Posted on 07/22/2010 10:36:31 AM PDT by FactReal
FACTS & CONTEXT: NAACP VS. BREITBART VIDEOS & TRANSCRIPT OF
USDA official Shirley Sherrods speech at the NAACP 20th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet on March 27, 2010.
First are the excerpt videos released by Andrew Breitbart. Transcripts and timeline have been added. Once the NAACP released the full video of their March event, Breitbart published the full video as well. The NAACP full video proved that Breitbart videos were continuous excerpts of Sherrods speech without being cut and edited as many in the press are reporting. FoxNews has also provided a timeline of their coverage. (video, report) At the bottom is the full video released by the NAACP. Full transcript has been added to the NAACP video.
Highlighted in yellow is Sherrods so-called redemption or revelation (that it is not about blacks vs. whites) which was included in the first video released by Breitbart.
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Does this include her recent remarks that Barack doesn’t understand because he did not grow up as other Black Americans did?
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Because blog bitches don’t just slap they selves evidently.
Why the excerpt?
Is there profanity or porn or something?
Your headline in all capital letters:
FULL TRANSCRIPT & VIDEOS: USDA SHIRLEY SHERROD, NAACP, BREITBART, FOXNEWS
Well? Post them!
Yes, as everyone has been saying the whole is worse than it’s parts. She is more a racist today than the day her father died. BTW, does anyone know who killed him and why? What’s the real story on that?
you know that went over like a lead ballon in the WH. lol heeheehee can you imagine saying that to the almighty one?
FACTS & CONTEXT: NAACP VS. BREITBART VIDEOS & TRANSCRIPT OF
USDA official Shirley Sherrods speech at the NAACP 20th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet on March 27, 2010.
First are the excerpt videos released by Andrew Breitbart. Transcripts and timeline have been added. Once the NAACP released the full video of their March event, Breitbart published the full video as well. The NAACP full video proved that Breitbart videos were continuous excerpts of Sherrods speech without being cut and edited as many in the press are reporting. FoxNews has also provided a timeline of their coverage. (video, report)
At the bottom is the full video released by the NAACP. Full transcript has been added to the NAACP video.
Highlighted in yellow is Sherrods redemption or revelation (that it is not about blacks vs. whites) which was included in the first video released by Breitbart.
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7/19/2010 AT 8:18AM BREITBART RELEASES THE FIRST TWO VIDEOS Blog title: Video Proof: The NAACP Awards Racism2010, video link |
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TRANSCRIPT OF BREITBARTS VIDEO: Shirley Sherrod: The first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm, he he took a long time talking, but he was trying to show me he was superior to me. I know what he was doing. But he had come to me for help. What he didnt know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me, was I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him. [audience chuckled] I was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farmland, and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land. So, I didnt give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough so that when he I I assumed the Department of Agriculture had sent him to me, either that or the or the Georgia Department of Agriculture. And he needed to go back and report that I did try to help him. So I took him to a white lawyer that we had that had attended some of the training that we had provided, cause Chapter 12 bankruptcy had just been enacted for the family farmer. So I figured if I take him to one of them that his own kind would take care of him. Thats when it was revealed to me that, yall, its about poor versus those who have, and not so much about white it is about white and black, but its not you know, it opened my eyes, cause I took him to one of his own |
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TRANSCRIPT OF BREITBARTS VIDEO: Shirley Sherrod: I grew up on the farm and I didnt want to have anything to do with agriculture, but she was right. There are jobs at USDA, and many times there are no people of color to fill those jobs cause we shy away from agriculture. We hear the word agriculture and think only of working in the fields. And youve heard of a lot of layoffs. Have you heard of anybody in the federal government losing their job? Thats all that I need to say, okay? |
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07/20/2010 AT 8:00PM BREITBART RELEASES ANOTHER VIDEO Blog title: Shirley Sherrod Laments Land Being Sold to White Man, video: link |
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TRANSCRIPT OF BREITBARTS VIDEO: Shirley Sherrod: You know, coming out of slavery black folks used to help each other. Thats how they built the schools that we have. You know, thats how they bought the land that we have that we have about lost all of it. You know that our people had over 15 million acres, and as black people have less than 2 million acres of farm land left. And we will sell it for nothing for nothing. You know, I was helping a family here recently. 515 acres of land, never had a drop of debt on it since the grandfather bought it years ago and he he died in 1974. And two cousins up in the North, guess what they decided? They tried to force a sale of every acre of it. And they wanted that one of their aunts spent all of her life on the land. She was 93 years old when she died. And she died after those For Sale signs went up out there on that farm auction sign went up on the farm. She was in the hospital. The next month she was dead. That was January she was dead by October. But we kept working at it. And we found some honest lawyers they were white I wish I could say that about all lawyers, especially black lawyers, but they will nickel and dime you to death. I dont have sorry I dont have two dozen pennies for most lawyers. But anyway that land has been saved, you know. But they were trying to force a sale of all of it. Theyll eventually get 62 acres of the 515. And guess what? They have a white man already lined up to buy it. And its the man on [unclear], which is what he wanted. |
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7/20/2010 AT 9:35PM BREITBART RELEASES FULL VIDEO OF SHIRLEY SHERRODS SPEECH IN 5 PARTS (YouTube normally limits videos to 10 minutes) - Shirley Sherrod Full Speech Before the NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner Part 1 - Shirley Sherrod Full Speech Before the NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner Part 2 - Shirley Sherrod Full Speech Before the NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner Part 3 - Shirley Sherrod Full Speech Before the NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner Part 4 - Shirley Sherrod Full Speech Before the NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner Part 5 |
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7/20/2010 10:17PM BREITBART RELEASES ANOTHER VIDEO Blog title: Sherrod: Racism Invented by Elites to Keep the Poor Down |
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TRANSCRIPT OF BREITBARTS VIDEO: Shirley Sherrod: I want to just share something with you and I think it helps to it you know, when I learned this, Im like, Oh, my goodness. You know, back in the late 17th and 18th century, black there were black indentured servants and white indentured servants, and they all would work for the seven years and and get their freedom. And they didnt see any difference in each other nobody worried about skin color. They married each other. You know, these were poor whites and poor blacks in the same boat, except they were slaves, but they were both slaves and both had their opportunity to work out on the slavery. But then they started looking at the injustices that they faced and started then trying you know, the people with money you know, they started the poor whites and poor blacks who were they you know, they married each other. They lived together. They were just like we would be. And they started looking at what was happening to them and decided we need to do something about it you know, about this. Well, the people with money, the elite, decided, hey, we need to do something here to divide them. So thats when they made black people servants for life. Thats when they put laws in place forbidding them to marry each other. Thats when they created the racism that we know of today. They did it to keep us divided. And they it started working so well, they said, Gosh, looks like weve come up on something here that can last generations. And here we are over 400 years later, and its still working. What we have to do is get that out of our heads. There is no difference between us. The only difference is that the folks with money want to stay in power and whether its health care or whatever it is, theyll do what they need to do to keep that power, you know. [audience applauds] Its always about money, yall. |
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You know, I havent seen such a mean-spirited people as Ive seen lately over this issue of health care. Some of the racism we thought was buried. Didnt it surface? Now, we endured eight years of the Bushs and we didnt do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black President. | |
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VIDEO RELEASED BY NAACP 7/20/2010 NAACP RELEASES THE FULL VIDEO (43 MINUTES) OF SHIRLEY SHERRODS SPEECH NAACP website: http://www.naacp.org/news/entry/video_sherrod/, video: NAACP YouTube Channel Highlighted in gray are the portions of the speech covered by Breitbards excerpted videos. Remember, Breitbart published the full video in five parts on 7/20/2010 at 9:35PM. (see above) |
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FULL TRANSCRIPT (Hat tip: AmericanRhetoric) Shirley Sherrod: Good evening. Olivia, I want to thank you for those kind words. You know, its been a pleasure working with her over the last 10 years. Ive missed the work. [I] had to move on to some other other work, and Ill talk to you more about that. To the president of the NAACP, here, and the board of directors, and members, and all the others here, it is indeed a pleasure for me to be with you this evening. And I want to say to you, I am very proud to be working with the Obama Administration to help rural Americas welfare. I want to do all I can to help rural communities such as yours to be a place where we can have a quality life and a comfortable life for our families and our friends. But before I give you even before I I go into what I have here, I want to I want to second something that Olivia said. You know, I grew up on the farm and I didnt want to have anything to do with agriculture, but she was right. There are jobs at USDA, and many times there are no people of color to fill those jobs cause we shy away from agriculture. We hear the word agriculture and think only of working in the fields. |
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And youve heard of a lot of layoffs. Have you heard of anybody in the federal government losing their job? Thats all that I need to say, okay? And I I might say a little bit more to the young people. Its good to have you all here. I want to share something with you this evening, something thats always heavy on my heart each day, but especially at this time of the year. It was 45 years ago today that my fathers funeral was held. I was a young girl at the age of 17 when my father was murdered by a white man in Baker County. In Baker County, the murder of black people occurred periodically, and in every case the white men who murdered them were never punished. It was no different in my fathers case. There were three witnesses to his murder, but the grand jury refused to indict the white man who murdered him. I should tell you a little about Baker County. In case you dont know where it is, its located less than 20 miles southwest of Albany. Now, there were two sheriffs from Baker County that whose names you probably never heard but I know in the case of one, the thing he did many, many years ago still affect us today. And that sheriff was Claude Screws. Claude Screws lynched a black man. And this was at the beginning of the 40s. And the strange thing back then was an all-white federal jury convicted him not of murder but of depriving Bobby Hall and I should say that Bobby Hall was a relative depriving him of his civil rights. So, in the opinion, when the justice wrote his opinion and justifying overturning the conviction, he said you had to prove that as the sheriff was murdering Bobby Hall he was thinking of depriving him of his civil rights. Thats where the whole issue of proving intent came from and you heard it a lot it was used a lot during the Civil Rights Movement. What you also heard a lot when Rodney King was beaten out in California. Yall might remember that. They kept saying you had to prove intent and that came from Screws vs. the U.S. Government. Im told that case is studied by every law student. And usually when we have people coming into Southwest Georgia, and wanting to take some tours of of things were some events happened during the Civil Rights Movement, I usually take them to the courthouse in Newton to show where Bobbys Halls body was displayed. During my years of growing up, the sheriff was L. Warren Johnson. He wanted to be called The Gator, and thats how people referred to him cause he had holler that would make you want to tremble. He also killed a lot of black people and Gator Johnson was the law in Baker County. And when I say that I mean no one, black or white, could ride through the County with an out-of-County tag. That means you could have a tag from anywhere else in Georgia you couldnt ride through Baker County without being stopped. And the Atlanta [Journal]-Constitution reported at one point that his take on the road was at least $150,000 a year and that was during the 60s. My father was a farmer. And growing up on the farm, my dream was to get as far away from the farm and Baker County as I could get. And picking cotton, picking cucumbers, shaking peanuts for a little while before they you know, the older folk know what Im talking about when you had to shake them and take them up to the pole and put them around that, you know doing all that work on the farm, it will make you get an education more than anything else. But I didnt want to just get an education. I wanted to leave the farm and Baker County. It was life was the older folk know what Im talking about the segregation and the discrimination and the and the racists acts that we had to endure during those years made me just want to leave. And you know, we used to have people whod leave and go north you all know how they come back talking and they come back looking. I learned later that some of those cars they drove home were rented. But it made you want to go north, cause you thought they were free up there and you thought everybody was free in the North. So, my goal was not to even go to college in the South cause I, you know, I was always you find your husband at college. So, I didnt want to find one living in the South. I wanted to go to college in the North so I could get a husband from the North, never ever come back down here and live again. But, you know, you can never say what youll never do. And it was during March, my senior year in high school. I mean my father was just everything to us. I had four sisters Im the oldest. My mother there are six of us, but my father wanted a son so bad. We were all girls. We all had boys nickname[s]. I was Bill. Now, he loved his girls but he wanted a son so bad. And when my sister was about my youngest sister was eight, he convinced my mother to try one more time for this boy. So, to my surprise my senior year of high school I thought my mother was just sick. I didnt know what was wrong with her, you know, really worried. And one day my best friend at school said, Hows your mama doing? I said, She just doesnt seem to be getting any better. She said, Girl, your daddy was up at the store yesterday giving out cigars. Your mama [is] going to have a baby. He told everyone that that baby was the son. And he was, in fact, having a new home built. He was the first person to get a loan on his own to build a house. He wanted to build a brick house so bad, but they told him a black man could not borrow money to build a brick house. They had to choose blocks, you know. So and this new house that was being built there were five daughters there was this one room that was the boys room his sons room. He told everybody it was a boy. And, in fact, it was painted blue. And he came he and my mother came to pick me up from school one day early to go to Albany with him to pick the furniture for this boys room. He didnt live to see him. My brother was born two months after he died, in June of 65. We started the movement. But before I get there I need to tell you something I and I want to say this to the young people. You know, I told how I looked forward and I dreamt so much about moving north and from the farm, especially in the South, and I knew that after on the night of my fathers death I felt I had to do something. I had to do something in answer to what had happened. My father wasnt the first black person to be killed. He was a leader in the community. He wasnt the first to be killed by white men in the county. But I couldnt just let his death go without doing something in answer to what happened. I made the commitment on the night of my fathers death, at the age of 17, that I would not leave the South, that I would stay in the South and devote my life to working for change. And Ive been true to that commitment all of these 45 years. You know, when you look at some of the things that Ive done through the years and when you look at some of things that happened I went to school my my first two years at Fort Valley I know there are some Fort Valley graduates here too I did my first two years at Fort Valley but so much was happening back at home, and then I met this man Ill tell you a little about him that I transferred back to Albany State and did the last two years. But two weeks after I went to school at Fort Valley, they called and told me that a bunch of white men had gathered outside of our home and burned the cross one night. Now, in the house was my mother, my four sisters, and my brother, who was born June 6 and this was September. That was all in that house that night. Well, my mother and one of my sisters went out on the porch. My mama had a gun. Another sister you know some of this stuff, its like movies, some of the stuff that happened through the years I wont go into everything. Ill just tell you about this. One of my sisters got on the phone cause we had organized the movements starting June of 65, shortly not long after my fathers death. Thats how I met my husband. He wasnt from the North .Hes from up South in Virginia. But anyway my brother and my sisters got on the phone they called other black men in the county. And it wasnt long before they had surrounded these white men. And they had to keep one young man from actually using his gun on one of them. You probably would have read about it had that happened that night. But they actually allowed those men to leave. [unclear 13:51] get out of there. But I wont go into some of the other stuff that happened that night, but do know that my mother and my sister were out on the porch with a gun, and my mother said, I see you and I know who you are. She recognized some of them. Shell tell you that she became the first black elected official in Baker County just 11 years later, and she is still serving you all. Shes chair of the board of education and shes been serving almost 34 years. I didnt know how I would go about carrying out the commitment I made that night, but when the [unclear 14:34] of our coordinating committee [unclear 14:35], he was the one who came to Albany and started the movement there in 1961. And he stayed. You know, a lot of them went into the communities and they worked during the early part of the movement and they left. But he continued to stay in Southwest Georgia, and weve done a lot of stuff through the years .Some of the things that have happened to us, you probably be on the edge of your seat if I were to tell you about some of them. Weve been in some very, very dangerous situations through the years, but we continue to work. And, you know God is so good cause people like me dont get appointed to positions like State Director of Rural Development. They just dont get these kinds of positions cause Ive been out there at everywhere grassroots level and Ive paid some dues. But when I made the commitment years ago I didnt know how I didnt I prayed about it that night and as our house filled with people I was back in one of the bedrooms praying and asking God to show me what I could do. I didnt have the path wasnt laid out that night. I just made the decision to that I would stay and work. And And over the years things just happened. And young people I just want you to know that when youre true to what God wants you to do the path just opens up and things just come to you, you know. God is good I can tell you that. When I made that commitment, I wasnt making that commitment to black people and to black people only. But, you know God will show you things and Hell put things in your path so that that you realize that the struggle is really about poor people, you know. The first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm, he he took a long time talking, but he was trying to show me he was superior to me. I know what he was doing. But he had come to me for help. What he didnt know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me, was I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him. I was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farmland, and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land. So, I didnt give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough so that when he I I assumed the Department of Agriculture had sent him to me, either that or the or the Georgia Department of Agriculture. And he needed to go back and report that I did try to help him. So I took him to a white lawyer that we had that had attended some of the training that we had provided, cause Chapter 12 bankruptcy had just been enacted for the family farmer. So I figured if I take him to one of them that his own kind would take care of him. Thats when it was revealed to me that, yall, its about poor versus those who have, and not so much about white it is about white and black, but its not you know, it opened my eyes, cause I took him to one of his own and I put him in his hand, and felt okay, Ive done my job. But, during that time we would have these injunctions against the Department of Agriculture and so, they couldnt foreclose on him. And I want you to know that the county supervisor had done something to him that I have not seen yet that theyve done to any other farmer, black or white. And what they did to him caused him to not be able to file Chapter 12 bankruptcy. So, everything was going along fine Im thinking hes being taken care of by the white lawyer and then they lifted the injunction against USDA in May of 87 for two weeks and he was one of 13 farmers in Georgia who received a foreclosure notice. He called me. I said, Well, go on and make an appointment at the lawyer. Let me know when it is and Ill meet you there. So we met at the lawyers office on on the day they had given him. And this lawyer sat there he had been paying this lawyer, yall. Thats what got me. He had been paying the lawyer since November, and this was May. And the lawyer sat there and looked at him and said, Well, yall are getting old. Why dont you just let the farm go? I could not believe he said that, so I said to the lawyer I told him, I cant believe you said that. I said, Its obvious to me if he cannot file a Chapter 12 bankruptcy to to stop this foreclose, you have to file an 11. And the lawyer said to me, Ill do whatever you say whatever you think thats the way he put it. But hes paying him. He wasnt paying me any money, you know. So he said the lawyer said he would work on it. And then, about seven days before that man would have been sold at the courthouse steps, the farmer called me and said the lawyer wasnt doing anything. And thats when I spent time there in my office calling everybody I could think of to try to see help me find the lawyer who would handle this. And finally, I remembered that I had gone to see one just 40 miles away in Americus with the black farmers. So, I [audio/video cut at source] Well, working with him made me see that its really about those who have versus those who dont, you know. And they could be black; they could be white; they could be Hispanic. And it made me realize then that I needed to work to help poor people those who dont have access the way others have. I want to just share something with you and I think it helps to it you know, when I learned this, Im like, Oh, my goodness. You know, back in the late 17th and 18th century, black there were black indentured servants and white indentured servants, and they all would work for the seven years and and get their freedom. And they didnt see any difference in each other nobody worried about skin color. They married each other. You know, these were poor whites and poor blacks in the same boat, except they were slaves, but they were both slaves and both had their opportunity to work out on the slavery. But then they started looking at the injustices that they faced and started then trying you know, the people with money you know, they started the poor whites and poor blacks who were they you know, they married each other. They lived together. They were just like we would be. And they started looking at what was happening to them and decided we need to do something about it you know, about this. Well, the people with money, the elite, decided, hey, we need to do something here to divide them. So thats when they made black people servants for life. Thats when they put laws in place forbidding them to marry each other. Thats when they created the racism that we know of today. They did it to keep us divided. And they it started working so well, they said, Gosh, looks like weve come up on something here that can last generations. And here we are over 400 years later, and its still working. What we have to do is get that out of our heads. There is no difference between us. The only difference is that the folks with money want to stay in power and whether its health care or whatever it is, theyll do what they need to do to keep that power, you know. Its always about money, yall. You know, I havent seen such a mean-spirited people as Ive seen lately over this issue of health care. Some of the racism we thought was buried. Didnt it surface? Now, we endured eight years of the Bushs and we didnt do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black President. I wanted to give you that little history especially the young people I want you to know they created it, you know, not just for us. But we got the brunt of it cause they needed to elevate what is just a little higher than us to make them think that were so much better, and then we they would never work with us, you know, to try to change the situation that they were all in. But where am I going with this? You know, I couldnt say 45 years ago I couldnt stand here and say what Im saying what I will say to you tonight. Like I told you, God helped me to see that its not just about black people its about poor people. And Ive come a long way. I knew that I couldnt live with hate, you know. As my mother has said to so many, If we had tried to live with hate in our hearts, wed probably be dead now. But Ive come to realize that we have to work together and you know, its sad that we dont have a room full of white and blacks here tonight, cause we have to overcome the divisions that we have. We have to get to the point where, as Tony Morrison said, Race exists but it doesnt matter. We have to work just as hard. I know its you know, that division is still here, but our communities are not going to thrive you know, our children wont have the the communities that they need to be able to stay in and live in and and have a good life if we cant figure this out, you all. White people, black people, Hispanic people, we all have to do our part to make our communities a safe place, a healthy place, a good environment. You know so that companies why would a company want to locate in some of these places? You know, I its so sad that, as I go around the State, people ask me, Where are you from? Yeah, Im living in Albany. Oh, a lot of crime theyre in. You know, nothing good you could say too much about Albany anymore, and a lot of it is brought on by folks who live there, you know? People who live there. You read the paper If you read the paper and listen to the TV station there in Albany, you wouldnt want to go there and live. You know, people are still fighting each other worse, I believe, now. Least it was open during the Civil Rights Movement. It was a lick here and there and my husband got in the brunt of a lot of them. But now its really in such a way that it hurts cause its going to keep the jobs away. You know, you can go to a community and you can just about tell and Im travelling all around where people work together, you know. Youre not losing this many jobs. Youre getting a few. You know, we have a beautiful country. We have a beautiful part of this State the southern part of this State but its not thriving. And we need to figure out why. Well, we kind of know, but we need to work on why. And And young folks, you know when I was growing up, you had to get home from school and go to the fields. But yall dont have to do that no more. You should be excelling, you know. Parents, youve got to set some goals for your children, you know. You cannot allow them not to try to become the best they could be, and not study .you know. Yall must love working in the chicken house. (I know they closed for one year.) But change has to start with us and somehow weve got to make the other side of town work with us. Weve got to make our communities what they need to be and our young people, Im not picking on you, but you got to, but yall got to step up to the plate. Youve got to step up to the plate. You are capable of being very, very smart people. You are capable of being those doctors and lawyers. Youre capable of running your own business. Thats what one of things in the position Im in one of the things that really hurt one of the programs we had with some of the most money in it, you know, its with business and industry. And I sit up their and Im signing off on six million, three million, two million but who is it going to? Not one so far. And when I got a report on where we are with it, were were approaching 80 million dollars since October 1st. But not one dime to a black business not one. You know, and I know as a young person youre thinking good times. But, hey, dont let life pass you by having a good time. You can enjoy it, but be serious, you know. And there are jobs in agriculture. Theres a program, the 1890 Scholars Program and they are theyre connected with every 1890 Land-Grant institution, and let me tell you what that is. Thats the black Land- Grant institutions, and there are about 17 and Tuskegee. They You can actually get a scholarship and Fort Valley State is the main grant in Georgia, the 1890; the 1862 is the white Land-Grant, thats the University of Georgia you can get a scholarship and every summer you work at one of those agencies while you are in school. And when you get out, its a automatic job. Agencies like Natural Resource and Conservation Service (thats RCS), Farm Service Agency (thats the old Farmers Home Administration), Rural Development. Those are the major three. But there are others, so many other jobs, so many. Just in rural development nationwide, there are over 6000 employees. But you can go up their to Washington, to the Department of Agriculture, its on both sides of the street. In Rural Development, there are 129 employees and guess how many of them are people of color? Anybody want to take a guess? Thats in Georgia. I got there are 129 in my agency. How many? Its more than two. Little more than 12. There are less than 20 of us. We have six area offices in the State and subarea offices offices and when I look at whos coming up the line in the agencies in the agency, there are not many of us, cause we think agriculture is a bad word. We think its working in the fields. Some of the best paying jobs you ever want to have, okay? I wont keep at you with that kind of stuff. But let just know that you can theres another point I want to make, though. You know, coming out of slavery black folks used to help each other. Thats how they built the schools that we have. You know, thats how they bought the land that we have that we have about lost all of it. You know that our people had over 15 million acres, and as black people have less than 2 million acres of farm land left. And we will sell it for nothing for nothing. You know, I was helping a family here recently. 515 acres of land, never had a drop of debt on it since the grandfather bought it years ago and he he died in 1974. And two cousins up in the North, guess what they decided? They tried to force a sale of every acre of it. And they wanted that one of their aunts spent all of her life on the land. She was 93 years old when she died. And she died after those For Sale signs went up out there on that farm auction sign went up on the farm. She was in the hospital. The next month she was dead. That was January she was dead by October. But we kept working at it. And we found some honest lawyers they were white I wish I could say that about all lawyers, especially black lawyers, but they will nickel and dime you to death. I dont have sorry I dont have two dozen pennies for most lawyers. But anyway that land has been saved, you know. But they were trying to force a sale of all of it. Theyll eventually get 62 acres of the 515. And guess what? They have a white man already lined up to buy it. And its the man on [unclear 34:41], which is what he wanted. But you can what I want to say to you you can do good. And yall going to be smart. Youre going to go on and and get good jobs. Look, reach back and help somebody. Thats what we were taught. Thats what our folk did, you know. It looks like the more the better we do, the more free we are, the more divided we become, you know. It looks like we dont care about each other any more. You know, thats why kids can just, you know yall know what happened in the day. He did something wrong, everybody in the community got you, you know. Well that does happen anymore. And we have to get back to that. If we going to rebuild our communities, if we going to get with all of the problems we have in our communities, it will take all of us working together to solve them. We cant turn our backs. And you never know who youre helping. You could be helping the second black President of the United States. Now, I need to tell you a little bit about Rural Development. There There are at least 40 programs at Rural Development, but Ill just talk to you briefly about a couple of them. The main one is the Housing Program. We have more money for single-family housing, direct loans and thats loans from the agency than weve ever had in the history of the program . But we having trouble getting that money out the door and guess why: credit issues. They had to send me extra help from Washington to try to help because of the stimulus money. See, we have more money, but direct loans for the low, very low income and moderate income [unclear 36:50]. And guess what? Those loans its a 100% loan. You can buy the land and build a house 100% loans. No private mortgage insurance, those loans are directly from USDA. And folks will let a cell phone and other stuff you dont even need keeping you from being able to to acquire an asset that you really need which is a home. Weve got to be more careful about our credit. I was talking with a young lady, actually a relative in a major position, and she she was letting the hospital the hospital was getting ready to garnish her check. She works for the city. And I said, Do you understand that goes on your credit?" |
Yes, it’s long.
But at least it’s not all blogged down.
If anyone in here has the time to read all this ...I’d like your life.
bttt
Saved the link in my archives.
Well, ever since I heard of that “control-C” thingy...just can’t help myself.
;^)
I suppose it's shorter at the blog.
You wouldn't want mine right now, 'lil deer. I've been languishing on a medical leave from work since April. Good news is I'm back to the grind 8/10. Meanwhile, nothing better to do than surf the blog pimps.
No, that was a cut ‘n’ paste from the blog.
Does the transcript include the text of the portion that was edited out of the NAACP “full video”?
Oh my word.....bhahahahahahahahaha
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