There's a video of Dave Chappelle at a town meeting in the small town in Ohio where Dave Chappelle lives. Dave Chappelle walks up to the mic to inform the mayor and town council of Dave Chappelle’s displeasure at the prospect that they will approve an affordable housing project in the town in which Dave Chappelle lives. What separates Dave Chappelle from any other disgruntled town dweller, is that he can threaten to remove Dave Chappelle’s $60 million investment in the city. Dave Chappelle begins by saying “Hello I’m Dave Chappelle,” in the tone of Dave Chappelle introducing himself knowing full well that he, the Dave Chappelle aforementioned, needs no introduction. Dave Chappelle continues: “I can’t believe you would make me audition for you like this.” His words drip, not with that healthy anger which citizens in a democratic society are entitled to have toward public servants; nor is he defiant, as a mere citizen might be before his government. He is contemptuous, not simply of the city government, but of, it seems to me, the very idea of civil government. As if to say: “How dare these mere elected officials, these paupers, these beggars, these indigents, whose wealth cannot begin to rival my own, defy me, he who holds the economic fate of this city in the palm of his hand.”
Wealth Inequality Is Power Inequality
Wealth Inequality Is Power Inequality
Wealth Inequality Is Power Inequality
There's a video of Dave Chappelle at a town meeting in the small town in Ohio where Dave Chappelle lives. Dave Chappelle walks up to the mic to inform the mayor and town council of Dave Chappelle’s displeasure at the prospect that they will approve an affordable housing project in the town in which Dave Chappelle lives. What separates Dave Chappelle from any other disgruntled town dweller, is that he can threaten to remove Dave Chappelle’s $60 million investment in the city. Dave Chappelle begins by saying “Hello I’m Dave Chappelle,” in the tone of Dave Chappelle introducing himself knowing full well that he, the Dave Chappelle aforementioned, needs no introduction. Dave Chappelle continues: “I can’t believe you would make me audition for you like this.” His words drip, not with that healthy anger which citizens in a democratic society are entitled to have toward public servants; nor is he defiant, as a mere citizen might be before his government. He is contemptuous, not simply of the city government, but of, it seems to me, the very idea of civil government. As if to say: “How dare these mere elected officials, these paupers, these beggars, these indigents, whose wealth cannot begin to rival my own, defy me, he who holds the economic fate of this city in the palm of his hand.”