On this day in 1991 Comedian John Elroy Sanford a.k.a Redd Foxx, died of a heart attack 🕊
Did you know that he and Malcolm X were best friends and worked together as dishwashers at the same restaurant in Harlem in the 1940s. The staff called Foxx “Chicago Red” and Malcolm “Detroit Red”.
—Remembering Redd Foxx (Dec 9, 1922 – Oct 11, 1991)—
He portrayed Fred G. Sanford on the television show Sanford and Son and starred in The Redd Foxx Show and The Royal Family. His film projects included All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960), Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970), Norman... Is That You? (1976) and Harlem Nights (1989).
Red Foxx was birth named John Elroy Sanford in St. Louis, Missouri and raised in Chicago's South Side.
His father, Fred Sanford, an electrician and auto mechanic from Hickman, Kentucky, left the family when Foxx was four years old. He was raised by his half-Seminole mother, Mary Hughes, from Ellisville, Mississippi, his grandmother and his minister.
Foxx attended DuSable High School in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood with future Chicago mayor Harold Washington. Foxx had an older brother, Fred Jr., who provided the name for his character on Sanford and Son.
In the 1940s, he met Malcolm Little, later known as Malcolm X. In Malcolm's autobiography, Foxx is referred to as "Chicago Red, the funniest dishwasher on this earth." He earned the nickname because of his reddish hair and complexion.
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.@KamalaHarris has spent her life fighting on behalf of people who need a voice and a chance – and she's going to keep fighting for you. That's the kind of person I'm proud to vote for and that's the kind of president that we need.
Message, NOT messenger! Have we become desensitized to the murders of Black people in America?
Why is the video of Sonya Massey being executed by police officer, Sean Grayson, allowed to be shared all over social media platforms — with no edits or blurring of the video, to give dignity to a murdered Black woman?
But, say something against a protected class or group of people, and your account gets suspended or banned, immediately…
To protect my own mental health, I will not share or watch the video footage of another Black person being murdered on film…Sonya Massey’s murder by the police, will be just another political talking point to get votes — and there still won’t be any legislation SPECIFICALLY for the Black community… #RIP 🕊️#SonyaMassey 🕊️#CPTSD #MentalHealthAwareness
America Really Is Waking Up. Black American Responding To Troll Comments
“Most black people are conservative people. We believe in God, we believe in family. We believe in most of the things that are normal. — We believe there's only two genders. You can talk to most black people, they'll tell you, there's nothing but male and females.”
“It’s the Democrats that's telling you that 153 different genders and you know, sexes and all this and the third dude, you sound crazy.”
“You say black people, we are not conservatives. We have never been conservative. The conservative party is the Confederate flag party. Remember that. Okay. You want to understand something. The Confederate party is actually the party of the Dixiecrats that actually absorbed back into the Democrat party. Also, you want to know the first black people to be actually sent to Congress they were black and they were Republican. When they went to Congress, when they was first voted in, they was voted in as black Republicans. Democrats, I believe, did not vote a first black person in till 1937, if I'm not mistaken. So the thing is, you're talking foolishness.”
“Talk to anybody and ask them about some of this stuff going on right now today and you'll find out how conservative they are. The thing is, most black people are conservative. — I'm just saying most of us believe in God. We believe in the Bible. We believe in all those things. But yet you have these white liberals that people like you trying to convince us that black people are not conservative people. We're not that liberal. We're not. And these are facts. It's not me just talking as a black man. These are facts. Look it up.”
No, I saw a 7 year old have a group bday dinner at Mastro’s, limo service and all. I’m all for giving our children more than what we had. But a lot of this stuff is forming bad habits and losing recipes. Like what happened to the Zoo or Disneyland 😭
On this day in 1967, Muhammad Ali was ordered by the Selective Service to be inducted into military service, which he refused.
Here's a video on why he refused to be drafted into the army to go to Vietnam.