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In Education Speech, Obama Addresses Shirley Sherrod Episode, Racial Inequities
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyIn a swaggering, nearly 45 minute-long speech Thursday to the National Urban League in Washington -- marking its the 100th anniversary -- President Obama took up the issue of race and inequality in America as he aggressively defended his administration's Race to the Top educational reform program. And, addressing the Shirley Sherrod scandal that erupted more than a week ago, Obama called the former USDA official "an exemplary woman who deserves better than what happened to her." He minced no words, saying the affair was a "bogus controversy based on selective and deceiving excerpts of a ...
Rising Clamor: Obama Should Reinstate Shirley Sherrod
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyPresident Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack find themselves besieged today with demands from a vast array of liberal voices -- and some prominent conservatives -- to reinstate hastily fired USDA regional official Shirley Sherrod. As new facts have emerged -- all of them pointing to the capricious nature of Sherrod's sacking -- the White House has found itself the target of stinging criticism from voices that are usually raised in defense of Democrats. Vilsack and Obama are being vilified not just for the pell-mell nature of Sherrod's firing, but for cravenness and cowardice as ...
Would Shirley Sherrod's Full NAACP Speech Give a Different Impression?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(July 20) -- In the ongoing war over who is more racist -- the NAACP or the tea party -- the right has delivered a blow with revealing footage of a black USDA official, Shirley Sherrod, speaking at an NAACP conference and admitting to doing less than she could have to help a white farmer. On Monday, Sherrod resigned. But she also sought to clarify the record, and her version jibes with the fact that the footage released by the website Big Government was cut off at just about the point where it appeared Sherrod was beginning to disown her own prejudice. She was starting to say how class ...
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