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Dick Gregory Has Passed
instagram ^ | August 19, 2017 | Dick Gregory instagram

Posted on 08/19/2017 7:29:11 PM PDT by Morgana

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1 posted on 08/19/2017 7:29:11 PM PDT by Morgana
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2 posted on 08/19/2017 7:32:46 PM PDT by Bobalu (Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to be freeloaders.)
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To: Morgana
In 2008, Gregory stated he believed that air pollution and intentional water contamination with heavy metals such as lead and possibly manganese may be being used against black Americans, especially in urban neighborhoods, and that such factors could be contributing to high levels of violence in black communities.

Not too bright ... but RIP Dick Gregory.

3 posted on 08/19/2017 7:33:57 PM PDT by plain talk (hen)
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He was the first person I voted for President running on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket back in my hippie days.


4 posted on 08/19/2017 7:34:45 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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I met him a long time ago and liked him. I liked his attitude although I didn’t agree with everything he said.


5 posted on 08/19/2017 7:35:21 PM PDT by Ken Regis
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Singer Prince said the same thing.

Plus remember that tainted water in Chicago in the last two years?

What if this man and Prince was right?


6 posted on 08/19/2017 7:35:48 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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Didn’t always agree with him but had a lot of respect for Dick Gregory as someone who stood by his beliefs. RIP.


7 posted on 08/19/2017 7:36:02 PM PDT by katana
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You mean what if democrats that run these urban cities were intentionally poisoning their black population? There are definitely people stupid enough to believe that.


8 posted on 08/19/2017 7:38:22 PM PDT by plain talk (hen)
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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.


9 posted on 08/19/2017 7:43:40 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Me too, left the same impression. RIP.


10 posted on 08/19/2017 7:44:52 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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democrats that run these urban cities were intentionally poisoning their black population? There are definitely people stupid enough to believe that.

Exactly like those who are freaking out over "contrails".

11 posted on 08/19/2017 7:45:19 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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democrats that run these urban cities were intentionally poisoning their black population? There are definitely people stupid enough to believe that.

Then there's Flint Michigan.

12 posted on 08/19/2017 7:46:53 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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In Fun City back in the 60s, we thought it was the ink on the welfare checks.


13 posted on 08/19/2017 7:50:20 PM PDT by Roccus (I am a white, hetero, male Trump voter. Therefore I am a misogynistic, racist, xenophobic Nazi. /s)
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To: Morgana

RIP Dick Gregory.


14 posted on 08/19/2017 7:52:09 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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"democrats that run these urban cities were intentionally poisoning their black population?"
15 posted on 08/19/2017 7:58:53 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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Exactly like those who are freaking out over "contrails"

My son, Captain "Ace" (a real, line flying airline jock) assures me it's ("Chemtrails") just a joke by flying types. He's the self-appointed leader of one of the chapters.

16 posted on 08/19/2017 7:59:14 PM PDT by Ace's Dad (BTW, "Ace" is now Captain Ace. But only when I'm bragging about my airline pilot son!)
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To: Morgana; DLfromthedesert; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican

“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.


17 posted on 08/19/2017 8:01:04 PM PDT by Impy (Anyone who votes to raise taxes deserves to get rabies.)
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Read a story once about Dick Gregory . He was eating in a restaurant and some members of the KKK came over to him and said "whatever you do to that chicken we're going to do to you".

He allegedly picked it up and kissed it

18 posted on 08/19/2017 8:01:29 PM PDT by ex91B10
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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!


19 posted on 08/19/2017 8:02:26 PM PDT by Brandonmark (Made America Great Again! 11.08.2016 - A DAY OF RENEWAL)
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Oh my. All these years I thought he was the man who played Grady Wilson on Sanford and Son.


20 posted on 08/19/2017 8:06:26 PM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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