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(Racist) USDA employee resigns over statements about white farmer (CNN)
cnn ^ | 7/19/2010 | cnn

Posted on 07/19/2010 7:39:55 PM PDT by tobyhill

A black Agriculture Department employee resigned Monday after conservative media outlets aired a video of her telling an audience she had not given a white farmer "the full force of what I could do" to help him save the family farm.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said he had accepted the resignation of Shirley Sherrod, the department's state director of rural development for Georgia.

"There is zero tolerance for discrimination at USDA, and I strongly condemn any act of discrimination against any person," Vilsack said. "We have been working hard through the past 18 months to reverse the checkered civil rights history at the department and take the issue of fairness and equality very seriously."

Conservative website publisher Andrew Breitbart originally posted the video, which was quickly picked up by Fox News. The video claims Sherrod's remarks were delivered March 27 to an NAACP Freedom Fund banquet, but it is not clear that is the case, nor is it clear where the event was held or how many people were in attendance.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: breitbart; sherrod; usda
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1 posted on 07/19/2010 7:39:56 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

Any mention of getting the job just days after the DOJ awarded 13 million dollars in a lawsuit?


2 posted on 07/19/2010 7:42:24 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: tobyhill

“Checkered”???? Try “CRIMINAL”!


3 posted on 07/19/2010 7:42:42 PM PDT by CodeToad ("Idiocracy" is not just a movie.)
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To: cripplecreek

Is that true? Gotta link?


4 posted on 07/19/2010 7:43:32 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: tobyhill
The video claims Sherrod's remarks were delivered March 27 to an NAACP Freedom Fund banquet, but it is not clear that is the case nor is it clear where the event was held or how many people were in attendance.

And in other news, the economy continues to race ahead with the Government Stimulus plan having created or saved now well over 100 million jobs... /s

5 posted on 07/19/2010 7:43:41 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: tobyhill

Note how CNN still manages to slam the Tea Party in the end.


6 posted on 07/19/2010 7:44:10 PM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: tobyhill; Irisshlass; informavoracious; larose; RJR_fan; Prospero; Conservative Vermont Vet; ...
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7 posted on 07/19/2010 7:45:11 PM PDT by narses ( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
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To: tobyhill

Wouldn’t dare expect honest reporting on this from CNN...and I was right.


8 posted on 07/19/2010 7:45:40 PM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: tobyhill

Funny thing at the Houston Chronicle (chron.com) has as one of their current headlines “Tea Party on the Defensive from NAACP”.


9 posted on 07/19/2010 7:45:48 PM PDT by 38special (Remember in November!)
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To: tobyhill
but it is not clear that is the case, nor is it clear where the event was held or how many people were in attendance.

The crystal clear part is that she is a racist, just like Obama and the rest of his flunkies.

10 posted on 07/19/2010 7:45:48 PM PDT by Graybeard58 ("Anyone pushing Romney must love socialism...Piss on Romney and his enablers!!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: tobyhill

A link to the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAWsZJkaFaU

“That’s when it was revealed to me that it was about poor versus those who have not so much about white...it IS about white and black...”

Yeesh.


11 posted on 07/19/2010 7:46:45 PM PDT by DemforBush (Serpentine, Shel! SERPENTINE!)
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To: Thrownatbirth

The Tea Party comment wasn’t even racist, the guy was just pointing out how the NAACP uses the phrase “Colored People” in their title.


12 posted on 07/19/2010 7:47:09 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: Red_Devil 232
Is that true? Gotta link?

Just posted at F.R., scroll down the main page.

13 posted on 07/19/2010 7:47:19 PM PDT by Graybeard58 ("Anyone pushing Romney must love socialism...Piss on Romney and his enablers!!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: Red_Devil 232

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2555545/posts


14 posted on 07/19/2010 7:47:36 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: tobyhill

Now that she was thrown under the bus, you can expect the MSM to sweep this right down the memory hole.


15 posted on 07/19/2010 7:47:36 PM PDT by comps4spice (Obama is a clear and present danger.)
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To: Graybeard58

The MSM has to sugarcoat what she said because they already made such a big deal out of some guy using the term “Colored People”.


16 posted on 07/19/2010 7:48:52 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: Red_Devil 232

Here you are:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2555545/posts


17 posted on 07/19/2010 7:49:16 PM PDT by Graybeard58 ("Anyone pushing Romney must love socialism...Piss on Romney and his enablers!!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: tobyhill

Another one bites the dust.


18 posted on 07/19/2010 7:49:27 PM PDT by BAW (Arizona.got it right.)
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To: tobyhill

CNN got shamed into reporting news that didn’t fit their liberal story-line, biased bullsh^t? What a hoot!


19 posted on 07/19/2010 7:52:27 PM PDT by GOPJ (Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous - Einstein.)
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To: tobyhill

Damned cracker, getting that poor little defenseless black woman thrown out of her job where she was just scraping by making minimum wage and raising 5, uh, no 9, no no 15 babies and grand babies.

It just prove he a racist!


20 posted on 07/19/2010 7:53:50 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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