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Dave Chappelle addresses George Floyd's death and racial injustice in a stand-up special filmed in Ohio. #comedy #standupcomedy #standup

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00:00I'm going to be impacted by my sunburner.

00:29No, I don't think they're going to be able to ask.

00:32Just step right over to the table, you take the table.

00:36Or you may sit in any of the black chairs that are on the lawn.

00:42Cool.

00:42The top is in the white.

00:59I hope you all can hear me.

01:17Will you guys shut the fuck up?

01:19I'm just kidding.

01:20That's my family in the back.

01:21That's why I did that.

01:23Children and stuff.

01:24Anyway, this is weird and less than ideal circumstances to do a show.

01:32But the only way to figure out if this shit will actually work is to do the goddamn show.

01:37So thank you all for coming.

01:39And I want to shout out all the young people who have had the courage to go out and do all this amazing work protesting.

01:49I am very proud of you.

01:54You kids are excellent drivers.

01:57I am comfortable in the backseat of the car.

01:59So carry on, young ones.

02:06It's hard to figure out what to say about George Floyd.

02:10So I'm not going to say it yet.

02:15I'll say something.

02:21Are you guys having a good time or is this weird?

02:23I got to tell you, this is actually like the first concert in North America since all this shit happened.

02:35So like it or not, it's history.

02:39It's going to be in the books.

02:43At least we tried.

02:46There's other comedians who would.

02:47Well, this is not the first show, but the other shows were like in drive-ins.

02:50And if people liked the niggas' jokes, they'd honk the horn.

02:56Didn't sound like any fun at all, did it?

02:59So what's you guys?

03:00You're a black and white friend hanging out.

03:02Do you guys know each other?

03:04It's going to be a quiet car ride home, isn't it?

03:07I'm just kidding.

03:08Enjoy your riots.

03:13I'm just kidding.

03:18They're not really even riots.

03:21Have you noticed that?

03:24This is a fucking weird time.

03:30In like 1993, I'm not sure what year it was, but I was in L.A.

03:37I had smoked a joint, and I was watching the movie Apocalypse Now.

03:41It was like just after 4 o'clock in the morning.

03:45And what later would become known, the Northridge earthquake happened.

03:51It felt like it started in my apartment.

03:53You know, I'm from east of the Mississippi.

03:57On this side, we don't know what earthquakes are about.

04:00I got to tell you something, man.

04:02Excuse me for burping.

04:03This shit was terrifying.

04:09It was absolutely terrifying.

04:11A lot of things went through my mind.

04:16I was like, not naked, but you know what I mean, just chilling in my boxes.

04:21I put my clothes on.

04:23I found my weed, and a pipe, and a lighter, and some money, and my keys, all these things.

04:34While the earthquake is happening, while I'm experiencing what an earthquake is the first time,

04:40and I was certain that I might very possibly die.

04:45As a matter of fact, I remember, I made a point not to scream.

04:49Just in case I lived, I wouldn't have to remember myself being vocally terrified.

04:55But I forgave myself for being terrified.

04:58That earthquake couldn't have been more than 35 seconds.

05:00This man kneeled on a man's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.

05:10Can you imagine that?

05:13This kid thought he was going to die.

05:15He knew he was going to die.

05:16He called for his mother.

05:19He called for his dead mother.

05:21I've only seen that once before in my life.

05:23My father, on his deathbed, called for his grandmother.

05:29When I watched that tape, I understood this man knew he was going to die.

05:36People watched it.

05:38People filmed it.

05:41And for some reason that I still don't understand,

05:45all these fucking police had their hands in their pockets.

05:50Who are you talking to?

05:53What are you signifying?

05:55That you can kneel on a man's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds

06:04and feel like you wouldn't get the wrath of God.

06:11That's what is happening right now.

06:15It's not for a single cop.

06:19It's for all of it.

06:21Fucking all of it.

06:26I don't mean to get heavy, but we got to say something.

06:31He told the police he couldn't breathe.

06:52One of the hardest parts of the tape to listen to.

06:56He said, please.

06:57I can't tell you.

07:02As a man, watching another man go through something like that,

07:08what it makes you feel like.

07:12I didn't watch the tape for weeks, for a week.

07:15I didn't watch it.

07:16I knew.

07:17I saw a still picture.

07:18I said, I don't want to see this because I can't unsee it.

07:22But when I finally watched it, I understood nobody's going home.

07:28Anyone who sees this, well, they're going to be furious.

07:33Oh.

07:35So the other night, I'm in my little clubhouse,

07:38and I'm watching Don Lemon, that hotbed of reality.

07:44He says, where are all these celebrities?

07:51Why aren't you talking?

07:52This nigga said everybody.

07:53I was screaming at the TV.

07:54I dare you to say me, nigga.

07:57I dare you.

07:58Has anyone ever listened to me do comedy?

08:04Have I not ever said anything about these things before?

08:09So now, all of a sudden, this nigga expects me to step in front of the streets

08:15and talk over the work these people are doing as a celebrity?

08:20Ask me, do you want to see a celebrity right now?

08:23Do we give a fuck what Ja Rule thinks?

08:26Does it matter about celebrity?

08:28No.

08:29This is the streets talking for themselves.

08:32They don't need me right now.

08:34I kept my mouth shut.

08:37And I'll still keep my mouth shut.

08:40But don't think that my silence is complicit

08:43to all the shit these niggas are saying,

08:45trying to get everyone to sing these fucking songs.

08:47I know all these songs.

08:49I was raised on these songs.

08:51Why would anyone care what their favorite comedian thinks

08:58after they saw a police officer kneel on a man's neck

09:02for eight minutes and 46 seconds?

09:05I can't get that number out of my head

09:07because it was my time of birth on my birth certificate.

09:11I was born at 8.46 in the morning

09:13and they killed this nigga in eight minutes and 46 seconds.

09:18I watched everything everybody says.

09:20I seen Candace Owens try to convince white America,

09:23don't worry about it.

09:24He's a criminal anyway.

09:27I don't give a fuck what this nigga did.

09:29I don't care what this nigga did.

09:32I don't care if he personally kicked Candace Owens

09:35and her stinky pussy.

09:38I don't know if it stinks, but I imagine it does.

09:42And if I ever find out, I'll let you know for sure.

09:45I'll tell like Azealia Banks, I'll tell.

09:59I'm the worst.

10:00But I know why.

10:07I figured out why they want to hear from me

10:09and it's serious.

10:12The only reason people want to hear from people like me

10:15is because you trust me.

10:18You don't expect me to be perfect.

10:20But I don't lie to you.

10:21I'm just a guy.

10:23And I don't lie to you.

10:25And every institution,

10:27every institution that we trust,

10:30lies to us.

10:37How come they never talk about Chris Dorner?

10:40That's a story about a man who believed

10:42he did everything right.

10:44Do you know who Chris Dorner is?

10:46Well, Chris Dorner,

10:48if you remember,

10:50was an African-American police officer

10:53in the LAPD.

10:56He was executing a warrant

10:58with his partner

10:59who was a white woman.

11:01And white women,

11:02I support you,

11:03but boy,

11:04if y'all don't shut the fuck up.

11:06During the process of executing this warrant,

11:21this white woman did what Chris Dorner thought

11:24was excessive force.

11:27I don't know what she did.

11:28She kicked a motherfucker that was handcuffed

11:30or hit a guy that was handcuffed

11:31or something.

11:32But Chris Dorner,

11:33the black police officer

11:34who watched this white woman do this,

11:36reported this to his superior,

11:38made a formal complaint,

11:39and was subsequently

11:40fired from the LAPD.

11:45He went through the system.

11:48He took every legal avenue

11:50that he believed he had

11:52to get reinstated.

11:53and he was not reinstated.

11:56And when his last appeal was finished,

11:59this motherfucker,

12:01some wild shit,

12:03wrote a manifesto.

12:05You know where this is going.

12:07And in that manifesto,

12:10he called me a genius.

12:12Me, Dave Chappelle.

12:14Not just me,

12:15but me.

12:16He said,

12:17Kevin Hart fan too.

12:18But he called me a genius

12:25and he told Bradley Cooper,

12:27who's a friend of mine,

12:28don't do any more hangovers,

12:30nigga.

12:30That's enough.

12:31That's what he said.

12:32Yeah?

12:35And he told his story.

12:38Chris Dorner told his story

12:39how he did everything right

12:40when he was in the military

12:42and subsequently everything else.

12:44This was before any of this shit happened.

12:46And then he said,

12:48which was the wildest thing,

12:49he said,

12:50I'm going to wage

12:51asymmetrical war

12:52on the L.A. Police Department

12:54and their families.

12:56That's an ominous thing to say.

12:58And he did it.

13:00This motherfucker

13:01ambushed two police officers

13:05who were just sitting

13:05in his squad car.

13:06Murdered them.

13:08He went to another police officer's house

13:09and killed his daughter.

13:12Boy, it was terrifying.

13:14And this motherfucker

13:16was on the run.

13:17He was doing it.

13:18I was supposed to do the Grammys.

13:20I was supposed to present

13:21at the Grammys that week

13:22and a guy from the LAPD

13:23called me and said,

13:24Mr. Chappelle,

13:24we understand you're coming

13:25to Los Angeles.

13:26And I don't know if you know,

13:28but there was a lunatic

13:29on the streets

13:30who was killing police officers

13:32and we would like to know

13:35if we can pick you up

13:37at the airport.

13:38We're extending this courtesy

13:39to everyone he mentioned

13:41in his manifesto.

13:43And I told the police,

13:45I'm fine.

13:46I read the manifesto.

13:48He likes me.

13:50Is there anything I can do

13:51for you, nigga?

13:52Because I'd be very worried.

13:54They found him.

14:03Big Bear.

14:04He was hiding in a cabin.

14:07When they figured out

14:08what this nigga was,

14:10no less than 400 police officers

14:13showed up

14:14and answered the call.

14:16And boy,

14:17let me tell you something.

14:18They Swiss cheese,

14:19this nigga.

14:20He is dead

14:21dead as dead could be.

14:23He is done.

14:24And you know why

14:25400 cops showed up?

14:27Because one of their own

14:28was murdered.

14:30So how the fuck

14:31can't they understand

14:33what's going on

14:34in these streets?

14:36We saw ourselves

14:38like you see

14:41yourself.

14:47It wasn't the only one.

14:51LeBron James

14:52once said something

14:53about racism

14:54and Laura Ingraham,

14:55which I will say publicly

14:57anywhere, anytime,

14:59is a cunt.

15:00Tell him I said it.

15:04Told one of Ohio's

15:07greatest residents ever,

15:09shut up and dribble.

15:11Tell you something

15:11about LeBron.

15:12This nigga was on the cover

15:13of Sports Illustrated

15:14when he was 17 years old

15:15and exceeded

15:17every expectation

15:18that they had for him.

15:20This business is treacherous.

15:22This is a good guy, LeBron.

15:23He's a family man

15:24and this, that, and the other.

15:26He didn't let anyone down.

15:28He didn't let anyone down.

15:29Came back to Ohio,

15:31won us a championship,

15:32and then was like,

15:33I'm going to move to L.A.

15:33And everyone in Ohio

15:34was like,

15:35nigga, we understand.

15:41He's a good man,

15:42LeBron James.

15:43This bitch told my friend

15:45to shut up and dribble.

15:46My friend is the best

15:48at something,

15:49and this bitch

15:50is not the best at anything.

15:52She's a regular-ass white bitch

15:54with a platform.

15:56And I use the word bitch

15:57all the time

15:58because it's black.

15:59You watch one shooting

16:08after another.

16:09Eric Garner in New York,

16:11the first guy

16:11that told the police,

16:12I can't breathe.

16:14Eric Garner was selling

16:15loose cigarettes

16:16in Staten Island.

16:17When my kid was being,

16:19when my kid was born,

16:20my first son,

16:21my wife lived

16:22in Staten Island.

16:23It's an awful place.

16:24She knows it.

16:27Everyone,

16:27everyone who's ever been there

16:29knows it.

16:30Yuck,

16:30to Staten Island.

16:33And my black ass

16:34would go there,

16:34and I got a lot of fans there

16:36and friends there,

16:37but this is a very

16:37terrible place.

16:39Fuck everybody

16:39in Staten Island

16:40except the Wu-Tang Clan.

16:48Got murdered

16:49by one police officer

16:50while five

16:51of his fellow officers

16:53watched him do it.

16:59Not one of them said,

17:01Frank, Frank,

17:01take it easy,

17:02none of that shit,

17:03because they were

17:04being recorded.

17:05Because they were afraid,

17:06if I correct my fellow officer

17:08on this camera,

17:09it's going to open us up

17:11for some kind of liability.

17:12And the guy

17:13killed the person

17:16that they were,

17:18what do you call it,

17:19apprehending?

17:20The guy was selling

17:21loose cigarettes.

17:23There goes Eric Garner.

17:30And then we have

17:31one after the other.

17:33Trayvon Martin

17:34gets murdered

17:35by just a regular

17:36nigga that,

17:37George Zimmerman

17:38is nobody.

17:40George Zimmerman

17:41is an awful human being.

17:43He threatened

17:43Beyonce's life.

17:44He threatened

17:44Jay-Z's life.

17:45He signed Skittle bags

17:47because Trayvon Martin

17:48had Skittles on him

17:50when he was murdered

17:51by George Zimmerman.

17:53Boy, how do we feel?

17:55How do we feel right now?

17:57This kid was 15 years old

17:58being followed

17:59by a grown man

18:00with a gun

18:01and whooped his monkey ass.

18:03He beat the shit

18:04out of George Zimmerman.

18:05And George Zimmerman

18:05murdered him.

18:06We were very upset.

18:09This kid looked eerily

18:09like the president.

18:11He looked like

18:11my own children.

18:13I hate George Zimmerman.

18:15It's an idea.

18:16Not as a guy.

18:17I've never met him.

18:18I'm sure I would, though.

18:19We hit the streets.

18:26We got them marching.

18:29Dylann Roof.

18:30Dylann Roof

18:31killed eight people

18:33in a church

18:34in Charleston, South Carolina.

18:36He prayed with them first

18:38and then he shot them

18:39at point-blank range.

18:44Goes on and on.

18:45And then one weekend

18:46a law-abiding citizen

18:50right here in Beaver Creek

18:52gets murdered.

18:56The cop that murdered

18:57John Crawford

18:59pulled me over

19:00the night before

19:02and let me off

19:03with a warning.

19:07And the next day

19:08kills a kid.

19:12He says,

19:13drop the weapon.

19:15Bang, bang, bang.

19:15This kid didn't even

19:17have enough time

19:18to register

19:18that he was the one

19:20being spoke to.

19:22This is our hometown.

19:24It happened right here.

19:26I was very proud

19:28to be your neighbor.

19:30I love the way

19:30you guys hit those streets.

19:33He said his name

19:33and tried to make sure

19:34everyone remembered him,

19:36but he got lost

19:37in the sauce.

19:38And this guy,

19:38John Crawford,

19:39was a saint.

19:40He was there buying shit

19:42so him and his kids

19:43could make s'mores.

19:44But Michael Brown

19:47got shot the same week

19:49and Michael Brown

19:50became the story.

19:56And then,

19:57am I boring you?

19:59No.

20:01Well then,

20:03right back in Minneapolis,

20:04there's Philando Castile,

20:06a law-abiding citizen

20:07who was a registered gun carrier

20:09who was trying to show

20:11the police the paperwork

20:12for his registered weapon

20:14and was murdered

20:15in front of his wife

20:16and his child.

20:17And then,

20:18right in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,

20:20just two days later,

20:22it happens again.

20:23And what do you think

20:24is going to happen?

20:25Three days later,

20:27nine cops get murdered

20:28in Dallas

20:29at a Black Lives Matter rally.

20:32I'll never forget it.

20:35It was the first time

20:37I ever thought,

20:38I got to get my family

20:39the fuck out of this place.

20:41These niggas

20:42will never understand.

20:43I'm tired of explaining

20:44to these people

20:45something that's

20:46so goddamn obvious.

20:49The guy that killed

20:50those nine cops,

20:51just like Chris Dorner

20:53before him,

20:54was from our military.

20:56And then right after

20:56he did it,

20:57another four cops

20:58were shot dead

21:00in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

21:02Again,

21:03a Black man

21:04that served

21:05in our military.

21:07What are they doing?

21:08Why would our guys

21:10do that?

21:10Black people

21:11from the military?

21:12Because they believe,

21:14just like they did

21:15when they were

21:15joining the fucking military,

21:17that they were

21:18fighting acts

21:19of terror.

21:23These are our people.

21:25These are our countrymen.

21:27If I were white

21:28and saw one of these men

21:30get murdered,

21:30and I was in the NRA,

21:32why wouldn't I stand up

21:33for them?

21:34A card-carrying

21:36legal gun owner

21:38that gets murdered

21:39in cold blood

21:40because he's black.

21:42That's why they don't

21:43give a fuck.

21:43There's only one time

21:45the NRA ever

21:46supported an assault

21:47weapon ban.

21:48You know when it was?

21:49It was when the Black Panthers

21:51stormed the state capital

21:52with assault rifles

21:54in California.

21:56Candace Owen.

22:02That rotten bitch.

22:08She's the worst.

22:10I can't think of a

22:11worst way to make money.

22:14She's the most articulate

22:15idiot I've ever seen

22:17in my fucking life.

22:19She's so articulate.

22:20She can tell you

22:21how fucking stupid

22:22she is precisely.

22:25And she told George Floyd's

22:27rap record

22:28on the internet.

22:31Oh, he was this,

22:33he did that,

22:34and he's a drug addict,

22:37and he's not a hero,

22:38and why does the black

22:39community make him a hero?

22:41Why do you choose him

22:42as a hero?

22:43We didn't choose him.

22:44You did.

22:45They killed him,

22:47and that wasn't right,

22:48so he's the guy.

22:52We're not desperate

22:53for heroes

22:54in the black community.

22:56Any nigga that survives

22:57this nightmare

22:58is my goddamned hero.

23:01This is not funny at all.

23:10I got some pussy jokes, too,

23:12I could do,

23:12but I just really just...

23:23Slavery is a really wild concept.

23:28It's some weird shit.

23:31The night

23:33that those nine police officers

23:36were killed

23:36felt like the end of the world,

23:40and the only reason

23:41that it wasn't the end of the world,

23:42in my opinion,

23:43is because at the very same time

23:45that was happening,

23:47Kobe Bryant was playing

23:48his last game

23:50as an L.A. Laker,

23:51and as scary as all that shit was,

23:53I kept flipping back

23:55to see if Kobe would drop 60,

23:57and he did.

23:59Oh, and he did.

24:01And vaguely in the back

24:02of my mind,

24:03I remember the idiot-ass bitch

24:04telling somebody

24:05to shut up and dribble,

24:07and I watched this nigga

24:08dribbling and saving

24:10this goddamn country

24:11from itself.

24:12I loved Kobe Bryant.

24:14He died.

24:15The night...

24:16The day I won a Grammy,

24:19he died.

24:20That's why I didn't show up

24:21at the Grammys,

24:22because Kobe died.

24:23They had both

24:24of his fucking jersey numbers

24:27hanging up.

24:288-24.

24:29Well, that's my birthday.

24:32I cried like a baby.

24:39So here's what I said

24:40on Saturday Night Live

24:41that I've got completely wrong.

24:45At the end of my set,

24:47I talked about how few black people

24:49were invited to the White House,

24:51how Frederick Douglass

24:52was the first,

24:54and that it didn't happen again

24:55until Roosevelt.

24:58But that was wrong.

25:01It happened one other time

25:02before that.

25:04Woodrow Wilson...

25:05Woodrow Wilson received

25:07a delegation

25:08of African Americans

25:10at the White House.

25:13They were from South Carolina.

25:14There was a man

25:16who was lynched

25:17for a $30 dispute

25:19at a grain elevator,

25:20and they killed him

25:21because the nigga was rich,

25:23and they hated him

25:24for being more wealthy

25:26than they were,

25:27and they murdered him.

25:29And the people

25:29in South Carolina

25:30said,

25:31fuck that,

25:32and they went

25:33via the governor

25:35of South Carolina.

25:35It was a black delegation

25:37that was facilitated

25:38to meet with Woodrow Wilson.

25:39That delegation

25:40was led by

25:41the AME Bishop,

25:43William David Chappelle.

25:47It's where I get my name.

25:49It was my great-grandfather

25:50who was a slave

25:52when he was born.

25:54These things are not old.

25:56This is not a long time ago.

25:58It's today.

26:01It's today.

26:04That man's wife

26:06was the woman

26:08that my father called on

26:10on his deathbed,

26:11and they were slaves.

26:14Are you out of your fucking mind

26:16if you can't see that?

26:18And these niggas say,

26:20why isn't David Chappelle

26:21saying anything?

26:22Because David Chappelle

26:24understands

26:25what the fuck

26:25he is seeing,

26:27and these streets

26:28will speak for themselves

26:30whether I'm alive

26:32or dead.

26:33I trust you guys.

26:35I love you guys.

26:38We'll keep this space open.

26:40And this is the last

26:41stronghold

26:42for civil discourse.

26:44After this shit,

26:45it's just

26:46rat-a-tat-tat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat.

26:52I love you very much.

26:53Thank you for being here.

26:54Good night.

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