[Rummyfan]

Way back in the early 70s I was a college kid who happened to attend the speech Dick Gregory gave at my school. It made such an impression on me I never forgot his message. Because of it, I learned about how much the left can hate, and especially whites. Most of his talk was filled with White Mfers over and over. This was a sick man speaking to nearly an all white audience.

I saw him at my school in the late 70s too. My roommate and I were just about the only whites in attendance. He gave a long rambling talk, excoriating Hollywood, and endorsing couple of local pols - black - who were under indictment. If he was ever a comedian, there was no evidence of it that evening.

[a fool in paradise]

Maybe his comedy was like Andy Kauffman. It was in the “act”, maybe Dick Gregory was putting everybody on and he was laughing on the inside that no matter what gibberish he spouted about the moon landing being fake, or Michael Jackson being set up, or the Gentle Giant, or toxic soup, etc his audiences ate it up and nodding in agreement.