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elehhhhna

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23. Kinda feel that if Pryor signed off on that, it's okay.
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 11:44 AM
Mar 2018

He wasn't an anything for a buck kind of guy, and he never pretended that racism wasn't a thing...he certainly didn't avoid the topic.

I loved that man. Saw him on his rebound tour after he burnt himself up. Literally burst into tears when he walked onto the stage. And he killed it that night. KILLED.

Have you never watched any movies from that time period? oberliner Mar 2018 #1
Yeah but wtf did I block it out? elehhhhna Mar 2018 #2
There is some pretty ugly stuff out there oberliner Mar 2018 #4
Mickey Rooney playing a Japanese sterotype irisblue Mar 2018 #21
1955? I would have thought the time had LONG passed! Siwsan Mar 2018 #3
Ever see Soul Man? oberliner Mar 2018 #5
No - never saw that. But my brain/memory are starting to spring to life Siwsan Mar 2018 #7
Yep that was Silver Streak. One of my favorite Gene Wilder movies sdfernando Mar 2018 #12
"I can't pass for black!" gratuitous Mar 2018 #13
I guess the difference is between plot related and gratuitous Siwsan Mar 2018 #14
Kinda feel that if Pryor signed off on that, it's okay. elehhhhna Mar 2018 #23
Love his story from that era about how he burned himself, just dipping his cookies into his milk mr_lebowski Mar 2018 #26
His opening joke that night was about running down the street on f ire elehhhhna Mar 2018 #29
and whats scarier, those eyebrows are making a comeback..... a kennedy Mar 2018 #16
I've noticed that! Siwsan Mar 2018 #19
This is Joan Crawford's birthday. mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2018 #6
Seems so! elehhhhna Mar 2018 #8
Bing Crosby sang in blackface kskiska Mar 2018 #9
That was a decade prior oberliner Mar 2018 #10
My guilty secret: I was in a minstrel show. trof Mar 2018 #11
Wake up and smell the greasepaint. It was a "thing" in theater and movies for a very long time... Hekate Mar 2018 #15
Lincoln's Birthday in Holiday Inn, yes Maeve Mar 2018 #17
Thanks! Hekate Mar 2018 #18
We watch it every year at Christmas Maeve Mar 2018 #20
Too funny about Bugs Bunny. Once my folks got a tv, we kids watched after school cartoons... Hekate Mar 2018 #22
At schools in upstate integrated New York, there were minstrel shows with blackface in 1960's wishstar Mar 2018 #24
I'm shocked that you are shocked. nt Kirk Lover Mar 2018 #25
Blazing Saddles-1974 Wounded Bear Mar 2018 #27
Favorite old Hitchcock movie had dance band in blackface. edbermac Mar 2018 #28
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