Resigned USDA official says story misconstrued....

[Nonno]

"The USDA's rural development director for Georgia says she was forced out of her federally appointed job after a "snippet" of a speech she gave in March appeared to show her admission to only half-heartedly aiding a struggling white farmer because of his race.

But in a phone interview from her home in Albany early Tuesday morning, Shirley Sherrod told the Atlanta-Journal Constitution that the two-minute, 38-second video posted online Monday by biggovernment.com and reported on by FoxNews.com and the AJC completely misconstrued the message she was trying to convey.

Sherrod, 62, insisted her statements in the video were not racist.

"For Fox to take a spin on this like they have done, and know it’s not the truth … it’s very upsetting," she said."

"In the video Sherrod, who is black, admits to the crowd at the NAACP banquet she didn't do everything she could to help a white farmer whom she said was condescending when he came to her for aid.

"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 in the video recorded March 27 in Douglas in southeast Georgia.

"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."

But Tuesday morning, Sherrod said what online viewers weren't told in reports posted throughout the day Monday was that the tale she told at the banquet happened 24 years ago -- before she got the USDA job -- when she worked with the Georgia field office for the Federation of Southern Cooperative/Land Assistance Fund.

Sherrod said the short video clip excluded the breadth of the story about how she eventually worked with the man over a two-year period to help ward off foreclosure of his farm, and how she eventually became friends with him and his wife.

"And I went on to work with many more white farmers," she said. "The story helped me realize that race is not the issue, it's about the people who have and the people who don't. When I speak to groups, I try to speak about getting beyond the issue of race."

Sherrod said the farmer, Roger Spooner of Iron City, Ga., has since died."

More at: Resigned USDA official says racial story misconstrued #| ajc.com


Misconstrued on purpose? Now why would Faux News do that?

Oh. they got it from the Breitbart guys:
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[Baja28 (Premo)]

If innocent, why did the racist resign?????

[Pete]

Originally Posted by Baja28

If innocent, why did the racist resign?????

Sounds like Macaca to me.

[Bay_Kat (Premo)]

But Tuesday morning, Sherrod said what online viewers weren't told in reports posted throughout the day Monday was that the tale she told at the banquet happened 24 years ago -- before she got the USDA job -- when she worked with the Georgia field office for the Federation of Southern Cooperative/Land Assistance Fund.

What a bunch of

[hvp05]

Nope. No way. Her intent is clear, especially given the audience and how they reacted.

Stupid idiot thinks she can back off it when anyone in a coma could understand what she did.

[Toxick]

Originally Posted by Nonno

"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."

Sounds racist to me.


And using your logic in the tea-party thread, since the USDA has a racist in it, it is a completely racist organization.

Yes?

[BernieP]

Originally Posted by Baja28

If innocent, why did the racist resign?????

stupid honky, she's not a racist, she's black. Only white people can be racists.

[Lenny]

But Tuesday morning, Sherrod said what online viewers weren't told in reports posted throughout the day Monday was that the tale she told at the banquet happened 24 years ago -- before she got the USDA job -- when she worked with the Georgia field office for the Federation of Southern Cooperative/Land Assistance Fund.

In other words, she's a lifelong bigot!

[retiredweaxman]

Originally Posted by Lenny

In other words, she's a lifelong bigot!

If it worked that way for Mark Fuhrman in the OJ Simpson case (using the N word 10 years in the past), then it should work the same way for this woman.

[Vince]

Originally Posted by hvp05

Nope. No way. Her intent is clear, especially given the audience and how they reacted.

Stupid idiot thinks she can back off it when anyone in a coma could understand what she did.

"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."

If she wasn't so worried about what color folks were that she was helping and just do her job, maybe more farmers would get the help they need.