Be a Humble Winner: A Selection from Dave Chapelle’s SNL Monologue

“I would implore everybody who’s celebrating today to remember it’s good to be a humble winner. Remember when I was here four years ago? Remember how bad that felt? Well, half the country feels that way right now. Please remember that. Remember, too, that for the first time in the history of America, the life expectancy of white people is dropping . . . . All these white people out there who feel that anguish, that pain . . . because they think nobody cares . . . . Let me tell you something, I know how that feels. If you’re a police officer and every time you put your uniform on, you feel like you’ve got a target on your back. Oh, man, believe me, I know how that feels.”—Dave Chappelle, SNL Monologue (November 7, 2020)

Douglas Murray makes a similar point in The Madness of Crowds (2019): “The manner in which people and movements behave at the point of victory can be the most revealing thing about them. Do you allow arguments that worked for you to work for others? Are reciprocity and tolerance principles or fig-leaves? Do those who have been censored go on to censor others when the ability is in their own hands?”