Dave Chapelle Honored With The President’s Award At The NAACP Image Awards [VIDEO]

Actor/Comedian Dave Chapelle at the original height of his career shut down his career, abandoning a $50 million deal, because of his beliefs and freedoms.   Actor/Comedian, Damon Wayans, took a look at ‘The Closer’ and his belief is that the stand up special has “freed the slaves” aka the comedians who may have been afraid to release certain material or speak on certain subject matters in fear of getting canceled. 

Big up’s are in order as Dave Chapelle was honored with the President’s Award during Saturday’s 56th NAACP Image Awards.

 The 2019 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor recipient, Dave Chapelle, decked out in traditional black tie attire during his powerful acceptance speech hade this to say.

“You know, look, I won a lot of awards recently, but this one tonight is probably the most special award I’ve ever gotten, because it’s from this institution that represents these people, us, people of color, black people,” …“But what was important, he said, in 1915, the movie Birth of a Nation came out, and had a hideous depiction of African Americans,” … “And by 1927, the NAACP had opened its first office in Hollywood. And from then, 100 years ago to this very night, they have been chipping away at this industry so that people like me can stand up in front of people and tell my story or our stories each and every artist in here, every opportunity we get, every time we’re on camera on stage, we just keep chipping away at this monster of a machine.”

Take a look at Dave Chapelle’s powerful acceptance speech in the video below.