After a tape of Shirley Sherrod, USDA director of Rural Development in Georgia, surfaced in July 2010 in which she said she refused to help a white farmer who asked her for help and instead referred him to a white lawyer to be with "one of his own", Vilsack removed her from her position. He commented, "There is zero tolerance for discrimination at USDA, and I strongly condemn any act of discrimination against any person... We have been working hard through the past 18 months to reverse the checkered civil rights history at the department and take the issue of fairness and equality very seriously."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Agriculture On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 resigne ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:323197 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
