#Dick Gregory

[akonoadham]

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[cartermagazine]

Today In History

Dick Gregory, comedian, civil rights leader and vegetarian activist, was born in St. Louis, MO on this date October 12, 1932.

Gregory no-holds-barred brand of comedy in the 1960s attacked racial prejudice, bigotry and racism in the United States. By addressing his hard-hitting satire to white audiences, he gave a comedic voice to the rising civil rights movement.

He generated particular attention for his many hunger fasts. At this time he became a vegetarian, a marathon runner, and an expert on nutrition. He soon began a successful business venture with his nutritional product, the “Bahamian Diet,” around which he built Dick Gregory Health Enterprises, Inc. Through his company, he targeted the lower life expectancy of Black Americans, which he attributed to poor nutrition, drugs and alcohol abuse.

Gregory wrote many books, including Nigger: An Autobiography (1964) and No More Lies: The Myth and the Reality of American History (1971).

He made a brief return to the comedy circuit in the mid-1990s. The One and Only Dick Gregory, a documentary about his life and career, appeared in 2021.

Dick Gregory… One of a kind.

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[tredawakandan]

Respect to Dick Gregory for being the pivotal figure that he was but I gotta disagree with this logic that him and many others still use within our community.. The idea that a natural phenomenon like a hurricane was made via the deaths of our people that were lost and traded this way.. Of course I love metaphysics and occult info but not in a case like this. The word hurricane for one comes from an indigenous word that displays the concept of a hurricane as a god Huracan. Not only that but many indigenous islanders and Central/South Americans already could predict Hurricanes by the time colonizers would meet them.. I say that to say that's not possible for a event like the slave trade to have created a annual event like that when it was already knowledge shared amongst the indigenous people. Lastly we gotta remember that the transatlantic slave started over here. Jack D Forbes book 📚 talks about this amongst other writings and artworks from various author... Ultimately you gotta know that Columbus shipped indians from the islands back to Europe before any slaves would even come over here.. Hopefully you learned something useful today 👌🏿

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[indeedgoodman]

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[alluresunba]

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[oldshowbiz]

Sammy Davis Jr, Dick Gregory, and someone in a Nation of Islam bowtie.

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[forever70s]

Dick Gregory on the show, "Comedy News" (1972)

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[citizenscreen]

Remembering Dick Gregory on his birthday #botd

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[davidhudson]

Dick Gregory, October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017.

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[b0bthebuilder35]

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[akonoadham]

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[cartermagazine]

“Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.” - Dick Gregory

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[readyforevolution]

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[ausetkmt]

Dick Gregory - "Time Is Over" (2016)

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[kosmik-signals]

(via Activist Recounts the Forgotten History of Black-Native Solidarity - Capital B)

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