Comedian Dave Chappelle hosted “Saturday Night Live” in its first episode since the election, and got right to politics in his monologue, which he used to poke fun at President-elect Donald Trump, but also to tell America that he is willing to give him a chance.
From Washington Examiner
To address the large demonstrations across the nation against Trump’s victory, Chappelle took a moment to reflect about a recent BET concert event at the White House which he attended. Chappelle, who is black, said he was encouraged to see so many black people — and actor Bradley Cooper— at The People’s House having a good time.
He suggested that it was a remarkable turnaround for those who have been “historically disenfranchised,” and cited two visits by African Americans to the White House while Abe Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt were president which sparked controversy and backlash, at one point dropping the n-word.
“When [Teddy] Roosevelt was president, he had a black guy over and got so much flak from the media that he literally said, ‘I will never have a n——r in this house again,” Chappelle said of the 1901 visit after which no African American was invited to dinner at the White House again for decades.
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