Ex USDA Worker Said White House Forced Me To Resign On Trumped Up Racial Controversy:Black officer who resigned from the Ministry of Agriculture on Monday said that the White House made her comments after she said caused fabricated racial controversy.Shirley Sherrod, a former director of the Georgia Rural Development, said that she received a phone call from the Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Cheryl Cook on Monday, when she was in the car. Cook said that the White House wanted to call it quits now.
"They called me twice," Sherrod told the Associated Press. "The last time they asked me to pull off the road and to submit his resignation on my Blackberry, and what I did."
The dispute began after a few organizations, the media published a 38-second video Sherrod speaking to the local branch of the Georgia NAACP. She says that the group did not produce a white farmer "in full force, what can I do" after he asked for help.
Videos surfaced days after the NAACP had quarreled with tea party members in connection with accusations of racism.