Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Anything you can do I can do better!

This is really becoming a he said she said thing between the tea party and the NAACP. Video footage is coming out of an USDA official talking to the NAACP saying:

"He had to 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," she said. "I was struggling with the fact that so many black people have 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."

Two points come to mind on this one. First off, this video was taken on the heels of the NAACP vs Tea Party story. Mrs. Sherrod should have realized the irony of her situation, reverse discrimination, and kept her mouth quite (though I am glad this video came out, now we conservatives can label all liberals as racist...).

Secondly she was an official for the United states government. It's not like she was some president of a local chapter of the NAACP, she had a high profile job in the government. I wonder of Mrs. Sherrod was their by appointment of the President.

Regardless the racist rhetoric needs to stop from both sides. I am glad to see that steps were taken to correct both instances; Mrs Sherrod resigned and TPE was expelled from the federation. Both parties need to act more civilly towards each other.

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