Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix comedy special, Unstoppable, was interesting, but not for the one reason I expected it would be.  I didn’t laugh, so I wouldn’t exactly call it riveting standup comedy.

It felt more like I was watching Chappelle theatrically perform the outspoken Black man for masochistic white liberals who pay top dollar to get shitted on like those wealthy Saudi princes that he gloats about performing for.

Chappelle’s comedic brand has long been on a “power to the people” wave. However, in the Netflix special he sounds more like a self-aware asset of the State nervously toeing the line between full-blown rebellion and absolute subservience to the white oligarchs whom he pretends to thumb his nose at. They pay the big bucks that have empowered him to buy towns in middle America were he can live around, and sadistically harass, the white lumpen proletariat.

Chappelle tried to convince us that Diddy was a legal victim of racism in the vein of Black American boxing legend Jack Johnson; he shitted on “conspiracy theorists” on the internet (who are clearly right about most things these days); he disrespected Dr Sebi and Nipsey Hustle, and made a middle eastern country that blatantly disrespects women sound like a democratic utopia for no other reason than the fact that they seem to share his obsession with Transexual based comedy.

His anti-Israel stance is weak. It doesn’t mean anything when he’s a pop culture icon in a time when anti-Israel sentiments are already popular across the globe.

He closed the show by telling us that if he ever publicly declares his support for the state of Israel, then it means that he’s sold out. The statement is a failed attempt to conceal the fact that he already has sold out. He brags about how much money he has more than he brags about telling inconvenient truths about matters of national importance. This is a stark departure from the edutainment he provided for the last 20-plus years.

Some of our favorite celebrities are Controlled Opposition pretending to Fight the Power as a theatric gimmick to soften national resistance to injustice. They accomplish this by sublimating the energy of rebellion into a theater experience that the oppressed participate in. Observing a provocative presentation is mistaken for successful rebellion against the powers that wanna be.

Behind the curtains, the hero bows and kisses ring of the real “Bad Guys.” I highly recommend you watch the French documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d’ Etat to see how celebrities are used for a price. Some knowingly, others not so much.