{"id":1062622,"date":"2021-11-28T18:14:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T23:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1062622"},"modified":"2021-11-28T18:15:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T23:15:03","slug":"dave-chappelle-challenges-fans-and-woke-critics-to-fundraising-contest-donate-to-my-high-school-or-shut-the-fk-up-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dave-chappelle-challenges-fans-and-woke-critics-to-fundraising-contest-donate-to-my-high-school-or-shut-the-fk-up-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Chappelle Challenges Fans and Woke Critics to Fundraising Contest: Donate to My High School or &#039;Shut the F**k Up Forever&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdave-chappelle-challenges-fans-and-woke-critics-to-fundraising-contest-donate-to-my-high-school-or-shut-the-fk-up-forever%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1062622&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1350346681-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Veteran comedian Dave Chappelle has launched a fundraising challenge in response to his critics who are offended over his alma mater, the&nbsp;Duke Ellington School of the Arts, naming a theater after him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you object to my receiving this honor, I urge you to donate to the school, noting your objection. If you are in favor of the theater being named \u2018Chappelle,\u2019 I urge you to donate to the school, noting your approval,\u201d Chappelle said in an Instagram post Saturday. The performer promised he would \u201cgladly step aside\u201d if those against naming the theater after him donate more money to the school.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CWwz8E9LNtv\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.27631578947369\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHaving the theater named after me is a great honor. Although, that was not my idea, aim or desire. At the request of our beloved school\u2019s founder, Peggy Cooper Kafritz, I accepted,\u201d he wrote in captions above photos of himself at the school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn April, I intend to honor that request,\u201d the comedian added. \u201cIf you object to my receiving this honor, I urge you to donate to the school, noting your objection. If you are in favor of the theater being named \u2018Chappelle,\u2019 I urge you to donate to the school, noting your approval.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhichever opinion donates the highest collective dollar amount, wins,\u201d he said. \u201cIf by April, those against the \u2018Chappelle\u2019 theater exceed the donations of those who are neutral or in favor of the theater being named \u2018Chappelle,\u2019 I will gladly step aside. If not, I will happily attend the naming ceremony.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAnd if you don\u2019t care enough to donate\u2026 please, shut the fuck up, forever,\u201d the comedian added.<\/p>\n<p>In his Instagram post, Chappelle also said, \u201cTalk is cheap (Unless I do it),\u201d before adding the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p>The Duke Ellington school is a glorious institution. Within those walls I found a context to explore my creativity seriously. Duke Ellington, in large part, prepared me to undertake this noble and difficult profession. It was a fine institution before any of its current occupants got there. God willing, it will be a fine institution long after their tenure is done. My only intent is to insure Duke Ellington the opportunity to train its artists, unfettered.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this month,&nbsp;Chappelle\u2019s fundraiser for his alma mater was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/11\/13\/dave-chappelle-fundraiser-for-alma-mater-postponed-after-woke-students-complain-about-transgender-jokes\/\">postponed<\/a> after woke students complained about the transgender jokes he told in his latest Netflix special, <em>The Closer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Students were threatening to walk out if administrators didn\u2019t give in to their demands. The November 23 fundraiser will now take place April 22.<\/p>\n<p>Chappelle has been a donor to the school over the years, giving $100,000, as well as one of his Emmy Awards in 2017. The comedian was also a commencement speaker, held a master class, and brought celebrity friends to the campus, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/11\/dave-chappelle-fundraiser-postponed-threats-student-walkout-1234873524\/\">report<\/a> by Deadline.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana&nbsp;Mastrangelo on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\">Facebook<\/a> and Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran comedian Dave Chappelle has launched a fundraising challenge in response to his critics who are offended over his alma mater, the\u00a0Duke Ellington School of the Arts, naming a theater &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}