Racial firestorm surrounds USDA employee's ouster
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said that he would reconsider the department's decision to ask Shirley Sherrod to resign. Sherrod, the director of rural development in Georgia, was asked by department officials to leave her job on Monday after conservative bloggers posted an edited video of her saying that she initially didn't give a white farmer as much help as she could have 24 years ago, when she was working for a nonprofit farm aid group.
Sherrod says the video distorted her full speech, which described how she came to realize the white farmer needed her help and which she says was intended to promote racial reconciliation.
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The two-minute, 38-second clip posted Monday by BigGovernment.com was presented as evidence that the NAACP was hypocritical in its recent resolution condemning what it calls racist elements of the tea party movement. The website's owner, Andrew Breitbart, said the video shows the civil rights group condoning the same kind of racism it says it wants to erase. Biggovernment.com is the same outfit that gained fame last year after airing video of workers at the community group ACORN counseling actors posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend.
What I want to know, are the people who made this decision so stupid that they believe anything that comes out of Breitbart or any of his associates' mouths? Really? Because, if you have any sense you should never believe a liar. Once someone has lied to you, you can never believe anything they say ever again.
I am completely mystified by this latest flail. When I heard that Sherrod probably wouldnt want her job back, I cannot say that I blame her. When a person actually has that thing called *integrity, when their peers fail to recognize and act on that, and instead abandon that person to people attempting a character assassination, that leaves a hell of a mark.
ReplyDeleteIntegrity = Spine. And I am loathe to say it but a lot of this adminstration has demonstrated that they were born without a backbone.
Oh, I don't blame her one bit. I wouldn't go back either.
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