BRIDGEHAMPTON, New York: Dave Chappelle’s return to the comedy stage comes at a racially charged time in the U.S.<\/p>\n
But the comedian, who has never shied away from racial issues, says that’s just a coincidence.<\/p>\n
He says now is a “surprisingly emotionally charged time,” adding that comedians can help sort through “all this information and emotional content.”<\/p>\n
Chappelle spoke to The Associated Press<\/a> Saturday. He was on Long Island<\/a> at the Art For Life benefit, where he received an award from Russell Simmons’ Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.<\/p>\n During his acceptance speech, Chappelle said the arts education he received in high school in Washington, D.C., saved him.<\/p>\n The event raised funds for arts in schools and other programs that benefit children and emerging artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BRIDGEHAMPTON, New York: Dave Chappelle’s return to the comedy stage comes at a racially charged time in the U.S. But the comedian, who has never shied away from racial issues, says that’s just a coincidence. He says now is a “surprisingly emotionally charged time,” adding that comedians can help sort through “all this information and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":10656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}