Posted on 07/21/2010 8:05:44 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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If you listen to the whole tape that is exactly what camp she is in. She repeatedly talks about how much federal money is available and that the black community needs to get some of it. She’s right about that as long as it’s being passed out like candy why shouldn’t blacks get some ... but I disagree with the whole attitude that all this money be passed out like candy to ANYBODY.
And in the tape she also encourages young people to get on the fed-gov-job gravy train.
She also makes disparaging remarks about Republicans protesting the health care bill, implying their motivation for doing so are racist.
If you listen to the whole tape, she is vindicated on the ‘black farmer’ story but there is a lot there to go after in terms of promoting the entitlement attitude ... not just to blacks, but in general ... that the FedGov should be spending boatloads of money on all these programs at all.
She promoted the idea of communities chasing after fedgov money for this that and the other. The fact that she advocated that blacks get some of it is an entirely secondary point.
Plenty to disect in this speech. In Sherrods defense, its likely that any FedGov employee of any color would advocate similar things. After all, it justifies their job.
so Racism is entrenched in the USDA?
Well, then, it must be purged or better yet, eliminated, a Win Win..
This crap has GOT to stop.
Agreed!
Heh....had a hell of a time in my MA class in SPRING 2009:
We had a black nationalist call America "racis"...and I immediately said, "Your Race card expired 20 June 2009, and will NEVER be renewed due to overspending".
Later the same day, another white student was discussing how the Constitution had provisions in it to correct wrong doings, and that slavery was the best thing to ever happen to blacks when compared to their sub-Saharan relatives.
The teacher told him to please use the term "African-American", to which the student replied, "No, sir. I will not use the made up term "African-American". I am white, they are black, and I can say this because I was born in South Africa and had to flee black oppression and violence. I have an African passport and go "home" every summer. If any of my student cohorts can produce an African passport, only then will I use that term".
Of course you could hear a pin drop, and he continued.
You have to "get in these people's faces" sometimes. Try to stand on their shoes without scuffing them as the saying goes.
I hate to have to add a "however" here, but however:
The Obama White House doesn't move that fast on anything unless someone's butt is badly exposed. My advice is follow the money.
Sherrod's family reportedly got $13 million of the $1.15 billion distributed to date under the Pigford civil rights class action suit against the USDA for allegedly refusing to help black farmers. Sherrod was hired by the Obama administration for her USDA post very soon after her family "settled" for a fortune in taxpayer money.
Sherrod's husband had a Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee SNCC) background (ermember them?). Her own background suggests she knows more about growing and packaging profitable grievances than about growing crops.
What makes this really interesting is that in 2008 Congress extended the time for people to file claims in the Pigford class action thing dispite evidence that many such claims are bogus. We are talking several times more claims than the number of black-owned farms.
“I’m tellin’ ya. Black people are making it very difficult for fair-minded White people not to dislike or even hate them.”
Absolutely correct. I’m beginning to believe the ONLY way for blacks to improve race relations, salvage some political power, and ever get another african-american elected president would be if they: Distance themselves and expose Obama for the empty suit, usurper, fraud that he is.
However, I don’t believe they will. And their dream of a socialist utopia living off ‘whitey’ is going to end badly - for them.
Sure is.
Maybe they take her back, then she says something even worse (like claiming Fox News is racist), and she gets fired again, and the CBC is dithering this way and that.
It's unusual for the race-baiting CBC to call out this administration.
We need to start applying the same criteria to blacks in regards to _____________ as they apply to whites.
We need to start applying the same criteria to blacks in regards to _____________ as they apply to whites.
The left continues to eat their own.
Tragic? We could fire half of all federal employees at random and we'd be better off.
Sorry for all the questions but you seem to have a good handle on this situation.
The case was settled DAYS before her appointment. Just visualize the dialog:
You should move to settle the Sherrod case.Why?
Because next week the plaintiff becomes your boss.
Oh. OK. I'll get right on that.
The part about redemption was there in the so called “edited” video from 8am Monday on. It is Obama and the left that jumped the gun and threw her under the bus.
Was the video from last March of her talking about something 24 years ago?
Yes.
Did she help the white farmers 24 years ago?
Yes.
And how did Obama appoint her to the USDA if she was with them 24 years ago?
At the time, 1986, she was not working for the USDA. She was working for a nonprofit, the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund, which (amont other things) helped rural people get government funding to avoid bankruptcy.
And when did she get the $13 million?
The class action suit was settled and the money approved in 1999.
The information on Shirley Sherrod's "group" ("New Communities," composed of Mrs. Sherrod, her husband Charles Sherroc, various family members etc.) being awarded #13 million, is here at the AmericanThinker (Link), which has further links to more detailed info.
Thank you!!!
I’m wondering if the law firm they used to sue before is drawing up the filing as we speak.
Wrongful termination in the very least.
Drain the treasury...oops that has already been done.
“Congressional Black Caucus “
Where is the Congressional White Caucus? Just a bunch of racists! Any Sentor or Representative that belongs to that racist outfit is not representing non-blacks.
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