Racism from the Obama Administration

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This is all quite interesting, however, from what I have read this isn't the Obama Administration is exhibiting racism. The statement was made by Shirley Sherrod, speaking of a personal experience. I find her statement extremely troubling and if anything it shows that she cannot take an unbiased approach and do her job as she is supposed to. I would remove her. It's disingenuous to title the thread "Racism from the Obama Administration". If someone on a church board made such an inflammatory statement, you cannot say the the entire church board or the Pastor is racist. The individual that made the statement is. I think the more appropriate title for this thread is 'Racism from Shirley Sherrod'. I have not watched the link, but, I will do so momentarily.

Okay, so I just finished watching the video; and the following things were just down right upsetting: ", I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him", "one of them", and "his own kind". I can understand her being troubled by as she stated "struggling with the fact that so many Black people had lost their farmland". Clearly because of her age undoubtedly she probably grew up during segregation and the Civil Rights Movement. While the United States as a whole has come a long way from that time, there are still people that can only operate and function with the mindset of that era. Shirley Sherrod based on what I viewed is one of those people. She has pacified her racial discrimination by stating what she was going through; Black farmers losing their farmland. Baron you are correct in your statement with regards to this situation being in the reverse. If we were seeing this in reverse the outcry would be that the White person had a white hood and a sheet in their closet. I think it is fair to say that based on what Ms. Sherrod said she was in favor of those thug New Black Panthers intimidating voters during this last election, since that is what Blacks have had to endure in the past. Absolutely repulsive, and nothing more that a racist bigot using their position as a means to mistreat White's based on what happened during the days of the Civil Rights Movement. I have long disliked the NAACP of today, and this is a prime example why.