Sherrod Non-scandal Caused by Political Agendas, Selfish Overreactions
Written by whisperDispatch.com
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23 July 2010
By now you've certainly heard that the unfairly ousted former USDA Official Shirley Sherrod was called a racist and edited video of her decades old speech was used by elements of the right wing media for their own purposes to slam the Obama administration. There is no other way to say it. Sherrod isn't a racist, nor did she use her current position in the Obama administration to discriminate against white farmers.
And contrary to the after-the-fact assertions by the blogger who lit the match of the whole mess, this Sherrod incident didn't start out as a critique of a random crowd at an NAACP-sponsored speech. Because of a selfish need by certain entities to NOT be called hypocritical by those they have previously criticized, undeserved consequences befell Sherrod before the veracity of any of the allegations against her were ever checked.
The larger questions in this political fight, however, are why the hell were so many non-right wing-conservative entities so quick to believe the unverified allegation against Sherrod and why did people from the general media, the administration and the NAACP react so strongly without exchanging one word with the accused? Are employees of the Obama Admin so sensitive to racial issues that they jump to cut off anything that could be remotely distracting? Further, does this illustrate how guarded the rest of us should be against being involved in an unthinking mob instigated by one or a few people who have their own hateful or one-sided agendas?