[net-gold] UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT: Shirley Sherrod: White House Forced My Resignation
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- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:09:01 -0400 (EDT)
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UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT:
Shirley Sherrod: White House Forced My Resignation
Shirley Sherrod: White House Forced My Resignation
July 20, 2010 3:31 PM
Political Hotsheet
CBS News
<http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20011099-503544.html>
Updated at 6:11 p.m. ET
The Department of Agriculture employee who resigned after a controversy
erupted over recent remarks she made is now saying that the White House
forced her resignation.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, however, is taking responsibility for
the resignation, and the White House reportedly says it had no part in his
decision.
Shirley Sherrod, the USDA's former director of rural development in
Georgia, said USDA deputy undersecretary Cheryl Cook called her Monday and
said the White House wanted her to resign, the Associated Press reports.
"They called me twice," Sherrod told the AP, noting that she was driving
when she received the calls. "The last time they asked me to pull over the
side of the road and submit my resignation on my Blackberry, and that's
what I did."
Sherrod submitted her resignation after she became the focus of scrutiny
from Fox News and conservative blogs over remarks she gave at an NAACP
Freedom Fund Banquet on March 27. A video of a portion of her remarks were
posted on a conservative blog, giving the impression that Sherrod admitted
to discriminating against a white farmer as an employee of the USDA.
The comments were taken out of context, however. In her remarks that day,
Sherrod was recounting a story that pre-dates her tenure at the USDA by
more than two decades. Sherrod says in her story that Chapter 12
bankruptcy had just been enacted; Chapter 12 was instituted for family
farmers in 1986, while Sherrod was appointed to head the USDA's Rural
Development office in Georgia just last July. Furthermore, the point of
Sherrod's story is that race is not an issue.
Sherrod has said the video excerpt did not include the full story of her
relationship with the farmer, with whom she says she became friends after
helping him avoid foreclosure.
July 20, 2010 5:37 PM
Shirley Sherrod Helped Keep Us Out of Bankruptcy, Farmer's Wife Says
Political Hotsheet
CBS News
<http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20011130-503544.html>
Shirley Sherrod was forced to resign from the Department of Agriculture
because of recent remarks she made that, taken out of context, suggested
she discriminated against a white farmer. That farmer's wife, however, is
saying Sherrod is a "friend for life" who saved their family farm from
foreclosure.
Sherrod served as director of rural development in Georgia until
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack forced her to resign after she came
under scrutiny for remarks she gave at an NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet on
March 27. A video of a portion of her remarks were posted on a
conservative blog, giving the impression that Sherrod admitted to
discriminating against a white farmer as an employee of the USDA.
The incident in question, however, took place two decades ago, and the
wife of the farmer in question told told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sherrod "kept us out of bankruptcy."
NAACP Takes It Back: Retracts Criticism Of Fired USDA Worker
The NAACP is now asking the Obama administration to reconsider the
decision to force a black USDA employee to resign over racially tinged
remarks.
KWTX.com
<http://www.kwtx.com/nationalnews/headlines/98878034.html>
WASHINGTON (July 20, 2010)--NAACP leaders were calling on the Obama
administration Tuesday to reconsider its decision to force a black
Agriculture Department employee to resign over racially tinged remarks,
reversing the organizations earlier criticism of the employee.
NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous said in a statement that the group
was "snookered" into believing that USDA employee Shirley Sherrod
expressed racist sentiments at a local NAACP meeting in Georgia earlier
this year.
Tuesday, Jul 20, 2010 16:55 ET
White House wants it both ways on Sherrod firing
The White House says it backs her firing from the USDA but also tries to
distance itself
Salon
<http://www.salon.com/news/politics/
war_room/2010/07/20/vilsack_on_sherrod_firing/>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/23e4h64>
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack issued a statement today explaining that
he asked for Georgia rural development director Shirley Sherrod's
resignation yesterday because "the controversy surrounding her comments
would create situations where her decisions, rightly or wrongly, would be
called into question making it difficult for her to bring jobs to
Georgia."
As Alex Pareene explained, the controversy Vilsack is referring to was
whipped up when Andrew Breitbart released an edited video clip of Sherrod,
it was mindlessly picked up by other media, and the Obama administration
followed suit.
But now that Breitbart's story of Sherrod being a racist has been exposed
as bogus, the White House is trying to have it both ways: They say they
support Vilsack's decision but at the same time had absolutely nothing to
do with his making it.
Shirley Sherrod: Sacrificial lamb on the altar of race
The Washington Post
<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/
2010/07/shirley_sherrod_sacrificial_la.html>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/2f6e2ay>
As teachable moments in the minefield of race in America go, the case of
Shirley Sherrod is a big one. When I first saw the video clip this
morning, I was astonished. There was a black agriculture department
official, Sherrod, boasting about how she used her federal position to
deny help to a white farmer. Oh yeah. She needed to go. Or so I thought.
As the day wore on and the truth was revealed, my heart sank. The
videotape that caused a firestorm had been selectively edited.
July 20, 2010
Breitbart: 'This was not about Shirley Sherrod'
Posted: July 20th, 2010 07:11 PM ET
From CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart
CNN Politics
<http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/20/breitbart-
this-was-not-about-shirley-sherrod/?fbid=xqhcq1gxGKI>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/29wfr9k>
The complete articles may be read at the URLs provided for each.
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