Richard Claxton Gregory

                                        October 12, 1932-August 19, 2017

 Was an American civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, comedian, conspiracy theorist, and occasional actor. Sunrise: October12, 1932 St. Louis, MO; Sunset: August 19,2017 Washington, D.C. Survived his wife of 58 years Lillian nee Smith Gregory and 11 children, 10 surviving.  Richard Jr., ( who died two months after birth): Michele, Lynne, Pamela, Paula, Stephanie (a.k.a. Xenobia), Gregory, Christian, Miss, Ayanna, and Yohance.

The earliest I remember of a man named Dick Gregory was in my youth about 8 or nine years old seeing how my father responded to him being on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He sat straight up in his chair and chuckled for the next few minutes, really very hard. I took notice. From then on, I would listen to him and how he would make sense of the struggles of the day back then while doing it with humor. When you would see the Rev. Dr. Martin L. King shortly after that I would notice Mr. Gregory in some compacity speaking, marching, very visible for civil rights of Black People.  I have tried his Bahamian Diet for a while back in the 1980’s to which if I had stuck with I might have lost more weight. With 2 small children, it was impossible for me at least. It was to my recollection a powered drink mix as a meal replacement that had a tropical taste to it. Then came along the slim-quick drink powered drink mixes we know today. He was ahead of his time then.

Mr. Gregory has written several books:

Nigger’, an autobiography written with Robert Lipsyte, E. P. Dutton, September 1964. (one account says 1963) (reprinted, Pocket Books, 1965–present)

‘Write me in!’, Bantam, 1968.

‘From the Back of the Bus’

‘What's Happening?’

‘The Shadow that Scares Me’

‘Dick Gregory's Bible Tales’, with Commentary, a book of Bible-based humor.

‘Dick Gregory's Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin' With Mother Nature!’

‘Up from Nigger’

‘No More Lies; The Myth and the Reality of American History’

‘Dick Gregory's political primer

(with Mark Lane), Murder in Memphis: The FBI and the Assassination of Martin Luther King

(with Mel Watkins), African American Humor: The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today (Library of Black America)

Robert Lee Green, Dick Gregory, daring Black leader

Forward written by Dick Gregory ‘African American Humor: The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today’

"Not Poor, Just Broke", short story

‘Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies’, 2017.

All of them are a good read. They address racism with humor to an audience full of white people is very tricky and hard to pull off.

He found with humor we are not that different with our day to day struggles. To shed light on what is mostly misunderstandings helps, if one wants to bridge a gap between communities. You would have to walk in my shoes to understand how it is to walk in a store and be followed around, or to want to feed my family with work and be called names and spat on and it’s okay with you on a Sunday morning? The Civil Rights Movement was about getting rid of the notion we, the Hebrews of the Bible, [ taken from Judah-land for slavery] are more than 1/3^rd human. ‘All men are created equal’ was not meant for us in this country. We had to and still fight for basic human rights today. At most every junction of protests for civil rights Mr. Gregory was there.

In his last days, he was still an Activist for our causes. He spoke about the drinking water, food to better health and need of lack thereof for so much processed garbage we put into our system. If 60 people came right behind me to write something they would be adding another 100 pages or more. Mr. Dick Gregory was a force to be reckoned with intellectually. I will add another picture in my home along with the Rev. Dr.; Malcolm.

Mr. Gregory was and will always be one our greatest leaders of our community.

We give you back to God our Creator

…Pandora

#Insanity

Sooo, YOU say health care is an entitlement, paid into Social Security throughout a working lifetime is an entitlement. You do not want to and, voted against giving a living wage. You voted to increase utilities costs. How do You expect for me to survive? You want me to go back to my country you say? News Flash; this is my country. I was here when you got here, [ even though you want to put up a wall] I was captured and drugged her to help to build this country. Some of Your ancestors came here the same way. Maybe you were fortunate enough to get a head start from your family or someone else with resources took a chance on you.

            Now, today you repeat the hateful rhetoric of “entitlement”, “handouts”, etc. We the 99% pay way more taxes percentage wise then the ultra-rich 1%. I don’t want your money, I want to live like the next family working a living wage and paying for what I need and want.

I want to be able to go the store and purchase food that was grown in this country, in season so that the farmers can see a profit as well. The clothes on my back in made with pride in the USA and not from some ‘child labor/underpaid’ 3^rd world factor for the sake of bottom line profit. I do understand profit margins, and board of director’s concern about the bottom line; my bottom line is close to the top, I stay in the ‘red’; less ‘red’ from one month to the next ‘red’ non-the less.

There are many examples of ‘Ghost-towns’ were the $$ ran out and there was either nothing to sustain or nothing stay for. America is on that ‘slippery-slop’ to Ghost-cities…

No jobs; no health care; no utilities; no food; no schools; just police states. [shooting unarmed civilians]

Coming to your neighborhood via cyber-traffic?

…Pandora

Sinclair Broadcast Group: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

When the Santana Voices Chill out

Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Preview!

the real "jews" are black!! 100% proof that CANNOT be refuted

WARNING! WHAT IS KUNDALINI

Nativeartefacts.com The Black Ancestry Of Queen Charlotte Of Mecklenburg...

Largest African American Slave Owner And Breeder

Lift Every Voice and Sing with Lyrics

Hebrews to Negroes Movie Trailer (2017)

Israel's Spiritual Blindness (Documentary)

Auntie Fee Home Going Celebration

Celebrating Alonzo Atkins

29 Hilarious Tweets That Show What It's Like #GrowingUpBlack (Slide #8) - Blackbeat

29 Hilarious Tweets That Show What It's Like #GrowingUpBlack (Slide #8) - Blackbeat

BROWN-VS-BOARD OF EDUCATION

This is the face of Brown-vs-The Bd of Education of 1954. Her family was a part of a class action lawsuit to outlaw segregation based on skin color.

'Linda Brown was born on February 20, 1942, in Topeka, Kansas. Because she was forced to travel a significant distance to elementary school due to racial segregation, her father was one of the plaintiffs in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, with the Supreme Court ruling in 1954 that school segregation was unlawful...In 1950, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People asked a group of African-American parents that included Oliver Brown to attempt to enroll their children in all-white schools, with the expectation that they would be turned away. Oliver attempted to do so with Linda, who was in third grade at the time and barred from enrollment at Sumner Elementary. The strategy was for the civil rights group to file a lawsuit on behalf of the 13 families, who represented different states.

With Brown's name happening to alphabetically top the list of plaintiffs, the case would come to be known as Brown v. Board of Education and be taken to the Supreme Court. The lead attorney working on behalf of the plaintiffs was future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.' [http://www.biography.com/people/linda-brown-21134187]

...Pandora

New Solo Truck

Greatest Show on Earth. R.I.P. 2017

Greatest Shows Ringling Bros. World's was a circus founded in Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States in 1884 by five of the seven Ringling brothers: Albert, August, Otto, Alfred T., Charles, John, and Henry). The Ringling brothers were sons of a German immigrant, August Frederick Rungeling, who simplified his name to Ringling once in America. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is a United States traveling circus company billed as The Greatest Show on Earth. The circus, known as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, was started in 1919 when the Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, a circus created by P. T. Barnum and James Anthony Bailey, was merged with the Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows. The Ringling brothers had purchased Barnum & Bailey Ltd. following Bailey's death in 1906, but ran the circuses separately until they were merged in 1919.

On July 16, 1956, at the Heidelberg Race Track in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the circus ended its season early, with President John Ringling North announcing that it would no longer exhibit under their own portable tents (see, Big Top) and starting in 1957 would exhibit in permanent venues, such as sports stadiums and arenas that had the seating already in place. In 1967, Irvin Feld and his brother Israel, along with Houston Judge Roy Hofheinz bought the circus from the Ringling family. In 1971, the Felds and Hofheinz sold the circus to Mattel, buying it back from the toy company in 1982. Since the death of Irvin Feld in 1984, the circus has been a part of Feld Entertainment, an international entertainment firm headed by Kenneth Feld, with its headquarters in Ellenton, Florida.

      [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringling_Bros._and_Barnum_%26_Bailey_Circus]

As a child growing up in New York City it was an annual event to go to the circus. I remember it being cold as heck. When I was dating in the 1970’s we sat in the cheap seats and enjoyed the ‘Greatest Show on Earth’. I brought my children when they were growing up. I have brought my grandchildren as well. They walked the animals from [somewhere] to Madison Square Garden. I remember the smells, the hay everywhere, and the people who got their FRESH fertilizer from the ‘Pachyderm supply ‘uncut.

There was a time when there the ‘Side Show’s where people were made spectacles. I’m not sure if it was exploitation or abuse. There was a circus family at one time and they stuck together. There were the deformed, some were cast outs because there were no institutions to help take care of them and they could not take of themselves.

They tried to change with the times. Changing the “Ring-Masters” from white males only to blacks and females. Times have changed, and we know better than to abuse animals out of their natural habitat for our own selfish pleasures.

This circus has been in business for over 130 years and now like all good [or bad] things must come to an end. When you know better, do better.

Europeans have been fascinated with spectators gathering for centuries. Public beheadings have feel out of style since then.

…Pandora