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National Community Land Trust Network - Keynote Speaker: Shirley Sherrod

Shirley Sherrod is the director of field operations for the Federation of Southern Cooperatives in Georgia.

For more than 30 years, Shirley has devoted her life to the civil rights movement by working on social justice issues.

Through her work at the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, she developed a program of outreach, education, and technical assistance for small and limited resource farmers throughout Georgia.

She also serves as the Georgia State Lead for the Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education, Inc., Southern Rural Black Women's Initiative (SRBWI). SRBWI promotes the first human rights agenda in the United States aimed at eradicating historical race, class, cultural, religious and gender barriers experienced by southern rural black women.

The initiative is a three state initiative operating in 77 counties in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. Two other organizations involved in this initiative are the Children's Defense Fund in Mississippi and the Federation of Childcare Centers in Alabama.

Shirley's work began in 1965 as an organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Southwest Georgia Project. She helped to start the land trust, New Communities, Inc., that had 6,000 acres of land.

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Just your typical community organizing leftist racist activist in search of retribution and reparations ...

[penelopesire]

Great post. The 13 million is just the start of what Obama and Holder have planned to give away in this bogus shakedown. The total taxpayer giveaway is 1.25 BILLION DOLLARS. See this post I found last night. It has all the statements from the usual suspects and race baiters.

Info on the lawsuit here(not sure about the website but it has the statements of all the players):

http://beginningfarmers.org/vilsack-and-holder-announce-pigford-ii-usda-settlement-with-black-farmers/

Vilsack and Holder Announce ‘Pigford II’ USDA Settlement with Black Farmers

USDA Press Release No. 0073.10

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NAACP – Hilary O. Shelton, Director of Washington Bureau and Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Policy:

“The NAACP applauds the USDA for taking this crucial step today to finally close what is a painful, but sadly all too pervasive, chapter in our Nation’s history. We would like to commend President Obama, Secretary Vilsack, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Dr. Joe Leonard and others for their commitment to seeing that the U.S. Department of Agriculture fully address this significant injustice and allow all who were affected to seek remedy. The NAACP is now committed to partnering with the USDA and the Congress to try to see that the full $1.25 billion requested by President Obama to help resolve the Pigford claims in his FY 2011 budget proposal is fulfilled. We are further committed to working with the Administration and the Congress to try to level the playing field and to prevent future discrimination against America’s farmers.”

[hoosiermama]

They’re waving a red flag in one hand to keep us from looking to see what the other hand is doing....

She gets her job back or better in order to keep her silent.
She cancells out of Megan Kelly. (which was just a ruse to get what she wanted)

Hope LEO are keeping track of her bank account etc.

Other money might also have been to buy her silence. SO what has she stumbled across in her job?

[azishot]

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.

[okie01]

Just your typical community organizing leftist racist activist in search of retribution and reparations ...

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.

[April Lexington]

I am going on record... to the consternation of some on this forum... that I think she was railroaded. She is not a racist... Stupid, maybe. But no more racist than anyone else in Georgia. I'm just not buying the argument that she is a devil... Ans , NO, I've never met her. This story stinks.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“For more than 30 years, Shirley has devoted her life to the civil rights movement by working on social justice issues.”

So in other words, she has never actually worked? But instead made a living taking other peoples money?

[GOPJ]

Through her work at the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, she developed a program of outreach, education, and technical assistance for small and limited resource farmers throughout Georgia.

I would like to see some statistical breakdown on whites and blacks served by the program...