Posted on 07/21/2010 7:03:39 AM PDT by Krankor
On Monday July 19th, video was released of Georgia Director of Rural Development Shirley Sherrod admitting in a speech at an NAACP banquet in March that she discriminated against farmers because of their race. Sherrod was appointed last year by Obama’s Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. After the video was released, where Sherrod told NAACP members that she refused to fully assist a white farmer because of his race, the Obama Administration forced her to resign.
Following the release of this inflammatory tape NAACP President Ben Jealous released a statement denouncing not only the racist remarks by Shirley Sherrod but also the reaction of the crowd to her speech. NAACP President Ben Jealous even promised to look into the disturbing behavior of those in attendance.
“Since our founding in 1909, the NAACP has been a multi-racial, multi-faith organization that– while generally rooted in African American communities– fights to end racial discrimination against all Americans.
We concur with US Agriculture Secretary Vilsack in accepting the resignation of Shirley Sherrod for her remarks at a local NAACP Freedom Fund banquet.
Racism is about the abuse of power. Sherrod had it in her position at USDA. According to her remarks, she mistreated a white farmer in need of assistance because of his race.
We are appalled by her actions, just as we are with abuses of power against farmers of color and female farmers.
Her actions were shameful. While she went on to explain in the story that she ultimately realized her mistake, as well as the common predicament of working people of all races, she gave no indication she had attempted to right the wrong she had done to this man.
The reaction from many in the audience is disturbing. We will be looking into the behavior of NAACP representatives at this local event and take any appropriate action.
We thank those who brought this to our national office’s attention…
But, President Jealous forgot to mention one thing. He was in the audience.
If you listen to the Sherrod’s speech at Annual NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner in Georgia in March you’ll here her thank her guests and… “The President who is with us tonight.” (0:45 seconds into the speech)
Well the president certainly didn’t get up and lecture the audience about their disturbing reaction to the speech, did he?
If President Jealous is going to investigate the disgusting audience reaction at this NAACP event he may want to start by looking in a mirror. Hat Tip J. Simpson
The race-hucksters will circle the wagons and protect each other.
Any chance the race industry will be dismantled in our lifetimes?
“Snookered” is becoming the new “unexpected”......Earth calling Jealous. =.=
This is one of the best and quickest developing stories to hit us, ever!
I LOVE that Andrew!!!!
Time for Obama to go on vacation again...
Once we all have golden brown skin... then what will they do?
"Then, of course, those with stars got all frightfully mad.
To be wearing a star was frightfully bad.
Then, of course, old Sylvester McMonkey McBean
invited THEM into his Star-Off Machine."
--Dr. Suess
I guess he can say he was there “in spirit”, or that he must have stepped out to go to the restroom....anything to get out of this mess and not look like the fool he is. lol.
Disgusting hypocrite. Anybody surprised? Unfortunately for them, we’re on to them now, we’re awake, and the Gravy Train will stop in its tracks Nov 2nd.
I am not sure AB is the one breaking this. It looks like gateway is giving a hat tip to a J. Simpson who caught it. No?
Uh, what $13M?
On what basis was she granted $13M?
That’s a LOT of money. It would take me well over 100 years to EARN that much!
Plagiarizing myself from earlier:
I can say that I have NEVER interacted with a single minority civil servant, gov’t worker who was any different than this creep.
EVERY SINGLE ONE of them has an 800 lb. chip on his/her shoulder and usually possesses only the very minimum of capability for the work they are hired for and paid to do.
What could be more frustrating? These people have enough arrogance and stupidity to choke the WHOLE stable.
THIS one was SO stupid that she actually boasted of her bias and deliberate malfeasance before a recording device.
Unfortunately, for those minority individuals who get it and who actually are efficient and properly functioning in their work... this kind of stuff is a true embarrassment and further maligns them as individuals and their group, generally.
With even half that much priority in hiring, education, lending, etc. ... you’d think they would all be perfect models of efficiency, tolerance and courtesy. Naaahh... ‘enough’ is a foreign word for them, I guess!!
Or he could use the same defense Obama used about Rev. Wright (better known as the Sgt Schultz Defense) “I saw nothing. I heard nothing. I didn’t even get up this morning.”
Yeah, but Brietbart is the one who originally brought her video to light.
Why is it disturbing? Meaning unexpected. It is a race group for crying out loud. Are people really that naive? Have we become an Orwellian society? Is Marxism so ingrained that it is considered disturbing when race groups act racial?
Any chance the race industry will be dismantled in our lifetimes?"
Liberals would literally rather die than abandon their self-serving, hate-fueled twisted ideology.
Only a complete transformation of values and worldview can get a tiger to change its stripes.
And the only way I know of that happening is through the individual revolution that occurs when one understands and sincerely enters into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
He could say that he drank a lot of ice tea and was in the
restroom .... oh wait, didn’t someone else have a that lame excuse!
I have a theory. It was like she was telling a fish story to show the group that she was just a racist as they were. And she exerted her power over a white guy.
I have had to deal with City of Detroit workers. They are the worst.
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