Posted on 07/19/2010 4:51:07 PM PDT by tsmith130
Edited on 07/19/2010 5:08:32 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Any intent to withhold assistance or a request for such is screwing the person over imo. She was a hate filled witch and that farmer probably was driven to that dept because of the seriousness of the situation...maybe it was his last choice or last option. Going in there at a critical/vulnerable moment and then to hear she wouldn’t help and didn’t want to help because he was white...is just evil. Steering him to an attorney is not exactly what I would call a redemptive move on her part.
Lol!
Drudge only has it in the center column below the Drudgereport banner. I think it should be a siren. Just sayin...
Amen and good post, all of it.
The enemedia not acting as watch dogs for the American people is the absolute most distressing thing in this whole mess. The cooperation of them is what's allowing Obama and his thugs in this administration to ignore the law and get away with blatant racism.
Always great to see a member of the Black Klan taken down. Especially since she was using my tax dollars to advance her racist cause.
Whoosh.
You may have missed the digression earlier in the thread. It was fun, and some of us will be referring to him as Brietbard for duration of this discussion.
from a previous thread, post # 68 by kcvl
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2555295/posts?page=68#68
Shirley’s work began in 1965 as an organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Southwest Georgia Project. She helped to start the land trust, New Communities, Inc., that had 6,000 acres of land.
Shirley Sherrod was appointed Georgia Director for Rural Development by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on July 25.
Only days earlier, she learned that New Communities, a group she founded with her husband and other families has won a thirteen million dollar settlement in the minority farmers law suit Pigford vs Vilsack.
Minority Farm Settlement
We have wonderful news regarding the case of New Communities, Inc., the land trust that Shirley and Charles Sherrod established, with other black farm families in the 1960’s. At the time, with holdings of almost 6,000 acres, this was the largest tract of black-owned land in the country. Now with a cash award of historic proportions, the group will be able to begin again.
In 1969, New Communities received a planning grant from OEO and was encouraged to expect substantial funding for implementation, but Governor Maddox would not permit further funds for the group to come into the state.
Nevertheless, New Communities built up farming operations to help retain the land. They had highway frontage where they had a farmers market to sell their crops. They raised hogs and sold the processed meat in a smokehouse they built on the highway. Their sugar cane mill on the highway also attracted customers. New Communities was ahead of the times in raising eight acres of Muscatine grapes, which are now widely grown in the area. They also farmed 1,500 acres of row crops, including corn, peanuts and soybeans.
http://www.ruraldevelopment.org/shirleydirector.html
Charles and Shirley Sherrod, and others formed New Communities, Inc. – the nation’s very first community land trust
the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and othergovernmental agencies did not grant loans or allow the restructuring of existingloans. This factor, when combined with debt and a drought, led New Communitiesto lose all of its land by 1985. However, the story was not over
A lawsuit was launched, claiming discrimination by the USDA. In 2009, nearlyforty years after the founding of New Communities, an historic cash settlementwas awarded. New Communities is slated to receive nearly 13 million dollars,mostly for loss of land and income.
Absolutely. Federal charges AND an audit of any money she might have had control on. We just had a local woman take a few hundred thousand...out of the town treasury. Few dollars here ...a few there...cause she ‘deserved’ it.
By resigning does she still get her pension?
We don’t know yet what the final story is with the farmer. If she steered him to one of his own kind, a white lawyer, and the lawyer helped him save his farm, then he didn’t get screwed over. And yes, that still would NOT redeem her.
No good play on words shall go unpunished...
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RESIGNED ........how about getting FIRED !!!!
Nobody is fired for this type of thing......unless they are WHITE!
Anyone capable of this is capable of the good old fashioned corruption of the bribery and extortion variety.
No, Breitbard with a D!
Who are you to challenge me, scounddel woman! :)
(uh, scoundrel woman)
No we don’t know the full story on the farmer yet but...what we do know is:
She withheld government assistance options from the farmer. Not because he didn’t qualify but because she is a racist.
We know he was poor. In light of that fact, do you believe he (or she) was able to retain an attorney of any caliber? I’m pretty confident that the lawyer was not a pro-bono as those exist mostly on T.V.
It’s an outrageous situation but that farmer is really a side issue and like you mentioned before, just how many others were treated that way by this witch. It makes my blood boil.
For the record, I want to see this woman investigated and fined/sued, either criminally or civilly or both. I don’t know either if the farmer could afford a lawyer, or if it was a situation in which the lawyer was paid from government funds. If he couldn’t afford a lawyer, and he lost his farm, and she could have helped him save his farm, she needs to be prosecuted for violating his civil rights.
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