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Yeah, yeah. Dick Gregory describes himself as an independent write in candidate for president of the United States and as such as the candidate without a doubt, most adept at the ancient art of using humor to make his point. And it was just that faculty for whiting

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humor that made Gregory one of the most sought after comedians in the business. In fact, he gave up hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of nightclub and concert bookings to devote full time to civil rights activism and opposition to the war in Vietnam And the more

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than 2000 persons, most of them students who jammed the gymnasium at cal state today knew all that they knew of Gregory's recent fast from Thanksgiving to new years. They were ready to be made to laugh and to think and Gregory did not disappoint them. He began

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with these comments about the civil rights bill signed into law last week by President johnson. Yeah, mm Thank you. I say to you, the only reason we got that piece of civil rights legislation pushed through. They didn't want to do nothing for black folks. America was

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just shame all over the world. Dr King got killed in America. Had he been killed any other damn place in the world, it would have been okay, but it just shamed us. So we pushed that little old piece of paper through and hopes the rest of

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the country's won't get hip to us. And so you young kids will feel the full burden. You've got to realize that we are living in a country that's so prone to killing baby, that a man of peace and kindness and of love like dr martin Luther

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King can die a violent death hated by americans while our generals of the army is loved big parades and standing ovation, that's the mess you youngsters is fixing to inherit. Gregory then apologized for the riots which erupted in the wake of the assassination of Dr martin

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Luther King because in Gregory's words, everybody knows the riot season is from july to september. I was just disgraceful what they did in Washington D. C. To the cherry blossom season, ground throwing cherry bombs doing a cherry blossom season. Just *** ain't acting like *** no

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more and they acted more like white folks and with your help we can get him to act like *** again. Bell telephone been on strike one day and then already start shooting cables down in Ohio. So some kind of way we got to try to make

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this brother behave and we ask you white folks if you help us and see to it that this system don't care no more of our leaders in the spring. We can damn they guarantee you that we can control my brother. But it was just disgraceful. He

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just flew up and we know that that's not the right season. The police has trained to take their vacations in the spring so they can be back and caught them gone. They didn't even have the tanks ready or nothing like that. Just mhm Gregory then told

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the young black people in the audience to do this when the riots start this summer and get your mom and your dad and you black folks get your cousins and then malignant aunts and uncles, you know what I'm talking about and bring them and let them

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look. Mhm Zim old *** is most thickening in the the hillbilly cracker crew cut plan for Mississippi man. They don't understand nothing but just be against us. And if you can get your grandma and your grandpa, please get them, put them in front of the set

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and reach up and turn the sound off. So all they can see is just them *** sacking and looting them towns and then you reach and pull out your declaration of independence and get back behind them and read it as loud as you can. We hold

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these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal and then down by the creator with certain unalienable rights that when these rights are destroyed over long periods of time, it is your duty to destroy or abolish that government. Following

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his address here. Gregory went to the Alameda County courthouse to visit with Huey Newton, the black panther leader who faces trial on charges of murdering in Oakland policemen. This is Gary Park reporting from Cal State at Hayward for Channel two News