'Reverse-Racism' at the USDA

[muman613]

These affirmative action people can be dangerously racist... This story makes you wonder when you go to State or City government for help whether or not that nice black lady is really a racist or not...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/19/clip-shows-usda-official-admitting-withheld-help-white-farmer/

Video Shows USDA Official Saying She Didn't Give 'Full Force' of Help to White Farmer

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 point of the story wasn't entirely clear; only an excerpt of the speech is included in the video clip.

"It was revealed to me that it's about poor versus those who have," she said, suggesting she had learned that race is less important.

The video clip was first posted by BigGovernment.com. The clip is dated March 27 from an NAACP Freedom Fund banquet.

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. FoxNews.com was unable to get a response to this story from the NAACP.

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."

[Ithaca-37]

I'm genuinely surprised that she bothered to resign.  I frankly believe that this woman was speaking what most in Obama's administration believe at their core.  Let's not kid ourselves:  The current Federal government bears a remarkable resemblance to Zimbabwe early after Mugabe's takeover.

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[cjd]

Except for a very small part of black society anything most blacks are put in charge of goes directly down the tubes.... Sadly given enough time even the best of blacks will show their true colors and lash out against the white folks around them because of some perceived slight...I don't know about most folks here on the forum but in my case blacks have cause my family far more harm then most people would care to even read about...Putting animals like this in charge of anything really leaves me wondering as to what hope is left to our once great nation...One only has to look at the record to see what becomes of societies where blacks take a leadership roll in government to see the picture of things to come here in America. The picture I see is one that makes me happy more years are behind me then ahead of me. One only has to watch the very telling and surprisingly accurate prognosticating 1968 movie "Planet Of The Apes" to see whats in store for white society here in America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes_%281968_film%29 

[muman613]

This story is still in the news...

Apparently the woman was asked to resign from 'higher ups' whom she claims is the President in the White House. Her boss, the USDA President, took the responsibility for asking her to 'resign'. But now, only 1 day later, the liberal media took her side and now she is going to be offered her job back...

Apparently the administration is being run by poll and not by policy. The blacks apparently made some calls and now the whole story has been fixed so that she never really said the things which she clearly said, or she didn't mean it, or it was taken out of context... The same excuses which Helen Thomas made...