[Marxism] Fwd: re: Richard Pryor

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

(from Duen De)

> Bette Midler interview, New West magazine, March 13 1978
>
> "...Anyway the gay sector was taking a lot of heat from Anita Bryant
> forces, and I got to talking about it, and we came up with the idea of
> staging a benefit...
>
> Comes the big night, and there were 18,000 people in the Hollywood Bowl
> looking to have a good time and I was in my dressing room running some
> lines with the PA system turned off.  I had no idea anything unusual was
> happening  until one of the Harlettes came back and told me that Richard
> Pryor had walked off the stage and told the audience 'to kiss his rich
> black ass'.
>
> Hmn, I thought, that's interesting.  I've said worse than that to a lot of
> folks, and so, not at all grasping the context of how he'd said it, I went
> on stage and said 'Who'd like to kiss my rich white ass?'.  I sensed right
> away that something else was going on out there besides me, something scary.
>
> Still I didn't have any idea of how deeply Pryor had offended the audience
> until after the show when somebody described to me what had happened, and
> then I went into shock too.  I mean ranting and raving about where were
> the 'faggots' during the burning of Watts...
>
> Pryor's manager was backstage that night and he said, ' I can tell you
> where Richard Pryor was during the Watt's riots.  He was at my house
> watching them on TV'."


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