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.