The title of this post is a quote from rapper and film producer, Ice Cube extracted from the above interview filled with nuggets of wisdom. He says he opines that it's silly NOT to talk to people. He added, "Whether we agree or not, that has nothing to do with it… Let's talk about it .. let's debate …and I have been shut out! Some platforms will not have me on .. they don't like that I am an independent thinker. I'm not part of the herd… I don't follow their brand of politics, I guess."
"We've been talking almost all day now, you haven't mentioned race a single time…Do you think we overplay the role of racial conflict in American life?" asks interviewer Tucker Carlson and Ice Cube replied, "Yes, I think race - it takes up too much space. There's people we all have in our lives who are same race that we can't stand and there's people in our lives from other races that we get along with way better. So, it's NOT about race. It's NOT about colour and gender and this and that. It's about who do you connect with. You know, who do you vibrate with… who's on the same wavelength… who wants to do the right thing when you want to do the right thing… I think a lot of people get to make a lot of money off the racists fighting each other and bickering and they're the ones pushing in our face all the time that we're separate."
- the above interview which I chanced upon today is yet another testimony of the importance of self-empowerment and seeing that we're all connected and NOT separate, as certain quarters would like us to believe.
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