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What Dick Gregory said
Posted by Auguste on 01:39 AM •
(8) Comments
That was cool.
If we could just get Dana, Bismarck, JimB, Mitchforth, cookie, sharon, and some of the other Pandagon trolls to listen to that and understand, we might even have some breakthroughs along the human compassion front…
Comment #2: MikeEss on
05/29 at
09:45 AM
There’s a very short list of people whose hands I’m proud to say I’ve shaken. Dick Gregory is on that list. I should go dig out my copy of his Political Primer and post some excerpts.
Comment #3: Brooklynite on
05/29 at
10:05 AM
I think I would like to have Dick Gregory as a brother, no matter the trouble it would get me into. That was great.
Comment #4: everstar on
05/29 at
11:09 AM
This is great but it’s a couple months old, no?
@karpad: George Carlin isn’t funny (now, if he ever was).
Comment #5: MH on
05/29 at
11:31 AM
And he did it without having to pound in the face of anyone talking about “special rights” and “reverse discrimination”.
THAT is why Dick Gregory will be remembered long after George Carlin. Beautiful.
Comment #7: Geeno on
05/29 at
03:31 PM
Makes me proud to have voted for him for President 40 years ago! (I had had it with Humphrey’s hypocrisy, but no way would I vote for Nixon.)
Comment #8: dr ngo on
05/30 at
02:25 AM
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When I was but a wee liberal, my grandparents (who have been fringe liberals and politically active, including protests, since before my parents were born) gave me a book of Dick Gregory quotations.
Seeing that, and tagging him as “civil rights leader” is weird to me. I mean, yeah, accurate. But my view of him has always been “George Carlin, but black, and earlier.” Obviously, he’s absolutely right about everything politically, but before “he’s right” I always think “he’s fucking funny.”