USDA official Shirley Sherrod is a target for numerous after all Tea Party racism accusations happened. After Tea Party Express racist Mark Williams went too far and got himself and his group kicked out of the Tea Party, right wing bloggers began digging for a liberal to stick with the racist label. They found a video of Sherrod, who is black, describing an encounter with a white farmer back in the 1980s. A segment of the video was used out of context to portray Sherrod as not giving 100 percent to help the farmer facing bankruptcy.
Shirley Sherrod targeted by Conservatives
Shirley Sherrod, the USDA’s Georgia State Director of Rural Development, has resigned after remarks she made on video about race. The video was distributed by right wing bloggers in response to the ouster of Tea Party Express racist Mark Williams. Fox news told the story. CBS News reports that Sherrod’s remarks were from a speech she gave at an NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet on March 27, in Douglas, Ga. Chapter 12 bankruptcy is the topic of the video with a white man asked for her help through it. She said it wasn’t something she wanted to do since she had to help him keep his land while numerous blacks were losing their land. A white lawyer took his case after it all.
Sherrod puts in resignation after seeing video on news
Sean Hannity, fan of Tea Party Express, and Fox News played the video for everyone to see, and shortly after, the USDA announced Sherrod’s resignation. “There is zero tolerance for discrimination at USDA, and I strongly condemn any act of discrimination against any person,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a written statement. “We are 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.”
Every little thing else in the video of Sherrod
Sherrod explains to everyone that this short clip doesn’t have the whole story in it. She argues, as outlined by CNN, that this video was way before she worked for the USDA. In 1985, Sherrod, who has a master’s degree in community development, served as Director of the Georgia State Office for the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund, which works to help family farmers retain and develop their property. She was only telling the story so people could see how she had moved on and to encourage them to move past race also. The white lawyer didn’t even help the farmer so she “had to frantically find a lawyer who would file a Chapter 11 to stop the foreclosure.”. Sherrod, the farmer and his wife wound up becoming friends.
More information about this topic at these websites
CBS News
cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20011026-503544.html
Sean Hannity
americanprogress.org/issues/kfiles/b91585.html
CNN
edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/20/agriculture.employee.naacp/#fbid=w2XX2duDWrt
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