Ice is ice and cold is cold.
Still, it is a consistent reference to the historical demonstration that Blacks will buy anything put out there by white folks, regardless if it's the same quality, because it appears more credible or more legitimate if the other man is saying it or selling it. The investigative story broke by the San Jose Mercury' News that the government financed Nicaraguan rebels from inner city drug profits is a stunning revelation, but its not new news. The real news break here was that it was a contrived plot to solely use youth organizations in Los Angeles, by the CIA and the highest levels of government, to waste the lives of inner city youth to finance the overthrow of the legitimate Nicaraguan government. Black lives became expendable to risky foreign missions. It's government betrayal of the highest order.