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Originally Posted by R Flair
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Speaking of things that would get you arrested in 2016, go back and watch the very first episode (or any really) of Chapelle's show. The black white supremacist bit in particular.
Things have really gone downhill at breakneck speeds in the last decade.
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You know Oprah and Loius Farrakhan were instrumental in getting Chapelle show taken off the air right?
They said it was setting people back. They couldn't get to Comedy Central, so they got to Dave Chapelle personally and held an intervention for him. They basically made him so guilty he ran to Africa for a religious retreat.
The Nation was putting heavy pressure on him to cease and desist, what with Nation members appearing on the set of the show in weird positions like assistant key grip, assistant errand boy, cinematographer.
If you ever wanted the blanks filled in on what the whole "walk away from 50-70 million dollars for 1 season and skip out to South Africa to hide" was all about.
Oprah and Farrakhan caused him to have a nervous breakdown after the intervention.
Not sure you know how "powerful" Oprah is (rather, she's more instrumental than powerful) but she is the one who was there when they first told Barrack 0Bama he had to run for president while he was in the Senate. She was in the room. That's a fact.