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Wednesday, April 6, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Activist pounds out criticism of education, hunger policies
By Kathleen Faddis
Kansan staff writer
Dick Gregory, the 1960s comedian-turned activist, warmed his audience with a stand-up routine about televangelists and KU basketball.
But Gregory, who spoke to about 150 people last night in the Kansas Union Ballroom, was here to talk about more serious subjects than the foibles of Jimmy Swaggart and Oral Roberts.
His speech, sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity in conjunction with War on Hunger Week, was about civil rights, politics, war, racism, world hunger and health.
Gregory frequently raised his voice, pointed a finger, and pounded the podium to get his message to his audience.
And that message was, "Somewhere, you all can make a difference."
"This government has wiped out money for education," he said. "This
administration couldn't do to welfare mothers what they've done to you in the last seven years."
Gregory asked his audience to be better informed and pay attention to what is going on around them.
"Education is not power, and money is not power; information alone is power," he said.
The Department of Justice went after Gen. Manuel Noriega for drug dealing in Panama to divert attention from all the recent problems of the Reagan administration, he said.
"Every country in South America knows what's been going on," he said. "The U.S. and Panama have been pushing drugs together for years."
Gregory said he was arrested last year in front of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., for demonstrating about the drug connection between Panama and the United States.
Gregory talked of hunger, a cause
he brought attention to in 1974 by running across the United States.
"Hunger is nothing but a manipulation," he said. "There is enough food to feed everybody on this planet, but politics wouldn't work right if people weren't hungry."
"We are not going to do away with war until we do away with hunger," he said. He said it was hungry people who were sent out to fight the wars.
Gregory, who said he won 1.5 million votes as a write-in candidate for president in 1968, talked of the electoral college system of electing a president.
"They let you elect, but they don't let you select," he said. "See if you can find five people across the country who can name two people in their Electoral College. And these are the people who elect the president."
He spoke of presidential candidate Jesse Jackson. "I don't know where Jesse will go with this campaign, but he's sure made a difference."
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