Dave Chappelle was "the first person in his family not to go to college who wasn't a slave." His great grandfather, who was born a slave, went on to become a pastor and the president of a black college.
His father was the dean of students at Antioch College -- which was the institution where the sexual protocol that would later be called "affirmative consent" was first imposed.
His mother was the founders of the country's first black studies program and later a Unitarian Universalist minister.
His great-grandfather lead a delegation of leaders from SC to meet with Woodrow Wilson in the White House, seeking his intervention to protect black Southerners against lynching. Wilson did not intervene.
"The Antioch Rules" were the butt of frequent jokes and references in 1990's media as one of the clearest instances of "political correctness run amok" to ludicrous extremes. In 2011, affirmative consent became the standard regulating student sexual conduct at most US colleges.
Chappelle saw this Time Magazine cover story -- which makes for interesting reading today -- as a child in 1987 and decided on the spot that he would be a comedian content.time.com/time/subscribe…
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