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Sunday, 20 August 2017
quote [ Dick Gregory, pioneering comedian, author and civil rights activist, died Saturday at the age of 84.
In the early Sixties, Gregory became a fixture of the Civil Rights Movement: He marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. at Selma, where he and his wife were briefly jailed, he told the Chicago Tribune. He was friends with Malcolm X and Medgar Evers and ran for mayor of Chicago in 1967. During the tumultuous time around the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Gregory ran for President as a write-in candidate; Hunter S. Thompson was among those who voted for Gregory, as the gonzo journalist revealed numerous times in The Great Shark Hunt. Gregory wrote Write Me In! in 1968 about his presidential bid. ] He was on TV a lot until his humor got too close to the truth.
Part of an interview with the older, impatient-with-fools Dick Gregory, talking about the civil rights struggle.
Dick Gregory - "America Is My Momma" #politics
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lilmookieesquire said @ 11:06pm GMT on 20th Aug
[Score:1 Insightful]
""We tried to integrate a restaurant, and they said, `We don't serve colored folk here,' and I said, `Well, I don't eat colored folk nowhere. Bring me some pork chops.' And then Ku Klux Klan come in, and the woman say, 'We don't have no pork chops,' so I say, 'Well, bring me a whole fried chicken.' And then the Klan walked up to me when they put that whole fried chicken in front of me, and they say, 'Whatever you do to that chicken, boy, we're going to do to you.' So I opened up its legs and kissed it in the rump and tell you all, `Be my guest.' "
That's gold. |
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bbqkink said @ 3:01am GMT on 21st Aug
“I never learned hate at home or shame. I had to go to school for that.”Dick Gregory, Dead at 84
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