Dave Chappelle: Equanimity

00:22:14,958 --> 00:22:17,544 I hope she spreads the lips and there's an itty-bitty dick inside. 374 00:22:20,964 --> 00:22:23,508 The show is behind the curtains. 375 00:22:35,228 --> 00:22:37,272 I don't know what I said that upset that person. 376 00:22:38,690 --> 00:22:39,983 But I'm gonna tell you something. 377 00:22:40,817 --> 00:22:42,069 When I read that letter... 378 00:22:42,652 --> 00:22:44,237 in the moments after I read it, 379 00:22:44,321 --> 00:22:48,533 I did something that many black men in America 380 00:22:48,617 --> 00:22:51,661 do not have the time or the money to do. 381 00:22:52,079 --> 00:22:54,956 I thought about how I felt. 382 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:01,505 Asked myself a very basic question 383 00:23:01,588 --> 00:23:03,465 that I don't think I ever directly contemplated. 384 00:23:03,548 --> 00:23:06,093 I said, "Man, Dave, if you're writing all these jokes, 385 00:23:06,176 --> 00:23:10,180 do you have a problem with transgender people?" 386 00:23:10,263 --> 00:23:14,643 And the answer is absolutely not. 387 00:23:14,726 --> 00:23:16,728 The fuck you guys think I am? 388 00:23:16,812 --> 00:23:20,273 I don't understand all the choices that people make. 389 00:23:20,732 --> 00:23:22,901 But I do understand that life is hard, 390 00:23:22,984 --> 00:23:25,987 and that those types of choices do not disqualify you 391 00:23:26,071 --> 00:23:29,491 from a life with dignity and happiness and safety in it. 392 00:23:38,667 --> 00:23:39,918 But if I'm honest... 393 00:23:45,465 --> 00:23:48,844 my problem has never been with transgender people. 394 00:23:48,927 --> 00:23:50,762 My problem has always been 395 00:23:50,846 --> 00:23:54,057 with the dialogue about transgender people. 396 00:23:54,141 --> 00:23:57,811 I just feel like these things should not be discussed 397 00:23:57,894 --> 00:23:59,729 in front of the blacks. 398 00:24:02,649 --> 00:24:03,942 It's fucking insulting, 399 00:24:04,025 --> 00:24:06,903 all this talk about how these people feel inside. 400 00:24:06,987 --> 00:24:13,076 Since when has America given a fuck how any of us feel inside? 401 00:24:18,123 --> 00:24:22,043 And I cannot shake this awful suspicion 402 00:24:22,127 --> 00:24:26,214 that the only reason everybody is talking about transgenders 403 00:24:26,298 --> 00:24:29,384 is because white men want to do it. 404 00:24:29,801 --> 00:24:30,635 That's right. 405 00:24:30,719 --> 00:24:32,220 I just said that. 406 00:24:34,097 --> 00:24:36,433 If it was just women that felt that way 407 00:24:36,516 --> 00:24:38,393 or black dudes and Mexican dudes being like, 408 00:24:38,477 --> 00:24:40,187 "Hey, ya'll, we feel like girls inside." 409 00:24:40,270 --> 00:24:43,148 They'd be like, "Shut up, nigger. No one asked you how you felt. 410 00:24:43,648 --> 00:24:45,817 Come on, everybody, we have strawberries to pick." 411 00:24:47,903 --> 00:24:49,696 It reeks of white privilege. 412 00:24:50,322 --> 00:24:54,159 You never asked yourself why it was easier for Bruce Jenner to change his gender 413 00:24:54,242 --> 00:24:57,996 than it was for Cassius Clay to change his fucking name? 414 00:25:05,378 --> 00:25:07,297 And if I were to be brutally honest... 415 00:25:08,507 --> 00:25:09,341 [man] Go, Dave. 416 00:25:09,424 --> 00:25:12,802 ...the only reason I ever have been mad at the transgender community, 417 00:25:12,886 --> 00:25:15,096 is because I was at a club in LA 418 00:25:15,514 --> 00:25:19,017 and danced with one of these niggas for six songs straight. 419 00:25:20,769 --> 00:25:22,229 I had no idea. 420 00:25:24,022 --> 00:25:25,941 Then the lights came up and I saw them knuckles. 421 00:25:26,024 --> 00:25:28,193 I said, "Oh, no!" 422 00:25:28,944 --> 00:25:30,987 And everybody was laughing at me. 423 00:25:31,947 --> 00:25:32,989 WorldStar. 424 00:25:37,035 --> 00:25:40,121 I said, "Why didn't you say anything?" 425 00:25:41,581 --> 00:25:43,166 Then I heard that sultry voice. 426 00:25:44,376 --> 00:25:46,711 "I didn't say anything, Dave Chappelle, 427 00:25:47,212 --> 00:25:49,506 because I was having a wonderful time. 428 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,385 And I wasn't sure how you'd feel about it." 429 00:25:55,095 --> 00:25:57,055 I said, "You knew how I'd feel." 430 00:26:00,225 --> 00:26:03,603 And she said, "I'm going home. I don't want any trouble from you." 431 00:26:04,437 --> 00:26:06,982 I said, "Home? It's only two songs left. 432 00:26:07,065 --> 00:26:08,984 I mean, we might as well... 433 00:26:10,443 --> 00:26:11,528 finish the night." 434 00:26:15,907 --> 00:26:17,784 And we ended up having breakfast together. 435 00:26:19,411 --> 00:26:21,663 Oh, grow up. That doesn't make me gay. 436 00:26:22,539 --> 00:26:23,957 I just titty-fuck them. 437 00:26:26,543 --> 00:26:28,