Richard Pryor died Saturday at age 65....many bloggers have created eulogies and tributes for him, and i think they have all done a better job than i ever could....(check the blogs i have linked on the side, many of them have tributes)...
i remember my mom and dad introducing me to Brewsters MIllions, Bustin Loose and Harlem Nights...remember he was also The Wiz?
my junior year in college my history professor played a record of Richard Pryor's stand-up for just about the whole hour of class...i think he realized we were all around 19 and 20 and didnt truly understand what Richard Pryor meant to the black community...
so many of our beautiful black people...icons...have passed away this year....now it is up to us to teach those younger than us about these people....Rosa Parks, Johnnie Cochran, Ossie Davis, John H. Johnson.....the list goes on.....dont let the memories of these great people and the barriers they broke down fade away....
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crips founder Stanley 'Tookie' Willams was executed by lethal injection last night..12:35 a.m. pacific time.....i do not know much about him, no more than i have read in the news lately...i know he was nominated 5 times for a nobel peace prize and wrote various books trying to teach kids to stay away from gang life and that he claimed he was innocent right up til the end...im not sure what else to say...i dont know what really happened that night in 1981...i wonder about gov. schwarzenegger and why he decided to deny the request for clemency...i mean ive read why he did...but what really went on in his head....dunno....
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
time to educate....
Posted by Spelangel at 11:33 AM
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Yeah, I really wasn't feeling the Schwarzenegger decision.
I was watching CNN and a mother was outraged because people were fighting for this man's life. But she was adamant about his execution 1) because her son was murdered by a former gang member and 2) because founded the Crypts.
I empathized with them both....really looking on both sides of the matter.
Pryor was the greatest comedian ever! No one could have set the mark for comedy quite like Pryor, especially being a Black man.
r.i.p richard
RIP Richard. Such an inspiration for people like myself. Anyways, I'm just stopping through to show you some love :) Keep up the good work.
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