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OPINION – Who Dropped a Dime on 50 Cent? Ice Cube’s Platinum Plan Dripped Away

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3 years ago

October 29, 2020

50 Cent and Chelsea Handler

As the elections and voting cycle winds down, we all just witnessed, with rapt attention, the unraveling of the premature, immature, and amateur rapture culture phenomenon of rappers 50 Cent and Ice Cube.

50 Cent, using the $400,000 income level taxing plan championed by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as his excuse for endorsing Trump for President, soon discovered that he had fallen out of favor from his folks.

Somebody, maybe his ex-girlfriend Chelsea Handler, dropped a dime on 50 Cent’s non-sensical rant in the face of Trump challenging him and Black America with his ridiculous claim that he was doing more for Black America than any President since Abraham Lincoln while asking Blacks, “What do have to lose by supporting him?”

50 Cent Tweets 'F**k Donald Trump' After Chelsea Handler Says She'd Give It Another Go With Him | Entertainment Tonight #mycivicduty https://t.co/haYxubDWpq
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) October 26, 2020

Handler yanked him down quite handily and he flipped his own script and denounced Trump with a 4-letter expletive in the same flippant manner.

👀a what, 😳another spin 💫Fu*k Donald Trump, I never liked him. 🤨for all I know he had me set up and had my friend Angel Fernandez killed but that’s history. LOL @chelseahandler @jimmyfallon pic.twitter.com/Tya6EqDBFt
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— 50cent (@50cent) October 25, 2020

On the other hand, Ice Cube prepared a more thoughtful, scholarly treatise on the possible remedies to the Black community’s economic woes. Maybe it was naivete or the twitch-level expectation of the Twitter and ATM-style response expectations, but he got played by their pigeon-drop style of hustling his brand as an excuse to appear relevant on the Black side. His Platinum Plan is a good start, maybe he should develop some raps about financial literacy. Ice Cube’s plan melted down and dripped away from him.

Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner bundled their overtures into the same bag with Kanye West and turned their reputations into a giant con.

But all is not lost. If they follow the path of the rapper Common and use their microphones to join with the Joy to the Polls music that encourages all Blacks to vote.

They ought to write raps that say, “Mr. President, you ask us what can we lose because you have done more than any other since Lincoln, then if that’s the case then why are you spending so much time, money and energy preventing us from voting?” You can sample Ludacris’s message as your coda: “Move Trump git out the way!”

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Black History

Guy Bluford: First African American in Space

Following Sally Ride (America’s first female astronaut) by just two months, Guy Bluford’s spaceflight aboard Space Shuttle Challenger provided another visible moment when more young people could see and be inspired by people like themselves flying into space. Bluford served as a mission specialist on the STS-8 mission and his jobs were to deploy an Indian communications-weather satellite, perform biomedical experiments and test the orbiter’s 50-foot robotic arm.

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24 hours ago

September 27, 2023

Oakland Post

Dr. Col. Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. Image courtesy of NASA.

By Jennifer Levasseur, Vickie Lindsey, and Amy Stamm

Forty years ago, on Aug. 30, 1983, Guy Bluford flew into history as the first Black American in space.

Despite launch delays totaling six weeks, the spectacular first night launch of a Space Shuttle brought full circle NASA’s promise of a more inclusive astronaut corps.

Following Sally Ride (America’s first female astronaut) by just two months, Bluford’s spaceflight aboard Space Shuttle Challenger provided another visible moment when more young people could see and be inspired by people like themselves flying into space.

Bluford served as a mission specialist on the STS-8 mission and his jobs were to deploy an Indian communications-weather satellite, perform biomedical experiments and test the orbiter’s 50-foot robotic arm.

Following that first mission, he flew three more times to space on STS-61A, STS-39, and STS-53. By the time of his retirement from NASA in 1993, Bluford had spent more than 28 days in space over the four missions.

At the time of his first mission, Bluford was a 40-year-old Air Force officer with a doctorate in aerospace engineering.

Reluctant to be in the spotlight, his goal was not to make history, but fly into space, do his job, and return safely.

Growing up in a middle-class household in the 1950s and 1960s with educated parents (his mother was a teacher, and his father was a mechanical engineer), Bluford was raised to believe that he could do anything he wanted despite racist social restrictions.

He enjoyed math and science, particularly in school. Ignoring the advice of his high school advisor to learn a trade or skill, Bluford went on to college to earn his undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering at Penn State University in 1964, also finishing as a distinguished Air Force ROTC graduate.

After his decades of service to the aerospace community in a variety of roles, having spoken dozens of times about his astronaut career and work in aviation, Dr. Guion Bluford was recently appointed by President Joseph Biden as a member of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Advisory Board.

Editor’s note: Jennifer Levasseur, Vickie Lindsey and Amy Stamm are writers for a NASA blog

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