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I disagree with that. Pryor made a certain sector of White America very comfortable. He sold the very wrongheaded image that as long as you were nicer about your menu choices than Hannibal Lechter, there was a part of America that any white person would be superior to.

I've laughed at some of Pryor's stuff myself, it doesn't automatically make anyone racist. But if someone were a racist, and then heard an hour of vintage Richard Pryor, they'd certainly feel vindicated in hating anyone who was black.

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I have no idea what sector of white America that would be, maybe the insane and over sensitive. I never heard him say any part of America was superior to any other, better off financially maybe, but not superior.

I don't think I've ever heard a racist use Pryor as an excuse, that's simply nonsensical on it's face.