Posted on 07/21/2010 6:09:46 AM PDT by kristinn
It is pretty clear that despite her protestations to the contrary, fired USDA offical Shirley Sherrod has a racial chip on her shoulder the size of the state of Georgia.
She complained in an interview since her firing that "black people" who supported her firing betrayed her.
In the fuller version of her March 27 speech to the NAACP released yesterday by the group, Sherrod accuses Republicans of opposing Barack Obama because of his race:
"Some of the racism we thought was buried, didn't it surface? Now we endured eight years of the Bushes, and we didn't do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black president."
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack released his third statement on the controversy late last night saying he is reconsidering his firing of Sherrod.
The Associated Press reported Sherrod's comments smearing Republicans as racists, but buried the remarks and framed them sympathically:
"It hurts me that they didn't even try to attempt to see what is happening here, they didn't care," Sherrod said. "I'm not a racist. ... Anyone who knows me knows that I'm for fairness."
In the full 43-minute video, Sherrod also criticized what she called the "mean-spirited" reaction to the Democratic health care bill.
"Some of the racism we thought was buried, didn't it surface?" she said. "Now we endured eight years of the Bushes, and we didn't do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black president."
She also told the story of her father's death in 1965, saying he was killed by white men who were never charged. She said she made a commitment to stay in the South the night of her father's death, despite the dreams she had always had of leaving her rural town.
If her father was killed by white men who were never charged, that’s probably when she formed her racial views, and I don’t blame her for being bitter. But she clearly is a racist in everything she says. She hooked the white farmer up with “one of his own kind”.
Well, now I guess that we’ve gotten the “context” within her first remarks to the NAACP were made, all can be forgiven and she can get named Sec AG to fumigate the Earl Butts chair.
What a fantastic country, Earl Butt’s racist filth to a black female’s racist filth in half a lifetime. The Reverend King would be SO proud...
Racist.
Since the country is now going full tribal, based on skin tone, whitey crakers need our own version of MLK jr. to lead us out of the land of reverse discrimination..
Are you a racist if you think the black culture undermines this country? I don't think I'm so much a racist as a culturist.
So does this mean the white house will have to reconsider reconsidering?
Mr. President, why are you hiring racists and communists? Are you birds of a feather?
They didn’t do the things the Republicans are doing now? Bush was attacked constantly for eight years. John Conyers held “impeachment hearings”. This woman doesn’t know what she’s talking about. There were lots of blacks who wanted Bush out solely because he was a Republican.
The biggest RACISTS in this country are the blacks!
The biggest HATERS in this country are the blacks!
I could go on and on...
Yo, crackah, they ain’no “reverse” dis-crimination. They’s only one kind.
"I was taught when I was a young reporter that it's news when we say it is. I think that's still true -- it's news when 'we' say it is. It's just who 'we' is has changed"
David Carr (b. 1956). US Journalist, NY Times Reporter. CNN "Reliable Sources", Sunday, August 10, 2008.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack released his third statement on the controversy late last night saying he is reconsidering his firing of Sherrod.
Translation: The CBC and the Revs. Jackson and Sharpton have gotten to VIlsack and threatened to make a stink if Sherrod is not reinstated.
This saga has great "popcorn" appeal.
And when over 90% of blacks voted for Obama and still support him regardless of the success or failure of his policies... that’s NOT racially motivated??
We shall overcome.....or die trying to get out of this perverted Union.
It was horrible, horrible what they did to President Bush, and now they spout it as a fait accompli that he was a bad leader but I’m here to say he was a GOOD LEADER.
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