Lou says the USDA and Obama administration made the wrong decision to force Sherrod to resign from her post. Remember when Attorney General Eric Holder said we are essentially a "nation of cowards?" Given everything that's happened the past few weeks, it's this administration that turned out to be the cowards on race.
You've heard the shouts from NAACP head Benjamin Jealous and VP Hillary Shelton. You've heard the speeches at last week's convention in Kansas City. You've heard about the controversial resolution they passed at the convention. And you've heard the national liberal, lazy, lamestream media parrot these claims and advance the narrative that the Tea Party is racist. But that's all about to change.
All of that's been manufactured for political gain. On his BigGovernment website, Andrew Breitbart posted a video showing real racism coming from a government employee and lauded at an NAACP banquet.
Breitbart writes "We are in possession of a video from in which Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development, speaks at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. In her meandering speech to what appears to be an all-black audience, this federally appointed executive bureaucrat lays out in stark detail, that her federal duties are managed through the prism of race and class distinctions. In the first video, Sherrod describes how she racially discriminates against a white farmer. She describes how she is torn over how much she will choose to help him. And, she admits that she doesn't do everything she can for him, because he is white. Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. But she decides that he should get help from 'one of his own kind.' She refers him to a white lawyer. Sherrod's racist tale is received by the NAACP audience with nodding approval and murmurs of recognition and agreement. Hardly the behavior of the group now holding itself up as the supreme judge of another groups' racial tolerance."
Take a look for yourself:
And that's not all. In the same speech, Sherrod points out what we already know: that government workers don't ever lose their jobs!
The Agriculture Department has announced that Sherrod had resigned. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a written statement: "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."
The NAACP released a statement late Monday condemning Sherrod's admission. "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. 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."
In an interview with the Atlanta Journal Constitution, "Sherrod said what online viewers weren't told in reports posted throughout the day Monday was that the tale she told at the banquet happened 24 years ago-- before she got the USDA job -- when she worked with the Georgia field office for the Federation of Southern Cooperative/Land Assistance Fund. Sherrod said the short video clip excluded the breadth of the story about how she eventually worked with the man over a two-year period to help ward off foreclosure of his farm, and how she eventually became friends with him and his wife."
Sherrod said: "And I went on to work with many more white farmers...The story helped me realize that race is not the issue, it's about the people who have and the people who don't. When I speak to groups, I try to speak about getting beyond the issue of race."
So what do you think? Is this a frightening double standard from the NAACP and the US government?
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