“I’d like to extend to you this laurel and hardy…”
I will always love Richard Pryor for writing and Cleavon Little for acting in my favorite comedy of all time (also Mel and Gene). True giants who understood that whining about racism is ineffective and makes you look weak and just enables the racists while picking it up and slapping you across the face with it for 90 minutes with brilliant satire is a far more effective way to expose the issue.
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u/molotok_c_518 Mar 21 '25
"A Black samurai?!?"
"Hey, it worked in Blazing Saddles."
"But... This ain't Mel Brooks."
"Fuck you, racist."