Brittney Cooper explains why Trump is polling historically well with Black men
Capehart
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 20 October 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jonathan Kapart and this is Cape Up. |
| 0:07.0 | Cube is very dangerous. |
| 0:09.0 | Cube is the rapper Ice Cube. |
| 0:12.0 | The woman speaking is Brittany Cooper, a professor of gender studies and Africanist studies at Rutgers University. |
| 0:19.0 | I can't even begin to characterize what Cooper has to say about Ice Cube, his contract with |
| 0:25.2 | Black America, President Trump's appeals to black men, and the role of black women |
| 0:30.4 | in the 2020 election. We get into it all and she doesn't hold back. Why |
| 0:36.2 | should she? Cooper's 2018 book Eloquent Rage, a feminist discovers her |
| 0:41.3 | superpower put her on the map and you're about to find out why, right now. Brittany Cooper. Thank you very much for coming on the podcast. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:58.8 | So you're here today because of a couple of tweets you sent out recently jumping in on the |
| 1:05.0 | whole black vote president Trump and ice cube and you sent this tweet |
| 1:10.3 | black men are breaking my heart with this capping for cube cum trump. |
| 1:16.0 | Apparently, y'all want to be to 2020 what white women were to 2016, and this is why to be black and woman is to have to seriously consider |
| 1:27.6 | daily what it means to get too close to either group, traitorous MFs. |
| 1:36.4 | So you have much more space than 280 characters. |
| 1:40.6 | What are you talking about here? |
| 1:42.2 | Yeah, so Ice Cube this week came out in support of this plan, the contract with Black America, and this platinum plan that he consulted with the Trump administration on that is supposedly about |
| 1:53.1 | spurring investment in black communities. And there are two problems with that. The |
| 1:57.8 | first is that we know if we've been paying any attention to the Trump |
| 2:00.9 | administration that he is absolutely committed to a kind of terrorizing of black communities |
| 2:06.2 | everything from tear-gassing protesters to telling the proud boys to stand back and stand by |
| 2:12.8 | to intimidating African American voters at the polls, |
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