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Surely - There is More to Talk About Than Shirley
Surely - There is More to Talk About Than Shirley For the past few days the air waves and print media have been dominated by a story about former United States Department of Agriculture director, Shirley Sherrod, who was erroneously forced to resign. After a heavily edited video of her giving an address in March to an NAACP meeting was posted on a blogger's website a controversy broke out and began to snowball. In her remarks, Ms. Sherrod described her own attitude when a white farmer sought her help with his farm which was about to be foreclosed on. Taken completely out of context those remarks were construed to be racist. Eventually, the complete, unedited version of the video was aired and showed her true disposition. But, more importantly, the actual farmer that she helped came forward to speak on her behalf. As a result, Shirley Sherrod has received numerous apologies from conservative talk show hosts, the people responsible for her job loss as well as President Obama. It is great that this miscarriage of judgment has been put to right. However, the incident has completely overtaken the news media at the cost of all other events right now. What else is has been happening besides the ... more
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