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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Hot potato
It seems the NAACP feels snookered after an old video they released was posted by Breitbart and resulted in a high-profile firing. The video shows Shirley Sherrod of the Agriculture Department telling how she brushed off a white farmer because she suspected "he felt superior". The NAACP audience "amens" and snickers with amusement, to Ms. Sherrod's apparent delight. The USDA fired her shortly after the video became public. Upon further review, the NAACP 'discovered' she was actually telling a cautionary tale, that 'actually' she told the story to underline how discrimination is bad. Mmm hmm.
The white farmer in question has been trotted out to praise Ms. Sherrod for saving his farm, not that a farmer would have any reason to kiss the USDA's, um, ring. After initially condemning her remarks, the NAACP now blames "Fox News and Tea Party activist Andrew Breitbart" for her firing and condemns the tape they supplied, which was used as-received in its entirety.
“Next time we are confronted by a racial controversy broken by Fox News or their allies in the Tea Party like Mr. Breitbart, we will consider the source and be more deliberate in responding. The tape of Ms. Sherrod's speech at an NAACP banquet was deliberately edited to create a false impression of racial bias, and to create a controversy where none existed.” Source.
Ms. Sherrod blames the NAACP, the NAACP blamed her but changed their mind, the Obama administration blames Ms. Sherrod but is having second thoughts, the USDA stands by their decision but will take another look and Glenn Beck has leapt to her defense. Once again, responsibility is deflected, shifted, transferred or diffused out of existence.
Comments
Will anybody mention that she and her husband were beneficiaries to the tune of something like 1.3 (or was it 13?) million dollars as part of a program to compensate black American farmers?
Posted by KG on 07/21/2010 at 04:58 PMAnd yet… we have a turning point, in that the public working definition of racism as a “whites-only sin” has been effectively overturned by the actions of A. the keepers of political correctness in a government agency and B. the NAACP; both of which have been the major purveyors of the “whites-only” definition.
The genie is now out of the bottle.
Posted by on 07/21/2010 at 05:17 PMHow does anyonw know that a white farmer who she helped and is grateful is the subject of her story? In the story the farmer was not named.
Posted by on 07/21/2010 at 05:47 PMThe bottom line remains that this woman, and her President, STILL think of Americans in racial categories as a first option.
Posted by on 07/21/2010 at 07:02 PMFunny how she exculpates her self from being a “racist” by claiming she’s a full blooded class warfare socialist and this is glossed over as something normal.
As we all know the current neo-socialist regime is heavily invested in a underlying and pervasive “racialism” that the credulous media studiously ignores(mostly because they have the same mindset). Much of what they base their agenda on is heavily dependent on melanin content.
She seamlessly slips from an overt “racism” to a politically more expedient covert racialism that pervades the American left.
The real danger here is the this woman becomes a later day martyr on the order of Annie Lee Moss. A victim of the hateful “right wing smear machine”. This is promoted by the propaganda media without even the smallest sense of irony as they smear conservatives on a daily basis with their “racial” McCarthyism.
Of course, as we later found out, after the McCarthy era, Mrs Moss was exactly who McCarthy said she was.
Didn’t we.
Posted by on 07/22/2010 at 07:14 AM
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