Breitbart Utterly Destroys Something

WingnutsJuly 2010 • Views: 15,620

Andrew Breitbart has posted ASTOUNDING VIDEO PROOF that the NAACP is a virulently racist organization, just like he threatened to do! Wow, this is powerful stuff.

Let me sum it up; Breitbart has EARTH-SHATTERING video of Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development, speaking at the 2009 NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. But wait, it gets even worse.

Sherrod tells a story about a white farmer who patronizes and condescends to her, which leads to her not wanting to go out of her way to help the guy. She ends up referring him to a white lawyer to continue pursuing his case.

Can you BELIEVE IT! I don’t know how the NAACP will ever recover from Andrew Breitbart’s devastating master stroke.

OK, I’m being a little sarcastic. This is actually really really stupid and inconsequential.

I did love this line from Breitbart’s long, rambling, race-baiting rant, though:

The NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus do not want racial harmony. They want political victory, and the race card is their Strativarius.

Now that’s refudiating ‘em, Andrew!

UPDATE at 7/19/10 5:14:36 pm:

And Breitbart collects another scalp — Sherrod has resigned from the USDA.

UPDATE at 7/19/10 6:10:26 pm:

LGF reader “teh mantis” provides some important context for this misleading video:

The whole story is BS. Brietbart has conveniently edited out the context of this story, but he forgot one crucial detail. Notice where she says that the story took place just after Chapter 12 bankruptcy was established for family farms? Andrew really should have edited that out. You know why? Chapter 12 was so established in 1986. What was Shirley Sherrod doing in 1986? She was running the New Communities black farm coop in Georgia. She was not employed by the government in any way. Some white farmer called a black coop looking for help. She helped him, but not as much as she “could” if, you know, he were a black farmer and thus would have some interest in the coop. They also gave farmers help restructuring their loans and whatnot, so she referred him to a lawyer who could help him, despite his condescending attitude.

I should also note that the her coop and the associate RDLN recently won a $1 billion+ settlement for black farmers after they were systematically denied loans provided to white farmers in the early eighties, complements of Ronnie Reagan (Pigford v. Glickman). But we all know it was those black farmers banding together in their cooperative farming blackness that are the real racists.

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82 comments

brennant Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:00:54pm

...and it's the front page of FOXnews. Was she speaking FOR the NAACP?

Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:02:26pm

Breitbart Utterly Destroys Something

It usually ends up being intelligent, honest discourse.

Gus Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:02:43pm

She's relating a story of how she viewed things in her past. If you watching (listen) to the video you'll note that she says it was at the time when Chapter 12 bankruptcy had just been enacted. This would put the year at 1986. The video Breitbart provides is incomplete and highly edited.

However, it does have enough to learn more about her speech where we find her having said "that when it was revealed to me that it's about [being] poor, versus those who have. It's not so much about white... it is about white and black but it's not, you know... it opened my eyes."

She learned from that experience to see that it isn't about being black or white, it's about being poor. She was sympathizing with her first white farmer.

Killgore Trout Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:03:17pm

Strativarius.

LOL

brennant Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:04:14pm

re: #4 Killgore Trout

Strativarius.

I admit, I missed that...

Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:05:49pm

re: #3 Gus 802

The video Breitbart provides is incomplete and highly edited.

INCONCEIVABLE!!1!

PhillyPretzel Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:06:21pm

From The Free Dictionary
[Link: encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com...]

darthstar Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:06:53pm

I think Breitbart's brain is a Staphivarious.

PhillyPretzel Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:07:41pm

re: #8 darthstar

LOL

Charles Johnson Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:07:48pm

And it looks like Breitbart succeeded in getting this woman fired.

thequis Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:08:20pm

What will it take to turn the clock back on the blatant partisanship of ALL media?

Gus Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:08:42pm

Here's a transcript I found.

The first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm, he took a long time talking; but he was trying to show me he was superior to me. I know what he was doing, but he had 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.

I was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farm land. 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 so that when he -- I assumed the Department of Agriculture had sent him to me, either that or the Georgia Department of Agriculture. And, uh, he needed to go back and report that I did try to help him. So, I took him to a white lawyer that had attended some of the training that we had provided because Chapter 12 bankruptcy had just been enacted for the family farm. So I figured if I take him to one of them that his own kind would take care of him.

That's when it was revealed to me that it's about the poor versus those who have. It's not so much about white. It is about white and black but it's not, you know, it opened my eyes. Because I took him to one of his own.

Chapter 12 was enacted in 1986. This happened to her in 1986. She testifies that this experience "opened her eyes" in that it wasn't about being black and white but about being poor.

We never get to learn what happened because it seems as though she felt guilty for taking this farmer to "one of his own" back in 1986. My guess would be that he got screwed over.

Gus Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:09:19pm

re: #10 Charles

And it looks like Breitbart succeeded in getting this woman fired.

What utter bullshit. I just read. She resigned.

darthstar Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:09:29pm

re: #10 Charles

And it looks like Breitbart succeeded in getting this woman fired.

Race Wars 2010...Sponsored by Fox News.

Randall Gross Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:10:17pm

.... is he sure it's not their stradocaster instead?

Eclectic Infidel Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:10:42pm

The first sentence of the refudiating blog post reads, "Context is everything.."

Oh the irony.

Gus Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:11:36pm

Apparently, reading, or listening comprehension is a lost art in Greater Wingnuttia.

darthstar Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:11:53pm

re: #15 Thanos

... is he sure it's not their stradocaster instead?

/

Definitely not a Los Paul.

Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:12:05pm

re: #11 thequis

What will it take to turn the clock back on the blatant partisanship of ALL media?

You want us to go back in time, to an era before primitive man invented cave paintings?

albusteve Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:12:32pm

re: #15 Thanos

... is he sure it's not their stradocaster instead?

/

strat?
2 pts

Fozzie Bear Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:12:57pm

Somebody needs to start a "Save the English Language" foundation.

I want to charge the Tea Partiers with crimes against grammar.

albusteve Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:13:01pm

re: #18 darthstar

Definitely not a Los Paul.

made in Mexico?

darthstar Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:13:32pm

re: #22 albusteve

made in Mexico?

NAFTA!!!

allegro Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:13:33pm

In the 70s, I was making "house calls" so to speak with a USDA lady providing our services to small farmers (I was USFWS). We went up to the door of one such farmhouse in Vidor, TX (name ring a bell?) and when the door opened we see a double barrel shotgun pointed in our faces.

"Get THAT off my property!" the man yelled.
"Wha?" I answered intelligently.
"Get THAT (shotgun indicating the black USDA lady) off my property!"

We turned and hauled ass to hear him hollering behind us "No YOU stay! Get back here!" Meaning me. Obviously, I didn't stick around.

Got a call from my boss (head of FWS Texas) the next day, asking about the complaint he'd just received from a farmer who said I was very rude and refused him his tax-paying right to my services. Told him what happened. He called the asshole back and gave him a dose of whoop ass as he was wont to do to assholes.

I think the USDA lady in this story was awful considerate. Perhaps more than was ever deserved.

Stanghazi Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:14:13pm

Fucking witch hunt. The video was from 1986? How many black people's speeches did Breitbart have to troll before he found this?

darthstar Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:14:19pm

re: #21 Fozzie Bear

Somebody needs to start a "Save the English Language" foundation.

I want to charge the Tea Partiers with crimes against grammar.

It's a war on words, definitely.

Gus Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:14:59pm

re: #25 Stanley Sea

Fucking witch hunt. The video was from 1986? How many black people's speeches did Breitbart have to troll before he found this?

No, 2010? I'm guessing this happened to her in 1986.

Walter L. Newton Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:15:32pm

re: #12 Gus 802

Here's a transcript I found.

Chapter 12 was enacted in 1986. This happened to her in 1986. She testifies that this experience "opened her eyes" in that it wasn't about being black and white but about being poor.

We never get to learn what happened because it seems as though she felt guilty for taking this farmer to "one of his own" back in 1986. My guess would be that he got screwed over.

Why would the USDA fire her? It appears that she is making a reflective point on how she use to see certain things and how she has grown to see the real underlying problem.

Fozzie Bear Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:16:12pm

That does raise an interesting question.

What the hell does Breitbart do with his time? Does he just sit around watching videos of black people looking for some kind of verbal slip he can try to manufacture outrage with? What an incredible loser.

albusteve Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:16:22pm

re: #23 darthstar

NAFTA!!!

I guess...
Los Gibson Tre Tre Cinqo?

wrenchwench Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:16:45pm

Typos up top: Gerrod--->Sherrod

Walter L. Newton Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:16:45pm

re: #29 Fozzie Bear

That does raise an interesting question.

What the hell does Breitbart do with his time? Does he just sit around watching videos of black people looking for some kind of verbal slip he can try to manufacture outrage with? What an incredible loser.

No silly, he has a staff of losers doing it for him.

darthstar Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:16:58pm

re: #25 Stanley Sea

Fucking witch hunt. The video was from 1986? How many black people's speeches did Breitbart have to troll before he found this?

He wanted to use MLK's I have a dream speech because he mentions black men before white men, but Glenn Beck already claimed it as his own for his rally, and Breitbart didn't want to step on Auntie Glenn's toes.

In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Charles Johnson Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:17:25pm

The USDA "accepted her resignation" because they're skittish and afraid of negative publicity. Typical craven bureaucratic ass-covering.

windsagio Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:17:28pm

re: #29 Fozzie Bear

That does raise an interesting question.

What the hell does Breitbart do with his time? Does he just sit around watching videos of black people looking for some kind of verbal slip he can try to manufacture outrage with? What an incredible loser.

Its a hell of a job, if you can get it.

AntonSirius Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:17:52pm

re: #10 Charles

Brilliant. So in order to demonstrate that the USDA doesn't employ people who discriminate based on color, they kick out someone who admitted publicly that she learned not to discriminate based on color over 20 years ago.

windsagio Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:18:00pm

re: #34 Charles

Sad that I have to say this, but the government needs to strap on their collective balls and stand up to the racists.

albusteve Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:18:04pm

re: #29 Fozzie Bear

That does raise an interesting question.

What the hell does Breitbart do with his time? Does he just sit around watching videos of black people looking for some kind of verbal slip he can try to manufacture outrage with? What an incredible loser.

yes, exactly....a fine contribution to American culture

Gus Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:18:36pm

re: #28 Walter L. Newton

Why would the USDA fire her? It appears that she is making a reflective point on how she use to see certain things and how she has grown to see the real underlying problem.

She resigned. I guess the reflective point wasn't good enough and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said that there is a "zero tolerance for discrimination at USDA..."

Fozzie Bear Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:19:23pm

Seriously though.

We all think Breitbart is an asshole because of the products of his "work". Can you imagine how repugnant the process must be that produces this?

Oh to be a fly on the wall in his office. With a tiny camera.

Stanghazi Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:19:24pm

re: #27 Gus 802

Oops. Still, he went through every speech made to find his "gotcha black person"

Nimed Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:19:41pm

re: #3 Gus 802

She's relating a story of how she viewed things in her past. If you watching (listen) to the video you'll note that she says it was at the time when Chapter 12 bankruptcy had just been enacted. This would put the year at 1986. The video Breitbart provides is incomplete and highly edited.

However, it does have enough to learn more about her speech where we find her having said "that when it was revealed to me that it's about [being] poor, versus those who have. It's not so much about white... it is about white and black but it's not, you know... it opened my eyes."

She learned from that experience to see that it isn't about being black or white, it's about being poor. She was sympathizing with her first white farmer.

Exactly. This bears repeating and emphasizing -- the freaking clip ends with "it's about [being] poor, versus those who have. It's not so much about white... it is about white and black but it's not, you know... it opened my eyes.".

It's a self-refudiating video! Breitbart would be better off using it to push the "OMG CLASS WARFARE!" mantra. He's dumber than I thought.

albusteve Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:20:06pm

re: #37 windsagio

Sad that I have to say this, but the government needs to strap on their collective balls and stand up to the racists.

they hide behind the mighty First...same as those Phelps cretins...Americans have a right to be racist, and speak out for it

windsagio Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:20:22pm

re: #40 Fozzie Bear

Well if you don't mind dipping your eyeballs in hte moral equivalent of sulfuric acid, sure.

darthstar Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:20:26pm

re: #40 Fozzie Bear

Seriously though.

We all think Breitbart is an asshole because of the products of his "work". Can you imagine how repugnant the process must be that produces this?

Oh to be a fly on the wall in his office. With a tiny camera.

His parents have permanent bruising on their heads from repeated face-palming.

wrenchwench Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:20:49pm

So, one person relates an experience from decades ago = racist organization.

Hundreds of signs, speeches, and websites from the past year = NOT ONE RACIST HERE!!!11!

windsagio Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:21:12pm

re: #43 albusteve

That's irrelevant to what I said tho' :p

They need to not freakout and fire someone each time someone pulls out a fakeass 'GOTCHA!' like this.

albusteve Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:22:21pm

it's time...when all else fails

Youtube Video

Walter L. Newton Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:23:26pm

Who is realclearpolitics?

Racer X Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:23:33pm

Race wars. Not good.

Gus Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:23:59pm

re: #42 Nimed

Exactly. This bears repeating and emphasizing -- the freaking clip ends with "it's about [being] poor, versus those who have. It's not so much about white... it is about white and black but it's not, you know... it opened my eyes.".

It's a self-refudiating video! Breitbart would be better off using it to push the "OMG CLASS WARFARE!" mantra. He's dumber than I thought.

Which stood out for me and should for everyone else. That was her moment of closure but we never got to hear the fill extent of her speech.

The question could arise as to what she meant by not giving him the full extent of what she could do but "enough." That could mean she simply didn't go above and beyond what she could have done and instead provided him with standard service.

mardukhai Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:24:29pm

I admit to being a little different from most people. I personally experienced black racism in a particularly horrific way, and stood by helplessly as moonbat reporters (including my own dad) quashed the story.

The bully boys who tried to kill me (and were photographed beating up my friend three hours later) not only got away with it, they are annually honored for it.

So if a smart-ass public official wants to brag about not doing her job before the NAACP, don't ask me to feel sorry if she's fired for it. Black racism exists, and it's a problem. No use denying it -- I've experienced it, full bore.

albusteve Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:24:41pm

re: #47 windsagio

That's irrelevant to what I said tho' :p

They need to not freakout and fire someone each time someone pulls out a fakeass 'GOTCHA!' like this.

you were speaking with regard to the govt...re-read your post #37...

windsagio Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:25:29pm

re: #52 mardukhai

Color me not believing you.

windsagio Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:25:56pm

re: #53 albusteve

I thought it was pretty clear actually, or is this just a 'force them to defend themselves' kind of thing?

darthstar Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:26:28pm

re: #50 Racer X

Race wars. Not good.

Speaking of which, the supporters of Convicted Killer and former BART cop Messerlee are rallying in Walnut Creek, CA today on his behalf. A counter-demonstration of Oscar Grant (the victim) supporters also showed up. Riot police were called to try to keep the two groups separate.

Fozzie Bear Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:26:53pm

re: #52 mardukhai

I admit to being a little different from most people. I personally experienced black racism in a particularly horrific way, and stood by helplessly as moonbat reporters (including my own dad) quashed the story.

The bully boys who tried to kill me (and were photographed beating up my friend three hours later) not only got away with it, they are annually honored for it.

So if a smart-ass public official wants to brag about not doing her job before the NAACP, don't ask me to feel sorry if she's fired for it. Black racism exists, and it's a problem. No use denying it -- I've experienced it, full bore.

... and this is a story about a woman who had to struggle with herself to overcome that racism. Decades earlier. That was the point of the story.

Aceofwhat? Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:27:06pm

re: #51 Gus 802

Which stood out for me and should for everyone else. That was her moment of closure but we never got to hear the fill extent of her speech.

The question could arise as to what she meant by not giving him the full extent of what she could do but "enough." That could mean she simply didn't go above and beyond what she could have done and instead provided him with standard service.

Agree. She also could have done more to emphasize that the "one of his own" characterization was also something she learned to put behind her. I admit that term made me blanch. Still, this proves the NAACP is racist like a dead bug on my lawn proves I'm radioactive...

Gus Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:27:22pm

re: #52 mardukhai

I admit to being a little different from most people. I personally experienced black racism in a particularly horrific way, and stood by helplessly as moonbat reporters (including my own dad) quashed the story.

The bully boys who tried to kill me (and were photographed beating up my friend three hours later) not only got away with it, they are annually honored for it.

So if a smart-ass public official wants to brag about not doing her job before the NAACP, don't ask me to feel sorry if she's fired for it. Black racism exists, and it's a problem. No use denying it -- I've experienced it, full bore.

So because of your experience you've decided that in order to cope you would abandon all logic and reason?

Stanghazi Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:27:59pm

re: #56 darthstar

Speaking of which, the supporters of Convicted Killer and former BART cop Messerlee are rallying in Walnut Creek, CA today on his behalf. A counter-demonstration of Oscar Grant (the victim) supporters also showed up. Riot police were called to try to keep the two groups separate.

Why the hell did they feel they had to support the Bart Cop? He's a criminal now. They intended to bait?

darthstar Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:28:12pm

re: #52 mardukhai

At least your dad's not an idiot.

allegro Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:28:16pm

re: #52 mardukhai

Wow, yeah, I hear ya man. In college I had a black girl SPIT at me! She did! She spit her coke on several of us actually, when she started to laugh her ass off at a joke someone told. It was really sticky.

windsagio Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:28:47pm

re: #60 Stanley Sea

Cops are always right, and you know those evil liberal CA courts >>

Gus Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:29:27pm

re: #58 Aceofwhat?

Agree. She also could have done more to emphasize that the "one of his own" characterization was also something she learned to put behind her. I admit that term made me blanch. Still, this proves the NAACP is racist like a dead bug on my lawn proves I'm radioactive...

I tell you, if you're in the public eye you have to watch every single word that comes out of your mouth. One little mistake can cost you your career. It happens to often in my opinion and it occurs regardless of race or ideology.

Achilles Tang Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:29:41pm

Strativarius? Never mind the spelling; has anyone ever heard of a violin played in this context?

Nimed Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:29:45pm

re: #42 Nimed

Exactly. This bears repeating and emphasizing -- the freaking clip ends with "it's about [being] poor, versus those who have. It's not so much about white... it is about white and black but it's not, you know... it opened my eyes.".

It's a self-refudiating video! Breitbart would be better off using it to push the "OMG CLASS WARFARE!" mantra. He's dumber than I thought.

Or not, since he actually got a resignation out of this. Sheesh.

darthstar Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:29:52pm

re: #60 Stanley Sea

Why the hell did they feel they had to support the Bart Cop? He's a criminal now. They intended to bait?

That's what I wondered. My guess is that there is now an effort to goad people into racially charged events (this summer's "Death Panel" panic, only different) so it'll get media attention and Americans will somehow blame President Obama at the polls.

albusteve Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:30:51pm

re: #55 windsagio

I thought it was pretty clear actually, or is this just a 'force them to defend themselves' kind of thing?

dunno...try the quote button

Charles Johnson Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:30:54pm

re: #65 Naso Tang

Strativarius? Never mind the spelling; has anyone ever heard of a violin played in this context?

Don't you get it? The NAACP is oppressing white people with their multi-million dollar elitist violins. The bastards.

Gus Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:31:41pm

re: #69 Charles

Don't you get it? The NAACP is oppressing white people with their multi-million dollar elitist violins. The bastards.

It's the fault of all those evil luthiers!!

Walter L. Newton Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:32:22pm

re: #52 mardukhai

I admit to being a little different from most people. I personally experienced black racism in a particularly horrific way, and stood by helplessly as moonbat reporters (including my own dad) quashed the story.

The bully boys who tried to kill me (and were photographed beating up my friend three hours later) not only got away with it, they are annually honored for it.

So if a smart-ass public official wants to brag about not doing her job before the NAACP, don't ask me to feel sorry if she's fired for it. Black racism exists, and it's a problem. No use denying it -- I've experienced it, full bore.

A number of problems with your statement above, even if your incident was 100 percent as you summarize it. This woman was telling a story, much as you have, and was admitting to her possible shortcomings. We don't know how many times she has told this story, we don't know how long she felt bad (or not) about doing what she did, but it is evident she is trying to be contrite in this case, and not racist as some would like to make her out to be.

I don't think anyone stated anywhere in this thread that there is no black racism, but there is also no point in trying to make something that is evidently NOT racist out to be racist.

You seem to miss that point altogether. I would reexamine your own feelings. Things have changed, and if mistakes were made in your case, too bad. So, you go through life for now on seeing an incident like this as automatically racism. Did you listen tot he video. "So if a smart-ass public official wants to brag about not doing her job before the NAACP, don't ask me to feel sorry if she's fired for it." DId you find her tone of voice smart-assed?

I think you have a problem you need to get over way before you are a fair judge of other peoples reaction to race issues.

darthstar Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:33:19pm

re: #70 Gus 802

It's the fault of all those evil luthiers!!

/

I didn't even think about Lex Luthier. Good catch.

Aceofwhat? Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:35:36pm

re: #64 Gus 802

I tell you, if you're in the public eye you have to watch every single word that comes out of your mouth. One little mistake can cost you your career. It happens to often in my opinion and it occurs regardless of race or ideology.

Yep. I agree completely. We don't give people enough credit for the body of their work, either for better or worse (we're looking at you, Erik son of Erik...)

darthstar Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:37:28pm

re: #73 Aceofwhat?

Yep. I agree completely. We don't give people enough credit for the body of their work, either for better or worse (we're looking at you, Erik son of Erik...)

I'd love to see Erick get the boot from CNN...and publicly.

b_sharp Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:42:02pm

Now that (not) BrightBart has shown the NAACP actually talks to people who look totally racist (not) in a heavily edited video, all the Tea Party bigotry is A-OK and hunky-dory.

Achilles Tang Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:44:45pm

re: #69 Charles

Don't you get it? The NAACP is oppressing white people with their multi-million dollar elitist violins. The bastards.

I would get a banjo.

b_sharp Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:45:40pm

re: #58 Aceofwhat?

Agree. She also could have done more to emphasize that the "one of his own" characterization was also something she learned to put behind her. I admit that term made me blanch. Still, this proves the NAACP is racist like a dead bug on my lawn proves I'm radioactive...

You are?

I better go get a lead shield for my monitor.

Achilles Tang Mon, Jul 19, 2010 5:48:39pm

A little something that came from a recent google. It's a bit long but actually very interesting speculation, and the bonus is that anyone who cares to is able to call parts of it quite deliciously racist, until they read further that is.

Who's an Neanderthal then?

teh mantis Mon, Jul 19, 2010 6:07:54pm

The whole story is BS. Brietbart has conveniently edited out the context of this story, but he forgot one crucial detail. Notice where she says that the story took place just after Chapter 12 bankruptcy was established for family farms? Andrew really should have edited that out. You know why? Chapter 12 was so established in 1986. What was Shirley Sherrod doing in 1986? She was running the New Communities black farm coop in Georgia. She was not employed by the government in any way. Some white farmer called a black coop looking for help. She helped him, but not as much as she “could” if, you know, he were a black farmer and thus would have some interest in the coop. They also gave farmers help restructuring their loans and whatnot, so she referred him to a lawyer who could help him, despite his condescending attitude.

I should also note that the her coop and the associate RDLN recently won a $1 billion+ settlement for black farmers after they were systematically denied loans provided to white farmers in the early eighties, complements of Ronnie Reagan (Pigford v. Glickman). But we all know it was those black farmers banding together in their cooperative farming blackness that are the real racists.

webevintage Mon, Jul 19, 2010 6:17:11pm

So this is all about a woman who helped an asshole but not as much as she could but she sent him on his way to someone who help him better and she had to resign because she is black and he is white and this happened in the 80's but proves that right now she is a racist and the NAACP is a racist organization?
wow....

Like I said before, if act like a rude asshole you get what you deserve which is a whole lotta nothing.

teh mantis Tue, Jul 20, 2010 7:42:37am

As I said, from the AJC:

But Tuesday morning, Sherrod said what online viewers weren't told in reports posted throughout the day Monday was that the tale she told at the banquet happened 24 years ago -- before she got the USDA job -- when she worked with the Georgia field office for the Federation of Southern Cooperative/Land Assistance Fund.

Sherrod said the short video clip excluded the breadth of the story about how she eventually worked with the man over a two-year period to help ward off foreclosure of his farm, and how she eventually became friends with him and his wife.

"And I went on to work with many more white farmers," she said. "The story helped me realize that race is not the issue, it's about the people who have and the people who don't. When I speak to groups, I try to speak about getting beyond the issue of race."

WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jul 20, 2010 2:07:48pm

re: #52 mardukhai

I admit to being a little different from most people. I personally experienced black racism in a particularly horrific way, and stood by helplessly as moonbat reporters (including my own dad) quashed the story.

The bully boys who tried to kill me (and were photographed beating up my friend three hours later) not only got away with it, they are annually honored for it.

So if a smart-ass public official wants to brag about not doing her job before the NAACP, don't ask me to feel sorry if she's fired for it. Black racism exists, and it's a problem. No use denying it -- I've experienced it, full bore.

go away, liar

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