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News & ArtsTuesday, July 20, 2010
Politics A Profile in Courage
Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:58 PM
Rightwing smear artists go after an Obama appointee—falsely accusing the African-American woman of being a racist—and the White House responds by immediately forcing the woman to resign. So the tantrums will continue. Fierce!
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Sounds like it was pretty fucking racist to me: "I didn't do everything I could do to help the guy because he was the wrong color." Come on.
What concerns me more is that this happened 30 years ago.
What concerns me more is that this happened 30 years ago.
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I'm starting to wonder how many sacrificial lambs the Dems are going to offer the right before they realize it's not helping.
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Obama learned his lesson very well during the election: This country is not ready for an honest dialogue about race. He's treated the entire subject as toxic since then, but that's as much a comment on us as it is on Obama.
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http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_r…
emphasis all mine...
"the story Sherrod told was about her work 24 years ago for the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund, not 'her federal duties.' So, that's a lie."
"The Federation of Southern Cooperatives was chartered in 1967 for the express purpose of forming, aiding and developing co-ops for black farmers and landowners."
"the entire point of Sherrod's story was to illustrate how her eyes were opened to [the fact that "When you're poor, no one wants to help you, no matter your race"], she went on in her speech to explain that she 'eventually worked with the man over a two-year period to help ward off foreclosure of his farm and ... eventually became friends with him and his wife.'"
emphasis all mine...
"the story Sherrod told was about her work 24 years ago for the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund, not 'her federal duties.' So, that's a lie."
"The Federation of Southern Cooperatives was chartered in 1967 for the express purpose of forming, aiding and developing co-ops for black farmers and landowners."
"the entire point of Sherrod's story was to illustrate how her eyes were opened to [the fact that "When you're poor, no one wants to help you, no matter your race"], she went on in her speech to explain that she 'eventually worked with the man over a two-year period to help ward off foreclosure of his farm and ... eventually became friends with him and his wife.'"
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5280 is wrong, and so is will. shocking!
if you listen to the whole tape -- and not breitbart's selectively edited version, which is what all the furor is over -- the woman is recounting this story as a lesson in what not to do. at the end of her story, she came around to help the couple and realized her mistake of viewing everything through the prism of race. it wasn't just not racist, it was anti-racist. breitbart edited out the parts that put the whole story into context, and that appears to be the reason she was asked to resign. pathetic.
if you listen to the whole tape -- and not breitbart's selectively edited version, which is what all the furor is over -- the woman is recounting this story as a lesson in what not to do. at the end of her story, she came around to help the couple and realized her mistake of viewing everything through the prism of race. it wasn't just not racist, it was anti-racist. breitbart edited out the parts that put the whole story into context, and that appears to be the reason she was asked to resign. pathetic.
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Ah, nothing like a little knee-jerk on a sunny afternoon. You see, the video clip that has been gobbled whole-sale was actually a small part of her entire speech, which was how she overcame her own racism.
(I guess some of us are still struggling w/ that, aren't we mister here's-johnny? The first step is admitting you have a problem.)
She goes on to say how much she worked for that farmer. The man's wife has come forward to say that Ms. Sherrod did all she could for her husband, and they owe her a debt of gratitude.
Of course, that doesn't go in lock-step w/ the Fox News narrative so obligingly bukkakee'd by shallow thinkers. They prefer the obvious, easy answers. Cum on, indeed.
(I guess some of us are still struggling w/ that, aren't we mister here's-johnny? The first step is admitting you have a problem.)
She goes on to say how much she worked for that farmer. The man's wife has come forward to say that Ms. Sherrod did all she could for her husband, and they owe her a debt of gratitude.
Of course, that doesn't go in lock-step w/ the Fox News narrative so obligingly bukkakee'd by shallow thinkers. They prefer the obvious, easy answers. Cum on, indeed.
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@1:
"Sherrod said she and the white farmer she referred to in the video, Roger Spooner, became friends. Spooner's wife, Eloise, confirmed to CNN that she and her husband considered Sherrod friends. 'She helped us save our farm by getting in there and doing everything she could do,' Eloise Spooner said. 'They haven't treated her right.'
"Sherrod said she told the story to make the point that at the time she thought that white farmers had the advantages because of their race but she learned that was not the case. 'The point was to get them to understand that we need to look beyond race,' Sherrod said."
Wow... yeah... sounds like a lifelong venomous racist to me!
"Sherrod said she and the white farmer she referred to in the video, Roger Spooner, became friends. Spooner's wife, Eloise, confirmed to CNN that she and her husband considered Sherrod friends. 'She helped us save our farm by getting in there and doing everything she could do,' Eloise Spooner said. 'They haven't treated her right.'
"Sherrod said she told the story to make the point that at the time she thought that white farmers had the advantages because of their race but she learned that was not the case. 'The point was to get them to understand that we need to look beyond race,' Sherrod said."
Wow... yeah... sounds like a lifelong venomous racist to me!
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My husband showed me the clip last night - what she initially said was truly horrifying; that she would only help this poor white farmer just enough to pass a review, that she saw no need to help him when there were so many black farmers losing their land, and that she passed him off to a white attorney thinking he'd take care of his own. There was more to the clip, though, that suggested she was telling this story as a teaching tool, one that said "I was wrong." Good for her for being open about a blight in her past. Good for her for using it to teach others. Shame on the administration for drumming her out rather than telling the rest of the story.
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@6 we've been thru this before. Our official US policy is that lynching was ok, provided we don't admit that it was official State Policy in the South until we sent federal troops in.
Or that Tea Bag Terrorists practice it even today.
Or that Tea Bag Terrorists practice it even today.
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You buffoon. I am beginning to think you don't understand most of the shit that falls out of that asshole beneath you nose and less of what you read.
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wait to hear the whole tape before making a judgment; this will probably all turn out like the smear campaign against ACORN
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