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.
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.