Tucker’s interview with Ice Cube continues.
“I’ve been shut out. Some platforms will not have me on.”
“They don’t like that I’m an independent thinker, I’m not part of the herd, I’m not part of the ‘Go Along to Get Along Gang’, so to speak. So, you know, I’m an outsider, and so I’m not part of the club. So I have to go places, for one that I’m welcome, and where I can voice my opinion without somebody, you know, saying I’m a bad person and that they never wanna have me on their platform again.”
“I just want to do right by the people.”
“That comes through political means, that comes through the private sector, wherever it comes I’m down to work with whoever’s down to do something right for the people.”
“Enemies meet. They talk. I’m pretty sure there’s some communication between Russia and the Ukraine right now, somebody’s on the phone talking to somebody, trying to come up with a solution. So, we just gotta’ talk, that’s the only way we’re gonna work this out. I know when the talking stops, the fighting starts.”
T: What’s your view of the police at this point?
I: “It’s the same… It’s like looking at, what’s your view of the military? Like, they’re the military, they’re always going to be the military. If I asked you this in 1946, you’d be like, they’re the military. So, it’s a fraternity. It’s an organization that does things a certain way, and I think their philosophy sometimes is detrimental to the people they’re serving, because I think cops have a ‘win and make it home’ philosophy. Win whatever battles you have in the street, make it home at night, at that’s actually the most important thing. And everything else, people’s rights, doing things the right way, you know, being totally fair and square all the time and not, you know, being a little aggressive … all that comes second to win the encounter, make it home at night. And you can’t really fault somebody for thinking that way as a police officer, but that’s the philosophy, so everything else comes second to that…”
“Saying what you feel, being yourself, is what they call ‘toxic’. You know, we shouldn’t be called ‘toxic’ for our instincts and for, you know, ‘I was born this way’, what are you talking about? You know what I mean? Like, why can’t we be ourselves, we were born this way, too.”
“Everybody doesn’t really have to affirm you. You know, if I wake up and say I feel like a pigeon, I want everybody to treat me like a pigeon, some people may say, whatever, Cube, we’ll treat you like a pigeon. But some people may choose to be like, dude, no, that’s your world, I’m not part of it… I have to be ready for that. It’s a big world out here. Everybody doesn’t have to adhere to me.”
T: “We’ve been talking almost all day now, you haven’t mentioned race a single time. We’ve mention economics, rich and poor, a number of times. Do you think that we overplay the role of racial conflict in American life?”
I: “Yes. I think race, it takes up too much space. There’s people that we all have in our lives who are the 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 color and gender and this and that. It’s about who do you connect with.”
“Controversy sells, so they’re not showing people getting along. What they want to get to is the fight, the conflict, you know, the argument, the throwing of the bottles, the turmoil, the differences.”
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— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) July 27, 2023
