That N!&&^ Will Be Dearly Missed.

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III
December 1, 1940 - December 10, 2005

I was away from the internet this weekend (for once), so I did not have the chance to post in mourning the death of pioneering comedian Richard Pryor, who passed away on Saturday of a heart attack after a long battle with Multiple Sclerosis, a disease of the central nervous system that wrests bodily control from its host. Mr. Pryor had been public about this battle with the same tempering, comedic fury that made him famous discussing the demons of racism, poverty, addiction, and just about any other human fuckup you can imagine. Though the disease still managed to take his life, he has gone to a place without pain now, having left behind an indelible mark on American, Black and comic culture. How many champions are there left for the underdog?