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Posted on 07/20/2010 4:50:12 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Sherrod, 62, insisted her statements in the video were not racist.
"For Fox to take a spin on this like they have done, and know it’s not the truth … it’s very upsetting," she said.
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The AJC is trying to recover the full video footage of Sherrod's speech to the Douglas NAACP.
She said the circumstances made it absurd for her to have made any racist comment.
"There were some white people there. The mayor (of Douglas) was there," Sherrod recalled. "Why would I do something racist if they were there?"
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
“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.”
OK - I give up
If she did nothing wrong - whay pray tell, is she now out of a job?
Of course they weren't and neither is the NAACP, the Black Caucus, Black Liberation Theology or any of the multitudes of race based organizations. /s
I saw the short clip yesterday. To be fair, I thought it was racist at the beginning and maybe it was, but her comment at the end that she seemed to realize that it was much more a poor v. rich situation does make a point.
but of course! They’re victims don-cha-know! how could they be guilty? only Whitey is guilty!
This comment tells you something not only about her personal anger but the prevailing attitude of most appointed U.S. Federal Government Employees. They do just 'enough', which means next to nothing.
This OBAMA Administration has a plethora of appointees who think and act like her. She just happens to be remarkably stupid about it.
Next time they’ll just get smarter about it and not say it on videotape.
“There were some white people there...Why would I do something racist if they were there?”
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I guess she usually saves her racist remarks for when
she is with “her own kind” (to use her own words).
If what she is saying is true, then using a piece of video clipped out of a broader story to make her out a racist is just plain wrong.
“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.”
This is the subtle racism whites have been accused of many times.
There is a war coming. And future generations will see it as the end of our country.
Was she stupid enough to say this knowing it was being recorded for posterity?
“Why would I do something racist if they were there?”
Of course if they aren’t there, well, that’s a whole different story.
Taken out of context tell her to go talk to the NAACP their the ones that stirred the pot.
“There were White people there”. “and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land.” “So I didn't do as much as I could have”.
The fact is that the NAACP, Black “fill in the blank” groups, are racist. They exist solely to convince blacks that they are somehow disadvantaged by some outside evil mysterious group and only serve to divide people by color of their skin.
While not as outrageous as some of the groups like “the New Black Panthers” and Rev. Wright's ilk, every time they get together and pull out the old tired “race” card, they play right into their “Masters” plan. The Master of course being the DemonRAT / American Communist Party.
She should have been fired. If not for being a racist, for being another fine example of a government worker that forgot who they are supposed to work for.
“If what she is saying is true, then using a piece of video clipped out of a broader story to make her out a racist is just plain wrong.”
I think the racist part is that she saw color first...she felt bad about black farmers while looking at the white farmer........thats not her job. She is supposedly there to “help” all people...
Cuz whitey be holdin' her down! Who you gonna believe--her or your lyin' eyes and ears?!
What is wrong is having this attitude whether it was 24 years or seconds ago. She is just one of many Government Employees with this kind of attitude regardless of race.
They think they are royalty and conduct themselves accordingly while pretending to carry out the serious responsibilities of their job.
“There were some white people there. The mayor (of Douglas) was there,” Sherrod recalled. “Why would I do something racist if they were there?”
For Pete’s sake, she was in a room full of LIBERALS! They would cheer her on, especially the LIBERAL WHITES there.
Particularly amusing are her defenders’ assertions that it was a rich vs poor situation, since she and some “agricultural coop” of which she is a member just got $13 million out of the Federal government in some deal right before she was appointed.
Aside from that, what she said is, simply, racist. She’s not supposed to be considering the race of people who come to her at all. And when you read all of what she said (”he [the farmer] was letting me know how superior he was”) you can see the same old black grudge mentality at work. Now, of course, she feels that it’s okay to state it, since she has her own personal black grudge artist in the White House.
Is it any wonder that the current United States Department of Justice is filled with career employees like her?
“I didn’t do what all that I could do...I took him to his own kind...”
RACIST RACIST RACIST
She got caught and there are more black racists in the government too.
Seems to me that she was far superior to herself.
“There were some white people there.”
I do not know what is in her heart, only what was recorded. She may not have meant it the way it comes out, however is it possible that the “white people” that attend NAACP functions would agree with her if she did mean to discriminate against a “white” person? Is her defense sort of like “some of my best friends are white...”?
Because you are nothing but a Black RACIST who wants to use your position to hurt/take it out on "Whity".
Obama is evil and those whom he has appointed are evil. All I can say is my tag line because God is the only one who can deliver us from these godless, evil men and women.
If that was the point she was trying to make, she chose to make that point using race. And I think she did that on purpose, knowing that her audience would accept that way of her getting her point across and embrace her way of thinking.
Any speaker would consider their audience and try to make a connection.
My opinion is that's why she said she doesn't consider it to be racist. Even if she really believes that, which seems doubtful, it's because it's so ingrained it's expected in that forum.
She’s 62..I’ll bet you that she retired, not resigned..
Now if we could just do something about the guy with the stick on election day in Philadelphia.
However she was only just “appointed” to this “gobern’mt job” by obama little more than a year ago - ?
I DON’T CARE.
What would have happened if a “cracker” had something similar regarding a black or Hispanic, eh?
“”I think the racist part is that she saw color first...””
Check her out on Wikipedia. She was apparently raised on a farm and it said her father was murdered by a white man. It’s not difficult to see where she’s coming from even many years later. There are some confusing details there about a foundation she was involved with, a farm/land which ended up being dissolved etc.
She’s complaining about being forced out of her job so “resigning” doesn’t quite fit the circumstances. I think we’ll all agree that that’s pretty fast work for any government agency.
Who you gonna believe....me o yo lyin' eyes?
LOL! These people are truly delusional.
Yep, it’s a lot about delivery. I would see her differently had she been telling a story about how she used to be racist and how she’s reformed herself.
But she didn’t do that. She doesn’t condemn her past racism, doesn’t even say it was wrong. She does say she has since found a different way of viewing people, that’s all.
She is a racist. She believes every white person is out to show her up and she acts within her government job according to the color of a person’s skin. That is the purest definition of a racist. She should be prosecuted for her violations of civil rights.
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She's lying. Exactly how many white farmers would approach her old organization for help and feel welcome???
She might as well have been sitting in a pew in Rev. Wright's church; and like Obummer, she didn't hear, speak, or see evil....
Good ole’ Coffee county.
No. Not joking. If she was relating a story from 20 some odd years ago about her personal growth, how she rose from racists views and became friends with the white farmer she initially was loath to help... then it’s wrong to clip just the racist portion of that story and try to destroy her with it now.
If... if what she is saying is true.
I agree, but if the whole video comes out and it shows that she’s telling the truth, that this little portion of a story she told about how she overcame her racists views is being used out of context — it’s not only wrong, but will end up making our side look no better than the Left, which uses things out of context all the time to destroy people.
First of all, according to the article, when the story about the white farmer took place she was working at a bank, not for the government. Secondly, she is actually agreeing with you — that her view of the white farmer was wrong and she overcame it and became friends with him and his family.
Again, I’m just saying that if the whole video comes out showing this clip is out of context, it will set back our cause.
Actually she didn’t work at a bank, but some kind of State-based assistance office, “the Georgia field office for the Federation of Southern Cooperative/Land Assistance Fund”
can always go back to the farm
Shirley Sherrod was appointed Georgia Director for Rural Development by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on July 25. Only days earlier, she learned that New Communities, a group she founded with her husband and other families has won a thirteen million dollar settlement in the minority farmers law suit Pigford vs Vilsack.
Minority Farm Settlement
We have wonderful news regarding the case of New Communities, Inc., the land trust that Shirley and Charles Sherrod established, with other black farm families in the 1960’s. At the time, with holdings of almost 6,000 acres, this was the largest tract of black-owned land in the country. Now with a cash award of historic proportions, the group will be able to begin again.
So why did they force her to resign?
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