Shirley Shirrod's Father's Murder-an Investigation is needed.

Yesterday afternoon, I posted a vanity about this-I had read Sherrod's transcript, and Googled her to find out the details of her father's death, which she mentioned in her NAACP speech.

She, in the speech mentioned her mother was on the Baker County Ga Board of Education. Long story short, I hit on an article from March 2, 2010, inducting five women in the Southern Rural Black Women’s Hall of Fame. It mentions a "hate crime" against Hosie Miller, and mentions Grace Hall Miller as one of the inductees.

Shirley Sherrod is listed as a speaker at that event-yet no mention is made that her mother is one of the five-or that she is Hosie Miller's daughter.

As far as I know, I'm the first person pretty much anywhere, since this flap began who found her father's name and was able to connect her with it. The MSM didn't until today.

Anyway, I asked yesterday if anyone could find anything about Hosie Miller-I couldn't match the few people by that name in the Social Security Death Index with the date, state, etc.

2 Freepers, I_don't_chat and DJ MacWoW came up with this in response from Ancestry.com:

According to Ancestry death records: Hosie Miller Birth about 1925 Death Date: 25 Mar 1965 County of death Dougherty Age: 39 years County of Residence: Mitchell

Now it says he lived in Mitchell County and died in Dougherty County-both are in Southwest Georgia. Here's what bugs me:

It was 45 years ago today that my father’s funeral was held. I was a young girl at the age of 17 when my father was murdered by a white man in Baker County. In Baker County, the murder of black people occurred periodically, and in every case the white men who murdered them were never punished. It was no different in my father’s case. There were three witnesses to his murder, but the grand jury refused to indict the white man who murdered him.”

She had mentioned she lived, as a kid in Baker County, and her family's farm was in Baker County-the MSM today said he was shot by a neighbor over a dispute about cows.

Question: why doesn't the Ancestry.com records say he lived and was killed in Baker County, as Sherrod states?

My own dad died of natural causes years ago-a far less dramatic death, but I know what county he died in.

Other MSM reports metion the KKK was involved. She didn't in her speech-you figure that would be a salient point in a speech on race.

She also mentions the three witnesses, as well as a grand jury refusing to indict the killer.

This woman is, as of today, one of the most famous women in America. She's rich, she has the media eating out of her hand, the President and Secretary of Agriculture doing backflips for her.

Here's her again in the NAACP speech talking about the cross burning that she says occured a few months after her dad's murder.

""But anyway my brother and my sisters got on the phone -- they called other black men in the county. And it wasn't long before they had surrounded these white men. And they had to keep one young man from actually using his gun on one of them. You probably would have read about it had that happened that night. But they actually allowed those men to leave. [unclear 13:51]... get out of there."

"But I won't go into some of the other stuff that happened that night, but do know that my mother and my sister were out on the porch with a gun, and my mother said, "I see you and I know who you are." She recognized some of them. She'll tell you that she became the first black elected official in Baker County just 11 years later, and she is still serving you all. She's chair of the board of education and she's been serving almost 34 years."

Today one MSM source said there were "40 white men" at the cross burning-it would have taken quite a few "black men in the county" to provide the size of a group that could surround the 40 KKK and force them to leave.

Anyway, again, just like the neighbor, and the 3 witnesses to her father's killing-she indicates that she and her mother know who did this. In the speech she said her mother recognized some of the cross burners.

I think there needs to be an investigation into this. There's no statute of limitations for murder-as for the burning, if what went down was true, that's a hate crime-why not bring the men to justice, and if they are dead, go after their families for financial damages?

I'm not saying I don't believe her, but I'm not saying I automatically am, either. Not until there are further details.

If what she said is in fact true, I feel the investigation would only help give her and her family some measure of relief after all these years.

I’m not “pretending” anything, jackmeat.

I want to get to the bottom of this-this situation is she says her father was murdered due to racial hatred and nothing was done, also due to racial hatred. Those are explosive allegations. Let’s get to the bottom of it, one way or the other.

If she’s telling the truth an innocent man is dead and a guilty one free-tell her to come up with the man’s name-for one thing, if he or his family was around, they could at least respond to this charge. As it is, it’s a “mrky” limbo-about the only detail is it was a white man-she says it was a neighbor, she said there were eyewitnesses-that means she must know who did it.

I honestly don’t know if she’s telling the truth. If she is, then she needs to pursue justice-she has the whole country listening to her-if not, why not? At least get an apology from the family.

I personally find the interest in this story and the timing questionable and distasteful. There is very little to gain and a whole lot to lose reputation wise.

Kind of like the Tawana Brawley case when it first surfaced, huh?

Anyway, don't worry about your "reputation" If you got any message at all from her and her audience, they hate you no matter what.

I looked at a few articles-funny Wikipedia, for example mentions some background about the guy, etc but they don’t say at all what actually happened, murderwise-that seems like it would be good to know.

What actually happened as far as that goes?

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