Posted on 07/20/2010 10:55:17 AM PDT by STARWISE
This alone is disgusting, aren't we all supposed to be the same, to be one?
Check out her interview. This woman is lying her backside off. She is all shifty eyed. I loved her statement that she did a good job at the USDA...:”I worked when I didn’t feel like it....”
ROTFLOL!!
Boy, she really scored big time $$$ in the *reparations* department, huh? I guess she feels that because she was *wronged* gives her the right to make racist statements.
I’d forgotten that she was supposed to be on M. Kelly’s show. Cancelled at the last minute to go collect her money?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2555842/posts
Sherrod: Obama Fired Me (Says White House Scared of Fox News and Tea Party)
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 | Kristinn
Posted on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 8:29:39 AM by kristinn
Former Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod says she was forced to resign last night under orders from the White House over racist comments she made at an NAACP dinner in March that were revealed by Big Government yesterday morning.
The Associated Press reported Sherrod’s claim this morning:
Shirley Sherrod says she was forced to step down by the White House even though her comments, in which she says she withheld support for a farmer because he was white, were really part of a story of racial reconciliation. In an interview, Sherrod said the White House’s wishes were relayed by an Agriculture Department undersecretary.
Speaking on CNN this morning, Sherrod criticized the NAACP for abandoning her:
Sherrod said Tuesday that it was “unfortunate that the NAACP would make a statement without even checking to see what happened. This was 24 years ago, and I’m telling a story to try to unite people.”
Sherrod also accused the Obama administration of running scared from Fox News and the Tea Party movement:
She said she tried to explain to USDA officials, “but for some reason, the stuff Fox and the Tea Party does is scaring the administration. I told them to get the whole tape and look at the whole tape and see how I tell people we have to get beyond race and work together.”
Asked why did she resigned instead of fighting, Sherrod said, “I didn’t have any support from USDA. What would I do?”
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack issued a statement last night announcing Sherrod’s forced resignation and denounced Sherrod’s racism, a move that would only have been done with the blessing of Obama.
You can bet she’s getting heavy pressure
from ‘her people.’
Sounds like she got hers.
But, instructively, that wasn't enough.
She had to set about using her newfound power to ruin white people. Just because they were white...
Should anybody ever argue in favor of reparations, remind them of this story...
If it doesn't end the argument, then you know you're dealing with a racist. Just like Shirley Sherrod.
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES NAMING
STATE DIRECTORS FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT
WASHINGTON, July 30, 2009- The Obama Administration today continued naming
individuals who will serve as State Director for Rural Development at the
USDA.
“These individuals will be important advocates on behalf of rural
communities in states throughout the country and help administer the
valuable programs and services provided by the USDA that can enhance their
economic success,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack....
Shirley Sherrod (to serve as USDA Rural Development Georgia State Director)
- Since 1985, Sherrod has served as Director of the Georgia Field Office for
the Federation of Southern Cooperative/Land Assistance Fund. She has also
served as Georgia State Lead for the Southern Rural Black Women’s’
Initiative for Economic and Social Justice. From 1999-2000, Sherrod served
as Executive Director for Community Alliances of Interdependent Agriculture,
Inc., in Albany, Ga. Sherrod has more than 15 years experience working with
agriculture-focused organizations. Sherrod received a B.A. in Sociology from
Albany State University in Albany, Ga., and a M.A. in Community Development
from Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
http://lists.ncat.org/pipermail/growing_farmers/2009-September/000002.html
Shirley Sherrod, Georgia state director of USDA Rural Development, Mayor Bill Austin, and other officials celebrated Earth Day in Riceboro, where Phase II of a sewer collection and treatment project will be completed thanks to a USDA Rural Development loan and grant for $7,495,200. The project will eliminate a health and safety hazard, as well as provide service for 225 new users. The funding is provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
“This is a wonderful way to observe Earth Day, because this project will help clean up the environment,” Sherrod said. “This project is very close to the ocean, as well.”
http://www.usda.gov/blog/usda/tags/arra?page=1
Shirley Sherrod is appointed the new state director for rural development by President Obama’s administration.
http://www.mysouthwestga.com/news/photos.aspx?id=334113
hirley Sherrod and Betty Bailey each received FLAG’s Family Farm Champion award for serving family farmers and rural communities as tireless advocates for justice during some of the toughest decades for smaller farms in the past 50 years.
Shirley Sherrod, who recently was named USDA Rural Development Georgia State Director, has dedicated her life to social justice. Shirley and her husband, Charles, are icons of the civil rights movement, having led the Albany movement since the early 1960s. Shirley worked on behalf of small and limited resource farmers throughout Georgia at the Federation of Southern Cooperatives since 1985, and was a fellow under the prestigious Kellogg National Fellowship program. In 2000, she helped launch the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative, which now is working to improve the lives and communities of women in 77 counties throughout Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. Shirley joined FLAG’s Board in 1994, and served as its President from 1995 to 2001.
http://www.flaginc.org/topics/news/index.php#20091026a
http://www.grwa.org/pdf/grwb_042010.pdf
FVSU launches new oral history project
April 29, 2010 - Shirley Sherrod, the United States Department of Agricultural director for Georgia, is a living witness of the state’s contentious Civil Rights Movement. A transfixed audience listened closely as the activist described the struggle for land, freedom, justice and equality during an unveiling ceremony of the Middle Georgia Oral History project held at Fort Valley State University in the Hunt Memorial Library’s Alumni Hall of Fame room on April 16.
“History has to be what actually happened and not what historians believed happened,” says FVSU’s assistant professor of history, Dr. Christine Lutz, the project advisor. Lutz donated Civil Rights photographs and postcards to FVSU for its archives. Dr. Fred van Hartsveldt and the library’s director, Annie Payton, began the oral history project entitled ‘How We Work’. Laborers from all walks of life will be interviewed, then the stories will be archived at the library. “We want to collect the stories of Middle Georgians and put them in one primary place. The project gives the disenfranchised a chance to speak truth to power.”
Sherrod’s story is the first in the collection. The self-described farm girl grew up with five sisters. In 1963, a white farmer murdered her father, but was never prosecuted. The shocking incident inspired Sherrod, a young college student at FVSU, to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. There, she met and married its leader Charles Sherrod.
http://www.fvsu.edu/news/middle-georgia-history-project
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES NAMING STATE DIRECTORS FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/!ut/p/c4/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os_gAC9-wMJ8QY0MDpxBDA09nXw9DFxcXQ-cAA_2CbEdFAEUOjoE!/?contentidonly=true&contentid=2009%2F07%2F0353.xml
Shirley Sherrod, Milly Trevio-Sauceda, Rural Development Leadership Network
Taped: 02/28/2006 Running Time: 0:30
Ms. Sherrod focuses on the rural south of her childhood, working with black farmers trying to hold onto their land as they still face racism, poverty, and failing market share. She is hoping to organize larger farmer co-ops that can then sell their produce to the underserved inner city.
http://www.cuny.tv/schedule/Action.Lasso?-Database=CUNYPROG&-Layout=webprogdetail2&-Response=detail2.lasso&-Operator=%27eq%27&ProgramID=PR1007671&-Search
One of the more significant groups fighting for black farms has been the Federation of Southern Cooperatives and Land Assistance Fund, whose indomitable Shirley Sherrod is widely respected for its legislative advocacy. In the 1980s, the Federation pushed for targeting of Farmers Home Administration ownership and operating loans for minority farmers, inclusion of people of color on USDA staff, and requiring the Department to file a civil rights performance and enforcement report. [xii]
http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/cohenreport/2008/01/16/still-fighting-the-%E2%80%9Clast-plantation%E2%80%9D/
She has also chaired the board of the Farmers Legal Action Group, which has been active in the minority farmers law suit, along with the Federation and other groups. FSC and SRBWI hosted RDLN’s National Network Assembly in 2006, during which Network members had a chance to immerse themselves in Civil Rights history, with the guidance of Shirley and Charles (the first field director of SNCC), Albany singers and others, and to visit the economic development projects that have grown out of that Civil Rights history.
The cash award acknowledges racial discrimination on the part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the years 1981-85. (President Reagan abolished the USDA Office of Civil Rights when he became President in 1981.) New Communities is due to receive approximately $13 million ($8,247,560 for loss of land and $4,241,602 for loss of income; plus $150,000 each to Shirley and Charles for pain and suffering). There may also be an unspecified amount in forgiveness of debt. This is the largest award so far in the minority farmers law suit (Pigford vs Vilsack).
http://www.ruraldevelopment.org/shirleydirector.html
INVISIBLE SOUTHERN BLACK WOMEN LEADERS IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT:
The Triple Constraints of Gender, Race, and Class
1. BERNICE McNAIR BARNETT
1. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Abstract
In spite of their performance of highly valuable roles in the civil rights movement, southern Black women (such as Septima Poinsette Clark, McCree Harris, Shirley Sherrod, Diane Nash, Johnnie Carr, Thelma Glass, Georgia Gilmore, and JoAnn Robinson) remain a category of invisible, unsung heroes and leaders. Utilizing archival data and a subsample of personal interviews conducted with civil rights leaders, this article (1) explores the specific leadership roles of Black women activists; (2) describes the experiences of selected Black women activists from their own “standpoint”; and (3) offers explanations for the lack of recognition and non-inclusion of Black women in the recognized leadership cadre of the civil rights movement.
http://gas.sagepub.com/content/7/2/162.abstract
http://www.partnersforruralamerica.org/_pdfs/Southern_Outline_Final.pdf
Bob Swann, another pioneer of community and land, also has a connection with the Village. Inspired by the
writings of Arthur E. Morgan, Swann came to the Yellow Springs in 1944 to work for a year at Community
Service, now known as Community Solutions. Drawn to the southern civil rights movement, Swann
eventually began working with Slater King, cousin to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. While engaging in a five
year conversation about “land reform and economic self-sufficiency for African Americans,” the two drew
inspiration from the Jewish National Fund’s cooperative agricultural communities and the Indian Gramdan
“Village Gift” movement influenced by Gandhi. In 1969, the two worked with the National Sharecropper’s
Fund, Charles and Shirley Sherrod, and others to form New Communities, Inc. – the nation’s very first
community land trust
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JOU5V7fkx_cJ:www.yshome.org/Home%2520Inc%2520Spring%25202010%2520Newsletter.pdf+Shirley+Sherrod&cd=120&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
Shirley Sherrod, State Director of USDA Rural Development, presented the ceremonial check to Trice, stating the USDA wants to do all it can to create and maintain jobs in rural areas.
“These funds will be used to provide a critical rail link to a local manufacturer,” said Sherrod. “This project will significantly reduce transportation costs and allow the company to reinvest the savings in the business.”
The rail spur connects Innoware in the Central Georgia Business and Technology Park to the Norfolk Southern Railway main track. A 3,200-foot rail line has been installed with switch and track crossing. It provides rail access and storage for five rail cars to unload industry goods.
The project will retain 134 full time Innoware employees and an additional 45 jobs are expected as a result of the project. Innoware was considering consolidating operations at their Chattanooga, TN, facility, which has rail access. This project keeps Innoware and its employees in Upson County.
Read more: Thomaston Times - USDA presents Upson EMC with 500 000 loan for rail
Obama’s real father
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENHP89mLWOY
I’m sure you’re right.
And of course we all know how racist Fox News is (/sarc).
I am sure she was told to not go on Megan’s show by her former ‘boss man’.
Google has been busy since yesterday scrubbing the net for their Messiah...but it’s too late. The people working on this already have plenty of tapes and material. Me thinks they are putting out enough line for the NAACP,Obama and the race hustler’s to hang themselves with.
ah, Antioch College was in Yellow Springs, Ohio (OH, not OK for Oklahoma)
I think it no longer exists - at least I recall reading about its financial collapse a few years ago (not surprising for a hippie-dippie college of ninnies). I’ll see what I can find on the web - if her master’s thesis still exists it’s probably in whatever archives exist from Antioch College (if their stuff is being kept around somewhere).
from USDA’s own press release about her appointment.... like Obama she was/is a “community organizer”..... she even did an M.A. in “Community Development.... given that Antioch was/is a very left-wing place (even compared to most liberal campuses, it’s been on the fringe) I will bet my life savings that there are lots of loony left words, ideas, connections between her and many other Antioch-loons.
“M.A. in Community Development from Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio.”
ACORN of the colleges:
“Because the world needs you now”
(their motto at top of website)
guess they think the world always “needs” more dishonest, racist “community organizers”....
Excellent background info on the ‘Black Farmer’ shakedown from Townhall.
This woman will be working for another federal agency or an NGO by the end of next week.
Anybody that thinks she really, really got fired doesn’t know how the system works.
It’s a big game of musical chairs and the players never change.
She’s on with dummy Sanchez NOW on CNN ..
repeatedly saying she told her staff
every day that everyone was to be treated
fairly.
Just saying her father was killed by a
white farmer, and the grand jury refused
to indict him. She had to turn that into
a positive. CNN NOW!
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