![]() There is no indication that they might consider this a teaching moment. The school is obviously triangulating desperately to balance its desire for Chappelle’s money with its desire to avoid controversy. Hypocrisy reigns supreme over this entire situation. ![]() But it didn’t want to kill the golden goose and is hoping that by April the controversy will have died down enough that they can have the fundraiser, avoid too much controversy and not alienate Dave Chappelle. The school’s first instinct was to mollify the most vocal students and cancel Chappelle. Students at Duke Ellington complained and threatened to protest the fundraiser. But he spoke quite a bit about transgendered people in his last Netflix special, “The Closer”, and many people consider his jokes transphobic. Chappelle has been a loyal alum to the Duke Ellington School and has donated lots of money to it. ![]()
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