The NAACP had its yearly recently in Kansas City. One issue that got a lot of attention was the NAACP's stance on the tea-party movement. There was an attempt to pass a resolution that calls upon
all people of good will to repudiate the racism of the Tea Parties, and to stand in opposition to its drive to push our country back to the pre-civil rights era. After criticism from black tea party members and negative press, a watered down version of the resolution was passed. Then comes Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development, speaking at a NAACP event in GA. Shirley describes how a white farmer came to her for help: "He had to come to me for help. What he didn't know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me was I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him. I was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farmland and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land -- so I didn't give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough." Oops. It looks like Shirley didn't realize that USDA is supposed to be color blind. It also looks like the NAACP needs to do some house keeping. There are rumors that Shirley has resigned. As an aside, Shirley also encourages her audience to get jobs with the government since the government never lays off people. Sound advice. J - The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. - Thomas Jefferson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323193 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
