Kai Wright

Do I say something about the racism?

Do I not say something about the racism?

And, you know, Richard Pryor's response to that seems to be when he short-circuits is to spit in white people's face.

Right?

Right.

Go fuck yourselves.

You know, but I will say part of my interest in him is like I my father, I feel like I watched go through this, you know, like as this man who, you know, was the first this and the first that in his field, he was a doctor.

You know, and so, like, he was routinely in whites-only spaces.

He really wanted to be in black spaces.

You know, that's where he preferred to be.

But to have the success he wanted, he had to be in these spaces.

And I think it kind of curdled him, you know?

And for all of them, what ends up happening, and I don't understand why, I mean, I don't know why this happens, but all of them start to self-destruct.

You know?

And I guess part of my... Like, if you talk to a Black Gen Xer, like, this is a regular part of my conversation with my Black peers, is thinking about this.

Is this something that, like, your generation talks about?

Do you have this?

Yeah, you know.

Because part of why is the struggle to carry that.

Like, what they do, how they carry that, that they had tried so hard to be there.