Dick Gregory hits Andrew Young over MLK comments

By Robert "Rob" Redding Jr.

Editor & Publisher

ATLANTA, Sept. 16 , 2010, 10 a.m. - Comedian and activist Dick Gregory said he wants former civil rights activist, mayor and ambassador Andrew Young to explain his comments about an FBI spy in the civil rights movement.

Young, now 78, told The Commercial Appeal that he is not bothered by a report that Ernest Withers secretly worked as an FBI informant while snapping photographs of the civil rights movement.

"I always liked him because he was a good photographer. And he was always (around)," Young is reported to have told the newspaper. "I don't think Dr. King would have minded him making a little money on the side.''

Gregory said the comments show a "hatred" of Martin Luther King Jr.