I hate to have to add a "however" here, but however:
The Obama White House doesn't move that fast on anything unless someone's butt is badly exposed. My advice is follow the money.
Sherrod's family reportedly got $13 million of the $1.15 billion distributed to date under the Pigford civil rights class action suit against the USDA for allegedly refusing to help black farmers. Sherrod was hired by the Obama administration for her USDA post very soon after her family "settled" for a fortune in taxpayer money.
Sherrod's husband had a Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee SNCC) background (ermember them?). Her own background suggests she knows more about growing and packaging profitable grievances than about growing crops.
What makes this really interesting is that in 2008 Congress extended the time for people to file claims in the Pigford class action thing dispite evidence that many such claims are bogus. We are talking several times more claims than the number of black-owned farms.
Sherrod's husband had a Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee SNCC) background (ermember them?). Her own background suggests she knows more about growing and packaging profitable grievances than about growing crops.
So the lady isn't an innocent nobody "victim" at all.
She's got a long history of chip-on-the-shoulder race-based hostilities.
Excellent assessment of Mr.and Mrs. Sherrod.
Their racism runs deep and wide.