View Full Version : Dick Gregory Apologizes to the First Black President
mykevermin
02-28-2008, 01:29 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAcN5iKArQU
Brilliant, biting satire.
camoor
02-29-2008, 02:58 PM
Didn't like it.
The last statement is a threat - that's not cool in my book.
Only thing I agree with is that you can't go around looking angry and then expect anything other then suspicion or at best cheap respect. But that could go for anyone, anywhere.
Didn't like it.
The last statement is a threat - that's not cool in my book.
Only thing I agree with is that you can't go around looking angry and then expect anything other then suspicion or at best cheap respect. But that could go for anyone, anywhere.
Well, I can understand dislike for the tone, but that aside, I thought the point that the black community embraced Bill Clinton almost as one of their own yet dismissed Obama -- an actual black man -- as "not black enough" -- is a good one.
fatherofcaitlyn
03-01-2008, 03:37 PM
Very funny. Thanks for posting it.
JolietJake
03-01-2008, 03:41 PM
Is Cornel West one of the craziest looking guys you've ever seen? I mean nothing by anything he says, i just mean he looks fucking nuts. In kind of the way that Einstein looked crazy with the wild hair.
mykevermin
03-01-2008, 03:48 PM
In the video he looks like Gene Shalit.
JolietJake
03-01-2008, 04:12 PM
Yeah actually he does.
VioletArrows
03-01-2008, 04:45 PM
Good lord, Dick Gregory is still alive?! Wow, I need to forward this to my mother. She used to have his books and talk with him often while we still lived near DC.
And when was this on CSPAN? All I ever see on that channel is an empty HoR or Senate pan shot, or somebody else's representative rambling about absolutely nothing.
As someone who likely would not qualify for black (even though being as dark as the delicious Dove bar I'm breaking the corners off of), what the fuck yall?