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NAACP Statement on the Resignation of Shirley Sherrod (Thanks Andrew Breitbart, kinda)
NAACP ^ | Monday, July 19, 2010 | Press Release

Posted on 07/19/2010 10:04:09 PM PDT by kristinn

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To: kristinn
We are appalled by her actions, just as we are with abuses of power against farmers of color and female farmers.

Apparently, many within the NAACP aren't since those she spoke to were laughing about it and nothing was said about her remarks until they were revealed in the media.

61 posted on 07/19/2010 11:45:49 PM PDT by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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To: kristinn
Thank God for Andrew Breitbart.
62 posted on 07/19/2010 11:56:47 PM PDT by bwc2221
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To: TheWriterTX

I hope I did not imply that you were condoning the actions of Sherrod or the National officials at the NAACP; I didn’t intend to do so.
“The Freedom Fund Awards Dinner is a prestigious event which heralds the accomplishments of individuals who have made enormous contributions to humankind and helped to make a better world for us all.”
That quote is from the NAACP website. If I sat in an audience and heard a white person say, upon receiving an award for ‘enormous contributions to humankind and helped make a better world for us all’, that she did so by helping people based on their race (not helping black people) I would have been open mouthed stunned. I would have walked out. I walked out of a church service in disgust when it practiced bigotry (one South American ethnicity against another). Now, if that church had a national head organization - I’d wonder how things could go so far afield at a local church and not have anyone else in the organization know about it, hear complaints about it, hear rumors etc.And while I would understand that the head organization doesn’t police sermons at the local level - I’d still expect them to accept more responsibility than did the NAACP because this sort of attitude did not originate in one dinner - it is cultivated over time and green lighted by local leadership.


63 posted on 07/19/2010 11:58:15 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: kristinn

Does anyone know how Breitbart got the video?


64 posted on 07/20/2010 12:00:16 AM PDT by swheats (America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law!)
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To: ransomnote
Dear Ransomnote:

I agree completely. The fact that there wasn't outrage in the audience is a glaring indicator of problems at the local level. The local staff will probably be replaced and there will probably be a change-over in the local board.

Ugly, ugly stuff.

If Andrew has more (and you know him, he likes lots of proof), this could really rip the legs out from under the NAACP.

If it does, it does. At that point, I will no longer defend them because the problem is systemic, not a fluke.

They started this food fight. If they come out stained and stinking like a garbage pail, they won't have anyone to blame but themselves.

65 posted on 07/20/2010 12:13:59 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (-)
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To: kristinn

“We are appalled by her actions, just as we are with abuses of power against farmers of color and female farmers.”

Appalled? You weren’t appalled when Sherrod said it a year or more ago.

I think what Jealous is appalled about is that one of their plantation managers stupidly let the cat out of the bag.


66 posted on 07/20/2010 12:53:31 AM PDT by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants).......)
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To: kristinn

Well, four months or twelve months, the operative word is “months”. It should have been a couple days.


67 posted on 07/20/2010 12:55:28 AM PDT by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants).......)
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To: ransomnote

I think this particular target was even bigger than Brietbart knew. The incident raises a question: How many other multi-million dollar “settlements” does the Government award? Are many of the “settlements” true lawsuits or are they disguised grants based on race? How hard does the Government fight these disputes? Sherrod was clearly expendable. She didn’t really need the job because she already had 13 million dollars. As some have hinted about her behavior, it is the tip of the iceberg. But I think that these “settlements” are also suspicious and are also the tip of the iceberg.


68 posted on 07/20/2010 2:29:10 AM PDT by Enterprise (As a disaster unfolds, a putz putts.)
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To: Enterprise

Mark Williams didn’t have nuthin’ on Neal Boortz back in the day.

http://abmp3.com/download/2133963-boo-got-shot-with-translation-by-royal-marshall.html

If you have bever heard this, this is Royal Marshall. It is at once the funniest but most truthful clip you will ever hear.


69 posted on 07/20/2010 2:43:24 AM PDT by MestaMachine (De inimico non loquaris sed cogites- Don't wish ill for your enemy; plan it)
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To: Persevero
From the first time I heard that expression, Speaking truth to Power, I thought what a stupid statement( not you persevero) that if you tried to explain it I don't think anyone could...Its an old Anita Hill saying and the feminazis during the Clarance Thomas hearings.....Makes me want to puke when I hear it....4 meaningless words.....but we have heard it so much, it must have a definition. or was that the name of Anita Hill's book....still dumb..Sometimes we forget the source of a phrase and suck it into our own vocabulary...like baby's momma, etc...all this crap language is make up on the left.. sorry for mini rant....
70 posted on 07/20/2010 2:53:35 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: TheWriterTX

Well someone in that audience recorded that while setting right in front of everyone else. Do you think for a moment if it were a “whitey” recording that in plain view of everyone else that she would not have seen it? Someone there had a problem with her words, Who knows, perhaps that person did send this to NAACP HQ and received no response. There are good sould on both sides of this food fight and those souls will lead to the eventual cleasing of the cesspool of politically connected and corrupt ruling classes.


73 posted on 07/20/2010 3:31:43 AM PDT by mazda77 (Rubio for US Senate - West FL22nd - JD Hayworth - US Senate)
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To: mikeinfresnoca

Wrong. Even Sean Hannity has said he is a member. He tried it just to see if it could be done. Three of the founders were white as well. It has just morphed into a myopic charachature of the last two letters of its acronym because of the media and shameless politicians who want to keep the “Country Class” as far away from the “Ruling Class” as possible from both sides of the aisle.


74 posted on 07/20/2010 3:37:09 AM PDT by mazda77 (Rubio for US Senate - West FL22nd - JD Hayworth - US Senate)
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To: tcrlaf

translation of the NAACP statement...”I’m sorry we got caught and had to fire her, those pesky camcorders are now banned at our events”.


75 posted on 07/20/2010 3:46:58 AM PDT by sunmars
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To: kristinn

“We are appalled by her actions, just as we are with abuses of power against farmers of color and female farmers.”

First they are only “appalled” because she got caught and then they try to qualify it with things that happened 150 years ago.

People see right through this game the NAACP is trying to play and they know how the MSM is ignoring it.


76 posted on 07/20/2010 3:59:09 AM PDT by tobyhill
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To: kristinn

NAACP = Glass House

Breitbart = stones

score one for the good guys


77 posted on 07/20/2010 4:39:23 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden (u)
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To: NVDave
"What Breitbart has shown is to use the small stuff as a warm-up and get the press to finally be unable to ignore the issue, so that by the time he uncorks the strongest stuff, everyone is tuned in. Very clever, IMO"

Has Breitbart said he has more stuff? Oh, I hope so because if this was the warmup, the next ones ought to be doozies. Who else is shaking in their boots because they spoke previously at an NAACP event?
78 posted on 07/20/2010 4:41:33 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden (u)
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To: kristinn
“Since our founding in 1909, the NAACP has been a multi-racial, multi-faith organization that-- while generally rooted in African American communities--

Bwahahahahahahahahahaha

79 posted on 07/20/2010 4:42:39 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: kristinn

Point to Breitbart.

Now, when’s the next tape going to come out? That seems to be Breitbart’s M.O. — trickle the information out to let the opposition hang themselves out to dry.

This could play out like the ACORN tapes: going from denouncement of an “isolated incident” to spluttering denial and defensive posture of shooting the messenger instead of dealing with the issue.


80 posted on 07/20/2010 4:47:09 AM PDT by kevkrom (De-fund Obamacare in 2011, repeal in 2013!)
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