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by Jeff Davis

There is more official racism in government right now than there ever was under Segregation in the 1940s. Fox News reports: “Days after the NAACP clashed with Tea Party members over allegations of racism, a video has surfaced showing an Agriculture Department official regaling an NAACP audience with a story about how she withheld help to a white farmer facing bankruptcy — video that now has forced the official to resign.”

Since then, it was claimed that the video was taken out of context and the woman was giving that as an example of racist attitudes, which she has since overcome. Then again, if a White person ever admitted that he discriminated against Blacks in the past, how long do you think he would hold his job -regardless of whether or not he claimed to have overcome his past racism?

The Fox article notes “Shirley Sherrod, the department’s Georgia director of Rural Development, is shown in the clip describing ‘the first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm.’ Sherrod, who is black, claimed the farmer took a long time trying to show he was superior to her. The audience laughed as she described how she determined his fate. ‘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.’ …The Agriculture Department announced Monday, shortly after FoxNews.com published its initial report on the video, that Sherrod had resigned.” (more…)