This is pretty remarkable. Not that the story told happened, but that the government official admits so openly to blatant racism.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/19/breitbart-hits-naacp-with-promised-video-of-racism/
Show this to all your friends/relatives/co-workers who are convinced that the Tea Partiers are the racist ones.
UPDATE:
Been lots of news on this story. To sum up, I’ll simply cut-and-paste from a response to an email about it…
> According to the NBC News report, the story in question actually occurred 20 years ago — when the speaker, Shirley Sherrod, was not yet employed by the Department of Agriculture — and was being used Sherrod as part of a larger tale of how she eventually overcame her racism.
Yup. Been following the story through the day. Imagine that… someone gets accused of racism, and it turns out that the story is incomplete/out of context. I wonder how many Tea Partiers empathize with that?
>She was nonetheless fired by the DOA, which preferred to put the fire of controversy the Brietbart article created.
Yeah, that’s the weird part. After the Obama administration went out of it’s damned way to let black racist criminals off the legal hook with the “New Black Panther” voter intimidation case, they went out of their damned way to throw this woman under the bus. My guess is that it’s in order to help create more “victims of the conservatives/Tea Party.”
The ones who really seem to be in a twist now are the NAACP, who have made a *lot* of blunders recently. They started with their politically motivated attack on Tea Partiers, based on charges of endemic racism that have long since been proven to be fraudulent, and now this. Weird.
The NAACP has added a video of the full speach to YouTube. Far better audio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9NcCa_KjXk
The story seen in the earlier edits starts at about 17 minutes. There’s an odd edit at about 21 minutes where something got chopped out. On the whole, Sherrod seems to come off fairly well out of the speech (NOTE: On *this* topic. She comes off like the stereotypical brain-damaged Leftist as she trots out the usual libtard talking point that the reason why Republicans are opposed to Obamacare is because they’re racist). You know who doesn’t come off well? The NAACP. At about 17:25, she says “… I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him.” Audience reaction? Laughter and approval.
The NAACP needs to look at its *own* racist membership before they start attacking other groups for having racist members.
UPDATE: She ain’t none too damned bright, or she is at least pathologically stuck on the “if they disagree, it’s because they’re racist” meme: And on CNN, Sherrod said that people who had interpreted her comments to be racist were themselves racist.
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…and then show them this:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/07/post-22.html
Even the Tea Party thinks some of its members are racist.
> Even the Tea Party thinks some of its members are racist.
Name some organization of more than five people that doesn’t have at least one racist member.
And I’ll take a badly written bit of lame-ass satire over a government official using her power to punish people of the wrong race *any* day.
Pat, defending racists makes you a racist, in case you didn’t know.
Scott, I have seen far worse than this done, and that was in the 1980s in Atlanta and in the 1990s in PA, Ohio, and New York. Institutionalized racism is alive and well in US government and the Democrat Party.
it’s been proven racist crap doesn’t fly very far in the TEA Party (the REAL TEA parties, not the “tea party express” which was just a way for some old-school conservative groups to try to take advantage of the tea party movement)
however, racism seems to get you a seat at the head of the table at the NAACP
time for them to clean their own house.
Another view of the situation: http://www.jimgoad.net/
Jim Goad is best known for “The Redneck Manifesto,” doing time for beating up his ex-wife, and spending time in court when a magazine he edited and wrote was deemed obscene.