I just watched this for the first time and thought people here might find it interesting.... It's only 3 minutes, 20 seconds (for people like me with short attention spans)
If you enjoyed that, here's the long version....(20 minutes 46 seconds for the bigger picture)
Re: Richard Pryor & Dorothy Fuldheim...
Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2025 1:56 am
by Burning Petard
This has me befuddled. Was the state of Ohio so 'white bread' back then? I never heard of this woman, but I looked here up on Wiki. Seems she was a pioneer and a major force in tv news personalities for the state of Ohio for many decades. Yet she was honestly ignorant of the marginalized?
I had never heard of her either. It is befuddling. Especially since she was a journalist and news anchor.
You might also enjoy this (short) video....
Re: Richard Pryor & Dorothy Fuldheim...
Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2025 3:49 am
by MajGenl.Meade
Well, she was pretty liberal. Maybe having some ignorance of certain portions of America. But Pryor was right to try and point out that it wasn't a black/white thing but a poverty thing. I suspect she couldn't quite grasp that her America, the picture she had, wasn't helping people. In a way, she was in advance of her time and in other ways a creature of it.
Dorothy was a strong supporter of progressive music - a terrific critic for and against what was popular and was becoming semi-popular. She almost came to my house once to review a live Johnny and the Dicks evening, a performance art group. She made the better choice to stay home (or whatever).