Welcome to Karen Hunter's awesome. I am Karen Hunter, Keeper of the Flame, as Christian Gregory was telling us in the last discussion with him about his daddy, Dick Gregory,

that he's there to not stand the flame, but just to keep it going, keep the fire going.

And in this next episode, he talks about Dick Gregory's health and the toll that his activism took on it.

And I didn't know this. Did y'all know that he was in iran man

history boy history be rhyming well take a listen to our next part part two of my discussion

with christian gregory about his amazing father dick gregory and seven million steps stay tuned

christian gregory as you're talking, I'm also,

I remember when your dad made transition, we actually talk with you on these airwaves. And I remember

asking you about the toil that he, you know, what he put his body through. And you were talking

about that because, you know, this was extreme. But extreme measures are important to send a message.

You want change.

But there was a cost, as you mentioned, not just a feat.

There was a cost to the six months in an Iranian prison.

Like, we think American prison, that person was terrible.

Like, he was in very bad shape.

It just nourishment was poor.

Lighting was, we can only imagine.

It's not like they're doing environmental studies on air quality or any of that.

So when my dad in 2000, he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

And he became fully through with permission and just miraculous and his his faith was the biggest

driver of it but when um the first five institutions we went to medical institutions they

couldn't diagnose it it was the army's core of pathology that wound up saying hey this is it's a very

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