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Thursday Jul 02, 2020
Thursday Jul 02, 2020
After 244 Years of Independence, What's Your Version of Being 'American'?
On July 4, the nation commemorates 244 years of independence from Britain and its official beginnings as a new, free nation.
In many parts of the world, achieving national independence is cause for great celebration. But in the United States and its territories, well-choreographed, razzle-dazzle celebrations mock the truth of how this nation, and our national identity, came to be--and in so many ways, still is.
Leid Stories asks: What's your version of what it means to be American?
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Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Are You Ready for A Proxy President?
As they approach the home stretch of the 2020 presidential race, the Democratic and Republican parties and their candidates apparently have struck a deal: The subject of fitness for office is off limits.
Trump, 74, won't have to explain his erratic and bizarre behavior and policies, and Joe Biden, 77, avoids having to deny that his own advisers worry he's in cognitive decline.
EIther way, whoever wins the election will come with a lot of mental-health baggage, which raises the question: In that event, who actually will be president -- the winning candidate himself or several unseen "advisers?" Are we comfortable with that -- president by proxy?
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Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
Are We Doomed to Two-Party Politics?
Leid Stories discusses the pickle many of us have been in for years: We're not in the Republican camp and don't want to be; the Democrats take us for granted; and third parties are in disarray and show little or no interest in courting our vote.
Are we doomed to live in this political vortex, forced to make decisions we'd rather not make?
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Monday Jun 29, 2020
Monday Jun 29, 2020
Is Biden's Black-Women-Only Contest for Vice President Racist and Sexist? Is The Selection Process Open and Fair?
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Friday Jun 26, 2020
Friday Jun 26, 2020
Make New Space in Your Brain. It's "Free Your Mind Friday!'
A warm welcome to "Free Your Mind Friday"on Leid Stories, our weekly open forum. We dispense with our regular format and callers, hopefully having strong opinions about an issue, take the conversation wherever they want it to go.
Have something you want to talk about? Free your mind!
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Thursday Jun 25, 2020
Thursday Jun 25, 2020
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Here's what we're talking about today on Leid Stories.
>> A Glynn County. Georgia, grand jury yesterday named in an indictment three white men who now formally face charges of chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man who was jogging through their neighborhood on Feb. 23.
Greg McMichael and his son Travis face malice murder and felony murder charges, as does a third man, William Bryan, who joined the chase.
But even before a trial begins, a major piece of the case is missing, says Leid Stories.
>> Heading into the home stretch of the presidential election, which way are you leaning so far?
Do you think Joe Biden will pull off a stunning upset, or will Donald Trump call the White House home for four more years?
Or, you don't care either way.
What supports your position?
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Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Why Does the 'American Way of Life Elude So Many?
If you get a good education then get a good job and work hard, it's all but guaranteed that you'll have a good life. It's "the American Way."
But then you look around and you see that so many others not nearly as smart as you, or as hardworking as you, are enjoying great prosperity. You start to wonder: "What is his/her secret? What does he/she know that I don't? Why don't/can't I have that kind of life?"
Leid Stories looks at some of the reasons the "American way of life" eludes so many.
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Tuesday Jun 23, 2020
Tuesday Jun 23, 2020
Why Does the 'American Way of Life Elude So Many?
If you get a good education then get a good job and work hard, it's all but guaranteed that you'll have a good life. It's "the American Way."
But then you look around and you see that so many others not nearly as smart as you, or as hardworking as you, are enjoying great prosperity. You start to wonder: "What is his/her secret? What does he/she know that I don't? Why don't/can't I have that kind of life?"
Leid Stories looks at some of the reasons the "American way of life" eludes so many.
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Monday Jun 22, 2020
Monday Jun 22, 2020
Recent social, political and economic developments in the United States might encourage some to think we're witnessing something of a rebirth of the people-powered, people-centered civil-rights mass movements of the 1960s. But looking objectively at the situation, we can see how oversimplified such a conclusion would be.
Are we in fact moving forward on a people's agenda? Is this what we want? How do we make it happen?
Friday Jun 19, 2020
Friday Jun 19, 2020
t's Juneteenth, A Great Day to Free Our Minds About Where We Are and Where We're Headed As A Nation
The Don of Hate, his campaign faltering after several major setbacks, this weekend will keep the faith with the angry, disheartened remnants of the confederacy yearning for a return to white-supremacist "values-based" leadership.
Trump will stage a political/ideological/racial homecoming at a much-hyped, coronavirus-be damned rally in Tulsa, Okla., tomorrow.
On June 1, 1921 and lasting almost a month, white mobs relentlessly attacked Greenwood, a well-to-do black section of Tulsa, after rumors swirled through the city that a black man had sexually assaulted a white woman in an elevator.
The unconfirmed report triggered an explosion of violence by whites. More than 300 blacks were killed and more than 30 blocks of their homes, churches and businesses were reduced to ashes with incendiary devices dropped from airplanes. No one was ever arrested, tried or convicted of any crimes, and blacks who were buried in mass graves have not yet been identified.
Trump is hoping that his rally in Tulsa will be the dog whistle that white supremacists all over America will identify with.
Let's hear your views on this today, or on any other subject worthy of discussion and debate. It is, after all, "Free Your Mind Friday."
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