Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, and Dave Chappelle were once heroes to me. Now, they are no longer fit for the job.
It’s a compelling argument. But over the span of Chappelle’s Netflix deal, which began in 2016 and is reportedly worth tens of millions, the comedian has courtedhas an answer for this, too. The jokes about #MeToo? Chappelle says that was about challenging the movement for centering wealthy women. The jokes about queer people? The comedian frames those as a challenge to how gay people retreat into the safety of whiteness in the face of threats .
In a particularly muddled stretch, Chappelle tells the story of a slave who was freed and then went and bought slaves because “he was invested in a construct of ‘this is what successful people do.’” Chapelle says this explains his jokes about trans people: because Chappelle is a man with kids and a wife, he claims he is “invested in the gender construct.” Here, Chappelle offers an unsatisfying and unnuanced conclusion: “This does not mean that I don’t think another point of view can’t exist.
Just a few weeks after the speech was released online, after a Chappelle performance in Minneapolis was moved due to protesters, the comedian called people who protested “During his school speech, Chappelle tells the audience that it will “maybe be decades before you see someone in my genre as proficient as me. I am maybe a once-in-a-lifetime talent. I am telling you the truth.” And for the most part, itactually true.
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