Comments on: Shirley Sherrod, Racism, Fox News and a Raw Deal

By: Tom Degan

Tom Degan — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:00:35 +0000

I’m trying to put myself in Shirley Sherrod’s shoes. This is somewhat difficult due to the happy fact that I grew up as an upper middle class white kid in the suburbs north of New York City. When we went on vacation we didn’t go by car – we went in a private plane that was owned by my dad! I am at a loss to explain to you how I became as left-of-center as I am. I’m sure that my youthful obsession with people like John Lennon and Dick Gregory had something to do with it. They were both accused by J.Edgar Hoover of corrupting the minds of the impressionable youth of this grand and glorious land of ours. Blame it on those guys.

I didn’t grow up (as Shirley Sherrod did) as a poor black kid in the south. I wasn’t surrounded on all fronts (as Shirley Sherrod was) by the vile sort of prejudice that told her, day after day, that she was not worthy to drink out of certain water fountains or eat in certain restaurants or use certain rest rooms. When my father died he was at home in a comfortable bed, surrounded by family and friends. Shirley Sherrod’s father was murdered – shot in the back by a Klansman who was never even brought to trial. Had I been raised under the same circumstances as Shirley Sherrod, I would not today be a mere Progressive – I would be a freaking bomb-throwing revolutionary, are you kidding me? You might, too, would you dare to know yourselves better The very fact that Shirley Sherrod was able to overcome her own racism is a testament to the woman’s character. Let’s all raise a glass in her honor. Cheers!

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Tom Degan
Goshen NY

By: Jim Lakely

Jim Lakely — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:12:40 +0000

Yes, Sad. The reaction of the NAACP crowd is discouraging. I fear that our grandchildren will be old before such spectacles are rare.

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:55:11 +0000

Shirley and her husband are living large off their law suit against the very employer she was fired by.
They have founded an organization to file a class action suit against the USDA for ‘black farmers’, and have collected millions to date.
This lady is a pillar of the black American Diaspora, and envied by the likes of Jesse Jackson, Charles Rangel, Louis Farrakhan, etc.
Shirley is on a fast track to Congress.

By: Sad

Sad — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:49:15 +0000

I have yet to gird my loins for 43 minutes of Sherrod speaking, but I have seen the longer excerpt of her speech to the NAACP. First, it’s revolting to hear the audience enjoying her racist description of the conversation and how she planned to wield or trim her actions to help this farmer because of his race. Second, it the context of her remarks about Breitbart and Fox News it begins to appear that she is EXCUSING Her helping this white man — EXCUSING her conscience telling her that she needed to go the extra mile to help a man who was being wronged, but didn’t share her genetic background.

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