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Over Sherrod Affair
My column goes after the Agriculture Department and the NAACP for what they did to Shirley Sherrod, but my vblog goes after Andrew Breitbart from BigGovernment.com who started this mess.
The political caca hit the fan this week for the Agriculture Department and the NAACP when former official Shirley Sherrod was forced to resign over her past racism. And the department and the NAACP handled this about as well as thin toilet paper at a chili cook-off.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack jumped the gun when he forced Sherrod, who is black, to resign after she told an audience at a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Freedom Fund banquet that she once did not help a white farmer because of his skin color.
“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. 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,” Sherrod said.
But according to CNN
CNN story, Sherrod told the news station that what she told the audience was an anecdote from her time at a nonprofit back in 1986, before she worked for the Agriculture Department, and that she eventually overcame her racism and now she’s apparently friends with the white farmer and his wife. She eventually helped the farmer.
And now that every major news network has been broadcasting this 24/7, it’s become something of a monster that needs to be tame, which is why the White House said that Sherrod is owed an apology, which Vilsack did and even offered her a new position that she’s considering, reported FOX News
FOX News story.
But why did it become a thing with legs? Easy, because of The Washington Post’s ombudsman
Washington Post column blasted his own newspaper last Friday for not giving earlier coverage of how the Justice Department dropped charges of voter intimidation against The New Black Panthers.
So since he basically called out his own newspaper and the rest of the media industry for not giving proper coverage of black racism against whites, the media probably felt compelled to give the Sherrod Affair more coverage, especially after BigGovernment.com
BigGovernment.com story and FOX News were the first to report on this.
And the NAACP needs a disappointing finger wagged its way as well. As many will know, the NAACP has been in the news, after last week the organization denounced the Tea Party over some of its racist members. And that’s fine. We’ve all seen the signs that some of the members have held up and no organization should accept any form of racism.
Of course, it should be noted that it’s possible that some of those “racists” are liberal leftovers from Jason Levin’s crusade to hijack the Tea Party
Anthony Leone's SodaHead column and make them look foolish. But again, there are probably some real racists in the Tea Party and they need to be taken out eliminated removed with extreme prejudice kicked out.
However, NAACP’s President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous told CNN that what Sherrod did was wrong and “… she gave no indication she had attempted to right the wrong she had done to this man.” What’s so funny? Because Sherrod made her career-ending comments back in March 27 and nearly four months later the NAACP is only now condemning her because this incident has been making the news!
Jealous’ words would have more weight if he blasted Sherrod when she first mentioned her past racism. Not after it became a PR nightmare. But now Jealous is backtracking, saying that he saw the full context of her speech. Hell, if he actually paid attention to what’s happening in his own organization he could have nipped this thing in the bud.
So let’s recap: We have a government department foolishly jumping the gun without all the facts and firing a woman and we have the NAACP only crying racism — without knowing the facts too — only because it became a major news item and not when it actually happen.
Yeah, so nice that stupidity and hypocrisy go hand-and-hand.
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