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.
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Any mention of getting the job just days after the DOJ awarded 13 million dollars in a lawsuit?
“Checkered”???? Try “CRIMINAL”!
Is that true? Gotta link?
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
Note how CNN still manages to slam the Tea Party in the end.
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Wouldn’t dare expect honest reporting on this from CNN...and I was right.
Funny thing at the Houston Chronicle (chron.com) has as one of their current headlines “Tea Party on the Defensive from NAACP”.
The crystal clear part is that she is a racist, just like Obama and the rest of his flunkies.
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.
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.
Just posted at F.R., scroll down the main page.
Now that she was thrown under the bus, you can expect the MSM to sweep this right down the memory hole.
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”.
Another one bites the dust.
CNN got shamed into reporting news that didn’t fit their liberal story-line, biased bullsh^t? What a hoot!
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!
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