USDA official Shirley Sherrod is a target for numerous after all Tea Party racism accusations happened. Republicans asked for a democrat to keep a racist label after Tea Party Express racist Mark Williams got kicked out for it. Sherrod, who is black, is shown in a video talking about a past experience with a white farmer 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.
Shirly Sherrod gets attacked by republicans
Shirley Sherrod, the USDA’s Georgia State Director of Rural Development, has resigned after remarks she made on video about race. Because Tea Party Express racist Mark Williams was left out, republican bloggers put the video up on display. The story was told by Fox news quickly after. 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. The story talks about a man who was white and needed help with Chapter 12 bankruptcy. She said she didn’t want to help since blacks very easily lose their hand, but she had to help him keep his. A white lawyer took his case after it all.
Video gets in news- Sherrod quits
Sean Hannity, fan of Tea Party Express, and Fox News played the video for every person 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 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.”
Everything else in the video of Sherrod
Sherrod argues the video clip isn’t really in context of the whole situation. CNN reports that Sherrod said the event she discusses in the clip took place more than two decades ago, before she worked for the USDA. With a masters degree in community development, Sherrod worked in 1985 as the Director of the Georgia State Office for a company that helps family farmers keep their land and develop it into good property called Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund. She said she told the story to make the point that people should move beyond race. In the end, she said, the lawyer she referred the farmer to did not help him and she “had to frantically discover a lawyer who would file a Chapter 11 to stop the foreclosure.”. She wound up being friends with the farmer and his family.
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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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