DICK GREGORY'S BIBLE TALES WITH COMMENTARY

by Dick Gregory ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, 1974

Gregory's hip-talking, jive-assed renditions of Adam and Eve, Abraham and Isaac, Joseph and his brothers, Samson and Delilah, etc., are his way of preachin' and teachin' to white folks about God's priorities and how people have messed them up. From the examples of biblical folk disobeying the Lord (who frequently comes off like a mean, spiteful, s.o.b.) Gregory extracts neat little moralisms re racial bigotry, pollution of the planet, male chauvinism, Watergate, etc. Consider that forbidden apple in the Garden: ""Adam blamed Eve, and Eve blamed the serpent. If there had been any Black folks in the garden, the serpent would have blamed us."" That's about as funny as any of this gets. And when Gregory starts pushing ""fruitarianism"" (fruit is all he eats) and birth control as a genocidal trick directed against Blacks, you do begin to wonder if he's really got as direct a line to the Almighty as he thinks.

Pub Date: Oct. 1, 1974

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Stein & Day

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1974

Categories: NONFICTION