Retraction and Apology to Shirley Sherrod.

RETRACTION AND APOLOGY

I just found out that the tape featured above was edited unfairly and does not represent how Shirley Sherrod conducts herself today. That is unfair. I do not know all that happened, but the wife of the white farmer claims that Ms. Sherrod helped save their farm. That is enough for me.

I have erased my post because it is unfair that they should stay on the internet forever. I apologize for any hurt that my words have caused Ms. Sherrod and her family. I will leave my comments stand as a lesson to myself.

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Shirley Sherrod, an official at the United States Department of Agriculture has resigned after a speech she gave at an NAACP function in March was aired on Breitbart News and other conservative news outlets. In the speech, Sherrod, whose job it was to help farmers facing foreclosure of their farms, regaled a sympathetic audience with a story of how she had held back from helping a white farmer for reasons that she openly admitted on tape were racial in nature. The Dakota Voice quotes the video of Sherrod’s speech as follows:

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 to come to me for help. What he didn’t know, while he was talking 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. I was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farm land, 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.

Sherrod concluded her anecdote by saying that she sent the farmer to one of “his own kind” to get appropriate help. By “his own kind” Sherrod meant a white lawyer. The furor attending this speech led Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack To accept Sherrod’s resignation, according to CNN News.

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