https://thenewneo.com/2005/12/11/richard-pryor-vulnerability-and/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:40:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://thenewneo.com/2005/12/11/richard-pryor-vulnerability-and/#comment-7341 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2005/12/richard-pryor-vulnerability-and.html#comment-7341 He did a heartbreaking piece on television, playing a drunk, lost man who’d once been somebody, stumbling around in a bar, beaten down by life. There was a black woman, possibly the woman who played opposite John Amos in the series, who lamented what he’d been and what he now was.
Terrible, because it was so close to life.
Beautifully done.

]]> https://thenewneo.com/2005/12/11/richard-pryor-vulnerability-and/#comment-7342 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2005/12/richard-pryor-vulnerability-and.html#comment-7342 Sorry to disagree but Pryor was what I define as a “funny racist.” Yes, he was funny but he was a racist. If a white comedian built his career on disparaging blacks in the same way Pryor did about whites — he would be burned at the stake of Political Correctness. But that is the topsy-turvey PC world in which we live.

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]]> https://thenewneo.com/2005/12/11/richard-pryor-vulnerability-and/#comment-7344 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2005/12/richard-pryor-vulnerability-and.html#comment-7344 Beautiful post, neo. Thanks.

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