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Kai Wright

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

And he proceeds, and that's a quote, he uses that language, and proceeds to light into them for being hypocrites.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

So then he just lays into them for essentially for being hypocrites, you know, for not wanting to stand up for Black people in the way that they now want everybody to stand up for them.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

And this is Los Angeles, right?

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

So he's like, where were you during Watts?

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

You know, and where are you for Black civil rights?

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

And, you know, it gets pretty bad.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

And, you know, he starts feeling himself in it, you know, because he's mad.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

And he says, I hope you all get arrested when you leave here.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

Because, you know, it's illegal to be gay.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

Like, sodomy is illegal.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

And that's just a really nasty thing to say to somebody, you know.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

Yeah, yeah.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

And so they're booing him and heckling him and all of that.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

And finally, he just turns around, puts his ass in the air and says, kiss my happy rich ass and walks off stage.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

Which is still funny on top of everything else.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

This is, you know, obviously it's a horrible... I mean, the language is terrible and like... But, you know, he's...

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

also telling a truth that we are still arguing about, like, in the gay community.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

He is naming something, you know, that we are still discussing.

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

Like, the way white gay men will be there for their rights,

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Richard Pryor: The Story We Got Wrong | From Big Lives

but not for anything else, including for the rights of Black gay people.