Not too bright ... but RIP Dick Gregory.
He was the first person I voted for President running on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket back in my hippie days.
I met him a long time ago and liked him. I liked his attitude although I didn’t agree with everything he said.
Didn’t always agree with him but had a lot of respect for Dick Gregory as someone who stood by his beliefs. RIP.
My memory of Dick was that he seemed a decent guy. I haven’t heard his name mentioned in years, though.
May he be in a better place.
RIP Dick Gregory.
“Segregation is not all bad. Have you ever heard of a collision where the people in the back of the bus got hurt?”
RIP
He ran for Chi Mayor as a Write in against Daley in 1967, I didn’t know that. Peace and Freedom nominee for POTUS in ‘68, didn’t know that either, placed 5th behind Socialist Labor Party, 47K votes, I don’t know many states he was on the ballot in but over half his votes came from NY.
He allegedly picked it up and kissed it
Because of a snowstorm in Atlanta many years ago, my connecting flight was cancelled and Delta put me up in a hotel room for the night. The next morning they put me on a flight that had only one seat remaining and it was in First Class. When I sat down this black man was sitting in the next seat with a three foot high stack of newspapers that he was reading. After the flight took off, we had a brief conversation and I asked him where he was traveling to and he responded he was on his way to speak at a college campus. I innocently said, “Are you famous?” He laughed and said, “I’m Dick Gregory”. The remainder of the flight we chatted and while we didn’t agree on one single subject, it was one of the most interesting flights I ever had. He frankly was very cordial and extremely intelligent and when we left the plane, I apologized for disrupting him from finishing his reading materials. He said,” That’s all right, I enjoyed the conversation and I’ll catch up on my reading in my hotel room.” I shook hands with him and I have never forgotten that brief encounter and how extremely nice he was to me, despite our philosophical differences.May he Rest in Peace!
He always struck me as someone who had a good heart even if I didn’t agree with him.
RIP.
Once a funny comedian. Later a leftist old fool. How the mighty have fallen.
Well, Dick, you can now go to your vaunted “Black House” (aka Hell). Say hello to Jane Silverman if she’s down there. You really screwed up her head with your black power shit.
I didn’t agree with a lot of his ideas but he seemed like a decent guy. If I remember correctly, he was a classic Liberal that belived that everyone had the right to say what they believed.
Which was also my introduction to Red Fox.
I read his autobiography in high school. I picked it up from a pile of free used paperback book because of it’s provocative title, read the first chapter and didn’t put it down until I was done with it.
This was a good and decent man who walked his talk and never made himself out to be repellant when getting his message across.
Rest in Peace. B’’H.
When he was running for President, they had those Dick Gregory dollar bills. They worked in the change machine at the laundromat.
Heard the guy speak at my alma. Funny guy, but didn’t agree with him politically on everything.
Rest in peace. Ya done good.