Rapper and TikTok star Topher weighs in on 'Fox & Friends.'
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Pete next star is praising the
outpouring of support.
Tofer joins you now.
Thank you so much for being here
this morning.
Your service, everything,
I would imagine Halloween, is a
big tiktok day. Im sure have you
stuff in store.
When you see black Americans
coming out being very pragmatic
and saying listen, I want my life
to be better. I dont want to pay
all of my income to the
government. Is this reflective of
you who more and more black
Americans are viewing the race,
absolutely
everyone? I want to say good
morning.
Yes, I think
PETE Good Morning.
I think people need to take
into account whats going on
with the black race.
I just want to make it clear
before we go ahead. We are
talking about the two
presidential candidates,
presently that we have
when we are talking about Joe
Biden. While he was concerned
about his kids growing up in a
racial jungle, Trump was
receiving awards along Muhammed
Ali and Rosa Parks, and, while
Biden was working alongside
Strom Thurman and coming up with
bills such as the comprehensive
crime bill in nineteen forty, eight and later on,
the antidrug abuse acts which
led to the citizen disparity
between crack and cocaine.
Later on talk about the crime
bill in nineteen. Ninety four, which introduced
the three strike rule which put
away people for a long time for
nonviolent offenses and
President Trump working
alongside Jesse Jackson,
increasing the minority
representation on Wall Street.
If people sit down and have a
logical comparison, its not even
a close race
compare, this trump was halfway
and the track, while Biden is
still sleeping at home. Forty seven years,
late,
laughter,
Jed, gentlemen, you know T Topher
african american vote.
We have seen that over the
years.
Do you think now times have
changed?
We can look at a couple of polls
to islet that, in October of twenty twenty
eighty percent for Biden,
fourteen percent for Trump
two billion, sixteen million two hundred and one thousand two hundred and ninety three percent obama-
only six percent for Romney.
Of course, we are towering about
the african american vote. There
do you think now the times have
changed in the sense that
african american voters are
really zeroed in on policy.
Taking a look at policy and
saying maybe there was a heavy
lean towards democratic
candidates in the past, but might
be time for a change because of
the very distinct policy
distinctions that President
Trump has magnified
absolutely
so a lot of the voices that we
see coming out and speak for the
black community, or at least
representing
what I like what they are doing,
is showing people that ice Cube
said it himself that I dont
have to like somebody to go out
here and work with them.
I just have to make sure they
have my best interest at heart,
so I always prioritize policy
over personality, and I encourage
anybody to do that, because we
have seen someone like Obama, who
had a civil tongue and talked to
us in all kind of great sweet
nothings. We got nothing from it
now we have trump, who may not be
the most well spoken person when
it comes to issues getting his
point across, but his heart is in
the right places putting America
first and make sure that he is
elevating the black community in
the same process
will Topher race has always
been used republican
candidates?
I dont think anyone has been
accused of that more than
President Trump over the last
four years.
So how do we reconcile all these
accusations of racism with
growing? And I think that is
undoubtable at this point with
Growinggrow growing support in T
black community?
I think at some point in time
people have to wake up and
realize the rumors may just not
be true.
If you have so many people,
people coming out and supporting
trump
typically sit back and do
research. So many people vote
Democrat because their parents
told them to do so.
I was one of those early on in
life.
I never voted Democrat, but I was
on that same mindset
later on when I did my research
and looked into the policies and
issues and the candidates,
I realized typically leaning
more republican anyway and
thats, why I kind of said: hey
im a Republican
im going to vote for Trump in
two thousand and sixteen
definitely voting for him again
in twenty twenty next week.
So I think wux people sit down
and compare the two and look at
it. Easy decision,
the reason throwing the word
around racist
once you say that word, given our
history in America,
black people turn off the ears
and look away.
They know its effective. We are
in a climate of hyper
sensitivity, given the riots and
everything thats going on a lot
of people. Dont want to hear
nothing that has anything to do
with racism
will yeah.
I think if President Trump come
back next week, one hundred and fifty two thousand and twenty five percent of the
black vote in this country. One
clear lesson will be social
media and mainstream media.
Cable anchors are terrible
indicators of where this country
is headed Topher. Thank you so.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-31.