What she did was asinine. What Vilsack did was appropriate. However, I cannot help but wonder, how long had she been doing this before she got caught.
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:323199 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
