[Klorissana]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010...-white-farmer/

Video Shows USDA Official Saying She Didn't Give 'Full Force' of Help to White Farmer

Published July 19, 2010
| FoxNews.com

Shown here is USDA Georgia official Shirley Sherrod. (YouTube)

Days after the NAACP clashed with Tea Party members over allegations of racism, a video has surfaced showing an Agriculture Department official regaling an NAACP audience with a story about how she withheld help to a white farmer facing bankruptcy -- video that now has forced the official to resign.

Shirley Sherrod, the department's Georgia director of Rural Development, is shown in the clip describing "the first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm." Sherrod, who is black, claimed the farmer took a long time trying to show he was "superior" to her. The audience laughed as she described how she determined his fate.

"He had to come to me for help. What he didn't know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me was I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him," she said. "I was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farmland and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land -- so I didn't give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough."

The Agriculture Department announced Monday, shortly after FoxNews.com published its initial report on the video, that Sherrod had resigned.

"There is zero tolerance for discrimination at USDA, and I strongly condemn any act of discrimination against any person," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a written statement. "We have been working hard through the past 18 months to reverse the checkered civil rights history at the department and take the issue of fairness and equality very seriously.

Sherrod explained in the video that, at the time, she assumed the state or national Department of Agriculture had referred the white farmer to her. In order to ensure that the farmer could report back that she was indeed helpful, she said she took him to see "one of his own" -- a white lawyer.

[Louthcoombutt]

Wow, Regis. How enlightening. This one singular case of a white farmer not getting the full benefit of the government's help must surely indicate institutional "reverse racism"!

Oh wait, what are these now?
Obstruction of Justice: A Century of USDA's Institutionalized Racism Subjects African American Farmers to Dramatic Land Loss
Discrimination by USDA Against Black Farmers Gets Presidential
USDA Discrimination Lawsuit by Black Farmers may finally be settled
The Pigford Case: USDA Settlement of a Discrimination Suit by Black Farmers
USDA on Indian discrimination case: Working on it
Minority farmers seek redress, claim USDA discrimination

It took me less than five minutes to compile all of these, and there are plenty more. All from a simple "USDA discrimination" google search. But that poor, poor ******* of a white farmer. Reverse racism!!1

[Gremlinn]

And let's not forget that this one bigoted USDA employee is now gone from the agency, a fate that hasn't happened to all that many people in either government or private companies who have also discriminated against others.

[HexcewlyRette]

I just heard Ms. Sherrod speak and tell her story on CNN. And I just heard Mrs. Spooner speak about the help Ms. Sharrod gave the Spooner family that saved their farm. The two womean haven't spoken in years. After hearing both of these women, I absolutely believe there was no discrimination here. I absolutely believe Ms. Sherrod has been railroaded for political reasons. Shame on this government.

[Ambassador]

And, having heard the CNN report, it's obvious that Ms Sherrod was NOT "bragging about not helping a white farmer" at all.

Since I know Regis doesn't watch CNN for fear of gathering some truth, we should also note that the incident she was discussing occurred over 20 years ago, and she was relating it as an example of how discrimination is bad. She acknowledged not giving this farmer the full weight of her efforts, but she DID give him the help he needed to save his farm. A longer clip of her speech than what made it to youtube makes that clear.

[PeterPatrickJohn]

The NAACP has retracted its statement condemning Ms. Sherrod and has called on the Secretary of the Agriculture to reconsider her resignation. The organization states they were "snookered" by Fox News and Brietbart and believes the organization that edited the original video did so "with the intention of deceiving millions of Americans." NAACP did not contact Ms. Sherrod before publically condemning her for the video, but now have apologized to her.

Read the story here.

[Pdarassenko]

Another terrorist media attack from the Flea Blaggers.

[gogona]

Let's not forget the parasites like Regis who feed off this crap, vomit it up all over message boards, then scurry away when the lights come on.

[sposicke]

Hey, Regis embraces this terrorism, it's how he posts. Take one line from a story, make it the headline, and walk away despite the fact the story contradicts the headline.

Osama bin Brad on his jihad against Obama.

[CreativeSuiteDown]

Osama bin Brad. Hahahahha! Good one!