Posted on 07/19/2010 10:39:27 AM PDT by Rational Thought
The NAACP is about to learn one of the most basic of all lessons in life — those who live in glass houses should avoid provoking a stone-throwing war. After the civil-rights organization threatened to issue a condemnation of Tea Party activism by equating it with racism (a position from which they ultimately retreated), Andrew Breitbart announced that he would publish at least one video of the NAACP itself cheering racism. Breitbart delivers on that promise today at Big Government, showing USDA official Shirley Sherrod explain to an appreciative NAACP audience in July 2009 how she deliberately withheld information from a white farmer in Georgia trying to save his land and his business:
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This was just posted on my FB.
No, I get the point, the speaker on the video and the people in the audience are clearly racist to some degree. My point was that I wish people would quit acting so surprised.
She's a bureaucrat, she, like all other bureaucrats, SHOULD be made to feel inferior to the governed, those people who entrust them with power.
They did retreat but in a quiet way because the MSM and NAACP don’t want a) their own people to know that they were wrong and b) the general public to hear too much about their racist comments.
Yep and it has been that way for thousands of years. It is only in the last 50 or so years that Marxist indoctrination has browbeat almost exclusively whites into believing that we are all just Borg. Funny how over those last 50 years our nation has also become this deracinated, multicultural, globalist pushing Babel. Hmmm, any correlation?
read what I said? I was referring to the species, not the color.
Almost unbelievable.
This happens thousands of times an hour in America: a non-black customer walks into a business and notices that they must ask assistance of the mostly female black (and overweight) staff. Common sense and personal history clue you that THIS will be sticky and full of bad attitude.
We are now shocked if it DOESN’T go badly.
Their own kind? The human race is a singular 'kind' and mankind has supposedly risen above animals. In this case, animals are color-blind, so perhaps it is the racists have devolved.
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Bump.
This video reminds me of the tribalism you’ve pointed out. You are very perceptive. Can it be neutralized?
I am really sick of hearing about racism. Yes, it exists. It is sad, but one can not deny that some people in our society clearly are racist. It is unfair to label all members of the Tea Party as racist due to the actions of one or two individuals out of millions. There are racist democRATS, and there are racist conservatives. It is a sad fact of society, and the media just needs to drop the entire racism issue.
WASHINGTON, July 30, 2009- The Obama Administration today continued naming individuals who will serve as State Director for Rural Development at the USDA.
"These individuals will be important advocates on behalf of rural communities in states throughout the country and help administer the valuable programs and services provided by the USDA that can enhance their economic success," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack....
Shirley Sherrod (to serve as USDA Rural Development Georgia State Director) - Since 1985, Sherrod has served as Director of the Georgia Field Office for the Federation of Southern Cooperative/Land Assistance Fund. She has also served as Georgia State Lead for the Southern Rural Black Women's' Initiative for Economic and Social Justice. From 1999-2000, Sherrod served as Executive Director for Community Alliances of Interdependent Agriculture, Inc., in Albany, Ga. Sherrod has more than 15 years experience working with agriculture-focused organizations. Sherrod received a B.A. in Sociology from Albany State University in Albany, Ga., and a M.A. in Community Development from Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Rural Development administers and manages over 40 housing, business, and community infrastructure and facility programs as laid out by Congress through a network of 6,100 employees located in 500 national, state and local offices. These programs are designed to improve the economic stability of rural communities, businesses, residents, farmers and ranchers and improve the quality of life in rural America. Rural Development has an existing portfolio of over $114 billion in loans and loan guarantees.
The USDA provides leadership on food, agriculture and natural resources and touches the life of every American. Reflecting President Obama's commitment to expanding economic opportunities in rural America, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and the USDA are working to enhance availability of broadband, promote the development of renewable energy, to conserve, maintain and improve our natural resources and environment, and promote a sustainable, safe, sufficient and nutritious food supply.
For more information about Rural Development and its many programs please go to its website at http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/ .
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Note: The Federation/LAF, now in its 43rd year, assists Black family farmers across the South with farm management, debt restructuring, alternative crop suggestions, marketing expertise and a whole range of services to ensure family farm survivability.
Is the YouTube counter still stuck at 319?
Racism is a learned behavior, bub.
Dude, what are you sayin’? All human beings do not belong to the same species? You need to be banned.
>> Agriculture official, paraphrasing: “I did the minimal amount of work necessary for the white farmer but only to avoid personal consequences”.
She apparently went Galt in a racist kind of way.
You may not like it, but racism is simply a derogatory term used to describe what in most cases is a natural inclination. Both animals and people typically give preference to their own kind, that is simply the way the brain works, probably to assist in the continutation of the species.
I wish people would quit deluding themselves about this issue.
Are you by chance a Darwinist of some kind?
Yes if you view the world through a prism of race. However if you view the world through say nationalism then race becomes irreverent.
My “kind” are Tee Party people and Freepers. Race has nothing to do with anything in my world view.
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