we had a whole post on this 4 months ago when Chappelle's transphobic and racist special dropped, I don't know why it's deleted but this effort comment survives:

https://hexbear.net/post/146894/comment/1765195

Lumumba was cool. He was an anti-colonialist, a Pan-African Nationalist (a movement he's still a major symbol of) and he was deposed and assassinated by a Belgian and US backed coup for being anti-colonialist and too close to the communists.

Yvonne Seon (Chappelle's mother) was never close to Lumumba. There's no solid evidence she ever met him and she certainly never worked in his government. Yvonne claims she met Lumumba privately during his two day visit to the US in the June of 1960 after being introduced by an aide who was impressed by her French, and that he offered her a position in his cabinet immediately after meeting her. It seems unlikely that Lumumba would offer an American a job in his cabinet, given he was in the process of trying to decolonise the Congo, and had (unbeknownst to the US) at the time already written to the USSR and PRC begging for military aid. It's impossible to verify the meeting ever happened given she never named the aide who introduced her and claims the only people in the alleged meeting were her, her parents and Lumumba.

Lumumba was deposed in the September of 1960. In the November of 1960 Kasa Vubu, the leader of the coup government visited the US and Yvonne claims Holden Roberto, known CIA asset (he was on the UNSCA payroll since the 1950s) and member of Kasa Vubu's delegation visited her home and again offered her a job in their new government. Lumumba was murdered on the 17th of January 1961. In the March of 1961 Yvonne first set foot in the Congo, where she immediately began work as the Administrative Officer on the High Commision for the Inga Dam, the single highest position in the Congolese government it was possible for a foreign national to hold.

After she left the Congo in 1963 her next position was in the US State department, where it was useful for her to lie about being closer to Lumumba than she was in an attempt to coopt and recuperate his legacy.

Yvonne Seon never worked for Lumumba, there's no evidence she ever met him, but she did spend decades of her life in the service of two of the three governments that murdered him.

she's got a Wikipedia page

Upon her return to the United States in 1963, Seon began working in the Office of International Conferences at the Bureau of International Organization Affairs within the United States Department of State.

could be nothing, but working with Lumumba and then getting a gig with the State department. some people would run with that.

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