Posted on 07/22/2010 12:00:25 PM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
In a world where Iran is on the women’s rights commission at the UN, I bet Obama thinks this is just fine.
Shakedown Czar?
You may be right about that. May be Obama can bring back Van Jones to consult the outreach to BP.
Obama can’t see the big racial chip on her shoulder because he can’t see past the chip on his shoulder.
Racial Relations and Discrimination in Agriculture Czar - as I understand it - what are they offering to her.
So after seeing the edited clip, I came to the conclusion that Sherrod was a racist. I even expressed sympathy for her if her father was killed by white men and never got justice. I got attacked by some FReepers for saying she was a racist, but from what I saw and heard, I don't know what other conclusion I could come to.
Maybe she is not a racist. Maybe she is just molded and shaped by the past, as this article says, growing up in the days of segregation and ignorance. I do understand where her generation is coming from. Things were bad for blacks back then. I don't think we need grievances and chips on the shoulder from a racial past guiding a leader for the future. My two cents.
Shirley Sherrod has been redeemed. Poor white farmers are now okay. Rich white farmers, not so much.
She is just a voice from the past -as NAACP.
She overcame racism and embraced communism.
I think what they tried to run with her husband and failed is kind of USSR kolkhoz (those starved a lot of people).
No wonder they went bankrupt.Socialism always does.
I think she would make an extremely good discriminator at USDA. I am sure she would provide all claimants with legal representation from “one of their own” and insure the USDA pays out a whole lotta cash to colored people. Isn’t that what discrimination is all about?
Kind of like putting Orson Welles in charge of the cookie jar.
Kind of like Tiger Woods guarding the playboy mansion - we know he repented, but...
I guess they believed her speech. They should make her speech writer for Obama.
The USDA gives taxpayers’ money to farmers, and the taxpayers get nothing in return. Then it is alleged that these free gifts were not equally distributed along racial lines; so the USDA settles this lawsuit by giving $1 billion more of the taxpayers’ money to those who claim they did not get enough earlier, to compensate for their pain and suffering in not having gotten their fair share of the free money being handed out. Then one of the recipients of this lawsuit money becomes an employee of the USDA, but indicates reluctance to give free money to some people because they were not of her race, which is the same as the race of the President of the country in whose administration she now works. Houston we have a problem.
...”but indicates reluctance to give free money to some people because they were not of her race.”
That reluctance occurred 24 years ago. She overcame it and spent two years helping this family keep their farm. That is what the rest of the speech is about. That is why the farmer’s family went on TV to defend her.
We don’t “have a problem” if all the people who make mistakes and errors because of their preconceptions actually change their minds and work to overcome their prejudices. For instance, *you* might change your mind about Sherrod’s behavior if you saw or read the whole speech. It’s certainly been posted here enough.
“Not one so far. We are approaching 80 million dollars since October 1, but not 1 dime to a black business.”
So why doesn’t she accuse her self of racism? After all, she’s the one “signing the checks”.
“I got attacked by some FReepers for saying she was a racist”
Yes, there are many here who have drank the Kool Aid.
Are you saying that farmers don’t get the shaft from rich politicians and bankers? lol
“I think what they tried to run with her husband and failed is kind of USSR kolkhoz”
Read deeper. They never intended to succeed. But it was necessary to attempt in order to give them standing for their lawsuit, which paid them something like 13 million.
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