So, What Have We Learned About Race in America?
continued commentary.
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So, What Have We Learned About Race in America?
continued commentary.
White Like Me: Race, Power and Privilege in America
In a hard-hitting presentation, Tim Wise, an anti-racism activist and writer, talks about white privilege and how it buttresses and perpetuates racial inequality and oppression in America.
Here We Are; We Are Here: A Reality Check on ‘Reform’ in America (Part 5)
Concluding this five-part series, Leid Stories looks at ways in which self-created social, political and economic systems immediately can be implemented and take effect.
Here We Are; We Are Here: A Reality Check on ‘Reform’ in America (Part 4)
In the fourth installment of this weeklong series, Leid Stories explains racism as an “applied science.”
Here We Are; We Are Here: A Reality Check on ‘Reform’ in America (Part 3)
In the third installment of this weeklong series, Leid Stories discusses power and powerlessness in America, and logic and illogic of power.
Flax seed can improve your blood pressure, and more diet tips to live a longer life. How the government is using secrecy as a weapon, and how America invites terrorism. Then:
HPV Vaccine – the single shot – why? What is actually going on with the HPV vaccine? With Norma Erickson.
Here We Are; We Are Here: A Reality Check on ‘Reform’ in America (Part 2)
Continuing yesterday’s discussion, Leid Stories focuses on the need for self-created social, political and systems.
Here We Are; We Are Here: A Reality Check on ‘Reform’ in America
Claims of “progress” made and of “reforms” toward social, political and economic justice in America have fallen far short of the realities that confront us and the deep-seated issues that continue to haunt us as a nation. Yet, even the oppressed appear to have accepted the myth of “change.”
Leid Stories explains that social and legislative palliatives are designed to maintain, not change, America’s rigidly race-based culture.
Jack Rasmus discusses the recent report that the wealthiest 1%, who own most of the stock in US corporations, will receive more than $1 trillion in stock buybacks and dividend payouts in 2015. Buybacks-dividends delivered $3.8 trillion since the end of the recession in 2009, with another trillion coming this year.
The politics behind the US empire and its consequences for American citizens, with James Petras.