Posted on 07/21/2010 1:16:56 AM PDT by lbryce
In 2009 Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack appointed Shirley Sherrod as Georgia Director of Rural Development overseeing over a billion dollars in fderal aid. This public servant was speaker at the NAACP 20th Aniversary Frreedom Fund Banquet, and as demonstrated in the video regales her audience in delight how she discriminates against a white farmer part of which as she says because he acted superior to her.
I'm not getting the point you're trying to make and am not going to watch 45 minutes of the NAACP ceremony to find out.
Are you saying the excerpt posted here is misleading in portraying her as racist and that viewing the full Shirley Sherrod video somehow inviolates her comments? I'm sorry, I don't get the point of view you're trying to convey.
That’s what I’m saying.
I would use the word ‘invalidate’ though not ‘inviolates.’
Yeah, especially the part where she was disgusted that blacks sold land to some white man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GOhAA1Bbw&feature=player_embedded
She was upset that blacks were letting go of family lands for next to nothing.
If that was all she was upset about, then why did she mention the buyer was white? Watch the whole video. Early on, she makes the point it’s time to go beyond race- but then spends the entire speech talking about it.
This bit of transcript from her interview on CNN is interesting.
HARRIS: The reaction to your reaction to essentially being condemned by the NAACP?SHERROD: That hurts, because if you look at my history, that's what I'm saying. I've done more to advance the causes of civil rights in this area than some of them who are sitting in those positions now with the NAACP.
They need to learn something about me. They need to know about my work. They need to know what I've contributed through the years.
HARRIS: What was the point of the story you were telling to the NAACP in March? What was the point?
SHERROD: The point was to get them to understand we need to look beyond race, to look at working together. I've said to audiences here, not just that one -- and, in fact, I spoke at a housing conference in a county just south of here, and I said, "Look, we need to get beyond the Civil War."
That was the point of her speech and she made it quite well.
Point 2. I would use the word ‘invalidate’ though not ‘inviolates.
I would, too, had I been aware of the proper meaning of the word(s). :-)
My vocabulary is quite extensive as writer, English major in college. I can not recall ever being corrected on the use of an improperly defined word and was quite taken aback when I saw your message, immediately researching the word(s) and to my utter dismay realized you were correct. TigerEye FTW!!
Uppity
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Well, I for one will never apologize for saying that uppity is race-specific. Take that, New York Slimes!
EXtra credit fo the use of the word APPARATCHIK.
This racial and gender preference BS, add the perverted sex folks, and; we are in deep kimchie. What ever happened to merely doing your damn job, not claiming diversity, and; just shutting the heck up? Sorry. I never had a black man or any Hispanic ever ask me for preference in combat. In fact, they were damn good in my unit. So good that their actions spoke for themselves. Yes, try a black man hit 7 times with AK rounds,and; he says leave me to what we’d call a redneck.That man was not left to die.
This was part of a presentation this woman Sherrod made explaining how helping that farmer 24 years ago changed her racial attitudes. He’s now 88 and he was on TV and recalled how she saved his farm. The state was days away from auctioning it off, his lawyer was doing nothing, the farmer was at his wit’s end, she made a frantic effort to find a lawyer who would take what seemed to be a lost cause. It wasn’t easy but she found one expert in bankruptcy matters at the last minute and he was able to block the eviction. The farmer is still expressing his gratitude to the woman.
Sherrod shouldn’t have been fired until this was understood. It’s like a reformed drunk recalling his attitudes towards life before he got off the bottle as part of weaving the story.
The real culprit in this is the NAACP. They opened up a phoney war on the Tea Party movement for partisan political reasons falsely branding them as riddled with racists. This tape surfaced. Breitbart on behalf of the Tea Party fired back. The White House panicked and without any investigation or proper hearing to get at the facts, threw an woman undeserving of the fate under the bus. Or you can say she was caught in the crossfire. The NAACP should be ashamed.
That’s the way I see it anyway.
Yes, she made the point of transcending race quite well when she took the farmer to "one of his own".
If a white person had said "I took the black farmer to one of his own" there would be an uproar.
No double standards. She still needs sensitivity training.
If indeed the story of Sherrod as demonstrated in the video is one of having transcended race, then why was it deemed racist by Breibart? I suppose because he only saw an excerpt and that it must be viewed in its entirety to get the true perspectiuve.
Anyway, thanks very much for yhe time consideration you took to set me straight. I really appreciate it!
Once you see the entire video...you come to realize that Miss Shirley is probably the one government official who has tossed bigotry entirely and doing her best to help small-time farmers, and it doesn’t matter if you are black or white. She has this one point which I totally agree with (I grew up on farm)...in that farming has the “haves” and the “have-nots”...and the “have-nots” are trying hard to survive with limited loan power, limited recovery after a bad year, and they need some small bit of help to get past their big stumble.
Small farm America is dying off...if you haven’t noticed. I don’t think government involvement is much of an answer...but considering how tight fisted the banks are today...your next option is the USDA program and a fair-minded government person...and she’s 5-star in my book.
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