Shirley Sherrod is a racist. Only a racist would even come close to thinking in the terms that she does. No racist should ever be in government employment.
I listened to her whole 43 minute speech. It was wall-to-wall racism.
It was also agony to listen to—the woman is totally incomprehensible, has numerous speech impediments, cannot follow a simple line of reasoning, rambles all over the place, and laughs at her own jokes.
And she is resigning from a $125,000 a year government job! With benefits!!!
Any one of the millions of unemployed out there could do a better job.
From the UK - whatever the total context was, the terms she was using are way out of the ballpark. From here it seems pretty racist language.
Having said that, Obama should not have reacted so swiftly while ignorant of the full facts - everyone deserves a hearing. If he had waited he would not be in this pickle now.