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- FoxNews.com

- July 19, 2010
Video Shows USDA Official Saying She Didn't Give 'Full Force' of Help to White Farmer

A video has surfaced showing an Agriculture Department official regaling an NAACP audience with a story about how she withheld help to a white farmer facing bankruptcy –– video that now has forced the official to resign
fox news

Days after the NAACP clashed with Tea Party members over allegations of racism, a video has surfaced showing an Agriculture Department official regaling an NAACP audience with a story about how she withheld help to a white farmer facing bankruptcy –– video that now has forced the official to resign.

Shirley Sherrod, the department's Georgia director of Rural Development, is shown in the clip describing "the first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm." Sherrod, who is black, claimed the farmer took a long time trying to show he was "superior" to her. The audience laughed as she described how she determined his fate.

"He had to 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 trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him," she said. "I was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farmland and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land –– so I didn't give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough."

The Agriculture Department announced Monday, shortly after FoxNews.com published its initial report on the video, that Sherrod had resigned.

"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.

FoxNews.com is seeking a response from both the NAACP and the USDA. The clip adds to the firestorm of debate over the NAACP's decision to approve a resolution at its convention last week accusing some Tea Party activists of racism –– a charge Tea Party leaders deny.

In a second clip from the same event posted online, Sherrod appeared to urge black job seekers to find work at the Department of Agriculture because the federal government won't lay people off.

"There are jobs at USDA and many times there are no people of color to fill those jobs because we shy away from agriculture. We hear the word agriculture and think, why are we working in the fields?" she said. "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."

This land is your land.
This land is my land.

This land was made for you and me.

Turd in the punchbowl time:

Why is it the Federal government's business to bail farmers, car makers, bankers or anyone else out?

Sweet!

I have nothing to say, that wouldn't result in me being banned from this site.

Votes.  That's how you buy them.



 

+1. A special place in hell. Thats all im saying.

This X 10!!!

Unpossible, black people can't be racist. Move along.

Oddly enough, racism is color blind.

Yup!

Racist whooooooore.

I think you accidentally replied to the wrong thread.  This thread is about a black employee of the USDA who used race as a criteria for providing the services her department is tasked with; you were trying to respond to a thread about the proper functions of the Federal government.  Its an easy mistake to make if you have too many windows open.

ROFL !!



Great closing words for someone that got 'resigned' because of them.



 



 

I'm sure the Holder powered DOJ will get right on this.

Mugabe will give her a job.

Great, now the site staff has to not ban you ten times.  Do you know how much paperwork that's going to create?

She must be one of those Tea Party people the NAACP was talking about.

woops

You and me both brother! heh! heh!

How quaint: 1 problem calling out another.

You get that cotton pickin logic out of this thread, buddy.

TRG

How many more are never caught.

Brieghtbart has said he has a barrel full of vids like this and told the NAACP they start condemning the tea party hes gonna release um

This video needs to go on You Tube and other video sites so it can go viral and show the true nature of the NAACP and crush them once and for all.



If this isn't a case of racism ( reverse racism ) I dont knwo what is.

She should be commended for her forthright honesty.  Her mistake is failing to understand that her form of racism is not yet accepted in this country.  Her second mistake is in acknowledging what most people know - the Federal Government is hiring people while other governmental entities and the private sector are laying people off.

What would be interesting would be to learn if the organization that had her speak would vote a censure.  If so, ok.  If not, it is also ok.  Just telling you a lot about the organization

So how long till she is promoted?

release them regardless...

Fixed.

There is no such thing as "reverse racism" only racism.

And I daresay there is more racism against white people than any other race in America at this point in time.

The NAACP is and should be branded a RACISIST organization and be banded from any involvement with the United States Government.  Membership in it should be dealt with along the same lines and the K.K.K.  

I'm sure ACORN, or the SEIU will pick her up. She's already shown how qualified she is!!!

I agree with you completely, it's not.  However, if the government is going to do it, they'd better not discriminate on the basis of what color skin someone has.

I almost fell out of my chair.  That was good.

Zimbabwe anyone?

Some people just feel the need to wage war in whatever way they can.

yeah...

40 acres and a mule?

THAT'S... oh never mind.

Just saw that on Fox, it sure is a good thing you have to be white to be racist or she'd have real problems.

Hate Crime ?

Now there is a woman with a good job who would probably be sweet as pie to you if you met her on the street.

Makes you wonder.

10 to 1 she got that job via affirmative action.  

This. They don't want equality, they want superiority.

This is my shocked face.

Classy

There is a silver lining to this dark cloud. . . . .you know the audience was all black. Had to be.  And somebody from "the other side" leaked that video to the proper outlets.

Not all blacks hate whites.  I take great comfort in that.

yep.

So you want to go on a tirade and throw racial slurs?



What you posted is just the same, only super-mega half-ass.



I can't imagine what else you might of said that would get you banned.



You could have said something like, "that farmer should sue the government because of that racist cunt", and not violate the CoC, but you didn't.
 

Wow! Just, wow.....