Dick Gregory: Advice to Young African Americans

[cheddarpuff]

America the most hatefilled, racist, violent place on earth? What a slap in the face of little girls who live in Ethiopia or Afghanistan or gays in Iran or peasants in North Korea. America still is the last best hope in this world and for this world, and this hatefilled, racist, ignorant man is working hard to destroy it for those, who truly need hope, and not just self agrandizing deceitful rhetoric.

[skatering42]

yea i dont know about the weed being bad for you..a god brother said that the spirits smoke weed and drink achohal better then we can and their dead....

[ILUVJEZUZ94]

@skatering42 Weed is not bad for you. If I had my choice I would smoke Weed than a cigarette.

[deezonyxde77]

Thank you for your wisdom sir

[cr3stmob]

He has no concept of the medical qualities of THC.

[RickyHimself]

I'm white, but I have much much respect for this man. His advice is priceless.

[WizzoPro9476]

Dick is the MAN, Real Talk!

[dallasnewton9]

Randall Robinson's book "Defending The Spirit" indicts the United States as a mind-boggling, insanely greedy, corrupt, racist nation. causing mayhem and suffering around the globe. Dick Gregory did not just make up these descriptions. They are based in fact. Randall Robinson is the founder and former president of TransAfrica, the Arican American advocacy organization he established to promote constructive and enlightened U.S. policies toward Africa and the Caribbean.

[dallasnewton9]

In addition to the often seen "others" exploiting the Black community via various type of stores, laundromats, restaurants, etc.; Leonard Rowe gives us another example in his blockbuster book "What Really Happened To Michael Jackson", when he exposes the racism of the music industry and it's financial ramifications on the Black community. To summarize, he says that the discrimination against Black concert promoters robs the entire Black community of dollars that should revert back to it.

[MrRossT1]

AWESOME! AWESOME! Thank you! :) 

[FivePerCentR]

@rachelsanders2 laughable? All of those nations you've just mentioned got nothin' on the US, was Somalia built on chattel slavery? Did Haiti exterminate millions of indigenous peoples off the face of it's terrain? Has Chad been dropping bombs on civilians in the Middle East and then called it "collateral damage"? Has Sudan supported every corrupt regime, including Francisco Franco's Spain and Pol Pot's Cambodia? Who has been in more armed conflicts than any other nation on the planet? USA.<<<

[whitearab2]

welfare mothers are laughed at? if you can buy chips, candy and soda with food stamps, you can definitely buy apple juice. if you want intelligent people to take you seriously you have to say facts instead of random b.s.

[medusa7ful]

@whitearab2 this is why I don't visit the cookie stores in the hood cause that is all there is is cookie and soda stores. Who needs it? We don't! You know who operates the damn cookie stores.

[rachelsanders2]

"...the most vicious, nasty, hateful, insane nation that's ever existed..."

Really?  The U.S. is worse than Pol Pot's Cambodia? Hitler's Germany?

This guy is laughable.

He needs to go visit Somalia, Chad, Sudan, DRC, Hait, Zimbabwe, etc, then come back and tell everyone, with a straight face, that the U.S. is the "most vicious, nasty, hateful, insane nation" in existence today, much less in the history of the world.

[asemirg]

wow



[LionEntity]

Blessed Soul

[AeliciaMechele]

I love him!

[sirshaneyboy]

Excellent words from an honest, wise and caring man ;-)

Peace ;-)

[gloryi1]

Thanks to the Creator for Dick Gregory!

[pigjubby1]

It's about values and where their hearts are. I love his last line. Good job sir.

[Abupindjiguiti]

k9forkids .....i gree with you.

[1Auth]

@mrecenomocs1000 thats sooo true! I agree!

[mreconomics1000]

Everything Dick Gregory said the 1000% true but the only problem is that 98% of blacks don't have the sense to listen to it.

[Yazzyjunebug]

@mreconomics1000 are you black? if you are, aren't you listening to what he has to say? what makes you think you're the only one listening? do you know every single black person? are you only talking about american blacks? there are almost 39 million black people in the U.S, so are you saying that only 780,000 black people are listening? the problem is not that 98% of blacks don't listen, it's that individuals who look like them don't believe in them.

[kashaherum]

THANK THE CREATOR FOR A MAN WHO HAS ALWAYS TOLD TRUTHS

[atheistasylum]

The older Dick Gregory gets the more beautiful he looks.

[k9forkids]

I would say Corporations and Main stream Media which are corporations are ruining American Minds with Miss-information and Distractions. Nobody teaches americans that Hot Pockets, McDonalds and Grape Juice with 5% Juice Contend are the main reason Americans suffer from Chronic Diseases. Wake Up America, we are not Black, Hispanics or Whites, we are all Individuals with the same Liberty Freedoms. Our Education System sucks, Lets take our country back! Google "Ron Paul"

[KN0WLEGE562]

all truth!!!!!!!

[ben5017]

Regan did not save America ... he started the hate that caused 9-11 by going into other nations telling them how to live just like this government tells the mother and fahter how to raise our children!

It's time for the people to demand real freedom in their family life from the government that cares nothing about them other than puttiing another in Jail to make jobs.

How about tariffs and taxes on commerice to keep jobs in America so our people don't serve as inmates to create prison jobs?

[zanabia12]

This so good, this is what should be taught, in these so call " Black churches" but the "black preacher like T.D. Jakes, well tell us to vote for Bush" we need more of what Mr Gregory is saying, Thank you.

[MsWagt]

@zanabia12 Please stop spreading propaganda T.D Jakes did what he thought was best.

[EZVZ2]

WE NEED YOU!!!!!!!!

[davisismail1comcast]

so intelligent yet at the same time he makes it so simply and plain, I love

Dick Gregory.

[TheFlutevisions]

Any type of recreational drug should be avoided by the youth.. Adults should take

extreme precaution when consuming any type of foreign substance into the body. Even marijuana .The enemy will contaminate anything, just to cut you

down. Lets all be careful

[phlood69]

@TheFlutevisions what?



[TheFlutevisions]

@phlood69 Do you have a question?

[TheFlutevisions]

@phlood69

Do you have a question?

[floridaessene]

His idea that marijuana is worse for you than cocaine & heroin is absolutely insane ...

[cashJOHNNYcash17]

@floridaessene I don't think hes saying it's worse, hes basically saying a lot more people smoke weed than any other drug because it's thought of as a recreational drug therefore it is endangering a lot more young people in a way that they may lose their memory, ambitions etc and end up a bum.

[ljphilp]

@floridaessene No his idea is that marijuana is sprayed with paraquat and other poisonous substances. Read "High Times" 167-1969. Marijuana and hash etc are known combinations. Dick asks what are the unknown combinations. That's all.

[ben5017]

It's time the government comes off the fathers of America and allows them to humble the youths ... the govt promotes the rebellion because it creates more of a police state.

I think we need to look at the message Dr. King spoke about ... it was for all people of all colors, genders, and beliefs. Dr. King would be ashamed of the progress America has made in the past 40 plus years.

[phlood69]

@ben5017 that include shame for our current president?

[ben5017]

@phlood69 That is for all presidents since Regan who spent more that they took in irresponsibly outside our country forgetting that our country comes first.

Yes, Our current president is as big of terrorist to the parent's rights as all presidents since Carter. The whitehouse looks like a plantation house because America is nothing more than a huge plantation that enslaves all people. 1864 slavery was ended with the 13th amendment ... the 14 enslaved all with the term SUBJECT!

[blain147]

Spoken with heart

[blain147]

Wisdom in motion

[xXmilesdavisXx]

This makes me so fucking mad at white people, Yeah I know I know I'm part of the problem but so many fucking white people are so conceited and act like slavery didn't happen and get upset about small shit like scholarships for black people, or having a black history month, or that they have the permission to say "nigger" in songs but white people can't say it, I know it's post to be all equal but if black people ever feel like we owe something, I'm paying back for 500 years of slavery.

[AgonyInCrisis]

@xXmilesdavisXx : Perhaps you might atone for 500 years of slavery by committing suicide?

[chili40m]

@xXmilesdavisXx

I know how you feel young brother,but don't burn all of your energy into their ILLUSION. Because always remember, you have too much talents and ability for to be putting up with these spoiled Europeans foolishness.

And don't ever feel that you have to be equal to any white person. You see! If you really know their true history, based on how their ancestors used to lived,before they became modern people. The better you will feel about yourself, observe them closely and carefully

[xXmilesdavisXx]

@chili40m I'm actually white, get mad at my own race.

[CypheredSoul]

I wonder how much free apple juice was given away tho?

I respect him for his encouragement, however the thoughts he's presented aren't very balanced.

[xxSUMBLKGUYxx]

This is so true. Black people make up the majority if not 100% of the customer base for some of these small businesses owned by middle eastern, asian and white folks who are bigoted towards black people. They always create businesses in the ghettos where white people wouldn't even think about coming to so without black people they would go out of business.

[DIJV79]

Very true! Dr. Clark said the same thing if 1 million people donate $100 dollars we can build are own grocery store chain., but negros instead got $10 billion dollars to buy perms and weaves from animals and people from India.

[Apriluv7779]

@DIJV79 We've got our priorities all messed up!

[MrVandel100]

WE DONT WANT CHANGE FOR A DOLLAR WE WANT A FULL DOLLAR OR THIS CASH REGISTER WILL NEVER RING AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hardest shit ever!!!

[GagnezTV]

Legend!

-G

[consensusnes]

he so Right. We have to get beyond just having a job. when that job lay you off or not getting you any benefits, you really back at square one.

[ABonafideBallahollic]

There is a movie out called “Food Inc” – in this movie they are researching where our food comes from. In their findings they found out that our food is monopolized and therefore is produced in a way that is profitable for big business and unhealthy for us - most because of the pesticides that is used. Therefore if Marijuana now has harmful pesticides in it then let’s fight for ORGANIC WEED because Marijuana does more good than harm!

[veeblk22]

Dick Gregory is still amazing after all these years! V

[truthfulexposure]

DIck Gregory is a blessing from the Universe.

[633390]

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[dizolve13]

I would have to disagree with you about marijuana... Not only does it cure cancer, I have seen the people who abuse cocaine for years and the people that abuse weed for years - the people who abuse weed are still sharp and the people who abuse cocaine are losing their minds!!! Tell it like it is!

[eddierob]

@dizolve13 he's not referring to the plant.. but what the plant is sprayed with before it gets to you... tb

[rajnish89]

@dizolve13 There's no such thing as a safe drug! Alcohol and tobacco kills people everyday and I've seen many people who abused weed end up in mental institutions, it won't kill you, it ain't physically addictive but it will cause severe mental illness and paranoia and anyone who says different don't know the full facts or in denial.

[fenix144]

@rajnish89 it doesn't ''cause'' mental illnesses. the exact term is ''trigger'', usually if you or your family has predispositions to mental illnesses.

''anyone who says different don't know the full facts or in denial.'' back at yah.

[blindmagi]

@dizolve13 Yeah, I'd be really interested in hearing what exactly the argument is for that--especially for people who grow their own and don't use pesticides. Hell, I know someone who has used it for about 35 years and he's doing particularly well. I don't know many coke fiends that haven't hit rock bottom, though...

[kmcl11]

@dizolve13 Its doesnt cure cancer. It supposedly hepls people deal with the pain.

[Sakhalinskii]

This man is epic.