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.
Ms. Sherrod may not be racist anymore; however, if a white person made this claim the NAACP and liberals would say it’s relevant because it’s indicative of the belief held by many whites who haven’t changed their opinions of blacks. I would say Ms. Sherrod’s once held racist beliefs are reflective of many blacks who hated whites 20 years ago and still do today. Hence the video is relevant because it demonstrates that there is black racsim. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander is this one.
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.
“”This woman doesn’t know what she’s talking about””
This woman can’t string together a coherent sentence. Nothing she said in the clip shown on TV made any sense. She spoke like obozo - grouping words together to make a sentence but no sense.....
Well, I don’t know, the la raza-ists are pretty bad too - and they don’t make no bones about hating the blacks.
This Administration wants a race war I think.
The Pigford case she was involved in must be followed and researched. Because of a knowledge of this case I an not allowed to speak about it.
FOLLOW THIS, don’t let it die. There are things here that are beyond belief.
Thanks.
you said it perfectly...that is exactly what black culture and “white guilt” are doing...undermining this great country.
It really irritates me when I see these two charlatans pass themselves off as Reverends. Neither has earned a divinity degree, presided over a church or congregation, or been ordained in an expected manner. Sharpton was "ordained" at age 10 by a DC preacher. This charade is perpetuated by both men and is a travesty to those who actually earned the title "Reverend".
So you don’t care that she was reciting that story as how she realized God puts things in your way to teach you how your views are wrong, and that she then realized that it was a question of money not race, and that she then helped the man keep his farm?
Pretty much a slam against those who think it’s all race.
She believes that racism played a part in the opposition to the healthcare bill, but that doesn’t mean she’s a racist. You throw that term around like some NAACP mouthpiece.
Her father was killed by white men who were never charged.
I wonder if Sherrod is her married name or her maiden surname? This could possibly be researched.
And no, she does not seem very bright and she is in charge of handing out a great deal of taxpayer money.
She’s gonna be a yo-yo around their necks. She’s fired. She’s re-hired. She’s fired again.................
I believe I remember Breitbart saying he was going to take it to the media, and you had to fight them just the way they were fighting you. Anyway I am sure as heck glad he is doing his thing! Thank you Andrew.
I can’t wait to see what Brietbart has cooking
He would NOT have relased the video of that woman’s racist comments (that were really part of a confession of her change in attitude) if he didnt have more - would he? I am certain he knows what ‘out of context’ means... and knows better.
Is he going to rope-a-dope the NAAACP like he did with ACORN? (I hope so)
The pig ford case is interesting. Looks like back door reparations to me.
Popcorn!
This racism crap is getting ridiculous. Were we racist against Clinton? Or Gore? Are we racist against Pelosi? Or Reid? or Frank? Or Dodd? Or Biden? It’s their policies stupid!
LOL...
I self censored my original post. It would have gotten me, and FRee Republic in trouble with the PC Race Baiters, etc., as it was easily spinnable to their abuse.
In essence it referenced the “little boy that cried wolf” so many times he lost all credibility, and that ultimately something similar will happen, IS happening now with the constant cry of “RACIST”, “RACISM” emanating from such Black organizations as the NAACP, and of course others.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
“because you have a black president.”
Uh, you don’t have a black president. You have a POTUS that only looks black. He is half white, who was raised by white grandparents. He just chooses to accentuate his black half because it is politically advantageous for him. Does anyone really think that this inexperienced, know nothing clown would have been elected POTUS if he looked white. Don’t make me laugh! If it was better for his political career to say that he was white, he would have accentuated that he is half white! I am really sick of this crap and of this guy!!
I noticed that too. She delivers her thoughts in disconnected clumps.
It does appear as reparations doesn’t it, but I think as it’s the Left at the steering wheel that it’s “Cloward-Piven” driven with sinister intent.
I can’t imagine any white person, accused of racism, saying “I’m mad that white people aren’t backing me up”.
The ONLY folks still playing on racial fears and prejudices are those with a liberal axe to grind. Their political and social philosophy can’t work, so they resort to name calling and baseless accusations. This rather forces folks in opposition to spend time, effort and resources defending themselves rather than building for the future.
A classic instance of the magician’s game...don’t watch the hand that’s sneaking into your wallet; keep your eye on the moving handkerchief.
And, the sheeple fall for it, every time.
Actually, Rev. Jackson has a MDiv, a Master of Divinity degree from Chicago Theological Seminary. He did most of his coursework in the early 60s and then finished in June of 2000.
BINGO!
I’m getting sick of how FReepers are helping the race-baiting crowd by knee-jerk calling everything racist. As Kristinn said, she has a chip on her shoulder about race, but that doesn’t mean she’s racist.
Were abolitionists “racist” when they believed blacks weren’t getting fair treatment in the 19th Century?
Were civil-rights activists “racist” when they believed blacks weren’t getting fair treatment in the 20th Century?
Mrs. Sherrod might be dead wrong, but her belief that blacks aren’t getting fair treatment is not “racist.”
Here’s my theory.
When the video came out showing her trampling the white farmer, that was fine with Obama.
When it came out that she in the end HELPED him, and had the audacity to say that white poor and black poor are together in the struggle, that’s when Obama had her fired. Obama says it’s all about the color of your skin, not the content of your character, after all.
But now that they found she called republicans racist, all is forgiven.
ALL welfare payments are "backdoor" reparations, including the unemployment "subsidies" currently being forced onto us taxpayers.
Yes it could. LMGTFY
It's her married name.
Ms. Sherrod,
This video featured you, but you were not the star. The star that the LSM would hope they we don’t notice is the RACISM within the NAACP. Even though you perport that evil Mr. Breibart took your words out of context, the story is that members of the NAACP cheered and applauded when you spoke in racists words about the white man. Also, Ms. Sherrod, you do realize that Mr. Jealous and Mr. Odumbo had access to the full video prior to releasing a statement and the Odumbo administration demanding your resignation which could’ve alleviate the concerns that Mr. Breibart tampered with the evidence?
I’m sure the LSM will make this whole story about the evils of the conservatives, but we haven’t cared in a very long time what the LSM says about us. However, conservatives will do their best to ensure the true story, NAACP racism and hypocrisy, remains alive in the new media.
Best of luck to you. May you enjoy your $13 million lottery winnings, err, I mean extortion, oops reparations, I mean racial lawsuit winning
p.s. the full video (context) makes you look even more racist and proves the hypocrisy and racism within the NAACP
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