@ItsAHabit There was a rush to judgement here. The full tape of the speech shows that she was relating an annecdote from 24 years ago when she was working for a Georgia non-profit, not the USDA. She told the current NAACP crowd that she had learned that her mission was to reach out to all people in need, whatever their race. This coming from a woman whose own father was lynched by the KKK. The crowd applauded. She then related the anecdote, in which a poor white farmer had come to her for help saving his farm. She said her first reaction was to think that whites have it good enough, and to not give him the full assistance she knew how to provide. But then she thought that her real mission was not to help blacks, buit all who are poor and in need. She did help the man, and she saved him from losing his farm. He and his wife have come to her defense.
Either Andrew Britebart or the person who sent him the tape edited it. They moved the applause from the point of introducing the story to the point where she said she didn’t want to help a white man. It was a LIE. It was a shameful attack on a woman who has spent 24 years helpoing people, and now thanks to a rush to judgment similar to that in the ACORN fake tape, has lost her job.
Yeah,m racism is racism, and the people who edited that tape to make it look like the NAACP are racist are the racist in question. Being it’s Britebart, that leads back to the Tea Party. Apparently their idea of how to punish the NAACP for telling the truth that there are racist elements in the Tea Party is to use race baiting as a weapon. Racism is Racism, and the people who rushed to judgement without giving Ms. Sherrod a chance to tell her side are showing it. Lying is lying, too. And whoever edited that tape is a racist liar.