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- [Dave Chappelle] I'm just afraid of being attacked.
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It happens to the best of us.
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Don't ever forget what happened
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to that French actor.
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You know who I'm talking bout?
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Jussie Smollett.
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He's a very French, very famous French actor.
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(audience laughs)
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Y'all never heard of Jussie Smollett?
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(audience laughs)
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Jussie Smollett is a actor from France.
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(audience laughs)
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And he became famous on a show called Empire.
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One night,
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he was in Chicago late at night
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and was the victim,
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(laughs) (audience laughs)
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he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack.
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You see,
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Jussie Smollett is
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(audience laughs)
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gay and he is black.
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Not just French.
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(audience laughs)
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Oh, it was a crazy story.
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Apparently,
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when he was walking down the street late at night
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two white men came out of the shadows
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with MAGA hats on and beat him up.
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Tied a rope around his neck,
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called him all kinds of n****
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and put some bleach on him and ran off into the night.
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(audience laughs)
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The shit was like international news.
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And everybody was furious,
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especially in Hollywood.
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It was all over everybody's Twitter feed
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and Instagram page.
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"Justice for Jussie!" and all this shit.
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(audience laughs)
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The whole country was up in arms.
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Was talking about it all the time on the news.
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And for some reason,
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African Americans, we were like oddly quiet.
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(audience laughs)
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We was so quiet about the shit
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that the gay community
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started accusing African American community
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of being homophobic for not supporting him.
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What they didn't understand
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is that we were supporting him
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with our silence.
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(audience laughs)
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Because we understood
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that this n**** was clearly lying.
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(audience applauds)
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None of these details added up at all.
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He said he's walking down the street in Chicago
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and white dudes come up to him and say,
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"Hey man, aren't you that f*** n*** from Empire?"
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What the f***?
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Does that sound like how white people talk?
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I know white people, they don't talk like that.
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Are you that f*** n*** from Empire?
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They would never say that.
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It sounds like something
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that I would say.
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(audience laughs)
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If you're a racist and homophobic
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you're not even gonna know who this n*** is.
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You can't watch Empire.
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(audience laughs)
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Black people never feel sorry for the police
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but this time we even felt sorry for the police.
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Can you imagine if you was a police veteran
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taking this kids police report?
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"Okay Mr. Smollett, please tell me what happened?
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"Alright, two a.m. You left the house at two a.m.,
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"it was minus 16 degrees.
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(audience laughs) "Alright.
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"You were walking? You were walking. Alright.
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(audience laughs)
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"And where were you going?
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"Subway?"
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"Sandwiches?"
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(audience laughs)
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"That's when the men approached you?
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"Did you see them? Did you have any--
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"Okay, what did they have on?
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"MAGA hats?!
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(audience laughs)
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"MAGA hats on in Chicago?
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"Excuse me one second Mr. Smollett
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"Frank, come here for a second.
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(audience laughs)
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"Find out where Kanye West was last night"
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(audience laughs)
