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Title: Video Shows USDA Official Saying She Didn't Give 'Full Force' of Help to White Farmer
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URL Source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201 ... ng-withheld-help-white-farmer/
Published: Jul 20, 2010
Author: FNC
Post Date: 2010-07-20 08:58:51 by Badeye
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Views: 10506
Comments: 13
Video Shows USDA Official Saying She Didn't Give 'Full Force' of Help to White Farmer Published July 20, 2010 | FoxNews.com Days after the NAACP clashed with Tea Party members over allegations of racism, a video has surfaced showing an Agriculture Department official regaling an NAACP audience with a story about how she withheld help to a white farmer facing bankruptcy -- video that now has forced the official to resign. Shirley Sherrod, the department's Georgia director of Rural Development, is shown in the clip describing "the first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm." Sherrod, who is black, claimed the farmer took a long time trying to show he was "superior" to her. The audience laughed as she described how she determined his fate. "He had to come to me for help. What he didn't know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me was I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him," she said. "I was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farmland and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land -- so I didn't give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough." The Agriculture Department announced Monday, shortly after FoxNews.com published its initial report on the video, that Sherrod had resigned. "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 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," the statement said. "Her actions were shameful," it 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 explained in the video that, at the time, she assumed the state or national Department of Agriculture had referred the white farmer to her. In order to ensure that the farmer could report back that she was indeed helpful, she said she took him to see "one of his own" -- a white lawyer. "I figured that if I take him to one of them, that his own kind would take care of him," she said. The point of the story wasn't entirely clear; only an excerpt of the speech is included in the video clip. "It was revealed to me that it's about poor versus those who have," she said, suggesting she had learned that race is less important. The video clip was first posted by BigGovernment.com. The clip is dated March 27 from an NAACP Freedom Fund banquet. The clip adds to the firestorm of debate over the NAACP's decision to approve a resolution at its convention last week accusing some Tea Party activists of racism -- a charge Tea Party leaders deny. In a second clip from the same event posted online, Sherrod appeared to urge black job seekers to find work at the Department of Agriculture because the federal government won't lay people off. "There are jobs at USDA and many times there are no people of color to fill those jobs because we shy away from agriculture. We hear the word agriculture and think, why are we working in the fields?" she said. "You've heard of a lot of layoffs. Have you heard of anybody in the federal government losing their job? That's all I need to say."
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#1. To: Badeye (#0)
I did enough Exactly what she should've done. Now we can talk about USDA Discrimenation, STILL ONGOING, in Mississippi, Arkansas. Come on.
Intentionally missing the point? Or you just don't 'get it'? Hmmm.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
Hmmm. Double Standards for white folks forgetting that slavery to freedom w/o help means debt indentured sharecropper. HMMMMMM LMFAO let's talk some history, white bread. 8D
HMMMMMM LMFAO let's talk some history, white bread. Lets talk about a US government employee letting her racism run away with her on the job, and forcing her ouster. As for the bullshit 'slavery to freedom without help'...no specific race has ever received more 'help' in history. And done less with it.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
Lets talk about a US government employee letting her racism run away with her on the job, and forcing her ouster. And then....wait for it...tell me she went and bought whores and coke for the crew she was regulating and then spent 8 hours watching porn. Those guys been fired as well? How come only the minority/whistleblower gets the axe immediately. I bet the USDA Good Ole Boys in Georgia been gunning for her for a while. 8D
So, you offer up a variation on the 3rd grader 'he did it too' defense? (laughing) Try to focus. A federal employee was using her position to inflict harm on an American Citizen solely because of HIS RACE. Get it? There is no 'excuse'.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
I have been wondering about why Whites are racists, and no other race is...... Michael Richards makes his point.................. Michael Richards better known as Kramer from TVs Seinfeld does make a good point. This was his defense speech in court after making racial comments in his comedy act. He makes some very interesting points... Someone finally said it. How many are actually paying attention to this? There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Arab Americans, etc. And then there are just Americans.. You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction. You call me 'White boy,' 'Cracker,' 'Honkey,' 'Whitey,' 'Caveman'... And that's OK... But when I call you, Nigger, Kike, Towel head, Sand-nigger, Camel Jockey, Beaner, Gook, or Chink .. You call me a racist. You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you.... So why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live? You have the United Negro College Fund. You have Martin Luther King Day. You have Black History Month. You have Cesar Chavez Day. You have Yom Hashoah. You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi. You have the NAACP. You have BET.... If we had WET (White Entertainment Television), we'd be racists. If we had a White Pride Day, you would call us racists. If we had White History Month, we'd be racists. If we had any organization for only whites to 'advance' OUR lives, we'd be racists. We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce, and then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce. Wonder who pays for that?? A white woman could not be in the Miss Black American pageant, but any color can be in the Miss America pageant. If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships... You know we'd be racists. There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the US .. Yet if there were 'White colleges', that would be a racist college. In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching for your race and rights. If we marched for our race and rights, you would call us racists. You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you're not afraid to announce it. But when we announce our white pride, you call us racists. You rob us, car jack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist. I am proud...... But you call me a racist. Why is it that only whites can be racists?? Sneakypete, have you ever been married? Said things you later regretted?
Yep.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
"Her husband told her, ‘You're spending more time with the Spooners than you are with me,' " Spooner told the AJC. "She took probably two or three trips with us to Albany just to help us out." Spooner called Sherrod Tuesday morning. "She's very sad about it," Spooner said. "She told me she was so glad we talked. I just can't believe this is happening to her." Sherrod, in her first interview after the clip surfaced, told the AJC the damning video was selectively edited. She said the video posted online Monday by biggovernment.com and reported on by FoxNews.com and the AJC completely misconstrued the message she was trying to convey. Tough shit, we have the tape.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
No. I offer the Double Standard. You can't treat the white man different than the black woman. She wins $2.5 million wrongful termination. No sweat.
I'll need your source on the 'help'. And one on the 'less with it'. Also how many blacks died in slavery between 1500 and 1865.
How many were sold into slavery by their negro brothers? Or are you claiming the Pilgrims kidnapped negroes in Africa and brought them to North America? Sneakypete, have you ever been married? Said things you later regretted?
so I didn't give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough
#2. To: mcgowanjm (#1)
#3. To: Badeye (#2)
Intentionally missing the point? Or you just don't 'get it'?
#4. To: mcgowanjm (#3)
Double Standards for white folks forgetting that slavery to freedom w/o help means debt indentured sharecropper.
#5. To: Badeye (#4)
#6. To: mcgowanjm (#5)
#7. To: mcgowanjm, Badeye (#3)
HMMMMMM LMFAO let's talk some history, white bread.
#8. To: Ibluafartsky (#7)
#9. To: Badeye (#8)
But Spooner, who considers Sherrod a "friend for life," said the federal official worked tirelessly to help the Iron City couple hold onto their land as they faced bankruptcy back in 1986.
Being a Republicans means you get to choose your own reality
#10. To: go65 (#9)
#11. To: Badeye (#6)
So, you offer up a variation on the 3rd grader 'he did it too' defense?
#12. To: Badeye (#4)
no specific race has ever received more 'help' in history. And done less with it.
#13. To: mcgowanjm (#12)
Also how many blacks died in slavery between 1500 and 1865.
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