Dave Chappelle will no longer have the theatre at Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC, named after him. Chappelle had a better idea and wants the theatre named the "Theater for Artistic Freedom and Expression."

It was a long, silly journey to how we arrived here. Dave Chappelle released a Netflix special called The Closer, during which he punched up at the powerful LGBTQ+ lobby and corporate media. In turn, corporate media and the LGBTQ+ lobby punched down at the lone comedian and smeared him as a "transphobe." Two students at the school were manipulated by that and got a November 2021 fundraiser with the comedian canceled.

Dave laid down a challenge: Let his supporters and haters donate to the school, and if more haters donated the theater wouldn't be named after him....