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.
Nope.
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