LZ Granderson: Chappelle’s a victim only of his own poor judgment

There was a good 10-year stretch, from 1981 to 1991, in which Eddie Murphy was arguably the most successful comedian on the planet. And he spent a significant chunk of that decade making fun of gay men.

A decade, mind you, that also ran concurrently with the height of the AIDS epidemic. As hundreds of thousands of Americans — many of them gay men — were dying, Murphy was making a very good living mocking the community. To be fair, Murphy has since