Shirley Sherrod is more than a headline. The life of the former and maybe future U.S. Department of Agriculture official, who went from sinner to saint in the space of a news cycle, puts meat on the bones of her tape-recorded tale of redemption and reconciliation. On Thursday, she was offered another apology in what’s [...]
The suddenly famous Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she would “love” to talk about racial issues with President Obama, but she isn’t looking for an apology from him after being unceremoniously booted from a federal job over a misunderstanding about to a speech she gave on race relations. Sherrod was offered a new job with the [...]
Under pressure from both the right and the left, the Obama administration apologized on Wednesday for the capricious ouster of Shirley Sherrod from her Agriculture Department job amid erroneous charges of reverse racism and offered her a promotion. But for a White House that has prided itself on its nuanced approach toward racial politics, as [...]
President Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack find themselves besieged today with demands from a vast array of liberal voices — and some prominent conservatives — to reinstate hastily fired USDA regional official Shirley Sherrod. As new facts have emerged — all of them pointing to the capricious nature of Sherrod’s sacking — the White [...]
Shirley Sherrod, I will read your memoir! Most of us had never heard of Sherrod until she was wrongly accused of racism and lost her USDA job over misleading video snippets publicized by the conservative Internet publisher Andrew Breitbart. Proving once again that the camera can, too, lie, what we saw on the tape made [...]
The sad tale of Shirley Sherrod exploded Tuesday. In two ways. First, the story of the local African-American U.S. Department of Agriculture official forced to resign after a conservative website posted a video of a speech she gave and accused her of racism was everywhere: on the Internet, on cable networks. Second, it turned out [...]
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