Posted on 09/17/2013 2:04:34 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory compared Walmart to the leader of Nazi Germany at a 'living wage' rally in front of the D.C. City Council Tuesday.
"When you look at Hitler and those thugs, you can put Walmart right next to them," Gregory said in his speech to the 150 or so people at the event.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
the high point of his career...
“Gregory is the author of Nigger, published in 1963 as his first autobiography. The book was a best seller and has since sold more than seven million copies.”
WOW he may be solely responsible for the popularization of self loathing IN....the “black community”.....
Gregory met his wife Lillian Smith at an African-American club; they married in 1959. They have ten children, not including one who died at birth.
He has been criticized for being an absent father. In a 2000 interview with The Boston Globe, Gregory was quoted as saying, “People ask me about being a father and not being there. I say, `Jack the Ripper had a father. Hitler had a father. Don’t talk to me about family.’”
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Published: July 15, 1991
DICK GREGORY has lost his 40-acre farm in Plymouth, Mass., in a foreclosure, although he said he, his wife and their 10 children hoped to continue living there. Mr. Gregory said he hoped to work out a deal with Citizens Trust Bank of Georgia, which claimed Town Hill Farm after he defaulted on a $165,942 mortgage.
Mr. Gregory told The Patriot Ledger of Quincy, Mass., that he was unable to make payments because of his pending lawsuit against his two partners in their Slim-Safe Bahamian Diet business.
I didn’t think corporations were people. I just can’t keep the lunacy straight anymore.
in this brave new underworld...of class warfare....there is no up nor down just SIDEWAYS!!
Gregory Mocks LaPierre for Proposing Armed Guards, but Sends Kids to High-Security School
Dec 23, 2012
The Gregory children go to school with the children of President Barack Obama, according to the Washington Post. That school is the co-ed Quaker school Sidwell Friends.
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Momma, a welfare cheater. A criminal who couldn’t stand to se her kids go hungry, or grow up in slumbs and end up mugging people in dar corners. I guess the system didn’t want her to get off relief, the way it kept sending social workers around to be sure Momma wasn’t trying to make things better.
Dick Gregory
The real news here: Dick Gregory is still alive.
Frankly Im amazed!!
That cat with the sign, “Keep WalMart DC Free” had a fairly worthwhile point.
same people bitching shop there, and some work there.
guess they are coerced to do these things. /barf sarc
why not $25/hr? this is america after all...
the people trampling all over themselves black friday morning are holder’s people. they can’t run over each other fast enough to get inside walmart then.
U can pay me and I’ll swear like a truckdriver for u. A friend would play standup from Sirius on our drive to Phoenix to see the Suns play.
All I heard was F this and MF that.
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