Posted on 07/20/2010 4:27:34 PM PDT by tobyhill
NAACP leaders are calling on the Obama administration to reconsider its ousting of a black Agriculture Department worker who was pushed out of her job over racially tinged remarks, reversing their previous criticism of the employee.
NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous said in a statement that the group was "snookered" into believing that USDA employee Shirley Sherrod expressed racist sentiments at a local NAACP meeting in Georgia earlier this year. Jealous said conservative activist Andrew Breitbart, whose website posted video of Sherrod's remarks, deceived millions of people by releasing only partial clips. He said the full video makes clear that Sherrod was telling a story of racial unity.
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Any way you look at it the NAACP has shown its true self -
They either a)Overreact and accuse for no reason (Like they’ve done to the TEA Party recently and whites in general for years) or b)They allow racism in their ranks and only denounce it when they are forced to.
Breitbart has played this perfectly. He even announced that he had the dirt ahead of time to give them a chance to prepare. Beautiful, beautiful stuff.
It’s a great illustration of how the NAACP labels people racist before they have the facts.
But I don’t get this “whole video” thing. Everything I’ve heard about this woman I saw in the video. People weren’t TALKING about the entire video much, but it was all there.
And it wasn’t a story of racial unity, it was a story of a person who acted in a racist manner, but learned some sort of lesson about rich vs poor. As some have called it, trading racism for class warfare.
Heheheh,,love Andrew. Can hardly WAIT until the next video,,,can’t WAIT!
Did the NAACP act stupidly when it accused the tea party of racism with no proof? Everybody knows the healthcare racist story they were pedaling was full of lies.
Brietbart did good, it’s the NAACP tape BTW. So they could have looked at it first. And then showed everybody the full tape.
I think the racists at the NAACP acted stupidly from the beginning.
In an interview on CNN she said he was the “first white farmer that came to her”. I find that really hard to believe unless she purposely avoided white farmers.
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