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REJECTED! Why Shirley Sherrod Won't Be Going Back to USDA (Anytime Soon)
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 24) -- Looks like erroneously ousted Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod needs more "downtime to reflect" on what she wants to do next. The department's former director of rural development for Georgia today announced she will not be accepting a new, unspecified outreach position offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the wake of last month's bizarre rush-to-judgment slash scandal. To review: That incident entered around a video of Sherrod speaking at an NAACP event about overcoming her prejudice against a white farmer client more than 20 years ago. A heavily ...
Sherrod Not Returning to Ag Department
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 24) -- Shirley Sherrod, ousted from the Agriculture Department during a racial firestorm that embarrassed the Obama administration, rejected an offer to return to the USDA on Tuesday. But at a cordial news conference with the man who asked her to leave - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack - she said she may do consulting work for him on racial issues. She was asked to leave her job as Georgia's director of rural development in July after comments she made in March were misconstrued as racist. She has since received numerous apologies from the administration, including from ...
Why Shirley Sherrod's Case Against Andrew Breitbart Doesn't Look Good
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(July 29) -- Shirley Sherrod announced today at a convention of the National Association of Black Journalists that she planned to sue Andrew Breitbart over the infamous video he posted on his website that led to her eventual firing forced resignation from the USDA. Last week, with speculation over Sherrod's next course of action mounting, Surge Desk spoke to Stephen Solomon, a journalism professor at NYU and a specialist in libel law, only to discover that she might not have much of a case against the conservative impresario after all. 1. First, a disclaimer. The devil is in the details. ...
Conservatives Rally Around Shirley Sherrod
By not in system - AOL News(July 22) -- A number of high-profile conservatives are speaking out against the ousting of U.S. Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod. Sherrod's resignation was announced on Tuesday after conservative pundit Andrew Breitbart posted an edited video of her speaking at an NAACP banquet in 1986. In the video, Sherrod, who is black, admits to not doing everything she could to help a white farmer. The NAACP quickly denounced Sherrod's words, calling them "shameful" and appalling. In a statement reporting her resignation, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said, "There is zero tolerance ...
Shirley Sherrod Update: Has New USDA Job Offer, But Wants to Talk to Obama
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(July 22) -- The Obama administration's backtrack on Shirley Sherrod's forced resignation is nearly complete. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Sherrod said, has offered her a position with the Agriculture Department's Office of Civil Rights and Community Outreach -- a fitting position for someone who was wrongly sent packing for being misunderstood in a speech, selectively edited footage of which was posted online by right-wing hit-job artist Andrew Breitbart. In fact, the full speech revealed just the opposite -- as is now known, she was telling the tale of a black woman who overcame her ...
Shirley Sherrod Wasn't a Coward -- and She Paid the Price
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyAttorney General Eric Holder said it plainly at a Department of Justice event celebrating Black History Month last year: "Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have always been and we, I believe, continue to be in too many ways essentially a nation of cowards." He said that Americans -- and he was talking about all Americans -- are afraid to talk about race, adding that "certain subjects are off-limits and that to explore them risks at best embarrassment and at worst the questioning of one's character." At the time, Holder's words ...
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