Dick Gregory on Hip-Hop Hearing & Jena 6

[truth1disciple]

Hip hop well the KKK might as well hang up their white robes, these rappers and their foul, denigrating so-called music has so inflitrated the minds of all the people especially in the black community that agents of Satan like the now deceased Tupac and Biggie Smalls, the infamous Lil Wayne, and all these other demonic influenced singers, rappers, gospel singers, church leaders, who seek fame and riches are subtlely spreading the deceptive will and way of Satan the Devil unknowingly. SUBLIMINAL

[senshree]

Slavery is alive and well on the part of all Eurocentric minded (that includes America) nation states...It has just metamorphosized into institutionalized factions. Thats why when he says America has always been corrupt and anybody denying is an ignorant fool!

[gobberpooper]

funny how she's trying to make him fall into the same routine and say that hip hop is bad and that it degrades blacks unlike prior music. instead he's like "what and ray charles wasn't obscene? johnny cash wasn't obscene?"

[911debunkerschannel]

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[fxtreme1]

AMEN

[batanso]

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[divineconnectioncarr]

Wake up everybody....look at the whole picture. All that is being said and done, ultimately there is a genocide against the black race. This man speaks truth...check it out for yourselves and act accordingly.

[solobackpacking]

Hollywood .... sigh.

Black people don't get duped by what appears to be Hollywood's generosity.

[moormagic1]

The wisdom of Dick Gregory...Bill Cosby needs to listen to this.

[Heiday87]

i truly hope all of us as a people of African descent can come together as a unit and demand "real" freedom to the point where we can be proud of ourselves from appearance to culture to language and traditions. (not the ones based on our "american" history, but African history). so, let's get up on our culture and not bullsh*t.

[TheWOLFSOCIETY]

she trying to make dick gregory say something bad about hip hop.

[peasah2005]

Not only we should be proud of Dick standing up for our boys in Jenna, Louisana, but for taking these lying racists at their own game.

Just like they did to our brothers in Scottsboro, Alabama, they're continuing with their poulked bullying tatics to destroy our people, but we wouldn't dare allow them to win.

[CausalObserver74]

BOYCOTT CHRISTMAS!!!

[STLEO1]

that right get rid of it because it a Pagan Holiday if you read the bible it says though shall no other God before me nor work ship Idol God like cars ,house your jobs

[gringofan]

i love this man

[BLACKWATCHWAR]

The interviewer is bad... She needs to re-play the tape and learn not to interrupt and be like FOX in her asking questions

[TheFutureUnquiet]

"In order to stabilize world population, it is necessary to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it." — Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, as quoted in "The Courier," a publication of the U.N. Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization (U.N.E.S.C.O.)

[TheFutureUnquiet]

The late Professor Erving Goffman inhabited this Earthly realm fr. June 11, 1922 to Nov. 19, 1982. I have a tattered copy of "Asylums." It's well-done & nightmarish. People are often livid when a murderer is sentenced to a mental institution over a prison, as if the loony bin is more humane. Goffman shows otherwise. ["Do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell?" -- The Beatles]

[sunlion55]

Dick is not making anyone laugh today. Get'em Dick

[AkashaAutumnWise10]

Dick Gregory speaks the truth whether people, black white or otherwise want to hear it. People need to wake up and realize what they're listening to. HipHop, right now, is so caught up in appearances and "beats" that we've all been lulled into a unconscious slumberlike state. Personal Responsibility and loving oneself is what it's going to take to begin to right the wrongs... think about it people... Personal Responsibility. Get on it.

[1011010]

I think that materialism is probably the greatest detriment to hip hop. It is the one ideology that has pushed aside the black-conscious, political awareness that bloomed in the 90s under Chuck D's example, and the example of TV shows like A Different World and Living Single. While TV shouldn't be the compass for an entire people, the absence of these positive images is apparent, and saddening.

[procommenter]

[Let us pray that A.D. 2009 will be the year that Dick Gregory gets his just desserts: DEATH.]

[TheManWithTVEyes]

HORSE GLUE BINDS US, pokes in the eyes blind us, if only temporarily. Lemon juice cuts mucous, beaver tail can mean either of 2 things, same goes for possum. Anti-histamines do wonders, penicillin is losing its effectiveness.

[cdeezfoo]

first time white people disappeared....mane thats real

[procommenter]

Maybe he's got A.I.D.S.?

[mowriter]

Gregory's answer jibes with the man he represented in his autobiography. This guy took beating's in Selma for opposing segregated busing, and here he advocates self-respect and eschewing despicable stereotypes of ignorance and stupidity perpetrated by gangsta' rap.

[DreaYeya]

:) Amazinggg

[youngvito262]

75yrs old!, and still doing this shit. still talking about injustice and trying to make some changes. i swear, god dont make brothers like he used to.

[Jonnysingstheblues]

Thank you. This brother is so wise! Thank God for the elders.

[michaelleed]

god dont make people like they used to man... change is irrelavent to the people who "have it all" and its too bad because nobody listens to those who dont.

[BigDerrick44]

Any song that sings of sex, violence, or glorifies the objectifcation of anybody is a sin. Period. Its not an art form. Its not about being politically correct. Its a sin. At least it is in my bible. And as for lashing out against stuf like this,, Those JENA6 boys committed a hate crime. Pure and simple.Had it been a bunch of whiteboys jumping a black kid,,What would of happened? The nooses would have made by ALL the black folks who are yelling the loudest. Not all white people hate black people

[cashmoney110]

Agreed, but not because of your Christian viewpoint. Had it been a bunch of white boys jumping a black kid it would have been a issue for the school to deal with and they should be expelled for fighting, not charged with attempted murder. The "white boy in question" threatened one of the Jena six brandishing a shotgun. Or do you only get your news from Fox News? Try CNN or better net the BBC or Reuters for an accurate account of the events that happened.

[BigDerrick44]

He must not have had the shotgun at school.Just because someone said there was one doesnt make it alright to go gather up your homies and try to kill someone.This was a hate crime and for the black community to stand up for thier "homies" is a disgrace! And shit will change! Just as soon as black folks stop trying to "be" something.You guys dont have to act like anything!Just be a Man and be that only!Stop crying about how bad you got it and do something about it!!

[cashmoney110]

There was no shotgun in school. He threaten Mychal Bell at the gas station with it. He was jumped because he participated in a series of racially hateful acts such as hanging nooses from a tree after a black student asked permission to sit under it. If you incite racist violence you should expect it back period. I'm too far removed from this situation to care. I have had subordinates under me who were culturally insensitive to say the least and I have terminated them.

[cashmoney110]

BigDerrick...are you one of those white people that think black people do nothing but what TV tells you they do. If you are, you obviously are unable to discern reality from the disingenuous bullshit that you let television spoon-feed you. Some of us went to college, have professional careers, own stock, houses, 401k, are wordly, can discuss politics, and history, and believe or not are digusted by how the media depicts us. White people don't bother me as I do better than most of them anyway.

[BigDerrick44]

Firstly,I am not white.Nor am I black. As for the shotgun,that sounds like somebodies half assed excuse to try to get away something they knew was wrong in the first place.And the nooses and all the other BULLSHIT came after.What I am talking about is black folks useing something like this to rally around the flag so to speak.Useing it as an excuse to blame white people for fucked up lives.Dont use what you might have as a measureing stick as to how you look at yourself.Things are just things.

[BigDerrick44]

All I am trying to get acrossis this,,Dont let people like this caracter in this video do your talking for you.He might think he has your best intrests at heart, but thats not always true. And dont measure your self worth by the rings or cars or money. The way I look at that is you cant take it with you, so it belongs to my kids anyway. And a new car only means another bill to pay.And dont look at the past for something to be proud of.Thats not a real measure of anything thats you.

[cashmoney110]

Sigh...The white people lashing out against stuff like this shows they are no differnt than scared dogs. Dogs get nervous, they start barking and bitching. Sigh.

[BlackpeopleLOL]

actually i think it's more frustration. 40 years on after MLK was assassinated, and black people are still here in the same place bitching about being discriminated against, never taking responsibility for their own actions. we are all fucking tired of hearing about it. and we're tired of turning on TV news and all you hear is black people this, black people that.

[cashmoney110]

We have a right to be frustrated, but we have ourselves to blame in part. I'm black and I'm frustrated with Black people more than White people. However, shit will change when Black people stop acting like minstrels for white America. Black people are seen as caricatures in the media and white America loves it. I can't tell you how many white people through high-school, college and my work life don't believe I know what I know, have what I have, and are educated beyond them.

[cashmoney110]

This is because white people think all black people do is eat fried chicken, get arrested and make babies. Wrong. More white people on all welfare. White people were committing all the drug-related crimes WAY before black people. I've been a network system engineer for years and I have black AND white people under me. No one takes responsibility for their own actions. White and Black people are getting kicked out of their homes because they were greedy/and or foolish.

[michaelleed]

everyone is making statements based on prejudice. saying that "white people think all black people do is eat fried chicken, get arrested and make babies" is prejudice. My neighbors are black on one side of me and mexican on the other... i grew up in a school being one of the 10 percent of white people in a school of 3500 people i am not racist and dont believe that black people only eat chicken get arrested and make babies haha. but aside from that simple disagreement i see what you're saying.

[cashmoney110]

No that is a fact, because this stereotype exist You should make sure your statements make sense. I've been in several lunch room in college and in the corporate working world and walked in on some extremely inflammatory conversations. There are white people who believe just that, not all, but enough. Some don't know how to approach me because I'm not what they believe black people are capable of: Young (31), professional, college-educated, network system engineer.

[MALCB15]

40 years if you think about it is a very short time to change the "mindset" of a people thats been established for over 400 years expecting change so quickly is absurd

[BlackpeopleLOL]

no it isnt. you're absurd. 40 YEARS is a LONG FUCKING TIME by anyone's standards. black people are the ONLY PEOPLE in the world who still regularly think about something that happened to them 200 years ago. you wont hear any other ethnicity still talking about hardships that they had 200 years ago. because they fucking MOVE ON. black people don't move on, for whatever reasons I dont know. they just refuse to move on.

[BlackpeopleLOL]

and dont bullshit about "old fashioned attitudes", white people our age are not racist, we're fucking colourblind. we dont give a shit about colour, all this "racism" is in black people's heads.

[michaelleed]

i would disagree with that man.. racism isnt in there heads. racism still goes on today and it is a shame. I do agree that people need to move on but saying that white people are color blind and then saying black people cant move on is a statement of hypocracy.

this isnt a message of hate im just saying if your gonna make a point.. make sure your statements make sense.

[cashmoney110]

Either you are extremely short-sided, untraveled, foolish, or ignorant, or all of the above.

[BlackpeopleLOL]

yeah. of course im not going to ask you why you say that. because obviously, you dont have to explain yourself - you're on the righteous, wallowing in victimhood side! you're against racism so you can just huff and puff and bluster your way through and everyone will be on your side! because the TV said so!

[cashmoney110]

I'm not against racism...I'm racist and I'll be the first to say it. I'm in a position to hire and fire, which put you in a position of power, whereby you CAN be racist. Prejudice means you don't like certain people. Racist means you have the means to alter your environment based on your dislike of certain people. If you have read my posts and you equate that to me being a victim, then you really are a typical americana-minded individual whose can't think of a world outside their own. :-)

[virtualdynamo]

"Racist means you have the means to alter your environment based on your dislike of certain people"

no it doesn't. Racism means you think race determines characteristics and that one race is better than another.

What you are calling "racism" is actually "discrimination".

[BlackpeopleLOL]

untraveled... oh my GOD that's fucking funny. you really made me laugh, seriously Im laughing so hard right now. yes, I'm SO UNCULTURED AND SHELTERED aren't I? because I dont spend my whole life visiting shitty little US rural towns where the silly black and white people have their little petty insipid racism. that means Im ignorant, right? because I dont spend my entire life searching for the incredibly insignificant remnants of what used to serious racism, in America.

[cashmoney110]

Crown Heights, NYC wasn't insignificant

Black Men trying to catch a cab in NYC isn't insignificant.

Boston is infamously one of the most prejudice cities on the eastern seaboard.

I've wasted enough time trying to help you as you seemed marginally cognitive. I was wrong. Don't bother responding unless you enjoy wasting you time. Take care.

[BlackpeopleLOL]

you're right, I need to travel more. I need to travel to Alabama to see the horrible indignities suffered every day by the poor blacks. like that one time when that one white guy that got served first at a hotdog stand. The "official story" is that he was first in line because he arrived before the black man. BUT WE ALL KNOW THAT'S BULLSHIT. ITS BECAUSE HE WAS BLACK!!! ITS DISCRIMINATION! THIS RACISM WILL NOT STAND!

[michaelleed]

c'mon man..

[cashmoney110]

His statements don't make sense because he is speaking out of senseless emotion and not logic and facts. He (like bigderrick) lets the media and extremist pundits tell him that black people just can't move on. Most of us have and deal with what is, plain and simple.

[Kneebone77]

What?!? Huh?!? WTF R U talkin Bout?

Learn to Articulate and say something of meaning.

[HIPHOPORNOT]

first let me just say instead of us always focusing an highlighting t i 50 or hiphop problems because trust me its not easy to get out the hood when u have minimal skills so you do what works but what works puts you infront of wolves an then it becomes reality an you are suppose to be able to process success an all the leaches that come with success as well as enemies u didnt know you had ,lets put as much into what good is being done so more can be done we need to change our junkie appetites

[HIPHOPORNOT]

hey when ever a devil is in here dissing our black angels dont even put no effort to correct um just down grade his punk ass he is a product of inbreeding an im sure he has a big ass head pale peeling sweaty clammy skin an the sun will burn his ass nature hates him so what do you expect dumb ass pigga

[ParadigmShift302]

That tapping at towards the end is so annoying!

[doctorspankluv]

Fuck Dickhead Greg with a donky dick after hanging his racist ass from a oak tree. No, dont use a "racist" noose. Just use a regular loop of a rope to be politically correct.

[easmachine]

You Cave dwellers sure do miss the string em up days when you could kill a man because your wife called you a pencil dick. If he's a racist, and all he's done is talk, what does that make you? A punk-ass terrorist. Go back to the cave where you belong.

[doctorspankluv]

the cave I cunsoome yer flesh in inferiorite

[dymepeacediamond]

Don't noboby go to the priest about rapping about ripping off little boy booties? Who wants to hear that?

[go2class]

dick gregory is right that man is truly wise and he's right. It can't be tolerated people have the power...if we dont buy records or tolerate ourself looking that way they'll have to change it...if the civil rights movement happend in a time where they were 10x more overtly racsit.. then the black community can rid the negative images of blacks in hip hop

[rastheking]

People were killing each other b4 gangsta rap even came out. If u look up crimes rates on the US Justice department website, felonies been down since '93, which most would argue was gangsta rap's prime. Music is entertainment, and if u cant tell the difference then there's a serious flaw in the educational system.

[freeOJ2007]

Dick Gregory is about half-way right. Most rap is about abusing people and doing bad shit. What you gotta ask yourself is do I think that's wrong?

[donpark1]

I think you are wrong about most rap. We don't hear most rap. We hear what "Executives" Decide to put on the air waves... over and over and over again.

People that don't or can't think for themselves will listen to it and like it after the 4th or 5th time they hear it. Because they don't protest and say something to the radio stations, it's assumed that people like the Crap that is now "Radio Rap".

[lw62005]

Watch " The murder of Fred Hampton " on google

and see the TRUE story of the Black Panther Party

[lw62005]

Reasearch " operation northwoods "

[MalcomAP]

Dick Gregory man sit yo old ass down I hate when these mother fuckers who were born in the early 50's and late 40's think they can get up on tv and tell us the black youth what we should and shouldn't listen 2 he has a point but needs 2 understand that this now this is what's hot I don't like the lyric's but what he is sayin is BS and byest

[jabron1973]

malcomap, shut up and respect your elders.....you sound like a fool...dick gregory is 100 percent correct

[Cyf1]

i agree.

[gospelmaestro]

It's interesting but I once heard my African-American history professor say you can trace history by listening to the music. In the inner-city, where young black men are murdering, jacking and stealing, they aren't listening to Kirk Franklin or Beyonce or Nina Simone. They are listening to rap. You may not like reality but there it is. There is a correlation. Do you not understand the powerful influence of music?

[dymepeacediamond]

Whatever. I listen to rap and and don't loot and kill

[gospelmaestro]

There are always exceptions. Just ask yourself why a person who has been successful and made it out of the ghetto like a lot of these rappers (T.I., for example but there are so many more) still choose to do things like sell drugs and buy machine guns. There is a certain mentality surrounds hip-hop whether we want to accept it or not.

[dymepeacediamond]

TI is just an ass.

[gospelmaestro]

That may be, but you know we always hear stories about rappers getting into trouble for gun possession (Busta Rhymes), drugs (too many to name), fights (too many to name). Why are our black urban award shows jokes? Because there is always shooting and fighting. The evidence is there. You don't have to accept it, but it's there.

[EastAtlantaboy]

T.I is trying to adapt to this new world that he's into. You have to understand he grew up in the HOOD. Today's "ghettos" are alot different from back then. This young man just has to grow up. I highly disagree with your statement.

[gospelmaestro]

Nobody NEEDS machine guns, except the military. Was TI starting an army? No. I grew up in the hood and nobody had or needed a machine gun. Those are for nothing less than mass murder. I don't think he was buying them to do that, but I don't think they were for the church bake sale either. You know this. Whether you accept it is a different story.

[youngvito262]

i agree with that. b/c he's a felon he cant just go buy a gun legally, but with enough money he could have had his record cleaned up. u pay the bodyguard until u can legally own a gun and with a few million, almost anything is possible. its sad but now he has to deal with the real consequence of that street shit they all glorify. nothing glamorous about a prison cell.

[IamNeutral]

MalcomAP

What Dick Gregory just said was profound & a brillant analysis but can't anybody tell you anything. Unfortunatley, that is the problem with youths today. He has been married ONCE, has a large Family, is well off financially, a good provider & he cares about the youth. There is a lot that you could learn from him.

[dymepeacediamond]

Mothafucka how dare you diss dick gregory.

[ParadigmShift302]

Amen! Dick Gregory is one of the coolest dudes up in this piece.