Govt Official/NAACP Award Recipient Resigns after Big Government Exposé
by PubliusCorrection: While Ms. Sherrod did discuss withholding help from a white farmer, it was not during her tenure with the USDA
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This morning, we broke video of a USDA official, Shirley Sherrod, recounting for attendees at an NAACP awards dinner how she withheld help from a white farmer seeking the agency’s help in saving his farm.
Fox News is reporting that Ms. Sherrod has resigned. From Fox:
“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.
“I figured that if I take him to one of them, that his own kind would take care of him,” she said.
The video clip was first posted by BigGovernment.com. The clip is dated March 27 from an NAACP Freedom Fund banquet.
So, the USDA has issued a statement. We’re still waiting to hear from the NAACP.
Presumably, they will denounce the racism in the video as strongly as the Obama Administration has.
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About damn time to expose the racism that is going on all over the place. It is NOT ACCEPTABLE.
I hope to hell no one is waiting for the racist NAACP to weigh in here on this one. After all, we haven't heard any retraction, apologies or admissions of guild after their last F'ups regarding the tea parties. Why would this one incident, that will likely never make MSM outlets, deserve their attention.
Lying racists the entire lot of them.
One down, and big liar NAACP CEO Ben T. Jealous to go!
Come on Benny, man up with ANY EVIDENCE, backing up your allegations, of Tea Party racism, that are tied to supremacists, and/or to David Duke? Let's have a look?
I wonder how many more Shirley Sherrods are in the Obama administration?
Hmmm, AG Eric Holder and the New Black Panthers comes to mind!
If Andrew Breitbart could be cloned about 10 times over we could take 'em out faster! For now we will have to settle for one by one…it's a huge mess to clean up. Think what would happen if the entire media did its job!!!
Maybe she can work in the Rose Garden! Lot's of fertilizer to spread there and she is good at it!
The next thing that needs to happen is to examine every action she has taken at USDA and find out how many other people she has screwed. Then comes the criminal charges and civil lawsuits…
I thought she said you can't get fired from the gov't?
I am so sick of the word RASCISM I could puke. There was hardly any rascism before Obama and his freaking administraion came into power and started stirring the pot. He doesn't give a rats ass about black people and WHY can;t they see this? I have a lot of educated black friends and they are sick and tired of this too.
For Godsake, call me a rascist, call my black friends Uncle Toms…I don't care. Just stop this madness and get this adminstration our of power!!!
Getting fired in government-speak is called "resigning."
Shirley obviously feels so comfortable to speak of her practical racism, that it must be rampant throughout government now.
And we are to believe that there is no racism at the Injustice Department?
I'll say one thing: Breitbart gets results.
Silly crackers, racism only works one way! I'm sure this is going to eventually be spun as "Evil, rich-white media mogul Andrew Breitbart persecutes courageous, beleaguered black civil servant!"
She should not have resigned, she should have been fired!
obama will say she acted stupidly and hire her as "Joanie Loves Chachi Revival" czar.
Does "tip o' the proverbial iceberg" mean anything to you all?
The new "financial reform bill" Okenyan is about to burden the country with is FULL of mandates that impose RACIAL QUOTAS that will ELEVATE people like this to important jobs in the banking and finance industry all over the country. Sounds benign enough right? – until it turns out they are raging racists like this woman.
Nice huh?
She realized this wasn't a color issue, but a class issue. How about a human issue? Helping a human being who is in need. Silly silly me, I forgot. Elitists have no humanity.
this cracker is glad to see her go!!
….Copper – no offense, but my appreciation of your posts is sometimes tempered by the misspellings and punctuation glitches – I am concerned the liberal trolls will use that against you as evidence of ignorance, especially when you refer to your "educated" friends – its spelled "Racist"…..take your time when posting – you are writing for posterity ! ; )
Respects,
FDS
Thanks Andrew!
And probably with a full pension and bennies.
The biggest most forbidden truth in America is that blacks are far worse racists than any whites I, you and the public media knows. They are the worst anti-Semitics too. Here's hoping that as we pass through the Obama age of class and race warfare that a whole lot of white and Jewish American get their heads out of the sand.
Trust me, there will be no goodwill towards or repeat of another black racist in the White House. The Black Panthers threatening to crack skulls at a polling place may be omitted by the DOJ and MSM tools, but, it's out there on Youtube forever.
Our governments want a race war and they are doing their best to get one.
Way to go Mr. Breitbart.
"For the race everything and those outside the race nothing"
Once again witness the power of a real journalist.
Also once again we will watch an Axelrod/media complex blackout on this story.
I know where to go to get the news.
It ain't Katie.
Buh Bye, Shirley Sherrod, We (The People) Hardly Knew Ye….
can't be a class issue. she doesn't have any.
She must have forgot Jimmah Carther is a Georgian peanut farmer, not that there is anything wrong with that. Just glorious!
Andrew smoked this one out of the ballpark. SMACKED !!!
The worst part of this wasn't her or what she said, because let's face it, there are individuals out there who are racist. Maybe not even with evil intent, just racist. But the sad part is that this speach was given at an NAACP event and illustrates maybe that there are a lot of racist people within it, thus making it a racist organization. I say this because, she was getting accolades for her actions with this white farmer. I didn't hear anyone react negatively towards her racism or the actions she described in her speach. They all seemed to enjoy that the white farmer was not being treated the same as she would have treated a black farmer.
To quote Sherrod:
“Have you ever heard of anybody in the federal government losing their job?”
Yep.
Kudos to Andrew for exposing and broadcasting the hypocrisy and double standards of the NAACP.
Find the farmer. Encourage him to sue.
The Big problem is that this happens much more often than you would like to think. This is just what has been recorded.
"By George, this "New Media" thing(y), just might have legs after all…it must be stopped".
Dir. FCC
One more for the "Gipper".
And Andrew too.
Not Over.
I have been told it is impossible for a black person to be racist because they have no power. This woman has some power and look what she did with it.
Great job Andrew for exposing a True racist.
Great work Andrew!! That took less than 10 hours from when you first posted the video till this post! I wonder if that's a record?
Congratulations to the Big G and Andrew Breitbart! This is what journalism is supposed to be, reporting the TRUTH.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. I say again, Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. Good for Andrew, pointing out the hypocrisy of the NAACP and the racists in power.
We wouldn't have the Communist Party of the USA running things
Thanks Andrew! Great job!
Well I don't care about your spelling the point is well made. I am sick and tired of this word too. I agree that Obama has set this country back 20 years or more on race relations. But I am glad to see that we have some talented honest, willing to work black conservative men and women on several ballots and I think their constituent will still be fair and give them a chance regardless of color.
We cannot let him take us back. And people can call me racist all they want it does not bother me. My black husband "GRHS" , my biracial (proud of it, unlike Obama) child, and my wonderful grandchildren know better.
We need to get this administration out of power get the vote out we only have a few months for at least slowing down the damage.
I remember one profound statement my dad always said,"Birds of a feather, flock together. It looks like they are sure flocking at this time.
Sometimes truth is truly stranger than fiction
Absolutely!! I too would like to hear the farmers story and find out how sherrod's actions affected him!! I have a feeling he and his "white" attorney may have hit the lottery on this one!
resigned,……..???????
resigned my ass,……..
you mean re-assigned.
Andrew did warn the left, it's going to get interesting for them the closer it gets to election season.
I want to hear the farmers version of the story, and see exactly how "un"-helpful this government servant was to him.
Did he loose his farm? Did he loose his livlihood, and everything he had worked for, just because this woman imagined something?
My Dearest Dr. Scanlon,
When I post a comment, sometimes I post in a passionate state and there are times I forget to put my glasses on. Do you actually think the liberal trolls really give a hoot (crap) about my punctuation? Probably not and I personally don't care what they think.
I am sorry to offend your sense of accuracy and I do appreciate you're comments because you are an educated patriot. Unfortunately the female side of me just waves her hands up in the air and screams at the injustice that is happening to our beautiful country.
As for posterity, as soon as the Net Neutrality comes into effect, all our posts will be piled into the trash bin.
Yes Sunshine, you are absolutely right. My wife travels weekly for her job; the same route to the same cities at the same time every week. She looks like a dark skinned Michelle Bachman (yeah, lucky me!) but in both Chicago and Cleveland the same TSA agents give her hell every week. (Yes, black females). I believe they think she is Latino. It is so bad, the other business travelers who fly the same routes ask her all the time, "what did you do to them, why do they pick on you like that?” She gets so upset every week, but really, what recourse is there with TSA?
I'm sure sherrod has already landed a job at podesta's center for american "progress."
Find out if this is their policy, Big Guv. Go get em.
Not sure where my post went, but a repost:
Good work. These attempts by the statists to change the subject off their horrid job killing record need to be dealt with swiftly and effectively like this. Race-baiting and class-warfare tactics are all they have left, and they are going to start acting very desperate and nasty (actually, they already are). It's pathetic, and divisive.
So, bravo. Mark one defeat for real racism, and a victory for those of us trying to put this country back on track.
No, it's about a racist being busted as a member of a hypocritical organization that has long lost it's relevance and original intent. Farm subsidies came into being during that wonderful era called the New Deal.
thats what I am wondering
Thank you! Especially for reposting.
This is inexcusable and must gain congressional attention.
Any liberal misdirection (Joseph of Steel) must be seen for what it is.
Doesn't it get lonely where you are at?
Sssshhh….
he sleeping now.
In the Van Jones wing…
Ah. The snares of the Wicked. God Bless you Andrew, for doing the work of Righteousness:
The 64th Psalm comes to mind (Verse 5-10)
"They encourage themselves in an evil matter; They talk of laying snares secretly; they say 'Who will see them?' They devise iniquities: "We have perfected a shrewd scheme." Both the inward thought and the heart of man are deep. But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly they shall be wounded. So He will make them stumble over their own tongue; All who see them shall flee away. All men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider His doing. The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and trust in Him. And all the upright in heart shall glory."
Racism in its purest form. This is about as pure form of bigotry as you will find and this person was part of the Obama administration. The NAACP it seems is a modern day incarnation of the KKK. An organization apparently supportive of overt racism like we have not seen since the south in the 50's. Congratulations NAACP for repeating history for us so we have to live through more ugly racism like we saw in the 50's. The letters changed from KKK but the hate is the same.
Score one for common sense!
I always feel humbled when educated. Thank you.
I guess we could call all of the contributors to the Bigs as those Magnificent Sons Of Bitches! That's how my favorite morning radio show team refers to themselves, so I didn't really make it up.
Good work stang!
Save it to disks or thumb drives and distribute it everywhere!
Touche'!
Social service agencies in general need to investigated, if they insist on giving my money away they damn well better make sure that racists like Sherrod aren't making the judgment calls.
You name them with evidence, I'll denounce them.
Don't use that rascisit term in referring to my comment. Andrew is "white", "blond" and if i want him to be the "White Knight" I have the privelege and right to say so. I hope you forgot to use the /sarc/ at the end of your comment.
It would be interesting if she gets a severance package or any continuing benefits. If so, it is unacceptable. This woman is vile in her hatred. How awful it must be to go through life like that. I feel sorry for her really. But stupid is as stupid does. It's a shame she was brought up to hate instead of being told she could do anything she wanted. That hatred comes from being told that she will be held back by whites. It's ignorant and no way to raise a child. The left wants to create a victim class. She is a product of the left.
sigh….
IF YOU'VE BEEN WORKING HARD FOR 18 MONTHS, WHY DID YOU WAIT UNTIL TODAY TO MAKE IT HAPPEN?
True Racists exposed, there is no other explanation for it!!!
Good riddance to foul, racist, trash.
Then why have they done nothing about it? Empty words. They 'deplored' racism, but still allow it to fester within their ranks.
Atheist? Likely story, holy roller. Heck you even capitalize "Bible Study'. What atheist does THAT?
You are a Christian Jihadi.
Is the NAACP a racist organization? I hope there are more tapes to come so that we can get to bottom of this…
Another useful idiot. Nothing relevant to say. Purely adhominem attack. Blinded by talking points. No idea what the issues truly are. Yet you feel compelled to interject. The leaders of the tea party sit back and can't believe how easy it was to get you up and moving.
Well, when you site the scripture…..you kind of frame them in a scriptural sense, no?
In your case, yes a mind is a terrible thing.
Please cease and desist with the USMC in your user name. You are a disgrace to those of us who served honorably in the Corps. What was your MOS anyway? Were you a door stop?
As long as tea parties remain on par with your your intellect; I've nothing to worry about.
Say good nite to Chesty Puller and hit the rack, private.
the farmer would be smart to hire a black attorney……………..Just sayin…………..
The difference between the tea party and the NAACP is if you are looking for racists at the tea party you look at the fringe and if you are looking for racists at the NAACP you look to the stage.
I think its about time we start moving past this "racism" concept. As a word, it has no real meaning. People joke that a "racist" is someone winning an argument with a liberal, and this doesn't seem far from the truth. The idea of "racism" is probably best understood as modern day "sin" within the new faith of multiculturalism. Just as Christian pastors insist that 'we're born sinners," the high priests of multicultural claim "we're born racists."
The faith of Multiculturalism has its own temples (liberal arts departments), saints (MLK, Rosa Parks), and demons (white men). About once or twice a month, we have the modern equivalent of a Salem witch trial. But instead of looking for witches, the priests look for "racists."
I bet he was applying for a low interest disaster loan……….just a guess. The interest on those
things may be negative 3 or 4% right now, although I haven't checked. I may call my local FSA
tomorrow and ask.
Saw your other post to me, been out all day, read something about whole pages of posts disap-
pearing when I was in for lunch, what's going on? Perhaps AB will explain tomorrow.
TN, I think the only mistake in that prediction is the time line.
Ozero will wait for Labor day to do a recess appointment.
Impeachment hearings start in January, mark your calender.
agree BS61, however some on the thread and the other on this same topic were calling for a class
action law suit, etc. Since I am a farmer, and have suffered their barbs occasionally over the last
6 months I took this opportunity to point out a little irony. :~)
thumbs up bassett, from one farm family to another, we need you to 'stand up'.
see my reply near the top to BS61, please!
There are characteristics of human nature that are disgustingly horrible. Is it my fault that they are concentrated in one particular race?
In America, we whine about racism. Try living in Russia or Germany and see real racism.
Excellent work Buddy, you're my new best friend. Up thread folks were telling me this piece
was only about NAACP……………….he he he, you took care of that pretty good……….Thx
I would have been all over these 2 pieces today but had work to do. I don't get many opportuni-
ties to inform this crowd on this type of issue. So far I have a minus 9 up-thread for poking my
finger in their eye, now watch……….I'll get a bunch more minuses, some days they just can't
handle the truth. LOL……
The MSM is saying to themselves, "Ah, dammit! How do we defend this?" If it weren't for Breitbart and Fox, this would never have seen the light of day. Obama's presidency and his administration is a failed presidency and administration. First, all the dems up for election/re-election need to go. Then Obama and his "posse" need to go in Jan 2013.
Either screwed or helped out illegally.
She never would have talked this way if she wasn't comfortable doing it. This is how Obama has organized his government.
keep,,,,,,,,, they're still in celebration mode, drunk on their new-found power. Bet she was a relative
of a friend, or a friend of a relative whose background had nothing to do with Agriculture. These folks
have waited for their TIME for so long they just can't resist doin a little celebrating. The ones that don't
screw up like Sherrod did will be hell to get rid of, for the next administration, too.
You're right. And apparently she also lacks a conscience.
there will be some blood-shot eyes in the morning…………all-nighters brainstorming on the strategy
to deflect this issue.
Ssshhh, James………….we're not sposed to bring that DOJ pro-black farmer thang up……..I've been
told we're only sposed to talk about the NAACP. I got took to the woodshed with a minus 9 for point-
ing out a little touch of hypocrisy. Be careful what cha say around these city slickers, they stampede
like a herd of buffalo sometimes. ?:~D
DittO pazzi
So true SsC,……………..also it might not have hurt that he was a farmer, we have been stereotyped by
the media as greedy entitlement whores, thus make lucrative targets for many.
hey, Joseph Stalin/ Joseph of Steel.
I hope you know his real name was Joseph [Kobe] Dzugashvilli? He took the name of Stalin after he robbed some banks, getting some moneys for himself, the comrade terrorists and the commie party.
And I thought ~what a familiar voice I hear in your writing- that of the satanic liar comrade Stalin!
Wow!
The Video was produced by dctv3 located in Douglas, GA. Their website is http://dctv3.com/Home.html, perhaps they have the entire video. I would very much like to know who was in attendance at this event.
You are welcome. I do notice that they do not come back to reply often, esp. when they have no knowledge about what they spew. I now live in CA (my parents still run the family farm/ranch and are getting on in years) and see all the pistachio and almond orchards that are dead in the Central CA area because of no water. I know you would know how many years it takes to have a producing orchard, and these are full on dead trees that are mature, now only good for firewood, when they could have produced fruit/nuts for decades…..and they consider themselves environmentalists for saving a smelt (a sardine that lives by the millions in the ocean).
Which is it? Tree huggers or fish huggers? or both to the exclusion of all humans?
Hi cp. Just gave you a TU for your comment on the family farm. Keep up the good work of feeding all of us, including the trolls.
And you're scared to death that the tea party is going to seriously influence the elections in November– which is why people like you are spewing lies and trying to discredit the tea parties. You can't argue the facts, so you make stuff up and try to force the opposition to defend non-existent accusations. So clearly, you're stupid and unethical.
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