In Dave Chappelle’s new
Netflix special 8:46 — which was posted to the Netflix might be a Joke
YouTube channel within the first morning hours on Friday — he addresses
the death of George Floyd. But he also criticizes variety of the media
reaction to it, including that of CNN anchor Don Lemon.
The title of the special is that the length of it slow that Minneapolis
policeman Derek Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s neck, a flash that was
captured on video.
“When I watched that tape, I understood this man knew he was visiting
die,” Chappelle said. “People watched it. People filmed it. And for some
reason that I still don’t understand, of those f*cking police had their
hands in their pockets. Who are you talking to? What are you
signifying? that you simply just can kneel on a man’s neck for 8 minutes
and 46 seconds and need you wouldn’t get the wrath of God? that's
what's happening immediately. It’s not for one cop. It’s for all of it.
F*ck all of it. I don’t mean to induce heavy but we gotta say
something.”
Chappelle, who taped the performance on June 6 in Yellow Springs, Ohio,
near his home, took issue with Lemon’s necessitate black Hollywood
celebrities to speak out.
“I’m watching Don Lemon, that hotbed of reality,” Chappelle said.
“He says, where are of those celebrities? Why aren’t you all talking?
Then Chappelle said, “Does it matter about celebrity? No. this is often
often the streets talking for themselves. They don’t need me without
delay. I kept my mouth shut which i'll still keep my mouth shut.”
Lemon suffered Chappelle on CNN’s New Day, initially saying that he
agrees in some respects with the comedian’s point.
“I think that the adolescents who are out there within the streets don’t
really care what we have to say,” Lemon said. “They think that an
element of the world that we created and what we did, maybe we didn’t
move fast enough and maybe we weren’t strong enough. so as that they're
out there fighting and said, ‘Listen, we are bored with what's
happening. We tried to undertake to to that nicely which we tried to do
and pair peacefully which we've got tried to undertake to to of those
things and you rejected it.’ they don't seem to be only chatting with
race during this country but all folks within the establishment. So I
accept as true with him during this way.”
Lemon added, “But I do think that this may be not a second for modesty.
i think that this can be often a rapid that we should all be using our
platform to undertake to to whatever we are able to, and a minimum of to
signifies adolescents and other people out there that we support them,
and it doesn’t mean taking all of the credit for it or speaking out for
them. i think they'll try this on their own. …But i feel they need to
understand that individuals like Dave Chappelle or people like me or
whoever supports them. And that’s all they need to know.”
Lemon also said that there was some irony that Chappelle’s special is
called 8:46 which “he is using this platform to talk about this.”
“We should all be challenged,” Lemon said, adding that their different
point of view on whether celebrities should speak out is “a moment where
we've two men of color, who have two big platforms, we are agreeing or
disagreeing with each other and having a discussion, and others are
actually listening.”
Chappelle was considerably tougher on conservative pundits Candace
Owens, who has criticized the black community for calling Floyd a
martyr, and Laura Ingraham for her comments that LeBron James should “shut up and dribble.”
Chappelle said of Owens: “That rotten b***h, she’s the worst.
I can’t consider a worse because of make money. She’s the foremost
articulate idiot I’ve ever seen in my f***ing life.”
Owens took Chappelle’s comments in good spirits. “To every Democrat
tweeting me the clip of #DaveChappelle insulting me: I’m not a leftist,”
Owens said during a tweet Friday. “I have how of humor & i feel
comedians SHOULD bemock of people.”
She added: “Dave Chappelle is one in every of the most effective
comedians of all time which i made it into one in all his specials. That’s POWER!”
