Posted on 08/04/2010 9:13:36 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Readers who read my original Washington Examiner post about Shirley Sherrod know that she and husband Charles received $150,000 each for "pain and suffering” as part of "a thirteen million dollar settlement in the minority farmers law suit Pigford vs Vilsack."
Based on history presented by Ron Wilkins yesterday at Counterpunch, it's appropriate to ask: "Whose pain and suffering?"
It now seems that Mr. and Mrs. Sherrod inflicted quite a bit of pain and suffering on their own -- and on some of the very people Mr. Sherrod described as "our own" in a speech earlier this year -- at New Communities, Inc. (NCI). The group is described at the Rural Development Leadership Network's web site as "the land trust that Shirley and Charles Sherrod established, with other black farm families in the 1960s."
Wilkins, who says he is "a former organizer in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee" and is currently a professor at California State University Dominguez Hills, in the Africana Studies Department, writes: "I know this story well, for I was one of those workers at NCI."
Here is some of what Wilkins describes:
Imagine farm workers doing back breaking labor in the sweltering sun, sprayed with pesticides and paid less than minimum wage. Imagine the United Farm Workers called in to defend these laborers against such exploitation by management. Now imagine that the farm workers are black children and adults and that the managers are Shirley Sherrod, her husband Rev. Charles Sherrod, and a host of others. But it’s no illusion; this is fact.
... What most of Mrs. Sherrod’s supporters are not aware of is the elitist and anti-black-labor role that she and fellow managers of New Communities Inc. (NCI) played. These individuals under-paid, mistreated and fired black laborers–many of them less than 16 years
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Luvvit.
Time to pop some corn.
:)
Ouch!
PIGS...and hypocritical pigs to boot.
Arrogance, shear arrogance.
My family in South Georgia treated their workers better than this.
I used to work as a sub contractor for a Mexican-American guy who paid me properly but would hire illegals for duty around his shop and pay them in pizza.
Think about Zimbabwe. There were thousands of blacks who worked at white owned farms, many learning skills and earning decent wages. Then comes along a black man who convinces them that their enemy is the white farmer. He turns their heart to hate the farmer because he is white and he “exploits” them.
“You should own the farm!” he preaches.
“These men are interlopers who stole your birthright” he claims.
So the blacks kill the whites, destroy the farms and now have no food or prosperity while the same black guy rules them with an iron fist.
This woman is a RACIST, her husband is a RACIST and no amount of white *friends* (that she hasn't seen for decades) or other folks can tell me otherwise.
***Imagine farm workers doing back breaking labor in the sweltering sun, sprayed with pesticides and paid less than minimum wage.***
Been there. Done that in Arkansas with white migrant workers in 1962 and 1963. There is no minimum wage for agriculture work. Got paid 1 1/2 cents a pound for picking green beans.
After a rain the beans were heavy and I made $5.00 one day! Then it got hot, the beans shrivled and I never made more than $2.80 a day even though I picked the same ammount of beans.
Never got sprayed with pesticides as the beans were ready for harvest. As kids in New Mexico we did run behind the truck spraying DDT for mosquitos on the Animas River. Never bothered us.
I've been saying this from the beginning. She and hubby were bought and paid for to go after these reparations.
I think I read early on that these farm workers were volunteers and no one showed up after a while and that's why the farm failed....NO ONE WAS FARMING!!!
“Geesh, no one wants to be explointed these days. “
Obama exploits black people all the time. The incident of the woman living in her car who was promised by Obama that he’d get her a house comes to mind.
Yes, I understand explointing is quite painful also!
The only thing that I have seen about New Communities, Inc. is that it’s something of a halfway house for previously convicted at risk black kids.
Are these kids and young adults also the labor force for New Communities, Inc?
Then comes along a black man who convinces them that their enemy is the white farmer. He turns their heart to hate the farmer because he is white and he “exploits” them.
Not to mention killing them and their families!
"A misplaced New Mexican in the Ozarks. Conservative. Fundamentalist. Right wing gun owner."
You sure?
I bet Andrew Brietbart(sp) is building quite a resume of Sherrod’s deeds. This is going to be quite the lawsuit that Shirley will wish she never brought. So lets have that dialog on race.
Explointed?
OMG this is hugh! And series!
:)
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