you said so? What the fuq do you know about facts you shrunken head? I might say the fact that you vote big government to solve your problems means you lack the intelligence to make it on your own. You got that sh!t for brains?
"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." Yoda Sanders and Cube obviously are already past the fear part.
If you cannot differentiate the difference between talking about a word contextually in a conversation, and actually being called that word, then YOU have crossed the line, and YOU have a personal problem you need to work out.
I always liked Ice Cube but as a non-American let me say this: whites were opressed outside of America as well, by other whites and non-whites alike, and whites are not the only oppressors known to world history. Let's just accept each other as people instead of dividing us further and move on. Together.
The media and schools are pushing this narrative That's why parents who stand up for their kids at board meetings are now being investigated by FBI Welcome to dictatorship under biden
Amen.
@@happydays5989 But TSA agents under Trump at airports going through foreigner’s phones to determine their political beliefs before they enter the country, that’s definitely not dictatorship…🤡 It’s nothing to do with dictatorship or leadership actually. It’s to do with how White people treat and have treated Black people and how Black people now respond to that. Still very few white people who want to admit their own privileges or that there’s even a racism problem at all in America. Basically you all just need to get over yourselves. Unfortunately America in of itself doesn’t really let you do that, and forces you to be an Ego maniac
@@samkedwards2032 a foreigner cant vote so his political opinion doesnt matter
@@user-ci7vu7eo9w exactly, yet there they were.
Humans are my greatest mistake, forever.
W~God
God should have pulled out like I did with my ex gf
1:00 I realize this was five years ago, and much has happened since then, but this is how I feel sometimes here in 2023. We white people will be labeled a racist, or at least told that we have racial tendencies, regardless how we act or what we say. Many times I’ve heard a black person say “you’re racist, you just don’t know it“. I feel that at that point, the conversation would be better off ending. For dialogue to be strictly meaningful and productive, both sides need to listen unconditionally, and refrain from those meaningless gotcha moments.
I am done with the racism fight 😢
The word it's like a knife man...thats why only we can use it 🤣🤣😂 Hilarious
So a knife wielded by a 'brother' can't cut you? I know....what a load of bollocks!!
Context and intentions matter.
Im sure you already know, the context in which it's like a term of endearment between close friends. If you have friends that you're close with that are cool with you guys talking to each other like that, then go right on ahead. It's probably not going to be received as appropriate, if you were to say it to, let's say, the teller at your bank, a flight attendant, your boss, random strangers walking around etc.... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066 Stfu lol 🤦♂️ Bill obviously said it was a joke and ice cube took this as an opportunity to get more clout for his upcoming album. Meanwhile, he literally said "redneck" which is something someone from no matter what race would get shot in the face saying in the deep south lol.
Rank stupidity by Ice Cube there. It's so stupid.
What about all the hispanics, asians, and Pacific Islanders that say "nigga"? I feel like no one ever talks about that. It's like only white and black people are having this big argument. Meanwhile, the rest of us are just sitting on the sideline, waiting to see what happens.
Did the " hispanics, asians, and Pacific Islanders" enslave African Americans? Or, did they use a word meaning the owned someone?
Cause we've all been suppressed by the same race. White people! 😂
Kwabena Sekyere-Boateng yes they did
Bullshit
Kwabena Sekyere-Boateng yes they did actually
I struggle with all the stuff our generation is having to answer and pay for that we had no control over. Future generations are in for a rough ride
I don't bother even trying to keep up anymore, this is the generation offended lol
I'll be honest after 40 years of feeling bad I really don't care anymore, I think it's time my fellow adults grow up already and handle their own problems. Literally blaming an entire race for everything has gone too far and I don't listen to bigots like that.
Systemic racism still exists and until you fight against it you’re apart of the problem
@@Kyoudontknowme 😂
@@Kyoudontknowme 😆 🤣 😂 ok
“You sound like a redneck trucker” Is that not racism?
No
nah its a stereotype, of a racist person, cuz generally the south is more racist because of thier history.
It is racist.. but according to some ppl black ppl can’t be racist
Sssshhhhh
Yes it is racism but the left tries to pretend that you can't be racist against white people.
PLEASE READ: As a black man, I cannot stand behind Ice Cube's or the girl's on this one. All other blacks (or whites) who were offended by it, be honest with yourselves. We decided as a society that race jokes in comedy were a thing quite some time ago. It's just funny. Bill Maher was doing his thing as a comedian. I personally didn't find the joke that funny, but it's not because I was offended in the slightest. Maher makes several jokes that I don't find funny, even ones about Trump. It's part of comedy. For Ice Cube to come on there and say, "To me, this is a political show". Fuck that. It's politics and comedy, and don't pretend like you didn't fucking know. I've been following Maher for years, and I haven't heard him say anything that made me think he wasn't on my side. And of course, it's hella easy to find videos him vehemently opposing racism, so don't give me that, "You say white trucker stuff sometimes". If you ask me, and you did since you've read this far, this is the biggest problem with the black community. Whenever an offense is committed on us, we try to milk it for everything, to the point of saying absurd shit. Like how they called Mike Brown a gentle giant, even though he was caught on tape bullying just moments before he died. He was killed by a white officer, and all of a sudden he made honor roll in school. This is another milking. An offense was made, and now Cube gets on the air saying Maher makes "white trucker" jokes sometimes (citing no evidence, of course), and then tries to see what he can get out of it by stripping Maher of comedy and effectively saying "this is a political show now". I lost all respect for Ice Cube in this. As far as everything the woman said goes ... if anything she mentioned crossed your mind when Maher made that joke, especially to that level of detail --- who the fuck immediately thought, "Oh shit, how could he say that on the 400th anniversary of slaves being brought over here!" ... If you think like that woman thinks, I promise you're causing more problems than you're solving.
Context matters and the person saying it.
You so smart you dumm
With all due respect... You are TERRIFIC. Have a great life.
What are you talking about black people were being enslaved and set on fire hanging from trees a hundred years ago so when ever there is an injustice people speak out and i admire ice cube for that hes a real one.
You've got a sold take, if we cant discuss issue even under comedy, than they don't get discussed at all...
The fact he skipped over what that AA lady was saying, she made huge points but instead of acknowledging her he tired to move on to the album I don’t think he really see anything wrong with what he said, and that’s why I wouldn’t accept his apology. Great job for calling him out though! Hold them accountable, because ice cube got beat for telling his story in his music because it was “violent” but it was also true and that was NEVER acknowledged only his delivery of His message!
If you feel it that way, regardless of how it's said, then it has to do with you and not them. It's an internal issue, so nobody else can do anything about it.
He says it's like a knife when that word is said (I agree? I hate all hateful words like that) but in the same sentence he says "it's our word now... as black people we can call each other that, but when white people say it, it's like a knife" it either IS a hateful word or it ISN'T. You can't claim a word for yourself. Don't you realize that when you say it's only ok for black people to use it, THAT'S RACIST? Would it only be ok for white, Asian, or Mexican people to do or say a certain thing because of their skin? No. Should Bill have said that word? No. Why? Because it's disrespectful, hateful, toxic. Should anybody really use that word? No. Why would you want to disrespect yourself, your family, or friends? I think no one should use that word, period. No one should be treated good or bad because they're black, white, yellow, brown or whatever. People like to focus on differences. Instead, why don't we focus on likenesses. We all have differences, yes, but we all have so many more likenesses. We are all human, and we all look a little different. Where's the love? It's easy to hate. The real challenge is to find at least one thing to love about someone. Even if you might not like them.
This is a good comment. I like this comment. *gives you a cookie for posting a very well-thought out comment* PS. Mew
xxxQUAKERxxx couldn't have worded it any better. well said
Um when you're the one called the slur and it is used against you as a form of oppression, then yes, you can do with the word what you want. Everyone else doesn't get the same treatment. This is so simple y'all.
xxxQUAKERxxx problem!? No one who has tolerance can read your whole post. Honestly! I thought I'd give it a chance cause I'm bored.
xxxQUAKERxxx Maybe he was saying like a knife, that cuts deep when a white person uses it, leaving that painful wound , but they can use it, I mesh it's their knife now, they can stab each other - kind of like black in black crime, that's okay, it's their community, we should mind our own business, really a thousand could die as they stab each other or shoot each other, but that's ok , nothing to be alarmed about, but let one white guy step out of line & use the all dreaded "N" word - Oh all hells about to break loose. Or let one black guy get shot by a cop, and the world is gonna stop turning, no Matt that 18 blacks were killed the previous day, at the hands of another black person. The hypocrisy knows no limits!
When people truly feel they are equals, they feel free to make fun of each other for their differences. If you feel one must be protected, its because you feel they are lesser.
This is pretentious and all conjecture. "YOU'RE the real racists" 🤓
The old "yall correcting inequality is the REAL racism"
This is pretentious and all conjecture. "YOU are the real racist ones for trying to correct inequality 🤓"
@@exoz9094 wow Another professional victim Pathetic
EXACTLY!
We can call each other that but nobody else can? That's absolutely stupid.
Also let me say I'm a fan of Bill Maher and I appreciate his humility in the situation and just accepting the very reality of what they're telling him. I can't speak for the Jewish experience just like he can't speak for the African-American experience.
I think I'm starting to understand why Conservatives are tired of the race card. No one seems to consider the source, intention and/or situation anymore. Bill Maher has defended minorities over and over again. His apology was straightforward and sincere. It was obvious that he wasn't trying to disrespect black people.
Maher has very little Understanding of anything; no ownder he's popular, famous and rich.
@@slevinchannel7589 He graduated from an Ivy League school(Cornell.) You: Still waiting on trump University transcripts
@@slevinchannel7589 Ice cube is being offended by a word that means nothing... Still using the white and black words to distinguish differences.... and bill maher does not understand anything?... Give me a fucking break
Calling them the n word is calling them by their rightful name. Don't be one or you won't be called one..that's like calling a Italian a wop. A Mexican a spick .sounds like blaccs are babies and are privileged and they live in a safety bubble. That everyone must respect. That's impossible. . .and might I add racism is like being rude. Same class. We don't adhere .to rudeness. Why does this issue dismantle them so much. Because theyre. Guilty of being babies with sensitive feelings
@@andret5418 I agree.... Kind of wish maher would have said something to him about that... Maybe he didn't want to stir the pot more
Mr. Cube, your points are well taken. That said, many of us consider the term "redneck" a derogatory racial stereotype, and would prefer that you refrain from using it.
"Mr. Cube", lol
By the definition of racism. Red neck is not a racial slur. Derogatory yes. Racial no.
@@AlexSmith-xg3pn He said racial stereotype, not slur.
@@AlexSmith-xg3pn it actually is a racial slur, red neck means someone who’s neck is sunburnt, only white peoples necks go red when sunburnt. Yes. It is a racial slur. It’s like calling someone a red skin, red skin only refers to native Americans.
@@johntonssen7231 look up the definition of racism and come back. No it is not. There has to be a belief that one race is superior and blacks have not shown that. But whites have. So racial slur? No. It is not
My god the victim mentality is so exhausting
Yes trump and the gop, distorting history because of their feelings, is exhausting.
@@donyeerodrigo7394Idiot!
Regardless of your level of stupidity you have to admire the clarity of expression that Cube brings. Rappers are too easily dismissed because they're lyrics might be uncomfortable but the specificity of language is truly admirable. Most hosts can't hold a candle against the light of such clarity of expression, I am not a fan of the genre but the speech is clearer than the majority of people who are in positions of influence in the government and commercial media.
So I guess if you are an articulate speaker it doesn't matter that what you're saying is nonsense. I can only imagine what level you reside at.
"Teach black children their history but do not burden them with the outrage that is far from their reality". That was a great post from someone.
Teach them what red line are.
You can't tell us how to feel
@j Lestel and who is going to be the arbiter of their reality, you or some one who does not live in their world?
i hav been treated as black, and i m nt black .... so its nt outrage ....
And a dumb one too. How about we stop refering to people as black or white.
so we can fight over a word but cant fight to save black communities. very good logic
fuck it let them all kill eachother less people like ice the better
OMFG IM SAYING
zero well Trumps trying too the democrats and celebs are sopping that but Obama didnt even try he made it worse
@@ashleehance2119 Agreed. And he had 2 terms to do it.
Damn now that's a statement!
“That’s our word now”…but why would you want to keep that word, knowing it’s history against you? That’s ridiculous.
Seeing as how this was recorded 5 years ago (2018), I hope that it is understood how free speech must be protected. Ice Cube should have been able to say special characters the police in 1988, just like anyone should be able to say anything they want now and for the foreseeable future.
It’s been the same struggle for decades. Go back in history even more.
We voted in a Black president Two terms in a row, and celebrated his presidency like no president before him, but ice cube says that no progress has been made in 25 years except the date on the calender has changed. Give me a break.
celebrated??? I dont remember billboards that said "secede" and puppets of the president hung in a noose when Clinton or the Bushes were in office.
michealterrific What about all the effigies of trump that get burned in bonfires?
DarwinAward FAF good point. Let's compare the 2: many people view Trump as a reality star and a loud mouth with a history of questionable behavior and hateful sound bites. Most of the people against Obama were based on race 1st and foremost.
Not quite in line with what Ice Cube was talking about, which was specifically about how police treat black citizens in the US. Something that has been perpetuated by a string of policies we lump into "the war on drugs" which has not stopped or halted in the last 25 years. Drug laws disproportionately effect black people. Courts disproportionately sentence black people. And for further context Obama was not universally celebrated. Did you watch the GOP debates for this election? Slamming Obama was the easiest way for a candidate to garner an applause. He ended his presidency on a high but very shortly prior to that he was riding a downward curve into disapproval largely as a product of a smear campaign by conservative politicians and media that lasted his entire two terms. One of the fingers of that campaign questioned if the guy was even born in this country, a racist inquiry that lasted through most of his first term. One of the people that spearheaded the birther movement was the very man who replaced Obama in office. That being said progress has fluctuated. I think racial equality movement's have lost a lot of ground because white people have become exacerbated with call-out culture which has left otherwise subtly racist white people susceptible to white supremacist narratives and messages. We certainly aren't as racially optimistic now as we were in 2008 when Obama was elected. The political left can certainly take some credit for that, most progressives are so used to being right they've forgotten how to respectfully discuss issues with different perspectives or walks of life.
@@LittleBaardo amen
let it go, were not slaves and we don't know a person that was one. we have to move forward.
Bryan Pattillo fuck u
smh" another victim
Who’s this we? It’s easy for someone like you to say that. I agree with you on the moving forward part, but I don’t think you understand why so many blacks are offended
isaac hurst explain it then. Explain why are you so offended about a word that you use 10times per minute?
I am identified as “Caucasian” (I’m Italian and honestly don’t identify as anything else) and i was expecting to hear a lot of “white privilege” and “white supremacy “ and “systemic racism”etc, but I think Ice Cube hit the nail on the head here. His comments were balanced, reasonable and accurate. Thanks for having him on and just letting him speak.
Hard to respect someone who crumbles at the utterance of a word and needs to try to shame people for something they never lived through or done, if the tables were reversed I would of a chip on my shoulder and become undeniable to people
take a shot every time they say "teachable moment"
i couldn't keep up, got a good buzz though :P
@@an_enchanter1754 same I’m only 50 seconds in
Take a shot for every white man that drug Emmitt teal out of his aunts house
For a man who made a name for himself talking about catching bodies and slingin dope, he sure does strike me as the sensitive type...
you mean someone can't mature in 20+ years?
U clearly havent heard a ice cube song in your life... Good day sir...
Marshall Fleming But you wouldn’t say to his face now would you? Nope...Shut the fuck up Cuz on Elm Street Crip.
He made millions off of not only saying it but calling people that as well, yet he’s telling people who can and can’t say it 😂😂😂
That still makes what the white boy said right?
We need Ice Cube to teach some teens today this.
Exactly
I think Cube could have been more effective if he gave specific examples in the opening of his point and conversation. Rather than being more obscure.
I'm so glad we have millionaire rapers and celebrities available to tell us how oppressed they are. I, a working class white man, solemnly vow to not use my privilege to harm and oppress literal millionaires with private jet planes, cause we all know they are powerless victims of the system. Gimme a fucking break...
Truth. Bunch of whiny cunts.
His point is that you can't use that word because it was used like a sword against them and now is theirs. This isn't about class struggle.
@@kodek2000 I'd believe Ice Cube that the word really bothers him if he wasn't constantly using it to diss other black people in his songs. That tells me the word doesn't really bother him. He could 't care less about the word itself. It's the color of the people saying it which does. And that makes me wonder, what else does he think to be racially exclusive? He seems to be really into that. Also, you did have two millionaires get invited on a mass appeal talk show to tell us all about how they're "fighting the system" and "systemically oppressed". Which is pretty absurd, really. A bit like how Alexandra Occasio Cortez cries about being oppressed when she's a literal elected official. These people are entirely disconnected from reality.
@@kodek2000 yeah but it's okay for him to encourage the murder of white people. WTF
No one person or group can just decide they have exclusive rights to a word! I can think of all kinds of words that were used in a derogatory way towards Italians! An many of them were the same words used for blacks!
Bill mentioned Death Certificate being re-released at the beginning... there's a song on that album - "Horny Lil Devil" - where Cube is anti-white, homophobic and uses the word 'jap' to describe Korean store owners, in only about three and a half minutes. Interesting choice for having your 'white privilege' checked.
I know, and I love Ice Cube as well. I love the song Horny Lil Devil. But yeah, Cube is being a hypocrite, he had that song and he also made the song Cave Bitch on Lethal Injection.
100%
This moment is an example of answering free speech with more free speech.
@@SkepticalSpectrum ice cube is being a hypocrite lol
@@Dm-cg9nv And yet, he's still right. (No one isn't a hypocrite.)
here's one of the moments in Bill's life that pushed him to the right - he's so annoyed that he has to do this (which I'm assuming HBO made him do)
I've been called some choice words by black folk. Unprovoked. Those are my words now lol. I do understand where he's coming from, but it's just words. The only power a word has over you, is the power you allow it to have.
Ice cube is a sensitive gangster.
🤨
Dude he’s ruthless 🔥🔥
Ice Cube is a fake gangster and that's a fact!
gio8284 I am positive that he can sue your ass anytime anywhere
Ice cube signed his first record deal at 15. Hes a good actor. Not a gangster at all. Lol
I would love to have Ice Cube get a whole panel of Jewish people for his highly anti Semitic verses in the 90's.
They got respect in the US and never suffered in the US next question
Save that for a german rapper
@@HomerunsamSOSA that’s like saying a foreigner of the US saying the N Word is ok. Just cause Cube isn’t German doesn’t mean the racist shit he said about Jewish ppl don’t matter lmao
They way these people go on you would think every American family had slaves. FFS black people sold them into slavery. The world used slavery as a currency but it was those times. These times are different. But for black people to say they’re dealing with racism on a daily basis is just shit. Why does it only affect black Americans? It doesn’t affect Indians, Asians or West Indian blacks. And it’s always rich black Americans telling other black Americans I made it but you can’t.
@@HomerunsamSOSA Jews get respect in the US and have never suffered? are you kidding?
Bill...do not ever think you are going to bridge any gap between 2 different groups...its never going to end!!!! Ever!
"One of the most powerful people in the world" last I checked he just threw a ball around...
Ice Cube needs to watch the George Carlin clip about the context of using words like this.
Ya I'm sure he gives a fuck
and we don't give a fuck about ice cube or bill maher.
redomega24 why are you here then?
Context is everything. I'm black and I don't see an issue with how Bill Maher used it. He really shouldn't have Apologized, imo.
Kay Tee I agree as black guy, but Bill is dealing with SJWS and pro-black groups.
as a black person, this was cringe city..
"As a black man"
frymastermeat, lol
ruckus is that you?
Ice Cube is one of the best rappers ever chill
jammin yammin quick question where you offended when he said house nigga
That was really good!
I’ve never heard it explained the way Icecube explained it. I learned something
Lol
Lol
Check out Ice Cube's lyrics throughout his career. Then ask yourself whether he's positioned to lecture anyone on the morality of language choice. Then ask yourself why he doesn't acknowledge this obvious contradiction?
Absolutely agree! Straight hipocrite
Nobody tell Ice Cube about 4chan.
Why not? Would do him well to spend a day or two there. Might change his mind!
As a black guy....I STILL AGREE WITH YOU lol
@@AmericanMetalhead100 4chan is a cesspool, not sure what he's supposed to learn from it, other than the fact that some white people are even dumber than previously thought.
Requiem Sequence ‘A cesspool of free speech’ is surprisingly accurate. I’m not sure you know what a cesspool is lol
On 4chan they say nothing but the n word
Anybody have a link to what they’re referencing?
Living in the past. Words only have power if you believe in them.
“I don’t get pulled over nowadays” Sounds like privilege to me.
So not getting pulled over means you’re automatically privileged? Lol what
Argument goes both ways and It don’t work for anyone. Getting pulled over isn’t representative of injustices, white or black
You don't get pulled over for no reason trust me
Well, he actually made that point about privilege if you listen closely.
Be quiet
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
@@robertjohn6104 these are sociopaths who practice 48 laws of power. Also controversy sells, and being pc and woke is a less risky way of being controversial today because they can hide behind being "good" while still pissing people off. The ones they piss off will still watch if it's good in the end.
@@robertjohn6104 Corporations don't have personality traits - they can't be empathetic, or racist, or caring, or anything. It's like an unfeeling entity that grows when you feed it cash. That's not a criticism it's just what it is. It scares me that people actually say "At least THEY care about equality and diversity "........it's all for profit.
Because of current events I had to recently read this book. It terrified me. The chapter where he reads the book he was given that describes how they took power and how they viewed humans and how to break down they’re individuality. Horrifying
What's funny about this is that George Orwell was a passionate socialist and actually published an essay in which he said that no society could last much longer if it didn't institute true socialism soon
but it's from "The Ministry of Truth"
"It feels like a knife...", except that a knife is a weapon when you are stabbing or cutting a person to harm or kill them. On the other hand, a knife can be a chef's and a surgeon's tool. So, how you "feel" is not relevant to other people's intentions. Tryst me, I know when someone is calling me a name to hurt me.
I can't stand the hypocrisy!
As a non American this seems so dumb, it seems like people are making something out of nothing..
You can't claim ownership of words. That's not how freedom works.
How Does freedom work? the USA would love to know.
Adam Marcy. He doesn't own it. He profits off of it. He has no problem with white kids buying his music. He no longer owns it. He sold it.
He's not saying that we should pass a law forbidding white people from using the word. He's using HIS freedom of speech to implore people to CHOOSE not to use the word. The difference is huge, and important, and a good example of the healthy function of a free society of diverse individuals.
+Adam Marcy - Did he say, that we should pass a law forbidding the use of the word? Did he? Did he? YES OR FUCKING NO! If not, then it's just everybody using their freedom of speech to try to influence what they perceive to be good behavior. This isn't rocket science. It's basic, common sense human psychology. Something that a person who makes their living appealing to human psychology damn well knows the basics of at some level, even if only at a subconscious level. Is there something here that still has you confused?
eboomer84 Youre an emotionally unstable fruit that lives in his parents basement. piss off
"not by me!", enough said.
Wow... Ice Cube just made a huge admission when asked if the LA police are better and his response was "I can't say because I don't get pulled over all the time.." So let me see; don't break the law, be responsible and don't get pulled over. Got it. Personal responsibility. What Cube is actually saying, though he isn't recognizing it is, law abiding citizens are much less likely to experience a menacing police.
I’m offended by everything. I’m going to get emotional about it too and not have truthful dialogue.
If something offends people then don’t say it,
@@whatsgood4666 no point discussing or debating anything important then. Ever. What an insanely stupid idea.
So acurate
Edward DeBone if I say “I don’t like to be called this” then don’t call me that. Don’t know how hard it is. If you want to do it then expect something to happen.
@@YeetMcCheese lol whatever happened to sticks n stones? We could all stop being wimps too eh