CNN Picks Up On Charles Sherrod's 'White Man and His Uncle Tom's' Remark

News Busters ^ | 7/30/2010 | Matthew Balan

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

CNN's Joe Johns suprisingly highlighted Charles Sherrod's racially-charged comments about stopping "the white man and his uncle tom's from stealing our elections" during a segment on Thursday's Anderson Cooper 360...

Anchor Anderson Cooper, after devoting some time faulting himself for not pressing Mrs. Sherrod after she labeled conservative Andrew Breitbart a "vicious" racist during a July 22 interview, introduced the correspondent's report "There's also a new aspect to the Shirley Sherrod story...Questions about her and her husband, Charles...keep popping up on some conservative blogs. The questions center around why and how Shirley Sherrod got appointed to her old job at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the first place, and whether her appointment was somehow connected to a settlement she received from the government in a race discrimination lawsuit."

Later in the segment, the CNN anchor inquired about Mr. Sherrod's racially-tinged remarks. "There's another layer to all this. A speech that her husband, Charles Sherrod, made earlier this year at the University of Virginia Law School conference on the issue of race in the law. That's been put online and its made alot of people annoyed. What's the story about that?"

After Johns played the clip, Cooper followed up by asking, "So, is this taken out of context, the way Shirley Sherrod's comments were taken out of context?" The correspondent replied, "It doesn't appear to be. Apparently he said what he meant, meant what he said." He added that "people we've talked to, who know him, point out... [that] he's been that kind of language since the early days of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...where he was one of the early leaders."

The full transcript of Joe Johns report, which aired 38 minutes into the 10 PM Eastern hour of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360:

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[guitarplayer1953]

I believe by this persons remarks he is a goat not a lamb. Calling people who want to get along with other people a uncle Tom does nothing but stir up trouble and that is what these race baiters do all the time along with Jessie Jackson, Al Shaprton and the whole bunch of them.

[One Name]

I would say your assessment is correct. The devil would have us side with our “tribe”; God is no respecter of persons> Jesus died for us all!

[guitarplayer1953]

Amen to that, when we can not come together as brothers and sisters in Christ but are separated by prejudices then I would say that Christ is not in that person.