Bigotry @ NAACP Event

[CharliePC]

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(7/1/2010) Last Tuesday, the NAACP passed a
resolution condemning racism in the Tea Party movement. The organization's delegates called on Tea Party leaders to "repudiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches."

Tea Party members and supporters saw the resolution as a condemnation of the group itself, which calls for fiscal responsibility, restrictions on governmental power, and backs political candidates who claim the same.

The NAACP's action caught the attention of Andrew Breitbart of BigGovernment.com, who said the controversy was "absolutely manufactured for political gain," in a summer "in which the economy is the number one issue affecting blacks and whites in this country. This country can ill afford the schism of race to be exploited the way [he is] based upon the false premise of the Tea Party being racist."

He also claimed to possess recorded evidence of racism from the NAACP.

On Monday, Breitbart posted a video of a speech by Shirley Sherrod, USDA Rural Development Georgia State Director, delivered at the NAACP's 20th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet.

The video shows Sherrod speaking of racial considerations being a factor for how much help she would give.

"The first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm, he took a long time talking but he was trying to show me he was superior to me. I know what he was doing, but he had 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," Sherrod said.

"I was struggling with the fact that so many black people had 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," Sherrod said. "So that when he, I assumed the Department of Agriculture had sent him to me, either that or the Georgia Department of Agriculture, and he needed to go back and report that I did try to help him."

In the video, Sherrod also spoke of referring the white farmer to a white lawyer, thinking the latter would be more sympathetic because of race. "So I took him to a white lawyer that had attended some of training that we had provided because Chapter 12 bankruptcy had just been enacted for the family farm. So I figured if I take him to one of them, that his own kind would take care of him."

The NAACP had no immediate response Monday afternoon.

[mainiac]

Wow, can't wait for my friend in indiana to see this.

[yrualeg]

Sad really....and all I have to do is disagree with the President or support the TEA Party and I'm considered a racists so I lose either way

[AbnJack]

Sad really....and all I have to do is disagree with the President or support the TEA Party and I'm considered a racists so I lose either way

You've heard me harp on it before.....I grew up watching this bullshit, anyone who thinks this is an abnormality is wrong. Equality is and has been available for those who would stand up and accept the responsibilities that go with it.......many don't want equality they want retribution.

[GERONIMO]

Sherrod is the worst kind of bigot. The two faced kind pandering to what ever group will listening to her. Her fat ass has never done an honest days work. AIRBORNE! GERONIMO!!

[brothers all]

I agree. If you voice approval of the Tea Parties or disapproval of the Admin. - you are a racist. Unreal!

[SOWT]

She just opened the GA USDA office up to a class action lawsuit, hope it happens.

[CharliePC]

Political Correctness makes people see things that aren't there and not see things that are there.

An example of seeing things that aren't there- racism in the Tea Party

An example of not seeing things that are there- racism in the NAACP


BTW, most Progressives have no problem with what she said.

[AbnJack]

Does anyone really believe that EVERY member of the Tea Party Movement is racist? Does anyone believe that EVERY member of the NAACP is racist?

Nope....but who played the race card first in this instance?

[abnbull]

Nope....but who played the race card first in this instance?

Does it really matter? Does it add to public discourse to sit around name-calling?

My point is this incident did nothing to help the Tea Party Movement, any of its organizations or the principles that it stands for.

All it did was manufacture controversy for the sake of viewership, which was my original point.

[VB]

She's been fired.

[AK Airborne]

Ding dong da bitch be GONE!!!

[AbnJack]

But my point is that important issues, such as what the Tea Party Movement stands for, are frequently obscured by the name calling. The fact that the NAACP has racists in its membership does not answer the initial question of whether the Tea Party Movement is inherently racist.

what the Tea Party Movement stands for, are frequently obscured by the name calling.
exactly,the incoming name calling.How do you fight that when the same people have convinced society that if you disagree with them and call them out for the racist hateful bullshit they spew, you are a racist? Whites sitting on their hands reduced to spectators in the debate isn't doing either side any good.

“racist elements” within the Tea Party, but the intent is clear… to associate opposition to Obama as being motivated by racism.

yep.

[AbnJack]

USDA and the NAACP are reconsidering.
But here's more new stuff...

But it's not the first time Sherrod faced off against the federal government. Days before she was appointed to the USDA post last year, her group reportedly won a $13 million settlement in a longstanding discrimination suit against the USDA known commonly as the Pigford case.

The Rural Development Leadership Network announced last summer that New Communities Inc. -- a group Sherrod formed with husband Charles, who is a civil rights activist, and with other black farmers -- had reached the agreement. The RDLN said the USDA had "refused" to offer new loans or restructure old loans to members of New Communities, leading to the discrimination claim.

The announcement said that in addition to the $13 million to New Communities, Shirley and Charles Sherrod would each get $150,000 for "pain and suffering."

in addition to the $13 million to New Communities, Shirley and Charles Sherrod would each get $150,000 for "pain and suffering."....and a job.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010...sda-court-won/

[abnbull]

This is what happens when amateurs attempt to use propaganda techniques instead of focusing on the issues.
More to the story:

In the video, Sherrod can be heard telling an audience at a March 27, 2010, appearance before a local chapter of the NAACP that she had not given a white farmer "the full force of what I could do" to help him save the family farm.

But later in the tape, in the portion not originally posted, Sherrod says, "working with (the farmer) made me see that it's really about those who have versus those who have not. They could be black. They could be white. They could be Hispanic."

The video initially brought condemnation from the NAACP, which later retracted its statement and apologized to Sherrod after the context of the clip became clear. Also, the farmer and his wife Sherrod was discussing, Roger and Eloise Spooner, came forward Tuesday, saying they credited Sherrod with helping them save their farm and that she did not discriminate against them.