Posted on 07/19/2010 4:34:04 PM PDT by tobyhill
Days after the NAACP clashed with Tea Party members over allegations of racism, a video has surfaced showing an Agriculture Department official regaling an NAACP audience with a story about how she withheld help to a white farmer facing bankruptcy.
Shirley Sherrod, the department's Georgia director of Rural Development, is shown in the clip describing "the first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm." Sherrod, who is black, claimed the farmer took a long time trying to show he was "superior" to her. The audience laughed as she described how she determined his fate.
"He had to come to me for help. What he didn't 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," she said. "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 didn't give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough."
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how many billions of dollars has our government given black farmers the sued because they simply felt they did not get help fast enough?
Can you say LAW SUIT
Racist filth.
When is her last day at that job ?
Chances are she’ll either be fired and rehired by another black organization, or she’ll get her white bosses’ job.
What EVIL lurks in these people’s hearts? What is the source of such hatred?
Eric Holder would sue the white farmer.
There should be no question, she should resign immediatly. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars.
I wonder when we will hear from Jessie and Al
“What he didn’t 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..”
And the Government is full of these useless, petty miscreants that aren’t worthy of a drop of sweat from the brow of the “little folk” they rule over. I hope there is a special place in hell for them.
Or be offered a position in the Obama administration.....
Another thought, but I wasn’t sure.
I just don’t understand the hatred that lurks in their hearts. I really don’t.
"There is zero tolerance for discrimination at USDA, and I strongly condemn any act of discrimination against any person," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a written statement.
Firing her would have shown zero tolerance. Allowing her to resign showed you were interested in doing damage control.
bet if she resigns, she gets a fat pension payout. + she can now collect unemployment benefits.
I’m sure Obama will give her a farmer czar job.
She seems to blindly demonstrate
her lack of intelligence,
and that as a likely source
of her own insecurity,
leading her to characterize
the white farmer’s statements
as a demonstration of his “superiority”;
which may, intellectually,
be a fact,
not because of his race
but because she is such a ditz,
no matter what her race is.
Sherrod had resigned.”
Have yet to see anything on this.
Sherrod had resigned.”
oops, found verification. Sorry about last post.
I don’t believe what the USDA said. She may have been reassigned, but I doubt she resigned.
A smart tort-law attorney would immediately advertise for every white farmer in GA who has ever had dealings with the USDA.
She's probably grown up listening to racists like Jeremiah Wright her whole life.
If the NAACP wasn’t run by racists, those responsible for inviting this woman to speak would be forced to resign.
>> What EVIL lurks in these people’s hearts? What is the source of such hatred?
The Black community is politically exempt from racism - that should change for the benefit of everyone.
But it’s not only the issue of racism that’s neglected, consider every other popular Liberal experiment practiced on the Black community negatively affecting things like education, family, and prosperity. Yet, the Black community continues to vote for the disastrous, Liberal handicap.
No, lots of people who haven’t listened to this stuff are like this. Wright is no excuse, just like slavery is no excuse.
Payback does not work well in a society where so much is recorded and documented in such detail. Everyone gets to see the ugliness of the souls of these racist wretches.
Some years ago there was a fire in a NYC subway. It was a horrific scene with people helping others escape the flames.
An elderly black man stood out on the sidewalk saying how amazed he was that a white man had saved him from the fire.
It still breaks by heart to think of that man and the prison of his soul. Put there by some ugly race hustler who profited from keeping their own fellow blacks on the plantation.
Sadly Blacks are the only group here in the US that didn’t come because they wanted to.
They will never desire to let go of the past and be a part of the US.
They are the US’s permanent victim class.
I would be more than happy to pay a tax to be used to fund a one way trip to Africa, for any Black that wants to go.
After that, those that stay here can shut their ‘woe is me’ pie hole, go to work if they want to eat and join with the rest of civilized America.
I wonder what it was about the farming business that hapless fellow was trying to explain to her — that she simply couldn’t understand.
Hannity is reporting that this racist has been canned!
Sounds like we are dealing with some future “Mugabe’s” here...
I wouldn't be surprised, if Breitbart has additional videos.
Breitbart is our KO king, he fights the left better than anyone out there right now. I believe he had this video for months. I believe, based on previous practice, that the NAACP puppets would go out in this election year and accuse the most effective conservative or Republican of racism. He's held back this video (and additional videos) to nuke the NAACP, when they made their predictable attacks.
Yeah, Breitbart!!!
bump
Can you say PROMOTION.
and why is this not on the FRONT PAGE of every newspaper in America?
Oh I’m sorry.... is this from Zimbabwe?
I would really like to see the entirety of her speech. I read elsewhere that she was telling the story in the context of her coming to understand the hypocrisy of her actions and that she later became friends with the white farmer she had discriminated against. If that is true, she is being treated unfairly. Does anyone have a link to the entire speech or a transcript of same?
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