Ice Cube on the N word: When I hear a white person saying it, [View all]

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it feels like a knife stabbing me.”

Ice Cube and Symone Sanders school Bill Maher – and his audience -- on the use of the N word.

Ice Cube: “I know you heard, it’s in the lexicon, everybody talking. But that’s our word now. And you can’t have it back. . . . When I hear my homies say it, it don’t feel like venom. When I hear a white person say it, it feels like that knife stabbing me, even if they don’t mean it. . . . I think this is a teachable moment, not just to you, but to the people that’s watching right now.”

Bill, looking uneasy. “I think the people watching right now are saying that point has been made.”

“Not by me!”


Symone Sanders: “That was like a slap in the face to black people . . . .This is more than just a word. Black people are literally fighting the system of white supremacy and institutionalized racism every single day. Every single day. And for some people it does not matter how much money we make, what job we do. I was literally on the campaign trail with Bernie Sanders, I was attempted to be yanked out of the entourage, for no other reason except I was a black woman walking with Bernie."