Rail Road

OK, I was going to post about Shirley Sherrod and the NAACP and roast
them both. My intent was to have a post titled "Just Do Your Damn
Job!" but then I got a response to another post saying she was taken
out of context and the video is not complete. After looking for a
minute, I found the following links:

From CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/20/agriculture.employee.naacp/index.html


Sherrod told CNN on Tuesday the incident she discusses in the clip
took place more than two decades ago, and she recounted it to an
audience to make the point that people should move beyond race.

"I was telling the story of how working with him helped me to see the
issue is not about race," she said. "It's about those who have versus
those who do not have."

Sherrod said Tuesday that her remarks were taken out of context.

"I was speaking to that group, like I've done many groups, and I tell
them about a time when I thought the issue was race and race only,"
Sherrod said on CNN's "American Morning" from her home in Albany,
Georgia. The incident took place in 1986, while she worked for a
nonprofit and before she joined the Agriculture Department, she said.

...

A Georgia woman who said she believes her husband is the
farmer referenced in the clip told CNN on Tuesday that Sherrod was
helpful to her family and that the couple never felt she was being
racist while trying to assist them in avoiding foreclosure.

"She treated us really good and got us all we could," said Eloise
Spooner of Iron City, Georgia. Spooner said she remembered that
Sherrod helped find an attorney to help her husband, Roger.

She said she doesn't believe Sherrod is being treated fairly.
...
In the end, she said, the lawyer did not help the farmer and she "had
to frantically find a lawyer who would file a Chapter 11 to stop the
foreclosure.

Sherrod said she wound up being friends with the farmer and his wife.

She said she tried to explain her speech to USDA officials, "but for
some reason, the stuff Fox and the Tea Party does is scaring the
administration. I told them to get the whole tape and look at the
whole tape and see how I tell people we have to get beyond race and
work together."


I think she may have been screwed.