In The Comments | The Dave Chapelle Video

[@brittbleuu]

I’m grateful for this conversation. It really further opened my mind to this topic. I wish more people would understand that not identifying with others who are not like them isn’t an excuse to remain ignorant. Love what you’re doing Sis. Proud of your tenacity!

[@tinawilliams9067]

Girl you know who you are and you know what to do. Continue to be authentic and factual. I am 65 and love your episodes. I learn so much from you my sister.

[@johnpurser2798]

Thank you. It's 2 years later and this still was still an important conversation to me.

[@ludrickdavid2291]

I'm over here in England and I've just recently subscribed to you after accidentally bumping into you on Facebook. Probably 2 weeks now I've watched and listened to your pod. All I can say as a 61 year old youth . You have been joyful to listen and watch . Your subjects have been really interesting. Love the life you put into your coverage of your topics. You keep it pleasantly intellectual in my opinion. Don't let them dampen your joyful spirit. You don't have to prove who you are . It's so plain and simple to see . God bless you young lady. 🙏🏿 at least your not candace Owen. Sorry I thought out loud . Stay fresh stay beautiful and keep.feeding our souls ✨️

[@daking589]

I love you. I am beyond grateful for your work on this planet. Keep educating us. Keep keeping us honest! I exalt you.

[@joylannetter2451]

Per the usual, 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 well thought out and spoken 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@johnbenbow2329]

Thank you for bringing Hope’s perspective into the discussion. It is a wonderful thing when those who walk the walk get to serve the tea. I appreciate learning from all sources. 🙏🏻❤️

[@aaronglen7861]

I don’t typically comment (or watch KZbin videos to the end lol) but this was a great video. I love that you both were educating and holding US accountable. Very well done. (And I’m a black gay man btw)

[@sandyroffey688]

Thank you for this conversation. I usually try not to comment, because I’m white and trying to listen more and talk less. But for this one, my son is white, but also transgender. My spouse is white and genderqueer. I want to teach my child to be intersectional in his support of his community, and both you and your guest are giving me some good points to address with him.

[@Nikkiya12]

This was amazing! Will be subscribing to Facebook. Thank you for the time, effort and thoughtfulness brought in this conversation!

[@DamascusHarris]

Cis-norm man here: thank you sisters, I appreciate you both.

[@bonniehunt4023]

I’m confused as to why people don’t go this hard when rappers spew “Hate” about Black women. Where are the consequences?

[@YourFavoriteFatherFigure]

Real women's issues don't matter! 🤷🏿‍♂️ Trans women(men) issues have overshadowed y'all concerns and are forced to cater to trans women feelings.

[@PayMeNoMind]

I’m guessing there will continue to be 🦗 🦗 🦗 on these occurrences

[@nayahri]

Black women have been going this hard for YEARS about this subject matter. Question is where are you when they do??

[@LynaeVaneex]

@@nayahri yea I don’t know nothing about that lifestyle lol, we been speaking up over here

[@nayahri]

@@LynaeVaneex indeed. Queen Latifah made a whole ass song about this very subject and it was played everywhere but sure, people don't go this hard about hip hop misogyny. No, BONNIE doesn't go this hard on the matter. What consequences are expected to dealt when many of the women being degraded will still support the music and simply state, "Well they ain't talking about me"? I can't.

[@phantomdreams5804]

I’m grateful for this. I saw your first dave chappelle video and was a little thrown off. But now I see this I get it. So thanks yall.

[@emmaware4729]

When your faves link up!! 🙌🏿 Yes, yes, yes!! EVERYTHING about this was so needed! Thank you both for this!! 💕💕💕💕💕💕

[@116Eggleston]

Thank you ladies for giving me an education. So that’s why I watch these videos to learn something. Now I have always been an ally to the LGBTQ community. But there are some things I didn’t know, thanks it is ladies now I know.

[@vernonspeller9159]

I truly appreciate this conversation

[@ciattathompson7461]

Ty for this. Really made me think.

[@chetty1111]

Thank you for your insight. The learning continues.

[@ThaDirtyOne7]

Great conversation. I can't help but notice that no one is talking about how the community dragged Dave Chapell's "transfriend" and her subsequent death. While I didn't see his show the same way you both did I respect your right to feel how you feel about it. I simply think that same energy of safety should be expressed towards those in the community that spew hate amongst their very own. Just as we as black people need to demand change in our communities to prevent black on black crime while also addressing the threat we face from the very officers that are charged with our safety. We need to have complete conversations.

[@catherineroberts8270]

Thank you

[@AlLAN721]

Chapelle shined a light on the entire debate. who cares how we got here...we are now here!!! wake up!

[@yashicagrant1713]

This conversation is very insightful. I’m very happy to listen, learn and watch. Thank you

[@Nitaka12]

This is probably the best convo on this topic I've seen yet

[@joylannetter2451]

A HUGE Congratulations to you for your NAACP Image Awards!

[@ottabee]

Muchas gracias for sharing along with guest Hope talking more about a very important subject, breaking down why so much of our society is still in the dark ages of mob mentality regarding sharing common decency and empathy for our trans sisters and brothers. Goodness and damn, we still have have knee jerk behavior, desperation, and moral/spiritual apathy spewing viciously at living beings who are obviously needing our collective support and love to survive. These conversations are about humans, and to think there are so many other living beings, the Animal species, who are still waiting for their homes and safe spaces to explore to not be systematically terrorized and destroyed. Let alone to be born and raised in the hell like death camps we call slaughterhouses. Whew!, I am not much impressed by the human species though I am thankful for the efforts these two women show here today.

[@katefab1028]

This was a good and necessary conversation. Like you said, a lot of times we just regurgitate what we hear without putting any thought to it or doing any of our own research. I also appreciate hearing Hope's perspective and getting a better understanding directly from someone in the community so we can learn how to educate ourselves and be better allies.

[@marylclyke5983]

I am glad you did this. The comment section last week had me shaking my head at the way black people still dismiss black trans people and their struggle. Their struggle IS our struggle. Hope Giselle was soooo on pointe when she was talking about the stone wall gays. Dave Chappelle misses the time when gays were closeted and ashamed (I mean there is still work to do there but it used to be worse).

[@MikeJones-mi3di]

Not the same struggle

[@marylclyke5983]

@@MikeJones-mi3di I STRONGLY beg to differ. Protecting Black lives goes beyond standing up to overt racism. It’s also putting an end to homophobia, transphobia and mysogynoir in our community and creating acceptance for ALL BLACK PEOPLE!! I will not be responding again.

[@JustMe4321]

Thank you!!

[@MsVee-fb6fp]

wow I didn't think of it that way, that's something to think about Thanks Sister's.

[@MemiBean]

Thank you both for this conversation I needed more clarification and this gave me that.

[@fanniestillwell1445]

I just don’t understand the hate behind people who don’t share your views or ways of life or because they don’t look like you .They’re human beings still and everyone deserve respect . My God said to love thy neighbor not thy neighbor who only share the same ways of life like me . ALL neighbors !! You are loved and I care before anything and I treat all people with kindness and decency! Great video!! Each one teach one

[@ggparadelo3588]

I love this conversation so much!!💕

[@littlekingscastle]

You are a blessing, thank you for always using your platform for the entirety of the Black Ccmmunity✨!!! And have you been monitoring what's been happening at Howard University👀

[@susettemckenzie4114]

What's going on at Howard??

[@smith.woods.]

thank you for this! Beautiful ladies 💕🦋

[@merrylerry]

Keep preaching. You’re a necessary voice.

[@tandee5263]

This was a great conversation!

[@tkctrlofevltn]

Hope said something’s that really need to be highlighted! There is a limit

[@muthatrucker2680]

@hopegiselle is a beautiful black soul, thank you👏🏾

[@MsVee-fb6fp]

I'm a lesbian I stand by Dave C...it's funny and real, and I respect others opinions..

[@no2adili]

I loved this whole conversation. I did not watch the the Netflix special and I don’t plan to watch it. But I’m glad the pressure about this special is still going on.

[@ChessMandingo]

The LGBTQ is racist, made up of white leaders and their Black followers. They want to be heard, but don't want to listen. "I won't watch it...I will just hold the same opinion as the white led LGBTQ"

[@clarity2974]

It's ok for us to have different beliefs and values. It's America we don't have to believe the same.

[@Brittlesmith]

This was eye opening. I didn’t watch the special. I just saw the clip about da baby. I didn’t know the context of da baby shooting someone. I didn’t understand why ppl were so up in arms because Dave’s comment made sense. It made sense until I watched this. Now I understand why ppl aren’t here for Dave.

[@eric7of9]

This was a great conversation.

[@mrplatink]

It’s the other side of the story-how it affects you. I cannot imagine your strength to keep standing no matter how many people try their hardest to knock you down

[@moniquegaines5731]

Not windmilling in the comments! 🤣🤣🤣

[@tinaj910]

I knew your comments were going to be hot garbage! I've told people a million times that transphobic doesn't necessarily mean being scared, but having an irrational aversion or dislike. I didn't watch Dave Chappelle's special but he isn't saying anything he hasn't said before, and it doesn't appeal to me.

[@tonahmilton3401]

Haven't watched Dave's show, but I'm getting the gist from several comments, memes & so forth. I'm guessing we all kind of know that challenging anyone "big" is a possible free ticket to a loud & long shit show. The beauty of it is when & if new understanding presents itself & mean for the individuals hashing this out... us. commenters... watchers.. thinkers... So keep presenting! There are gains to be had. I struggle to understand what is so hard to get about not being considered, protected, presented (which leads to a host of negative precedence, laws, violation & discard). Every group non white male (in the US anyway) is experiencing this on some level. Even if just fundamentally, how can we not know how this works? Anywho... Keep teaching me... I for 1 could learn a plenty ;)

[@HouseofHungRealness]

Wish everyone could get along like these two?

[@freedomvoyageswithwendy]

I get it now. I support you!

[@116Eggleston]

Get these two ladies on red table talk. Can somebody make that happen.

[@dashawnstallings3169]

Hope looks flawless yeeeeea

[@PayMeNoMind]

I understand Lynae’s original response to The Closer. I recognize the struggle of the LGBTQ community. I guess Dave’s comedy has always been reckless, and I’ve always wondered what was actually being laughed at by his diverse audience. How often were the larger points being overlooked amid the laughs? It was just cool earlier because it was just dealing with our ish, and anyone black can do whatever they want/need to do with our ish to earn a living.

[@merrylerry]

Don’t let them stress you.

[@420Exotic]

Hey 👋🏾 Lynea I’m new here

[@amberdixon7280]

I love you girl. I said all the same things you said. You're amazeballs and people suck

[@rhondagary351]

I'm still not getting it.

[@seannadj]

Right his job is not to educate! Why is Dave attacked for Art( in this case comedy) ? Biggest question for me, after watching was when did Art become such a thing to attack? It’s an expression, first. No matter what life you have that leads you to express.

[@boudafie2503]

@runwaytycoon ? She burnt you tf up 🤣🤣🤣😂 dam I love how she carry and handle herself 🥵

[@keishafromscratch]

The main issue is this: we need to understand there is a difference between social justice and being offended. Social justice had nothing to do with canceling anyone if differing opinions. Social justice is about changing the system. Chick-fil-A gave a clear stance against same Sex marriage. Many canceled them yet they’ve become much more popular. Why? It’s a private corporation. But even they have to abide by federal law. Take the energy to your local and federal government and organize. Otherwise this will just be remembered as a shit show where people are causing a ruckus for what they don’t agree on and being in fear. I get you’re in fear for your lives yet the murder of a Black trans women is still NOT considered a hate crime. Be outraged! Be mad! Just take the energy and use it to change the system. Trying to change people’s minds without changing the system is hogwash. Black people have had to learn this lesson for themselves.

[@joshuaboakyeansah]

Its sad that there was so much hate in the comments. I may not have agreed with everything she said in the video, but she was still making important points. I think the people in the comments just thought she was trying to cancel Chappelle like others were trying to without watching the whole video.

[@LynaeVaneex]

Yea girl both sides of cancel culture (the people supporting it and the people defending the perpetrators) are dumb to me. People can make mistakes they just need to say sorry when they do. It’s the only way we’ll see a world where these mistakes happen less and less, not because of fear of being cancelled, but because the harmful rhetoric behind it is dying.

[@viomusardathefluffysealgas9347]

💜💜💜

[@nonalolagirl]

I promise I'm paying attention to the messages here but DaBaby didn't kill that child for self defense 🥲 That child was just trying to talk to him in public in a walmart.

[@LynaeVaneex]

You should watch the interview on the breakfast club about the incident , otherwise da baby would have been arrested. It amazing a black man was able to access the protection of laws that give him the right to bear arms and to “stand his ground” but if there wasn’t a weapon in the young man or surveillance to prove it I assure you da baby would have been imprisoned in this United States of America.

[@jadwisiastrickland3781]

Comedians Joke! I think you misunderstood the whole Stonewall section of the special. Lighten up!!!

[@wokeaf1242]

There is a problem with protected groups. When Chapelle pointed out that Da Baby murdered someone (or when Chris Brown attacks another woman) we do not hear from these groups because he murdered a black man - and Chapelle's humor is always aimed at his on people (I'm Rick James "B" - who was he saying that too?) but when Da Baby said something homophobic then everyone got mad. However, the flaw in Chapelle and all his defender's logic is it is black LGBTQ and Trans who get attacked, Trans women mainly by black men. They don't attack white LGBTQ organizations, or NOW. They attack black LGBTQ and Trans. Who was your stalker stalking? A white woman? Nope. When we accept the easy labeling for our women by Hip Hop artists and comedians, labeling that is dehumanizing, that is aimed at quantifying male ownership, and then we have this Dead Sea Scroll list of missing and assaulted or abuse black women but no one cares, right? According to Hip Hop and black comedians, our women are just "tricks" or "ratchet" or "Bs" so if you attack them or they go missing, or we have a serial killer murdering them, what's the problem? Remember Sandra Black? Remember how many so-called "brothers" (mostly Hotep a-holes) did podcasts and videos saying "if she hadn't opened her mouth. . ." as if defending your rights as a black woman is a crime worth murder. This video is100% right and I hope you got that psychopath that stalked you taken care of.

[@LynaeVaneex]

I think maybe you just don’t hear from these groups, because we definitely talk about it. And both times da baby murdered someone it was in self defense from people who pulled weapons on him. We talked about that in the video, but the second half of this comment💯

[@116Eggleston]

Somebody get these two ladies on the view or the real or some talk show please.

[@Nvme2010]

That is not what he said about stone wall gays! At allllll

[@carladelacruz6182]

💜

[@shuranalee7503]

💕💕💕

[@kaleb2009ful]

So the comment about Stonewall is what the transphobic remarks everyone talking about?? 🤷🏿‍♀️. Don't have FB, so I want be able to look at the full video.

[@MikeJones-mi3di]

Bruh, why can EVERYONE be criticized and made fun of but the Alphabet community, GTFOH

[@nayahri]

Let Dave Chappelle say some backwards shit about Native American people or him wear obe of their headresses and watch them go just as hard at him, which would absolutely kill the point you think you're making.

[@LynaeVaneex]

@Cerise Medina yea…..and people been asking them to change their names for years. There’s just not enough natives and people who rude for them to get a white man led and financed franchise to actually make them change it.

[@nayahri]

@Cerise Medina considering that you cannot speak with certainty for anyone other than yourself, you have no idea how any group of people will respond. Also you changed from your original narrative of LGBTQ people in general to specifically White Trans people. Now which one is your problem cuz your goalpost moving is Hella loud.

[@peterharris6223]

this is a man. like bro what's good?

[@bennuflight]

😐🤐

[@justiceshaw]

Question: Does gender matter? Muhammad Ali: The Cassius Clay context was not missed by folks 40yrs and older. How does a community nominate a wht trans male->female "Women Of The Year"? The gender reassignment was only a year old. But Cassius Clay could not be Muhammad Ali with the same acceptance. I listen to all sides, no matter how uncomfortable I may feel about the subject matter. Your platform is phenomenal and greatly appreciated, within its own right. But erry-body's not going to enjoy all of your rhetoric and slick sass. DC's stand up on Netflix, and your video commenting about 'scholars speculations' of Mr. Malcolm Little sexual preferences before becoming Malcolm X wasn't news. But nor were either uncomfortable. People are a long ways from being perfect. Racism is here to stay. And no matter how much we beg other marginalized groups and/or cultures to "Not Punch Down On" each other (or anyone), we can't be expected to walk on eggshells just bc someone's feelings got hurt. Cancel Culture has backfired in many ways. I believe Dave Chappell was merely suggesting we check that too. Not just comedy.

[@kaleb2009ful]

Still turning his comedy special to fit an agenda for the Trans community!!!