hip said
Vlad seems to have a problem with a black guy playing this role instead of a white one or wtf is he trying to say?
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The role is considered racist by many. Yayo is just ignorant, but he's real n*gga, so that should be expected. Here are a couple takes on that film-
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: A rich white man essentially buys a helpless black man and orders him to perform odd jobs around his lavish, money-bags estate. It doesn’t take a history buff to draw the uncomfortable parallels between the inexcusably inappropriate 1982 comedy The Toy and our nation’s storied practicing of slavery.
The heinousness is even right there in movie’s title: The Toy, in this case Richard Pryor, who’s treated like a meaningless object that the film’s spoiled brat (Scott Schwartz) can do with as he pleases and then discard whenever he grows bored of him/it.
Richard Pryor stars as an unemployed newspaper reporter/part-time toy store employee who accepts money to be a "live-in friend" for a rich child for one week.
The child humiliates Pryor's Jack by making him play ridiculous games and pulling pranks on him. Eventually, they end up becoming friends. There's also a side story that involves crashing a Ku Klux Klan fundraiser.
This film was trying to show that a friend is earned by showing respect, not by being bought. But many believed Pryor's role was modern-day slavery, and degrading on all counts.