{"id":2560,"date":"2021-10-30T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/?p=2560"},"modified":"2021-10-30T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T10:20:00","slug":"58-spooky-stories-haunted-houses-and-black-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/30\/58-spooky-stories-haunted-houses-and-black-people\/","title":{"rendered":"#55 Spooky stories, haunted houses and Black people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ancestor Comedian Richard Pryor had a funny bit about Black people in horror movies.  He said that Black people would enter a haunted house and hear a ghostly voice say, &#8220;hello.&#8221; Pryor said the likely answer would be &#8220;goodbye.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pryor&#8217;s funny gag lines were prior to the current-day horror films where Black actors are among the headliners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlcustoms.com\/goodgenes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/10\/16345580265065-gueoui-1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atlcustoms.com\/goodgenes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/10\/16345580265065-gueoui-1.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2566\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In honor of Pryor, here&#8217;s a haunted story in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"\/\/newsone.com\/4234785\/sorrel-weed-house-black-slave-girl-molly\/\" target=\"_blank\">recognition of Halloween. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancestor Comedian Richard Pryor had a funny bit about Black people in horror movies. He said that Black people would enter a haunted house and hear a ghostly voice say, &#8220;hello.&#8221; Pryor said the likely answer would be &#8220;goodbye.&#8221; Pryor&#8217;s funny gag lines were prior to the current-day horror films where Black actors are among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[289,597],"class_list":["post-2560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancestral-historal","tag-african-american-history","tag-haunted-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}