Ice Cube tells Jake Tapper ‘Watch your mouth’ over Farrakhan criticism
Ice Cube Image by Getty/Al Bello/Staff
By Molly Boigon July 1, 2020
Rapper Ice Cube clapped back at CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Twitter this week after the host criticized a Fox channel for planning to air a program hosted by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
“Watch your mouth Jake,” tweeted Ice Cube in response to Tapper’s tweet, which called Farrakhan a “vile anti-LGBTQ anti-Semitic misogynist” and asked why Fox Soul was airing his “propaganda.”
Watch your mouth Jake. https://t.co/DqTOr24Yb6
— Ice Cube (@icecube) June 29, 2020
Fox Soul announced Monday that Farrakhan’s “Message to America” would be replaced by a compilation of speeches by Black leaders.
— foxsoultv (@foxsoultv) June 29, 2020
Ice Cube posted a series of anti-Semitic memes last month that led to widespread condemnation.
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