Dick Gregory more mainstream than some want to believe

Comedian, activist, and onetime presidential candidate Dick Gregory Dick Gregory told this week's NAACP convention that white racists are turning blacks into criminals — by poisoning their food and water. Gregory said, "They convince you that I'm just a heathen... [but] I murder because something's in my food, something's in my water." He didn't say whom he meant by "they."

Gregory went on to claim that white-owned beer companies spike malt liquor with manganese, saying, "Once you get so much manganese in you, you will kill your momma."

He also claimed the FBI has secret documents "on the relationship between lead exposure and homicide," and that "polluted water can cause brain damage that turns ordinary people into violent criminals."


Some think this type of thinking is only in the fringe, from experiene, I think it's more main stream than some want to believe. What's more mainstream than the NAACP?