Chappelle Stereotypes

David Khari Webber Chappelle is an African-American comedian who started his stand up comedy career when he was just a freshman in high school. Even at an early age, Chappelle's brand of humor was controversial. Chappelle has always talked about the US’s Criminal Justice System. But in Chappelle’s more recent work he has started to talk about policing and the relationship between law enforcement and the communities they police. Chappelle uses his jokes as a way to attack a bigger problem in America. He brings up the inequalities that African Americans face compared to whites. He shines light on how African American’s are treated differently and the stereotypes put on African Americans.

Chappelle’s skits are focused only on racism and racial

But in the 1980’s and 1990s Crack cocaine which is the smoke able version of cocaine had an epidemic. But particularly in Black and Hispanic communities. Which is why in most of Chappelle's drug skits he Chappelle plays the stereotypical African American crack head. But in the 80’s and a little left over in the 90’s crack cocaine had taken over inner cities and more impoverished areas. At the time the police had cracked down on crack and hit the inner cities with drug raids and constant searches in this time. From that time 79 percent of 5,669 sentenced crack offenders in 2009 were black, versus 10 percent who were white and 10 percent who were Hispanic. This is compared to the regular cocaine sentences. 6,020 powder cocaine cases are far less skewed: 17 percent of these offenders were white, 28 percent were black, and 53 percent were Hispanic. People of color are far more likely to be stopped, searched, arrested, prosecuted, convicted and incarcerated for drug law violations than are whites. Police focus on inner cities, impoverished areas which are predominantly latinos and African Americans, which leads to police searching for more colored areas than more white communities. This leads back to the stereotype that police are more likely to stop and search a African American’s car just because they are