I got online tonight to find the sad news that Richard Pryor passed away today.
To commerate the occasion, I put on the CD ...is it something i said? I selected it because it had one of my favorite routines "Mudbone--Little Feets". But ironically, it starts with the routine "Eulogy" which begins:
"We are gathered here today on this sul-fur (sic) occasion to say goodbye to the dearly departed. He was dearly, and he has departed. Thus, that's why we call him the dearly departed. In other words, the n----- dead." Although he was famous for, among other things, using the N-word, I point to the "Here and Now" movie/recording where he chronicles his visit to Africa where he learns why that word is truly evil and declares he wouldn't use it again. I would humbly suggest our African-American brothers and sisters who use that word would listen to that routine.