As someone who loved cHAPELLE's show and was absolutely heartbroken when he chose to walk away from it, I remember and loved that sketch even I didn't understand the broader implications. Chappelle was always clear at just the kind of America we were: hell, he made that clear in his very first episode with the iconic 'Black White Supremacist' Sketch which if anything,is even more devestating about our identities. Over and over Chapelle made points about our society, some of them in broad strokes, some of them more subtle.

And now an entire generation has decided none of that matters because they don't like his opinions on one subject. Chapelle's always pushed the envelope with the way we think: I vividly remember the monologue he gave on SNL the week after Trump's election. All of America was in shock and he was pleading for unity. I can't begin to think how much the same people who idolized him began to turn on him that night; maybe they were waiting for a reason to and they chose to use his opinions on LGBTQ+ as an excuse to reject someone who they thought wasn't following 'the rules' that the left will change arbitrarily and on a dime. Chapelle spoke truth to power then and he still does it now. It's just now a different kind of people have decided they don't want to hear it.