Chappelle Visit at Duke Ellington

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So any lgbtq students were required to listen to this bigot?

Gmafb.

+1,000,000

He is not a bigot. Just because you get your news from tweets, doesn’t mean you can label anyone a bigot you want. As a queer black woman, I thoroughly agreed with his sentiments in his last special. He made himself pretty clear and it does make sense. He said he was jealous of the LGBT movement. That does not make one a bigot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So any lgbtq students were required to listen to this bigot?

Gmafb.

+1,000,000

He is not a bigot. Just because you get your news from tweets, doesn’t mean you can label anyone a bigot you want. As a queer black woman, I thoroughly agreed with his sentiments in his last special. He made himself pretty clear and it does make sense. He said he was jealous of the LGBT movement. That does not make one a bigot.

New poster. I would not say that he's jealous of the movement. He believes it's over the top, ridiculous, and unworthy of the power it's earned so fast compared to the power of brown and black people after centuries of oppression.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So any lgbtq students were required to listen to this bigot?

Gmafb.

+1,000,000

He is not a bigot. Just because you get your news from tweets, doesn’t mean you can label anyone a bigot you want. As a queer black woman, I thoroughly agreed with his sentiments in his last special. He made himself pretty clear and it does make sense. He said he was jealous of the LGBT movement. That does not make one a bigot.

New poster. I would not say that he's jealous of the movement. He believes it's over the top, ridiculous, and unworthy of the power it's earned so fast compared to the power of brown and black people after centuries of oppression.

He juxtaposes the minute and seemingly trivial things that the LGBTQ community rallies for with the basics belief that Black people deserve equal rights/to be treated just the same as White people, and continues on to compare how the world has changed much faster and easier for the LGBTQ community than it has for the Black community.

Pointing out facts in an uncomfortable way doesn't make him a bigot.

-Queer person

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t sound like anyone commenting on this thread actually has kids that go to the school. If you did, you would know that he is an alumni of the school. I bet the parents were happy to have him speak.

And a HUGE donor. Who brings back other famous people to speak at the school.

And he's pretty much one of the ONLY truly famous alums. https://www.ellingtonschool.org/alumni-main/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So any lgbtq students were required to listen to this bigot?

Gmafb.

+1,000,000

He is not a bigot. Just because you get your news from tweets, doesn’t mean you can label anyone a bigot you want. As a queer black woman, I thoroughly agreed with his sentiments in his last special. He made himself pretty clear and it does make sense. He said he was jealous of the LGBT movement. That does not make one a bigot.

New poster. I would not say that he's jealous of the movement. He believes it's over the top, ridiculous, and unworthy of the power it's earned so fast compared to the power of brown and black people after centuries of oppression.

He juxtaposes the minute and seemingly trivial things that the LGBTQ community rallies for with the basics belief that Black people deserve equal rights/to be treated just the same as White people, and continues on to compare how the world has changed much faster and easier for the LGBTQ community than it has for the Black community.

Pointing out facts in an uncomfortable way doesn't make him a bigot.

-Queer person

I don't think he's a bigot at all. I generally agree with you, but he also feels very pained and angry over the attacks he's received from the LGBTQ+ community. And he does make some very serious and relevant observations about the bullying they do, and the lunacy and cruelty of the whole LGBTQ woke cancel culture. You're ignoring all of these inconvenient truths. The LGBTQ+ community has not treated him well.

-Non-Queer Person

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So any lgbtq students were required to listen to this bigot?

Gmafb.

+1,000,000

He is not a bigot. Just because you get your news from tweets, doesn’t mean you can label anyone a bigot you want. As a queer black woman, I thoroughly agreed with his sentiments in his last special. He made himself pretty clear and it does make sense. He said he was jealous of the LGBT movement. That does not make one a bigot.

New poster. I would not say that he's jealous of the movement. He believes it's over the top, ridiculous, and unworthy of the power it's earned so fast compared to the power of brown and black people after centuries of oppression.

He juxtaposes the minute and seemingly trivial things that the LGBTQ community rallies for with the basics belief that Black people deserve equal rights/to be treated just the same as White people, and continues on to compare how the world has changed much faster and easier for the LGBTQ community than it has for the Black community.

Pointing out facts in an uncomfortable way doesn't make him a bigot.

-Queer person

I don't think he's a bigot at all. I generally agree with you, but he also feels very pained and angry over the attacks he's received from the LGBTQ+ community. And he does make some very serious and relevant observations about the bullying they do, and the lunacy and cruelty of the whole LGBTQ woke cancel culture. You're ignoring all of these inconvenient truths. The LGBTQ+ community has not treated him well.

-Non-Queer Person

+100 (original queer defender)

He really laid it out quite well in his recent film. It truly was brilliant. Made me laugh and cry. I don’t think he’s the funniest comic ever, but he’s genius.

[Anonymous]

I do appreciate these observations on Chapelle’s social commentary. They come from a place of deep reflection.The fact that the ones who are paying the price for the “controversies” of the show are the black staff member who criticized the show and Chapelle shows he made his point — about the lasting power and impact of race over all else.

He is always a few steps ahead of us - pure genius.

[Anonymous]

Lots of black people arrested extremely homophobic/transphobic, as we have seen in their voting patterns and in this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of black people arrested extremely homophobic/transphobic, as we have seen in their voting patterns and in this thread.

Disagreeing with someone is not a phobia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So any lgbtq students were required to listen to this bigot?

They should be, if they weren’t. What on earth? How will you be able to change people’s minds if you don’t even listen to them in the first place?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So any lgbtq students were required to listen to this bigot?

Gmafb.

+1,000,000

He is not a bigot. Just because you get your news from tweets, doesn’t mean you can label anyone a bigot you want. As a queer black woman, I thoroughly agreed with his sentiments in his last special. He made himself pretty clear and it does make sense. He said he was jealous of the LGBT movement. That does not make one a bigot.

New poster. I would not say that he's jealous of the movement. He believes it's over the top, ridiculous, and unworthy of the power it's earned so fast compared to the power of brown and black people after centuries of oppression.

He juxtaposes the minute and seemingly trivial things that the LGBTQ community rallies for with the basics belief that Black people deserve equal rights/to be treated just the same as White people, and continues on to compare how the world has changed much faster and easier for the LGBTQ community than it has for the Black community.

Pointing out facts in an uncomfortable way doesn't make him a bigot.

-Queer person

I don't think he's a bigot at all. I generally agree with you, but he also feels very pained and angry over the attacks he's received from the LGBTQ+ community. And he does make some very serious and relevant observations about the bullying they do, and the lunacy and cruelty of the whole LGBTQ woke cancel culture. You're ignoring all of these inconvenient truths. The LGBTQ+ community has not treated him well.

-Non-Queer Person

+100 (original queer defender)

He really laid it out quite well in his recent film. It truly was brilliant. Made me laugh and cry. I don’t think he’s the funniest comic ever, but he’s genius.

+1. Sometimes I think people didn’t even watch the show they are so busy criticizing. He’s not anti-LGBTQ+. He’s saying there are many toxic members of that community that bully— and that’s exactly what happened after the show.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of black people arrested extremely homophobic/transphobic, as we have seen in their voting patterns and in this thread.

Disagreeing with someone is not a phobia.

Nobody believes any of this sock puppeting. I am bi and literally nobody I know IRL who is queer is okay with him or his homophobic/transphobic BS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t sound like anyone commenting on this thread actually has kids that go to the school. If you did, you would know that he is an alumni of the school. I bet the parents were happy to have him speak.

And a HUGE donor. Who brings back other famous people to speak at the school.

And he's pretty much one of the ONLY truly famous alums. https://www.ellingtonschool.org/alumni-main/

He loves that school and continually invests in it and it’s students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of black people arrested extremely homophobic/transphobic, as we have seen in their voting patterns and in this thread.

Disagreeing with someone is not a phobia.

Nobody believes any of this sock puppeting. I am bi and literally nobody I know IRL who is queer is okay with him or his homophobic/transphobic BS

This just tells me that you don’t know many queer people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dave Chappelle was at Ellington yesterday to talk with the students. It doesn't sound like it went very well.

The school locked all of the kids’ phones so they couldn’t take video, and the assembly was after school ended and for an hour. Parents got an email about it about 10 minutes after it started, but many parents were waiting to pick up their kids and had no idea what was happening. Dave showed up at the end of the school day, making the kids stay an extra hour while they could not text their parents to let them know where they were.
When one girl walked out, he shouted after her that they were better off without her. When kids stood up to him and said that his words were harmful, he berated them.

Regardless of where you stand on Chappelle and the direction his comedy is taking, what on earth was the school thinking to keep kids after without access to contact their parents or without proper notice? And at a school with trans kids, why prioritize their famous alumni vs. the students who are there now? Star worship at its worst.

It's a high school in a city with mass transportation such as buses, subways, trolleys and circulators. Uber, Lyft and taxi rides are easily accessible. And the city has removed hundred of parking and car lanes for the bike riders and scooters. Why are high school parents relying on their parents for pick-up?

There’s so much that doesn’t add up about OP’s story.