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  • - [Dave Chappelle] I'm just afraid of being attacked.

  • It happens to the best of us.

  • Don't ever forget what happened

  • to that French actor.

  • You know who I'm talking bout?

  • Jussie Smollett.

  • He's a very French, very famous French actor.

  • (audience laughs)

  • Y'all never heard of Jussie Smollett?

  • (audience laughs)

  • Jussie Smollett is a actor from France.

  • (audience laughs)

  • And he became famous on a show called Empire.

  • One night,

  • he was in Chicago late at night

  • and was the victim,

  • (laughs) (audience laughs)

  • he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack.

  • You see,

  • Jussie Smollett is

  • (audience laughs)

  • gay and he is black.

  • Not just French.

  • (audience laughs)

  • Oh, it was a crazy story.

  • Apparently,

  • when he was walking down the street late at night

  • two white men came out of the shadows

  • with MAGA hats on and beat him up.

  • Tied a rope around his neck,

  • called him all kinds of n****

  • and put some bleach on him and ran off into the night.

  • (audience laughs)

  • The shit was like international news.

  • And everybody was furious,

  • especially in Hollywood.

  • It was all over everybody's Twitter feed

  • and Instagram page.

  • "Justice for Jussie!" and all this shit.

  • (audience laughs)

  • The whole country was up in arms.

  • Was talking about it all the time on the news.

  • And for some reason,

  • African Americans, we were like oddly quiet.

  • (audience laughs)

  • We was so quiet about the shit

  • that the gay community

  • started accusing African American community

  • of being homophobic for not supporting him.

  • What they didn't understand

  • is that we were supporting him

  • with our silence.

  • (audience laughs)

  • Because we understood

  • that this n**** was clearly lying.

  • (audience applauds)

  • None of these details added up at all.

  • He said he's walking down the street in Chicago

  • and white dudes come up to him and say,

  • "Hey man, aren't you that f*** n*** from Empire?"

  • What the f***?

  • Does that sound like how white people talk?

  • I know white people, they don't talk like that.

  • Are you that f*** n*** from Empire?

  • They would never say that.

  • It sounds like something

  • that I would say.

  • (audience laughs)

  • If you're a racist and homophobic

  • you're not even gonna know who this n*** is.

  • You can't watch Empire.

  • (audience laughs)

  • Black people never feel sorry for the police

  • but this time we even felt sorry for the police.

  • Can you imagine if you was a police veteran

  • taking this kids police report?

  • "Okay Mr. Smollett, please tell me what happened?

  • "Alright, two a.m. You left the house at two a.m.,

  • "it was minus 16 degrees.

  • (audience laughs) "Alright.

  • "You were walking? You were walking. Alright.

  • (audience laughs)

  • "And where were you going?

  • "Subway?"

  • "Sandwiches?"

  • (audience laughs)

  • "That's when the men approached you?

  • "Did you see them? Did you have any--

  • "Okay, what did they have on?

  • "MAGA hats?!

  • (audience laughs)

  • "MAGA hats on in Chicago?

  • "Excuse me one second Mr. Smollett

  • "Frank, come here for a second.

  • (audience laughs)

  • "Find out where Kanye West was last night"

  • (audience laughs)

- [Dave Chappelle] I'm just afraid of being attacked.

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