Don’t pull this story for the following reasons:
1. Memory can change over time. There is a need to go to all possible primary documents/sources whenever possible, such as the Supreme Court decision.
2. Sherrod enhanced this terrible murder by using a well-known word/image of “lynching” instead of a beating. Her fault.
3. It was not her father but another relative. This is important. It was a deliberate distortion of the truth.
4. Remember, the three civil rights workers in Mississippi were beaten to death in a most horrible way. Murder is murder and should be acknowledged as such no matter what weapon or manner was used.
5. Sherrod comes from a family with some heavy racial luggage in it. Her husband is definitely anti-white, just as Mel Gibson’s father is a raving anti-semite. Hate is catching.
6. The mainstream media is totally incompetent, biased, and unwilling to go after the truth, and Breitbart proves it all the time.
7. Someone might have been trying to set Breitbart up, and the leftist media fell for it hook, line and stinker.
8. We must be very diligent in what we write about people and events, providing documentation whenever possible. (Some of my editors hated my listing many citations in my columns but I had to show my readers that I had done my homework and that my writings would withstand any challenges on accuracy and authenticity).
9. If apologies are due, give them.
Oh, it is important that this not go down the memory hole.
It was more of a beaten to death by the legal authorities, than merely being “beaten”.
Those are two different stories. She recounted them both. She didn't conflate the two in any distortion.
The main point of this article is not Sherrod's accuracy in story telling it is the fact that the Progressive Movement has used race-baiting to advance its big government socialist goals from the beginning. In the beginning it was Democrat racists who used hatred of blacks. Now it is Democrat racists who use hatred of whites.
Did anyone read this article?