Dick Gregory Has Passed

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[Morgana]

therealdickgregory It is with enormous sadness that the Gregory family confirms that their father, comedic legend and civil rights activist Mr. Dick Gregory departed this earth tonight in Washington, DC. The family appreciates the outpouring of support and love and respectfully asks for their privacy as they grieve during this very difficult time. More details will be released over the next few days - Christian Gregory

[SaveFerris]

I guess that would be correct.

Sorta reminds of the guy from Twister that was so concerned about guns, but hot the heroin he was putting into his body.

[SaveFerris]

Never knew much about him other than comedian back in the day and that was just the name.

Watch the video. It’s worth it. And a short video, too.

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

Wow.. I remember that! Seems like yesterday!

[SaveFerris]

“I like a good breakfast.”

“I understand, I like a good breakfast. As long as you don’t wind up trapped in a room in bib overalls and pigtails being counseled by Dick Gregory.”

[Enchante]

I don’t know why they are applauding — he sounds like a ranting lunatic to me.

[SaveFerris]

I don’t even have to see it again to remember - look at the woman in the audience that looks at her friend like she’s just heard a new “truth”.

I’d have to search - you can find Calypso Louie talking about a mile-wide spaceship with 1500 planes each with 3 bombs that are gonna destroy White America. Further, these bombs have dial-a-yield and this is how mountains were created. And the mountains keep the Earth in balance like weights on your car wheels.

And you can see hundreds of nodding heads in the audience.

Yes, there are really people that stupid out there. And they seemed to be all adults. Well, so to speak.

[Impy]

Yes I meant ‘82 not ‘88. So weird to have the President’s daughter run, did he take any kind of side? Do you think he voted for her? I didn’t know she also tried for the House later.

I’m younger than you so.....I’m not terribly shocked what Cali has become, it was going south as I came of age. I recall the 2000 election, there was a GOP Congressman next door to Hollywood, Jim Rogan, an impeachment manager! Democrats went jihadi on him, outside of the White House I think that was the #1 celebutard target, a SAG President had opposed Rogan in ‘98.

[ResisTyr]

Praise The Lord. One less racist nutjob on the earth.

[fieldmarshaldj]

He probably couldn’t have taken as active a role as he would’ve liked. Had she been pro-life, it might’ve been easier. It would’ve been very awkward has she won taking social positions in office in opposition to her father, and the Democrats would’ve exploited that mercilessly.

Of course, the person who should’ve won the 1982 primary was Congressman Barry Goldwater, Jr. He was to the right of his father.

California, of course, was, despite the Democrat gerrymandering, a fairly reliable Republican state (usually only Dems would win key offices if the GOP ran weak or flawed candidates) and it seemed as such into the ‘90s (despite 1992). But then 1996 happened and it all went the wrong way after. 21 years later and it’s worse than ever (save perhaps 1936, when FDR carried every single county in the state, but even then it had a Conservative GOP Governor in Frank Merriam, a former Iowa politician, who vanquished the Red Upton Sinclair in ‘34).

Jim Rogan, yes. Sadly, he’ll go down in history as being the last Assembly Republican MAJORITY Leader barring a complete revolution in the state by the sane. He only lasted 4 years in DC before being toppled by the radical left. In a sane state, he’d have ended up as Governor or Senator before long and perhaps finished out his career on SCOTUS. Other than for McClintock, there are few in California left of his caliber. He is on the State Superior Court, which is likely as high as he will go.

Yes, Rogan faced that execrable little weasel, Barry Gordon, in 1998. He played the lawyer and creepy love interest of Archie Bunker’s hot niece, Billie Bunker (Denise Miller) on “Archie Bunker’s Place.”

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Dick Gregory

GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee

Circa 1969, Dick Gregory , was listed as a sponsor of the Socialist Workers Party led GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee .[1]

National Anti-Imperialist Conference in Solidarity With African Liberation

Dick Gregory of Chicago, Illinois was named as a sponsor of the Communist Party USA dominated National Anti-Imperialist Conference in Solidarity With African Liberation held at Dunbar Vocational High School, Martin Luther King Drive, Chicago, October 19 to 21 1973.[2]

All-Peoples Congress National Advisory Board

In 1983, the Workers World Party influenced All-Peoples Congress’ National Advisory Board, included;

Bella Abzug WOMEN. U.S.A.
Isaiah Bennett President. A. Philip Randolph Institute. South Carolina President, Local J5A., Retail.Wholesale and Department Store Employees Union.
Josephine D. Butler Chairperson. D.C. Statehood Party
Reverend Victor Carpenter , Senior Minister, Arlington Street Church
Ramsey Clark, Former U.S: Attorney General
Lynda Clendenning, Vice President; AFSÇME Maryland State Employees Council
Emile D’Antonio, Film Director
Dick Gregory
Dr. Michio Kaku Prfessor of Nuclear Physics. City College, of New York.
Corita Kent, Artist
Paul O’Dwyer Former President. New York City Council
Margaret Ratner, Attorney
Jewel Ryan White, President, National Black Communications Coalition President. Local 5011, Communications Workers of America
Wilard Uphaus, World Fellowship of Faiths
George Wald, Nobel Prize Laureate, Harvard University
Quentin Young, M.D.[3]

More at link...

http://www.keywiki.org/Dick_Gregory

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Millions More Movement

The Millions More Movement held an important all-day rally Oct. 15, 2005 on the National Mall that attracted an overwhelmingly African-American crowd numbering more than 1 million, according to organizers. The main demand put forth by the rally organizers and supported by the masses there was “Black power!”

Not one U.S. flag was prominent in the crowd, but the colors of the flag for U.S. Black liberation—red, black and green—could be seen everywhere.

This MMM rally was first announced in 2004 as a commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March on Oct. 16, 1995, held at the same site. That event attracted at least 1 million, mainly Black men, and was initiated by the Nation of Islam.

The speeches were focused on a variety of issues: the prison system and the plight of political prisoners—especially Mumia Abu-Jamal, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown) and Leonard Peltier-police brutality, reparations, voter disenfranchisement, LGBT oppression, immigrant rights, economic and political empowerment, education and health, the role of art and culture in the struggle for social justice, and much more.

The main presentation at this rally was given by the MMM’s national convener and NOI leader, the Hon. Minister Louis Farrakhan.

Among the many other speakers were Clarence Thomas and Chris Silvera from the Million Worker March Movement; Dr. Dorothy Height of the National Council of Negro Women; Indigenous leaders Russell Means and Vernon Bellecourt; Congress woman Sheila Jackson; Haitian singer Wyclef Jean; Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson; Viola Plummer of the Dec. 12 Movement; Damu Smith, Black Voices for Peace; and comedian and social activist Dick Gregory.

In a videotaped message played to the crowd, the president of Cuba’s National Assembly, Ricardo Alarcón, expressed the Cuban people’s solidarity with Katrina survivors and all the poor in the U.S. He also spoke about the case of the Cuban 5, who were imprisoned for fighting against terrorism while the U.S. aids and shelters real terrorists like Luis Posada Carriles. [5]

http://www.keywiki.org/Dick_Gregory#Millions_More_Movement
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Millions More Movement rally
Washington D.C., October 15, 2005
Louis Farrakhan speech

Louis Farrakhan, at the Millions More Movement rally in DC, Oct 15, 2005: "...what Mao Tse Tung did was, he went to the cultural community, and they [Farrakhan spreads his arms beneficently] accepted his idea."... "Mao Tse Tung ... had a billion people whose lives he had to transform."..."the idea of Mao Tse Tung became the idea of a billion people, and China became a world power on the base of the culture and the arts community. If we had a ministry of art and culture in every city we'd create this movement [in the U.S.]."

Source: http://thedrunkablog.blogspot.com/2005/10/communist-plot-noted.html

Or,

https://web.archive.org/web/20170820090943/http://thedrunkablog.blogspot.com/2005/10/communist-plot-noted.html

Original source:
Source: FinalCall.com
This is Farrakhan's own "Nation Of Islam" website
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_4328.shtml

Backup link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080720031254/http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_4328.shtml

[SaveFerris]

No wonder he was as crazy as Calypso Louie!

[Brown Deer]

He died 16 years ago.

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5860983

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Louis Farrakhan, Santiago de Cuba, February, 1998: "There is not a member of the black masses in the United States who is not proud of the example set by Cuba and its revolution, with Comandante Fidel at its head"
Source: http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/farakhan21898.html#says
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"Minister Farrakhan and his delegation met privately with President Fidel Castro of Cuba."
http://www.finalcall.com/media/cuba/

[SaveFerris]

Is there anything beside Calypso Louie I should be catching there? I don’t know who those other two are. Thanks.

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Not really. It was just a shot of him at his Million Man March rally in DC.

American streets (outside DC) were never safer than on that day. :)

[SaveFerris]

You know it would be interesting to see certain stats.

Brother-in-law told a story once (off subject but this reminded me of it) where a guy in Denver disappeared back in 1987. Didn’t show up for work...etc.

It was found out later that he headed up into the mountains for The Harmonic Convergence to await the beam of consciousness that was to arrive. Don’t know if he still had his job afterwards, though.

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Post 95 is more significant, and telling of what he really is about. Also the one above it where he goes on and on about his true hero, communist mass murderer Mao tse-Tung. How he wants to re-create a Mao-like movement here in the US.

He’s very much like Obama’s fake ‘former pastor’, Jeremiah Wright, and other preachers who promote “Liberation Theology” and “Black Liberation Theology”, in that both are communist-concocted phony religious movements.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

My reading is that Dick Gregory did not hate white people. When two NFL teams were playing, in his heart he’d root for the one with the black quarterback. I admit, I root for white defensive backs ;)

He saw his race as troubled, and put upon. He may have harbored unhealthy conspiracy theories, but he struck me as a good-natured scold. He pushed the same old 1960’s bromides that were not even useful in the 1960’s. He was never an Al Sharpton or Barack Obama.