THB #4: The Dave Chappelle Thing

Dave Chappelle is a master of his craft.

You can’t argue the point and be honest at the same time.

He is also a lot of other, less attractive things. Like Lenny Bruce and George Carlin before him, he bites. And sometimes what he bites down on, he is wrong about. Some of it remains blind points for him. Some he is evolving on. And some, he was always right about.

In his new Netflix special, The Closer, he is unambiguous about his main targets… white people and Jews. I just happen to be in both categories.

Even more so, he is at his most offensive, in this special, when aiming at my specific brand of Jew… an educated, privileged, religiously trained male who has been openly against the right-wing swing of Israel’s government for most of my life, certainly at least 35 years.

Personally, I believe that until there is an American president as brave as Yitzhak Rabin, willing to force Israel into a viable answer to the push within Israel against true democracy, nothing will really change until, p…