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It wouldn’t be a new Dave Chappelle comedy special if there wasn’t a certain amount of controversy. And though the comedian’s issues with trans people and the LGBTQ+ community, as a whole, have come up before, it appears that the new Chappelle Netflix special, “The Closer,” has put the situation front and center, causing at least one streaming collaborator to threaten to walk away from the platform in protest.

When writer/director Justin Simien’s debut indie movie, “Dear White People,” first arrived at the beginning of 2014, it was a sharp, insightful and prescient breath of fresh air— woke— a good three years before the word was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2017, several months before “stay woke” became a BLM call to action following the shooting of Michael Brown in the summer of 2014.

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According to , the only way forward is by throwing it back.

When Justin Simien‘s “Dear White People” premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, no one could have predicted it would be adapted into a Netflix series three years later. Not only that, but the Netflix show has run three seasons, all to positive acclaim from critics, and cemented Simien as a breakthrough talent.

Justin Simienspoke to ET last June about the impact has had on audiences. “Netflix doesn’t release numbers but I know that the show is one of the most-watched Black ensembles on TV,” he said.

and the pulpy, new limited HBO Max series starring Kaley Cuoco. But the actor made the biggest headlines this year when he took on racism in the theater scene as the Black Lives Matter movement took off at the beginning of the summer.

star Jeremy Tardy took to Twitter on Friday to announce that he would not be returning for the Netflix series' fourth and final season, alleging «racial discrimination» in the contract negotiation process.«Unfortunately I will not be joining NETFLIX’s for its fourth and final season due to my experience with Lionsgate and their practices of racial discrimination,» wrote Tardy, who recurred as Rashid Bakr on the first three seasons of the show, in a series of tweets.

has proven to be a barometer for the state of race relations in the United States during its initial three-season run.

When Netflix announced that its celebrated series “Dear White People” had seen a massive increase in viewership during the social justice protests that erupted following George Floyd‘s death it was admittedly a “weird consolation prize” for creator Justin Simien.

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