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5000 young people, many of them Laney College students, jammed the doors at the Oakland auditorium to hear the man who has become one of the most popular speakers on the campus circuit before taking the podium. Comedian Gregory spoke with reporters. Gregory also said that he believes

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Angela Davis is innocent of murder, kidnap and conspiracy charges and is being held as a political prisoner. His appearance here is being sponsored by the ethnic studies department of Laney College. I think black folks moved a long ways in solving their problem and then something very

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interesting happened. Uh thanks to the young kids, particularly white kids in America that forced the civil rights movement into human rights movement, which means for the first time we was talking about chicanos problems. We were talking about the indians problems. We was talking about the problems

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of the Puerto Ricans in new york we were talking about for the first time for white folks in Appalachia. And so I think this when you talk about the sum total of dealing with America's problems, I think this you see I as a black man would

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never feel secure in white America as long as one white cat is hungry. Mike, lee, eyewitness news, Oakland