Video Suggests Racism At NAACP Event

[bonnie]

SHOCK: Video Suggests Racism At NAACP Event

Almost impossible to believe

Shirley Sherrod, USDA Rural Development Georgia State Director

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.

[Woody]

thank you Bonnie. This is very interesting.

[bonnie]

thank you Bonnie. This is very interesting.

This can't be true,is it? Only the nasty white american is racist

July 20, 2010

NAACP meeting calmly listened to racist remarks from black fed official

Thomas Lifson

Andrew Breitbart has scored another bullseye, revealing hypocrisy of the highest order on the part of another leftist establishment organization, the NAACP. On March 27 of this year, speaking before an NAACP 20th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet, Shirley Sherrod, the Department of Agriculture director for the State of Georgia -- responsible for over a billion dollars a year in spending -- boasts of denying a white farmer her full efforts because of his race. The audience does not react with shock or disapproval, but rather just sits there.

So much for NAACP President Ben Jealous denouncing the tea parties for tolerating racists. Only after Breitbart gave the incriminating video national exposure did the NAACP issue the obligatory denunciation, to prevent further embarrassment. But when nobody was looking, the NAACP audience was totally cool with the racism expressed by their speaker.

Sherrod also practically begs blacks to come to work for the USDA - because they won't be fired.

Now that sunshine is exposing the rot, Sherrod has resigned, and the NAACP is expressing outrage. Too bad that it took months and national exposure to get them to react to racism by a speaker at a meeting of theirs.

[Kyran]

"And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye." - Matthew 7:3-5

This whole saga is rather amusing.

[bonnie]

"And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye." - Matthew 7:3-5

This whole saga is rather amusing.

Yes it is rather amusing isn't it? The minute you start looking

for the speck in my eye you really should stop and remove the plank from your own.

You are a hypocrite for not first removing the plank first from your own eye.

As to the article,note the charge of racism came first from the liberal left,all the while ignoring the plank in their own eyes.

[lazarus]

Bonnie I guess you need to see the latest development before you post more.

[bonnie]

Bonnie I guess you need to see the latest development before you post more.

You are probably right.I think we should all stay tuned as more is apt to come out.

The firing of this woman was immediate and Obama says he remains committed to the decision to fire her.

It will be interesting to see what comes out next.

I remember Obama's accusation against the PO and his friend Gates. They were immediately stupid while Obama admitted to ignorance on the issue.

I think we will hear more as to why Obama and friends acted so quickly without hearing both sides. Perhaps he didn't need to do so