Racism from the Obama Administration
 

Shirley Sherrod, USDA Rural Development Georgia State Director

"The first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm, he took a long time talking but he was trying to show me he was superior to me. I know what he was doing, but he had come to me for help. What he didn't know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me was, I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him," Sherrod said.

"I was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farmland, and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land. So I didn't give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough," Sherrod said. "So that when he, I assumed the Department of Agriculture had sent him to me, either that or the Georgia Department of Agriculture, and he needed to go back and report that I did try to help him."

See the video here:

http://www.breitbart.tv/video-proof-...awards-racism/

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"So I took him to a white lawyer that had attended some of training that we had provided because Chapter 12 bankruptcy had just been enacted for the family farm. So I figured if I take him to one of them, that his own kind would take care of him."

His own kind?

If a white person had said this about a black person their would be immediate calls for their resignation...and rightly so.

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How long then will she have to remain in the administration before you admit their silence and lack of discipline indicates tacit approval?

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Let me ask you a question or two...

Who gave her the job?

Who has said nothing and has not demanded her resignation?

She is a member of the Obama administration, and by doing nothing about it he is showing that it is okay for people in his administration to act this way.

Nothing disingenuous at all.

If the pastor didn't remove that person from the board, I would say he is a racist.

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I stand corrected...She has been forced to resign.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010...-white-farmer/

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Heard Breitbart talking about this earlier. She should be immediately fired!

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Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!

:thumbsup

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speaking of racism----- how about the DOJ policy that voter intimidation is OK if it is black people intimidating white people?

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Indeed...

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I guess an apology is due. And so I apologize. And yet, the abscence of evidence is not evidence of absence. There are other examples, such as the the one Sam mentions.

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I pray for the day when we are beyond all of this sort of thing from all sorts of people. The only daylight I see is that it appears that this all gets better with the passage of time and generations.

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I think it has some on both sides. But I still hate the racism I was exposed to.

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I wonder how long it will take, or if we ever get there.

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When we get to heaven it will be over.

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Racist lending practices. The community reinvestment act under Carter if I remember was part of the cause of the mortgage bubble and meltdown.
They actually posted numbers to make sure certain neighborhoods were red lined.
The new banking reform bill:
The creation of the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion will address the need for diversity in the workforce of regulators and in contracting, he said.
Will push loans that are for minorities and women that otherwise do not qualify for approval.

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Proves whites don't have a monopoly of being a racist bigot.

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He is responsible for those he appoints to these positions. No you can't blame Obama for the racist comments of any random individual but you can when it happens again and again by people he has put in powerful positions within his administration.

To be fair in this case he did the right thing and she was forced to resign. Eric Holder should have already been on that list for the things the justice department has done under his guidance.

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Pretty sure there won't be any racists making it on that day! But I think I know what you mean, Cindy. The true church has no racism in it, and we'll all be free from it on that day.

I've always been so amazed at how so many christians - even folks in our circles - hold onto racist sentiments and attitudes. It's sickening!

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? ~ 1 John 4.20

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This isnt racism. this is the left doing what the left does.

here is a quick easy way to understand exactly what the left is doing/has done/will do.

Look at what they are accusing the Right of doing. That will be what is going on on the left.

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I think there will be former racist in heaven...racism isn't just born out of hatred it is born from ignorance and sometimes bad experiences.
To the boy who was bussed to a white school, had crosses burned in his yard, beat up, and was repeatedly referred to in derogatory terms all by people he called white...that's not going to go away overnight.
The poor white kid that lives in the ghetto and is treated as a second class citizen because of his skin color learn to associate that with a race of people.
The kid who is raised on a farm and told all his life that other races are ignorant or stupid has a form of racism that even time and education doesn't always wipe away.
The young black man that is raised by a grandfather that has learned to hate whites because of the way he was treated invests that hatred into his grandson, and no matter how much we educate people in these positions their is always a residual amount of those beliefs left.
Look at the way people react when they are angry or drunk in relation to race, things they would never say otherwise come spewing out.

Racism isn't simple and the truth is no matter how much we deny it many Americans still struggle with racism.

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Content of character is what we need to judge all folks by.

Red, yellow, black, or white; all will have those of good moral character and those of bad morale character. So don't blame the color for the character.

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I've been on facebook so much that I was looking for the "Like" button. :)

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I would never vote for nor support anyone I know to be a racist. I have no knowledge of any President making racist comments since I began voting. If I did hear of it, I would raise my white voice soon and often. The reason Edwin Edwards - a known crook at the time and later convicted and imprisoned - ever saw his first term as Louisiana's Governor is because he was running against David Duke and white conservatives like me would not stand for a Klansman as governor. I even remember automobiles with bumber stickers saying "Vote for the crook. It's important!"

The case against the New Black Panther Party members had been won. Because they failed to appear in court, the judge ruled them guilty. I don't know all the technical terminology surrounding that, perhaps Baron can help there. Anyway, All that was left to do was sentence them and issue arrest warrants and Holder dropped the charges and closed the case.

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Do you think the KKK is as racist as the Black Panthers?
Do you think the Tea Party is as racist as the NAACP?
Do you think that Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor is as racist as the late Senator Robert Byrd?

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Absolutely
Absolutely not
Probably

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Yeah, what you said.

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Interesting questions.
1. I'm not sure about the individual levels of hatred and racism among the members of these organizations, but I will say that I think over time the KKK has had more impact and acts of violence and oppression than the Black Panthers. I may be wrong, but in my opinion, the KKK affected the lives of Blacks more directly than the Black Panthers affected Whites. This may have had something to do with the fact that they were parts of the real power system in some parts of our country.

2. I personally don't believe that the Tea Party is rooted in racism like many do. However, I think that the comparisons are interesting. The Tea Party movement is a by-product of real and perceived injustices and infringements on peoples' rights. Do you think that the real and perceived injustices and infringements of rights that led to the formation of the NAACP and other organizations were more or less than what led to the formation of the Tea Party.

3. Not intimately familiar enough with either to say.

No doubt I would agree on #1. I thought the question was in recent history or present tense.

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To me, this is the same as the doctored tapes aired pertaining to ACORN. They were later shown to be severely edited and deceiving. Slander and deception are the same, no matter where it comes from.

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What was edited? Please be specific.
They came from the NAACP. Did the NAACP say they were changed?

Today this regime wants employers to report race, gender and other personal info on all employees.

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/2...d-on-politics/

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There are several news sources out there describing how the ACORN video was edited to be deceptive:

http://mediamatters.org/columns/201002170008

http://www.mediaite.com/online/rache...rage-of-acorn/

http://ag.ca.gov/newsalerts/release.php?id=1888&

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Tiger Woods did a lot of hugging and kissing of white ladies. Is he racist?

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The thing I found most shocking about this situation is that the White House demanded her resignation based on Andrew Breitbart's (sp) video. When the rest of the video surfaces later, they were forced to retract.

Why did they react so quickly to a video provided by a website they claim is not a reliable news source? Hmmm..

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Despite the fact that she was sort of exonerated after all this, I wonder if she was white and said what she said about a black farmer and even after having shown that in the end she helped the couple, would a white person receive the same benefit of the doubt? Would the liberals say "oh that white USDA employee is no longer racist"?

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Another issue...yes they all blamed this man and Fox news for not giving her the benefit of the doubt and show the entire video....hmmmm...neither did the white house nor the NAACP

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BTW what does this show? It does not show that racism is still a huge problem. It shows that the politics of racism is a huge problem and that some lower rung peon is fair game to throw under the racism bus as long as it is for political gain.

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I think they were still reeling from the Justice Department dropping the charges of voter intimidation against the Black Panther group and their edict that they would not consider charges of voter intimidation by African Americans because the purpose of the voter intimidation act was to protect African Americans. After this, they figured they better do something as soon as they could so they acted too hastily on the next apparent "racist act" by a government official.

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But, you gotta remember, racism is a one way street.
African Americans, the NAACP, and racists in the Obama administration CANNOT be guilty of racism --- only white folks can be racists.