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NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts) Tue Feb 3, 2015, 07:24 PM Feb 2015

Dick Gregory gets his "Hollywood Walk of Fame" Star

http://variety.com/2015/film/features/dick-gregory-receives-a-star-on-the-walk-of-fame-1201421388/

It was more than half a century ago that Dick Gregory became the Jackie Robinson of stand-up comedy, arguably the first black comic to break through to the white American mainstream. Yet he’s only receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Feb. 2. Ask him why it took so long, and you’ll get a quick response.

We cannot overstate this mans importance in the fight for civil rights.

And he is funny as hell, as well.

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Dick Gregory gets his "Hollywood Walk of Fame" Star (Original Post) NoJusticeNoPeace Feb 2015 OP

Learning to Live LunaSea Feb 2015 #1

It's about time rbrnmw Feb 2015 #2

...until he comes to town and bullies the legislature into enacting a special tax for rolling papers Hestia Feb 2015 #3

LunaSea

(2,895 posts)

1. Learning to Live

Reply to NoJusticeNoPeace (Original post)

Tue Feb 3, 2015, 07:56 PM

Feb 2015

Dick Gregory- 'Learning to Live'- Recorded Live At Southampton College, Southampton, New York, 1969

http://strangerintown.podcastpeople.com/posts/51187

rbrnmw

(7,160 posts)

2. It's about time

Reply to NoJusticeNoPeace (Original post)

Tue Feb 3, 2015, 09:16 PM

Feb 2015

Hestia

(3,818 posts)

3. ...until he comes to town and bullies the legislature into enacting a special tax for rolling papers

Reply to NoJusticeNoPeace (Original post)

Tue Feb 3, 2015, 10:15 PM

Feb 2015

like he did here; because you know crack cocaine and rolling papers go together...he will always be an asshole for that stunt.

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