Dick Gregory on Trayvon, Zimmerman and parallels with Atlanta’s missing and murdered children

AllVoices ^ | March 31, 2012 | Harold Michael Harvey

[2ndDivisionVet]

Mounting evidence has begun to disprove the assertions of George Zimmerman in his version of what happened when he fired a hand gun into the chest of Trayvon Martin. The shot mortally wounded Martin and speculation abounds over the reason why Zimmerman would shoot an unarmed black teenager.

Comedian and humanist Dick GregoryDick Gregory told Allvoices in an exclusive interview in Sanford, Florida, last week that he believes George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin as an act to gain “admittance into some paramilitary or semi-police fraternal order.”

When asked about his comment Mr. Gregory said, “It’s nothing new. They have been killing black boys for a long time.”

Gregory has been a longtime supporter of the theory advanced by James BaldwinJames Baldwin in Baldwin’s 1985 essay, “The evidence of things not seen,” that some racist- based group was behind the Atlanta missing and murdered children crisis that occurred in the late 1970s and into the early 1980s. Atlanta authorities arrested and convicted Wayne Williams, a black music promoter and independent journalist, for two of the adults who had been murdered and they closed the book on 23 of 28 other murders with the belief that Wayne Williams had acted alone in those cases as well.

Baldwin contended that as late as the summer of 1981 the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) was investigating a Klansman named George Sanders. An informant had told police Sanders stated the killer had “…wiped out a thousand future generations of Ni***rs.” (See AP, August 5, 2005).

The informant later testified in court that Sanders told him, “The KKK was creating an uprising among the blacks; that they were killing the children, and that they are going to do one each month until things blow up.” Things were about to blow up when a day care center which catered to black children literally exploded. Atlanta’s black community, frustrated with no end to the disappearance and murder of its children in sight became angry. The city’s first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, reported that the day care center’s boiler had explored. He asked the city to remain calm, offered a million dollar reward for information leading to the capture of the person or persons responsible for the missing and murdered children and within weeks Wayne Williams had been targeted for arrest. To this day no one has come forward to claim the million-dollar reward.

The informant testified that Sanders had “threatened to strangle one of the children, Lubie Geter, because Geter ran into Sanders’ car with a go-cart. Geter was later strangled and Williams was blamed for his death, though never charged. (See the Houston Chronicle, October 9, 1991)

Gregory believes the Klan was killing black boys in Atlanta 30 years ago and that Trayvon Martin’s death may be connected to a ritual or initiation into a paramilitary outfit for George Zimmerman.

Dick Gregory, who has been on a fast since the execution of Troy Davis by the State of Georgia on September 20, 2011, said the Martin shooting would have been swept under the rug if not for what he calls “the black press,” that is, African American journalists employed by mainstream media. The shooting death had occurred three weeks before the story gained traction in the national media.

“This is a wake up call to the nation, what happened here is no different than what happen to Emmitt Till or Troy Davis. It’s time to put an end to the murder of our children and the key(s) to that are the black woman and the black church. It is time for the black woman to stand up and say enough is enough, and time for the black church to reclaim the moral authority it once had,” Gregory said.

We are perhaps days away from a decision from the Special Prosecutor on whether she will file charges against George Zimmerman, but as in the Atlanta Child Murders two decades ago, the black community is in an uproar, with one group, the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, calling for vigilante action. They have posted a “wanted dead or alive” poster and issued a $10,000 reward for the apprehension of George Zimmerman.

All of which has taken the nation’s mind off a dismal Republican presidential primary in its desultory quest to select a candidate capable of beating the nation’s first black President in November.

[2ndDivisionVet]

How can we stay one country when we are this divided?

[Lancey Howard]

Dick Gregory on Trayvon, Zimmerman and parallels with Atlanta’s missing and murdered children

Ahh... Gregory remembers Wayne Williams.

[fortheDeclaration]

Actually the evidence is mounting that supports Zimmerman.

[DNA.2012]

Perhaps it is meant to be divided.

[Yorlik803]

I read a book written by the FBI profiler who worked on the Atlantas child killing. He said without a doubt Williams did it. He cited various facts about it.
If it comes down to Dick Gregory and the FBI profiler, it not hard to decide who to believe.

[Yorlik803]

This is what the lefts wants. A divided country. They need a steady class of people they can depend on for votes and,when needed,outrage on demand.
If the races got together,imangine what could get done. But the left cant have that.

[csense]

Ironically, there is a conspiracy going on, but it's a conspiracy of idiots and fools with their pride and ignorance. I've maintained this whole thing can be summed up with one simple question: How do you explain the violence in the Black community without indicting it. That's the elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about. They have a generation of especially young Black men who don't know how to negotiate social encounters without acting violently, and instead of addressing it, they'd rather behave like fools and pass it on to the next generation.

[ScottinVA]

I notice Dick conveniently avoids the issue of out-of-wedlock births in the black communities... the fatherless homes that are largely a cause for the culture of violence that permeates it.

Yo, Dick, is it Whitey`s fault your homies are gunning each other down on Chicago`s South Side to the tune of 40+ on any given weekend?

Yo, Dick.. how about sharing with us the great and shining success of modern-day Detroit?

[ScottinVA]

I notice Dick conveniently avoids the issue of out-of-wedlock births in the black communities... the fatherless homes that are largely a cause for the culture of violence that permeates it.

Yo, Dick, is it Whitey`s fault your homies are gunning each other down on Chicago`s South Side to the tune of 40+ on any given weekend?

Yo, Dick.. how about sharing with us your thoughts on that great and shining success of modern-day Detroit?

[samtheman]

What he means by “evidence” is Leftist Conspiracy Theories. And they are mounting against Zimmerman.

[patriot08]

While the Zimmerman/Martin ‘white’ on black killing is covered 24/7 on the MSM with an outpouring of rage and charges of a racial hate crime, where is the concern- where is the rage about the home invasion, torture, beating, rape and murder of the elderly white couple by a gang of feral blacks in Oklahoma just a few weeks ago?

The 90 year old war veteran husband was beaten and his jaw broken. He was shot in the face numerous times with a BB gun and sent to the hospital in critical condition.

The 85 year old partially blind wife was RAPED and then BEATEN TO DEATH.

Can you just imagine the pain, the humiliation, the horror that dear old lady experienced being gang raped by that pack of feral animals?

(the autopsy states she was raped. Don’t think all of these animals didn’t all participate)

And can you imagine the pain, the horror of that dear old husband having to witness this?

There’s a lot more involved here than a home invasion and robbery.

WHERE ARE THE CHARGES OF A RACIAL HATE CRIME??

90 year old husband’s jaw broken and shot in face with a BB gun numerous times?

85 wife year old semi blind wife RAPED and BEATEN to death??

Why does it take a foreign press to enlighten America as to this henious crime?

Where is the outrage?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2117695/Brutal-home-invasion-Oklahoma-couple-ends-65-year-romance-meeting-blind-date.html

[verga]

I notice Dick conveniently avoids the issue of out-of-wedlock births in the black communities... the fatherless homes that are largely a cause for the culture of violence that permeates it.

He also ignores the fact that the African American community is killing it self. Almost 94% of the murder of African American males is caused by African American males

[Chainmail]

"Comedian and humanist Dick Gregory"

They left out Communist: Dick Gregory has been a member of the Party since the 60s. I remember his efforts in support of the North Vietnamese in the early 70s for the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice.

It is funny how people forget those good old connections, isn't it?

[trebb]

Comedian and humanist Dick GregoryDick Gregory told Allvoices in an exclusive interview in Sanford, Florida, last week that he believes George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin as an act to gain “admittance into some paramilitary or semi-police fraternal order.” When asked about his comment Mr. Gregory said, “It’s nothing new. They have been killing black boys for a long time.”

I guess he IS a comedian - that's plain funny.

Now, if he would get into how 13% of the population commits 52% of all murders and also kills many more of its own than all other races together, he might be on to something.

[GladesGuru]

“Mr. Gregory said, “It’s nothing new. They have been killing black boys for a long time.””

Dick Gregory is telling most of the truth, except for his deliberate deception when he implies that mostly it was whites have been killing blacks.

Gregory is being deliberately deceptive because he knows that most blacks are killed by blacks.

Consider the irony of a black with a Scots name. Only in America can this happen, and only in America could a successful, educated black be taken seriously when he spouts such “Black Power” lies about the white society which gave him his success.

Gregory IS a true “dick”.

Truth in labeling has been achieved!

[Gaffer]

Yeah. It’s funny how the killings stopped once this monster was caught.

[sbMKE]

Planned Parenthood is killing blacks by the thousands each year.

When is Sharpton and the media planning their rally on that?

[Vigilantcitizen]

I grew up here and was high school age then. A classmate found one of the dead kids. I have no doubt Williams killed them.

[aruanan]

Planned Parenthood is killing blacks by the thousands each year.

When is Sharpton and the media planning their rally on that?

Since 1973, there have been over 53,000,000 abortions in the U.S.. Of that, about half of them were among blacks and Hispanics that together comprise only about 25% of the U.S. population. So, just splitting that number between the two gives about 13,000,000 per minority group (though I think there were probably initially a lot more blacks "counseled" into abortion). As an average for the past 39 years, that comes out to 333,333 per year, or 6410 per week, or 915 per day.

Hey, Al and Jesse, you'd now have a much larger population to pimp your racist message to if you guys hadn't been so willing to acquiesce to its self-destruction. But you do that for the same reason you're so relatively quiet about all the black on black crime: there's no money and power in it for you because you can't use to promote racism that which black Americans do to themselves.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

About forty years ago Gregory's book, N*****, was fair-minded and perceptive, and written with humor, warmth and good natured, even if he recommended nothing more than garden variety liberal nostrums.

Don't know if he's entered a paranoid dotage or if he just craves attention, or some fatal combination of both, but it is painful to listen to him these days, if you once held him in some regard.