Shirley Sherrod: Racist Or Scapegoat Information?

If the Administration and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, are too quickly and their reaction to Shirley Sherrod, the Department of Agriculture employee who has resigned (ie, fired) for alleged racist remarks?

The video clip posted on the Internet shows Sherrod Monday, speaking at a banquet March NAACP, where she talks about her failure to help white farmer who was on the verge of losing his farm. Her advice: If he was black, she would have moved heaven and earth to help him.

"There is zero tolerance for discrimination at USDA, and I strongly condemn all acts of discrimination against any person," said Minister of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, has accepted the resignation of Sherrod. NAACP, which last week accused of racism Tea Party, ran searing condemnation of Sherrod: "We are shocked by her actions, as we have with abuse of power against farmers of color and women farmers," said NAACP President Benjamin Jealous.

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Opinion: The truth About Shirley Sherrod, Big Government And The National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People

Shirley Sherrod was a video showing a clip of racism within the federal government? Not hard if you know the whole story. Big Government and the NAACP-got it wrong.
Given the recent controversy around the Tea Party and the NAACP charges of racism in its elements, it's not surprising that supporters of both factions are looking long and hard to find evidence that a bank who is calling the kettle black. And Andrew Breitbart thought that he found it in Shirley Sherrod. But, as expected in political life, this whole story was not told.


Big Breitbart to the government website YouTube video shows Sherrod, now former director of USDA Rural Development in Georgia, speaking at the NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner March, telling the story of how she did not fully help the white farmer when he turned help preserve their farm. Sherrod further states that she believes the farmer talked as if he were above it, and that Sherrod had decided not to give him "full force" in her care, thinking that the new bankruptcy laws and took him to a white lawyer would end up save it in any way.

He eventually get help "their own kind."
Storm follows. Cries of double standards are sent via the Internet, and blogospheres Twitterverse. As can be called a racist NAACP to another organization, when they are against racism within their own, especially when it comes to the federal official appointed?

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