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(Associated Press) Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod says she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video of her making racially tinged remarks last week.
Sherrod made the announcement Thursday in San Diego at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention.
The edited video posted by Andrew Breitbart led Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to ask her to resign, a decision he reconsidered after seeing the entire video of her March speech to a local NAACP group. In the full speech, Sherrod spoke of racial reconciliation and lessons she learned after initially hesitating to help a white farmer save his home.
Sherrod: 'I Really Think I Should' Sue Breitbart (VIDEO)
From July 22, on CNN's American Morning. Via TPM:
"I don't know a lot about the legal profession but that's one person I'd like to get back at, because he came at me. He didn't go after the NAACP; he came at me," she went on.
She agreed with the hosts that it would be a "great thing" if Big Government was shut down. "I don't see how that advances us in this country."
"It's hard for me to understand a person like him, and it's hard for me to understand what is his purpose, what is he trying to do really," she said. "He could easily make a decision to destroy me, but in destroying me, what else is he trying to do?"