Obama Phones Shirley Sherrod, Apologizes, Asks Her to Continue Work

Dear Shirley:
I will keep you in my prayers. I was borned in the south (Tallahassee, Florida) moved to Dayton Ohio where I lived for 38 years prior to returning to Tallahassee, Florida. I know how the people of north vs the south and how the south vs the north also how the haves verses the have nots in our daily work world. I have been unjustly fired from a job, had to take a personal break afterward, depression almost took me out of here. But God! But God! But God! I know that you are hurting right now and you do need your personal space now. Take your time, think, pray and do what you do best, stand your ground. Love Ya!

This is the problem with todays "sound bite" world. Things are taken out of context.

Obama is great at apologizing for others like America or anybody in his administration but the buck stops at Obama only long enough for him to spend it.

have you libs figured out yet that without fox news being duped into this story, there wouldn't be a story for ms. charade, i mean sherrod, to gain from? Actually fox news, only reported of her firing after learning of it. Glenn Beck was actually on her side as the whole context of her speech had not been received. I applaud him for that.

Breitbart should have considered that he might have been set up ,if this was the only
part of the tape he was presented .For this , he is at fault...I think all will think twice when something of this nature falls into their lap again.

If you don't understand why Ms. Sherrod said what she said, you don't understand our history. If you can't appreciate what is meant for the daughter of a man lynched by the KKK to overcome her more than justifiable suspicion of white folks in the South decades ago, you don't understand our history. As a white girl visiting with Southern family in the South of the 1950's and 60's, I remember "legal" segregation,the "Whites Only" signs and the terror and oppression that was part of the lives of so many Afican-Americans. It was real and it was terrible. I remember the lynchings and the deaths of those who dared to speak up; I remember that black people were not given the respect of being addressed as Mr., Miss or Mrs. I remember that we needed send the National Guard to protect young black children whose families dared enroll them in "whites only" schools. I remember my shame that as a teenage girl I could do so little to help. This is not ancient history; this is part of my personal experience.

It has always seemed to me that white people have always feared black people because whites could not believe that black people would not want to kill those who had made their lives a living HE double L. We seem to be incapable of accepting the forgiveness of folks like Ms. Sherrod because we all too often lack that ability to forgive.

Yes this is a "teachable" moment. But only if we want to learn.

Ms. Sherrod has the distinction of being the first person, other than the leader of a foreign country, to receive an apology from President Obama.

Has fox news appologised for the slanderous remarks made by its commentaters toward Sherrod? has fox news offered the american peaple a applogy for running the the heavaly edited tape over and over?

Ms Sherrod, you have class, don't go back with that bunch!!!!!