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And what about Black comedian Dave Chappelle, who talked about how fucked up Hollywood and the entertainment industry is, walked away from the incredibly lucrative Chappelle Show because of disagreements he had with the producers, objected to wearing a dress for a skit, abruptly quit the show and left to live away from all this in South Africa for a while, and later said in a stand-up routine that there was something strange about this practice of making Black men wear dresses in the music videos, the comedy skits, the movies? You see the stand-up routine he gave about how vicious the entertainment industry is, why he left the Chappelle Show, and how he had a friend in the industry who went mad, Alan-Ginsberg style, “ destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,” screaming about how “They’re trying to kill me” in the middle of the streets until he was hospitalized?

Here’s rapper Young Thug wearing a dress...