Episodes
Wednesday Sep 10, 2014
Leid Stories - 09/10/14
Wednesday Sep 10, 2014
Wednesday Sep 10, 2014
After Sharpton’s Big Bang In Ferguson, No Answer to Key Question
A Speech As History: Obama’s Date with Destiny (Part 2)
A month since the Rev. Al Sharpton and a coterie of civil-rights “leaders” came to Ferguson, Missouri, to take charge of the incendiary shooting death of college-bound Michael Brown, 18, by Officer Darren Wilson of the local police department, there is neither movement nor an answer to a major—and basic—question: Why has Wilson not yet been arrested?
This was central to a raucous meeting last night, in which residents of the predominantly African American town faced off with an almost all-white City Council holding its first official meeting since the killing of Brown on Aug. 9.
Leid Stories again points up Sharpton’s disturbing pattern of “leadership” in high-profile cases (including, most recently, the police chokehold death of Eric Garner in Staten Island, N.Y., on July 17), in which political accommodation appears to trump the quest for justice.
And President Obama addresses the nation tonight on his plans for military action against the Islamic State. On many levels, it’s his date with destiny—his presidency and legacy, and author of the role of the United States in the world community of nations—and, in a very real sense, our own.
Leid Stories picks up the conversation from where we left off yesterday, about Obama’s –and our own—point of reckoning. Things are about to change again. Are we ready?