Dick Gregory on the Breakfast Club 2016

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This is a great interview with Dick Gregory, a social activist. I found the youtube by surfing. My father who was big into social justice talked about him a few times. He lived in Chicago and had 11 chlidren. I remember my Dad pointing him out when we went to see the Greenpeace ship docked in Chicago and he was there too. Very thought provoking and funny.

Dick Gregory, born 1932, died 2017 at age 84


https://theundefeated.com/features/5-reasons-to-respect-dick-gregory/


Here are five things to remember about the late activist and thought-provoker.

5. he was an athlete

Gregory ran track during high school in his hometown of St. Louis. He earned a track scholarship to Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, where he set school records as a half-miler and miler.

4. He ran for office twice

Gregory ran for mayor of Chicago in 1966 and president in 1968. He received 50,000 write-in votes for president.

3. He made nutrition into an empire

Gregory might just be the greatest of all time in the clean-eating craze. He was ahead of his time, promoting fasting and dieting before it was popular.


2. he was the first black performer to sit on the couch of The Tonight Show

He once got a call from producers of Tonight Starring Jack Paar. At the time, black performers weren’t invited to sit on the couch. He told Parr he would not accept the invitation unless he could sit on the couch after his stand-up. He became the first black performer to speak with Parr on the couch after his performance.

1. he was a feminist

Gregory marched down Pennsylvania Avenue to the U.S. Capitol with a crowd of more than 100,000 people to push for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.



https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/dick-gregory-quotes

Dick Gregory: 'I have no regrets. I am a soldier.'

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1. He was incredible and also a superb comedian

I'm old, and correct me if I am wrong, but he wrote a paperback book titled: N*****

I recall a story in it? about him going into a southern diner and ordering a whole roasted chicken. "Four lard assed good old boys surrounded me and told me that anything that I did to that chicken, they were going to do to me.....So I picked it up and kissed it's ass"

The other great book from that time was "Black Like Me"

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2. Yes, I heard that story too recently on one of the Youtube videos I watched