Chappelle poignantly explained how the image of Floyd calling for his deceased mother and pleading for his life is seared into his and the nation’s wounded psyche.
Chappelle also took on NRA, as well as Candace Owens, a Black right-wing media personality who brought up Floyd’s troubled past to criticize the Black community for making him a “martyr.”
We didn’t choose [Floyd]— you did,” Chappelle shot back.
Owens replied to Chappelle’s criticism on Twitter by saying that, unlike people on the “left,” she has a sense of humor and can take a joke.
Although Chappelle couched his comments in humor, the basis of his sharp rebuke—that Floyd’s humanity is worthy of justice regardless of his past—was not a joke.
