in the movie, and it in the movie, and it was inexorable taste. but its heart was in the right place and the engine that drove it, the locomotive underneath that movie was racial prejudice. yeah, he s a black guy, but he s a good guy and we knew we were on the right road. and you wrote it with richard pryor. i wrote it with richard, who used the n word, 0h, he scared the hell out of me. i said, richard, too much n word! he said, no, we need it, the bad guys have to say that. i said, ok, richard. and then you took the whole family in, there is a wonderful photograph. we took a wonderful photograph of the 0bamas and realised how short my family was, the 0bamas were like redwood trees next to us.