How would you feel about a government agency paying $1,400 of taxpayer dollars (or any amount) for a “comedian” – the 83 year old Dick Gregory, to stand in front of them – in celebration of Black History Month, no less – and say things like this:
“You can be the Black President of a bank going to meet with a Vice President, who\’s White, of another bank. And after he say hello, he say to you “Are you staying out of trouble?” “Is your momma staying out of trouble?” and we tolerate it, huh. And if you knew how long they been saying that to us, you\’d understand what\’s happening to Obama. THEY don\’t care about your rank or your title, as long as you tolerate it.
“And you\’re going to have to stop lying to your grandchildren. There\’s one great thing that Obama has proved…go to school, behave yourself, stay out of trouble and you\’ll get a good job and be rewarded. Obama did ALL OF THAT and THEY treat him like he was DIRT. Are you CRAZY, huh? He went to THEIR SCHOOL all the way to the top. They treat him like he was a redneck cracker that cant read or write
“…Had I been elected to the President, listen good White folks, none of y\’all would be in my cabinet. Now don\’t worry about Black folks who be saying \’oh, he didn\’t mean it.\’ So, I\’ll say it ten times, none of y\’all be in my cabinet, none of y\’all be in my cabinet, none of y\’all be in my cabinet.”
And believe me, this is just a tiny sampling. Click here for the full transcript, which I got from the invaluable judicialwatch.org site. You will find that it is overloaded with nothing but racist insults, epithets and one conspiracy theory after another, all of which are spoken using “ebonics” dialect (not the way Dick Gregory normally speaks), and feature copious use of the ugly word “nigger”.
This is racist filth of the worst kind. And the fact that it was bought and paid for by a department of the federal government makes it even worse – if that is at all possible.
Real racism. It comes in all forms from all sources. No group is immune to it or from it. Certainly not a has-been comedian whose “humor” begins and ends with this kind of material, and a government agency willing to pay money for the “privilege” of being subjected to it.
