The target of one of Andrew Breitbart’s most despicable smears, Shirley Sherrod, is going back to work for the USDA, in a contract job to help the USDA improve its civil rights record.

Sherrod will be a contract employee leading one of three field programs designed to bolster relations between the USDA and minority farmers and ranchers. Support for the programs is among several recommendations contained in a sweeping, two-year study released Wednesday that examined decades of discrimination claims by African Americans, Latinos, women and Native Americans. …

Sherrod will run the Southwest Georgia project, which she co-founded, DeJong said. The program, he added, “is considered among the best southeastern regional organizations focused on the issues and populations affected by this assessment and has a strong relationship and understanding of the work of USDA.”

Politico’s completely accurate summation of Breitbart’s dishonest race-baiting attack on Sherrod is certain to provoke a deranged response from the thin-skinned King of Fraud.

Sherrod, a former Georgia director of rural development for the USDA, was abruptly dismissed after a heavily edited online video seemed to show her describing how she once short-changed white farmers to settle old racial scores. Sherrod, who is African American, was speaking at an NAACP event at the time, and the White House approved of her dismissal when the video began to dominate the national news.

But the administration’s attempt at damage control led to embarrassment when it became clear that Sherrod’s remarks were taken out of context. She actually had recounted a personal story of racial healing. Vilsack — who took office on a promise to right past wrongs for minority farmers — personally apologized to Sherrod and offered her a job in the USDA’s civil rights division, but she turned him down.