<http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/a-fired-shirley-sherrod-the-s tuff-fox-and-the-tea-party-does-is-scaring-the-administration/> A Fired Shirley Sherrod: The Stuff FOX and the Tea Party Does is Scaring the Administration!
<http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/author/doctorbulldog/> doctorbulldog | 20 July, 2010 at 10:21 am | Categories: <http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/category/politics/> politics | URL: <http://wp.me/p1NPg-6ju> http://wp.me/p1NPg-6ju Oh, this is rich on so many levels. Yesterday, we posted a video from Andrew Breitbart in which Shirley Sherrod made some statements at an NAACP luncheon that were somewhat racist in tone. Well, last night, the Obama administration freaked out and fired her on the spot the moment they heard that FOX News had picked up on the story. This morning, Shirley is in full-on spin mode trying to justify her racism: Ex-worker: USDA 'wasn't interested in hearing the truth' By the CNN Wire Staff July 20, 2010 ( <http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/20/agriculture.employee.naacp/#fbid =wGO5L2l9B0G> CNN) -- Shirley Sherrod, a former USDA employee who resigned after a controversial video surfaced, told CNN Tuesday that the administration, who pressured her to step down, "wasn't interested in hearing the truth." Sherrod said she was asked to resign because "you're going to be on Glenn Beck tonight." An NAACP statement applauding her resignation after the release of the video clip "hurts," Sherrod said Tuesday. "That hurts, because if you look at my history ... I've done more to advance the causes of civil rights in this area than some of them who are sitting in those positions now in the NAACP. They need to learn something about me. They need to know what I've contributed over the years." The clip showed her talking about a white farmer said Tuesday her remarks were taken out of context. Sherrod, the department's former state director of rural development for Georgia, told CNN on Tuesday the incident she discusses in the clip took place more than two decades ago, and she recounted it to an audience to make the point that people should move beyond race. "I was speaking to that group, like I've done many groups, and I tell them about a time when I thought the issue was race and race only," Sherrod said on CNN's "American Morning" from her home in Albany, Georgia. The incident took place in 1986, while she worked for a nonprofit and before she joined the Agriculture Department, she said. "I was telling the story of how working with him helped me to see the issue is not about race. It's about those who have versus those who do not have." Sherrod resigned Monday after conservative media outlets aired the video, in which she says she did not give the white farmer "the full force of what I could do" to help him avoid foreclosure. [...] Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Monday he had accepted Sherrod's resignation. [...] The NAACP issued a statement late Monday backing Vilsack's decision. [Of course they did. However, had the NAACP not been called out by Andrew Brietbart for condemning the Tea Party while mollycoddling black racists, you can bet the farm that the NAACP would have never issued a statement in support of Shirley Sherrod's firing. Quite the contrary, they would have no doubt issued a letter decrying the "racially motivated" firing of Shirley, a fine, upstanding individual and pillar of the black community. C'mon. You guys know I'm right on this one! ] "Racism is about the abuse of power. Sherrod had it in her position at USDA. According to her remarks, she mistreated a white farmer in need of assistance because of his race," said Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the civil rights group. "We are appalled by her actions, just as we are with abuses of power against farmers of color and female farmers." "Her actions were shameful," Jealous continued. "While she went on to explain in the story that she ultimately realized her mistake, as well as the common predicament of working people of all races, she gave no indication she had attempted to right the wrong she had done to this man." Sherrod said Tuesday that it was "unfortunate that the NAACP would make a statement without even checking to see what happened. This was 24 years ago, and I'm telling a story to try to unite people." She said she tried to explain to USDA officials, "but for some reason, the stuff Fox and the Tea Party does is scaring the administration. I told them to get the whole tape and look at the whole tape and see how I tell people we have to get beyond race and work together." Asked why she resigned instead of fighting, Sherrod said, "I didn't have any support from USDA. What would I do?" [...] <http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/a-fired-shirley-sherrod-the-s tuff-fox-and-the-tea-party-does-is-scaring-the-administration/#respond> Add a comment to this post [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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