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 ...
And there are those who are defending the woman?
Guess we should forget what we heard and give her the Medal of Honor?
They are just trying to make it about her and not about the hypocrisy of the NCAACP and their movement to shift the discussion from the economy to fake racists...
Now she’s a heroine? I have clearly fallen down the rabbit hole and into bizarro land.
That is a ‘fair and balanced ‘ account as I read it. I am a big Breitbart fan but if this was edited for maximum damage to just her, that is not helping. But in the larger context, the audience reaction at that meeting is most telling. Further discussion warranted.
I think you and I are the only ones who think she’s a scapegoat.
“...and that she’s friends with the farmer now.”
Then she’s friends with a ghost, because the guy died some time ago.
If what she's saying is true, then there's not necessarily a contradiction. Remember that the tape was edited.
She mentioned the revelation that it wasn't about race BEFORE she delivers the "one of his own" line.
Trent Lott, Earl Butz, Al Campanis, Jimmy the Greek. All suffered for comments a lot less obnoxious. I am not shedding tear one.
I have a feeling the defenders would be shouting the loudest if any republican had said anything remotely similar, context be damned.
Valid question. Also, when it comes to her revelation that it’s really all about the haves and have-nots - how does she determine which is which? What’s the income level that determines who has enough to her?
...And George Allen.
What would that be? I haven't heard her "today" characterizations.
Reguardless of her part. She’s created some real problems for both the NAACP and the white house.
The NAACP for applauding her story of racism and the white house for throwing her overboard. If she really has changed over the years it creates an even bigger problem for the white house.
I agree with you, she has to go because of what she said in front of a camera. What’s good for Don Imus is good for her. By the way I don’t hear any outrage about this racist rant from the “Justice Brothers”, Al Sharpton and Jesse “Shake Em Down” Jackson.
She still contends that “ he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me”
Notice how she didn’t say that at the time she thought he was trying to show he was superior but now she knows he was just poor and has become a friend for life? She was accusing him of racism when she said that, and that statement isn’t 24 years old.
Breitbart said on Hannity that this isn’t about her...it’s about the NAACP.
Black on the outside, red on the inside.
The NAACP association with the Communist Party of the USA is well documented.
“Much of the information I will present is taken from a book called Biographical Dictionary of the Left which was written by a Francis Gannon and was published by Western Islands back in 1969. If you can still find this book somewhere, I would recommend it.
The NAACP “emerged” in 1909, supposedly to promote equality and rights among the races. Needless to say, it has done neither.
However, the formation of this group was urged by the leading radicals of that day, among whom were Jane Addams and government school “educator” John Dewey. Other radicals were among the first officials in the organization. Among these was Oswald Garrison Villard, grandson of the infamous abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison.
The first president of the NAACP was, strangely enough, a white man, Moorfield Story, a lawyer from Boston. Black radical WEB DuBois, who later joined the Communist Party, was the organization’s first director of publicity and research, as well as editor of the group’s monthly publication The Osiris. This publication gave DuBois an excellent outlet from which to pour forth all manner of racial invective against whites, supposedly in the name of “promoting equality.”
According to the Biographical Dictionary of the Left, “Long tenure in office has also been characteristic of the NAACP’s presidents—all white men: Moorfield Story (1910-1915), Joel Springarn (1915-1940), Arthur Springarn (1940-1966), and since 1966, Kivie Kaplan.” Since the Biographical Dictionary was published in 1969, obviously some things have changed. However, it is interesting to note how long the organization had white presidents, almost as if the radicals didn’t trust the blacks to take the organization in the proper direction (to the left).
WEB DuBois, one black that did hold a prominent position, was no problem because he was already on the left. DuBois was known to have “hailed the Russian Revolution of 1917” and he travelled to the Soviet Union in 1926 and 1936. He especially liked ‘the racial attitudes of the Communists’.”
In 1922 the NAACP started to receive grants from the Garland Fund, a big source of funding of Communist Party projects. Officials of the Garland Fund included Communists William Z. Foster, Benjamin Gitlow, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Scott Nearing. Other prominent left-wing officials were Roger Baldwin, Sidney Hillman, and Harry F. Ward, the “Red Dean” of religion in America.” The Garland Fund continued to pour money into the NAACP until around 1934. Even when the money stopped, the Communist connections continued.
“In 1938, the NAACP was represented at the World Youth Congress, a Communist enterprise. In the 1940s the NAACP was affiliated with American Youth for a Free World, the American affiliate of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, a Communist clearing house.”
A most literate apologist for the NAACP was the well-known Langston Hughes. Hughes was affiliated with Communist Party projects from the mid-1920s until he passed away in 1967. In fact, in 1962, Hughes wrote a book entitled Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP. In this book he stated the following:
“Attempts to label the NAACP subversive, Communist-influenced, or out and out Communist have continued for a long time.” In light of the evidence available, can anyone with a brain honestly wonder why?
The organization has, from time to time, gone through the sanitized ritual of “opposing Communism” but this has been a self-serving action designed to keep the support of those that are astute enough to see communism as a problem.
In 1946, the NAACP helped the Communist Party in one of its major political projects, the establishment of the Progressive Citizens of America—the basis for Henry Wallace’s Communist-dominated Progressive Party in the 1948 presidential election.
In 1953 the Communist newspaper Daily Worker recommended that Communists and labor unions “give every possible support to any and all campaigns conducted by the NAACP.” One can only wonder if this strategy has changed in the intervening years”.
-The NAACP’s Red Roots By: Al Benson Jr. FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, July 07, 2000
She doesn’t deserve anything. As I remember she pitched working for the FedGov as a job you’ll never get fired from. Is my memory right?
Also what the heck is up with the lawsuit and settlement she was kingpin of?
And what exactly IS the Ag Department doing?
Nah, this ain’t over. The Little Miss Ag Department story is just a can of fresh worms sitting on a worm iceberg.
I will have to go by memory, however, she basically said she sent him to one of his how because she thought that was an ok thing to do. She wanted to give him enough help so that he could go back to whichever Ag dept sent him to her, and tell them she helped him (ie, she wanted not to get into to trouble, or keep her job, or get more referrals, or something). Nowhere does she indicate she gave him a choice of a black lawyer. I don’t see how that was edited out, but I’m open to explanation.
The whole *revelation* part was a little jumbled, it was a little difficult to exactly understand what she was trying to say as it was not one coherent sentence. I wish I had a transcript, but she basically says in that part that she had a revelation that it was about poor and those who were not, it wasn’t about black and white. HOWEVER she then backtracks and says, well yes, it IS about black and white. I don’t know how we are to figure exactly what she thinks about the races, and unless there is a more coherent explanation that wasn’t on the tape released, I don’t see how she shows that she changed her racist outlook from that story.
Probably a side issue, but I’d be interested to find out what the white farmer said to Sherrod that made her feel like he was exerting superiority over her...
I mean, did he call her Honey, or Girl? How did he talk down to her? (I know we’ll probably never know for sure)
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