USDA official Shirley Sherrod is a target for many after all Tea Party racism accusations happened. Mark Williams, Tea Party Express racist, got himself and his followers kicked out of the Tea Party making conservative writers ask for another liberal to take his spot. They found a video of Sherrod, who’s black, describing an encounter with a white farmer back in the 1980s. The video shows Sherrod being unwilling to help the farmer get out of bankruptcy, although this is out of context. Source for this article – Shirley Sherrod resigns from USDA, right wing gets even on racism by Personal Money Store.
Shirley Sherrod targeted by Conservatives
After making a video on race, Shirley Sherrod, USDA’s Georgia State Director of Rural Development, resigned. Conservative bloggers sent out the video responding to Tea Party Express racist Mark Williams getting kicked out. Fox News picked up the story. In Douglas, GA on March 27, Sherrod’s gave a speech at an NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet what the video was of, according to CBS News. In the video segment, Sherrod tells a story about a white man who came to her for help seeking Chapter 12 bankruptcy. She said it was not something she wanted to do since she had to help him keep his land when many blacks were losing their land. She ended up referring him to a white lawyer.
Sherrod puts in resignation after seeing video on news
The USDA announced Sherrod’s resignation after the video was played by Fox news and Tea Party Express fans like Sean Hannity. “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 are 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.”
Truth about Sherrod video
Sherrod explains to everybody that this short clip doesn’t have the whole story in it. CNN reports that Sherrod said the event she discusses in the clip took place more than two decades ago, before she worked for the USDA. The Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund helps family farmers develop their property, and Sherrod served as Director of the Georgia State Office for the business after getting her master’s degree in community development in 1985. The story was intended to help people to see past race. In the end, she said, the lawyer she referred the farmer to did not help him and she “had to frantically find a lawyer who would file a Chapter 11 to stop the foreclosure.”. The family of the farmer became family friends of hers throughout the process.
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CBS News
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Sean Hannity
americanprogress.org/issues/kfiles/b91585.html
CNN
edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/20/agriculture.employee.naacp/#fbid=w2XX2duDWrt
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