In Reply to: No Doubt about it...... posted by Sluffy1 (Gold Member) on July 20, 2010 at 21:32:08:
Since the accusations about Shirley Sharrod have been proven false, can we now deal with the other accusations that started this: Ben Jealous smearing millions of Americans as racist without any proof.
Shirley Sherrod called the NAACP "the reason why this happened. They got into a fight with the Tea Party, and all of this came out as a result of that." She called the ensuing controversy "unbelievable." "I think any moment I'm going to wake up and none of this is happening, but it is," she said. "When you spend your life helping others and see people try to turn that around to try to make it look like you're a racist when that's not been what your life has been about -- that doesn't feel good."
I think there are millions of Americans like Sharrod who also don't feel good about being labeled a racist. What should be done about what they're going through?
: : Do you think Shirley Sherrod is getting a bad rap over this?
: Fox NonNews did what it does best and was as far from fair and balanced as one can be.
: Fox edited, promoted and created a "Manufactured Scandal" to further their agenda and cost a good person her job. Utterly sickening behavior by any standard.
: Shirley Sherrod was relating an event from 1984 when she worked for a nonprofit which was assisting poor mostly black farmers to literally "Save the Farm".
: The clip Fox pushed and promoted was a total fabrication of the event. The clip they aired took small portions of what Sherrod was thinking and her mindset at a time before any white people needed her help.
: The entire video makes obvious there was a point of her presentation that Fox buried from the story.
: The Point she was making is, no matter what your preconceived notions about a persons "race" may be, all people are the same and their race is of no consequence.
: It took working with and helping the Spooner's, the first white people that needed her help, for her to learn that lesson.
: "I was speaking to that group, like I've done many groups, and I tell them about a time when I thought the issue was race and race only," Sherrod told CNN. She said the incident she described in her speech occurred some 24 years ago, when she worked for a nonprofit aid group. "I was telling the story of how working with him helped me to see the issue is not about race. It's about those who have versus those who do not have."
: The farmer's wife, Eloise Spooner, 82, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Tuesday that Sherrod helped save their land. Spooner, who considered Sherrod a "friend for life," said that "the federal official worked tirelessly to help" the couple hold onto their farm as they faced bankruptcy in 1986, the Atlanta newspaper reported.
: "Her husband told her, ‘You're spending more time with the Spooners than you are with me,' " Spooner told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "She took probably two or three trips with us to Albany just to help us out."
: In the video, Sherrod is shown talking about "the first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm." Her remarks came at a local NAACP Freedom Fund banquet, which the video says took place in March this year.
: I'm disgusted with Fox... I hope she can sue them for a bundle.