Shirley Sherrod, USDA Official, Says White House Forced Her to Quit Over Allegedly Racist Stance

FOX NEWS needs to apologize to Ms. Sherrod for airing unedited tapes without any concern for her reputation. Their extreme right wing agenda is destroying all credibility for FOX NEWS.

How sad that the White House would demand a resignation without hearing all the facts. Is the next election so important that you would smear this woman, destroy her career and defame her without facts? What is happening to our country?

Hard to know what this is all about. Ms Sherrod also stated that the white farmer was trying to show his superiority over her, yet, without hearing from the man, it seems more that likely that Ms Sherrod was the one trying to do what she accuses the farmer of doing. In any case, since this is an extremely OLD story, it looks like this WH administration went the knee-jerk route, and told the woman to resign. She says they told her she was going to be on Glenn Beck. SO WHAT? If Ms Sherrod knew that, whether intentionally or not, she actually ended up helping the farmer, why wouldn't she appear on the most watched cable news FOX, and clear the air? This, in itself, will certainly identify her politics, but it says more about her backbone.

I'll take the word of the farmer's wife in addition to the video in its entirety. But for some the highly edited clip from the blog guy is all they need.

Simple question really--if she was white, would there be any sympathy for her at all? Like many here have said, no ethnic group has the market cornered when it comes to racism. Let's face it, the most powerful man and woman in America, Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey, are black in a country where African Americans are still a distinct minority. So I no longer buy into the notion that white America is the biggest culprit when it comes to racism. The idea just doesn't hold water anymore. Instead, we are now the biggest victims of the evil double standards that have arisen out of the fight against racism, the cumulative effect of years of the blame game and the endorsement of affirmative action as a moral absolute that has rendered so many of us willing to abide the practice that it's acceptable to be judged by a different set of rules.

Simple question really--if she was white, would there be any sympathy for her at all? Like many here have said, no ethnic group has the market cornered when it comes to racism. Let's face it, the most powerful man and woman in America, Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey, are black in a country where African Americans are still a distinct minority. So I no longer buy into the notion that white America is the biggest culprit when it comes to racism. The idea just doesn't hold water anymore. Instead, we are now the biggest victims of the evil double standards that have arisen out of the fight against racism, the cumulative effect of years of the blame game and the endorsement of affirmative action as a moral absolute that has rendered so many of us willing to abide the practice that it's acceptable to be judged by a different set of rules.

Simple question really--if she was white, would there be any sympathy for her at all? Like many here have said, no ethnic group has the market cornered when it comes to racism. Let's face it, the most powerful man and woman in America, Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey, are black in a country where African Americans are still a distinct minority. So I no longer buy into the notion that white America is the biggest culprit when it comes to racism. The idea just doesn't hold water anymore. Instead, we are now the biggest victims of the evil double standards that have arisen out of the fight against racism, the cumulative effect of years of the blame game and the endorsement of affirmative action as a moral absolute that has rendered so many of us willing to abide the practice that it's acceptable to be judged by a different set of rules.

Simple question really--if she was white, would there be any sympathy for her at all? Like many here have said, no ethnic group has the market cornered when it comes to racism. Let's face it, the most powerful man and woman in America, Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey, are black in a country where African Americans are still a distinct minority. So I no longer buy into the notion that white America is the biggest culprit when it comes to racism. The idea just doesn't hold water anymore. Instead, we are now the biggest victims of the evil double standards that have arisen out of the fight against racism, the cumulative effect of years of the blame game and the endorsement of affirmative action as a moral absolute that has rendered so many of us willing to abide the practice that it's acceptable to be judged by a different set of rules.

J.M.3:39 PM Jul 20, 2010(1) vote this comment up (2) vote this comment down It's remarkable how indignant people get when the shoe is on the other foot. For hundreds of years
.for hundred of years.....yes, blacks were dragged here from Africa for labor. If it weren;t blacks it would have been some other group. Whites back then didn't even mix with other whites and stayed in their little groups, Little Italy, etc. There are cemetaries in New England where burials were by ethnic group so why would they treat blacks better? That's how it was back then. When TV permeated America's homes and they saw with their own eyes the injustices laws were changed and movements began. To blame the children of today for acts committed in the 16 and 1700 hundreds is ridiculous. We can still fight for equality and fairness but I think as these generations die out so will old attitudes.

If the colors were reversed you wouldn't have included the term "alleged" in your article.