As DeForest recounts, Chappelle “started educating people on the history of black people and police.” Rodney King. The Watts riots. Emmett Till. Trayvon Martin.
And John Crawford III, a black man who was shot by a white police officer in a WalMart near Dayton, Ohio, while holding a BB gun he had picked up from the store’s shelves while shopping. (A grand jury later decided not to indict the police officer.)
Chappelle then told a story about getting pulled over while driving in Ohio, where he lives. As Chappelle put it, “I may be white on paper, but I’m still black. So I’m nervous.”
