USDA Georgia official Shirley Sherrod (who is white) has resigned after video of her remarks at a Tea Party meeting.
The remarks include:
There are jobs at USDA and many times there are no people of color to fill those jobs because they shy away from agriculture. They hear the word "agriculture" and think only of working in the fields. And you've heard of a lot of layoffs. Have you heard of anybody in the federal government losing their job? That's all I need to say.
Shocked? It gets better . . .
Ms. Sherrod's remarks continued:
The first time I was was faced with having to help a Black 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 just trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him. [Laughter] I was struggling with the fact that so many white people had lost their farmland. And here I was faced with having to help a Black person save their land. Sooooooo, 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 Black 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 poor versus those who have, and not so much about Black . . . it IS about Black and white, but it's not, you know, it opened my eyes. Because I took him to one of his own.
Outraged? Don't be.
Shirley Sherrod is everything I told you she was, except that she's Black, and her remarks were made not at a Tea Party meeting, but at the NAACP 20th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet on March 27, where she was receiving an award. Also, she's an Obama administration appointee -- one of the officials, we assume, of the post-racial, unified America that Obama promised. And another thing: I didn't quote her accurately. Substitute "we" for "they" in the first quote ("We hear the word 'agriculture' and think only of working in the fields"), and switch "Black" and "white" in the second quote ("here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land").
Sources:
http://www.foxnews.com/...
http://biggovernment.com/...
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