Posted on 07/20/2010 6:13:50 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Apparently Krauthammer agrees too. I haven’t seen it yet, but according to one of Ace’s co-bloggers, CK said on “Special Report” a few minutes ago that Sherrod deserves an apology and her job back. The NAACP’s statement:
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
LOL. You guys are killing me. Have you by chance spent your whole life in an all white suburb and on an all white job? This reality is coming for you no matter how much you cover your eyes and ears.
Obama is an unreconstructed black-liberation-theology-believing racist.
The National Organization for the Advancement of Colored People are a bunch of race-card-playing get-out-the-black-vote stick it-to-the-man political types who have played upon white guilt for decades in pursuit of their own race centered interests and have helped bring the country to where it is today.
Sherrod works/worked for Obama and was speaking to the NAACP.
For the first time in my life I see the NAACP put on the defensive. Finally.
But how do we respond? By questioning the person - the ally - who made it happen. How typical.
But you just keep worrying about being "fair".
Nope.
That’s where you and I disagree (as I said unless there is more tape I have not seen that others here have). She says it’s not about black and white, but then in the next breath she says, well yes it IS about black and white. I simply don’t see that as a statement of redemption. Perhaps she’s conflicted, I don’t know, but I do not see, from what I have seen of her speech, that she is someone to model our racial sensitivites on.
And frankly all of this really ticks me off. I had hoped we would be past this by now. I had so much hope in the past, as more and more I saw African Americans move into good jobs and moving into the middle class. I’ve been alive long enough to recall a time that was not the case. I really thought my kid’s generation would see a whole different country when it came to race relations. And yet, things now seem worse than ever.
And I’m not going to bend over backwards to assume what she meant instead of what she said. I wouldn’t do it if the roles were reversed, and I’m not going to discriminate against her and not hold her to the same standard I would a white person.
LOL
Who brought up Paul of Taursus?
Is that your subtle way to tell us to hush up?
NAACP look like idiots now. Obama looks like a knee jerk coward idiot now. That’s the message I’m going with. We nailed ‘em both.
>> Breitbart ruined the good thing they had going with this one. Drudge and Fox went with their version of events as depicted in the edited video and that version is obviously a fraud.
The edited video is not fraudulent, at least not the truncated version I watched.
Sherrod’s story doesn’t change the facts on the ground. The Left is using racism to divide the Country, and NAACP officials contributed to the division by falsely characterizing the Tea Party as a racist organization.
Regardless of Sherrod’s motives in using racism, the NAACP effort to discredit the Tea Party was momentarily, and justifiably neutralized.
But we can always pray that the Obamassiah changes is Royal Decree in this matter.
Mr President, Please free Shirley Sherrod!!
Shirley, Please sue the pants off of Obama!!
NAACP, Please keep up the great work!!
Idiots on parade.
I have distrusted Beck for a while, with his phoney tears and melodramatics. I saw today’s show and was appalled. It almost seemed like I was watching Ted Baxter.
No, I’m beginning to think you’re right.
With one caveat - as Breitbart pointed out several times - she’s not the issue. The fact that her audience was so expressively appreciative of the racist part of her story is very telling.
The NAALCP is the issue.
Who needs Comedy Central? FReepers are hilarious!
Short of a Jeremiah Wright revival, the racist part of the story was Sherrod’s “telling of it” and the black audience laughing along with her at ‘whitey’ first getting second-class treatment.
*That* is racist and they loved it and she loved telling them that she enjoyed HER POWER OVER the poor white farmer.
From the evidence we have now, she was pointing out a poor white man and telling the race-baiters that it's not about race. She points out to the NAACP audience that this guy was the only one, black or white, who was denied Chapter 12. She repudiated her washing of her hands of the situation after giving the farmer off to the white lawyer.
The audience went right along with the "That's right!" and then she flipped it around and pointed out that she realized it was about helping poor people from losing their farms, regardless of race. (To their credit, the audience seemed to back that part, too.)
BTW, did you watch the full video? The story is right in the middle.
I think that something else she said is important. She said that people could confirm she hasn't made race-based decisions "if they were free to talk about it."
"Look, we need to get beyond the Civil War. . . There are good things about history from the white side; good things about history and culture from the black side." --Shirley Sherrod
"That ain't right...they have not treated her right...I give her the credit for saving our farm."--Eloise Spooner, wife of farmer in question
And then ate her humble pie and admitted to the NAACP audience that she was wrong to be discriminating on race, and she helped him keep his farm, despite the lawyer.
And she seemed like such a nice woman.
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