Comments on: Breitbart: Video Reveals NAACP Racism Against Whites

By: injustice in race pride

injustice in race pride — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:04:29 +0000

it is inappropriate to swing the racial prejudice from one side to another. whites are often discriminated and prejudiced against. most people have faced some form of discrimination in their lives, the whole point in eradicating prejudice is not to shift it onto another group, but to erase any and all stereotypes. It is unfair to assume pride in any race is a form of racism, including the white community, their has been huge reported cases of black on black crime due to prejudice, white on white crime due to prejudice, it is all about changing perspective and not making excuses for discrimination, the past is the past people, lets move forward. yes your ancestors may have been enslaved, most groups were, and often time they were caught and sold by their own race to remove a neighboring group they hated as spoils of civil turmoil.
we have all established here great viewpoints of how racsim effects both blacks, whites, muslims and so on. but why make any excuses? have we not learned from history, or is it because most of us are still looking for reparations for our ancestors? if you want to do them justice, have PRIDE in FREEDOM and HUMANITY, regardless of your skin color!! have an open mind and stop holding grudges. lets grow from the blood spilled not by ourselves but by our ancestors. we do them a great injustice serving to further their pain by accommodating race versus freedom!!
and when it comes to lawmakers and the such, its money, not color that wins, lets fight the injustices of race being thrown in our faces!!

By: tami

tami — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:00:48 +0000

this is truly just sad , why can we not just be humane . not white, not black , but all trying to do the right thing for all mankind ……….

By: GayPatriot » Shirley Sherrod and My Haste to Post

GayPatriot » Shirley Sherrod and My Haste to Post — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:52:55 +0000

[...] Clearly, this has turned into a much more complex story than a simple case of “RAAAAAAACIST” based on one video clip. I should have known better on Monday. [...]

By: The_Livewire

The_Livewire — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:10:41 +0000

I understand that’s the case as well Thorbert. Rather that it made it clear that even some whites can be oppressed by ‘the Man’ and that they need to fight the ‘rich white oppressors’ together.

If the audience she’s speaking to could be led to even that point, it might be progress.

By: Throbert McGee

Throbert McGee — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:18:55 +0000

Thanks for the link to the full video, Countervail — I watched from the beginning through the 24-minute mark — and it’s abundantly clear that the point of the story is to illustrate how, when she was about 20 years younger, God led her AWAY from racial favoritism towards her fellow blacks.

By: North Dallas Thirty

North Dallas Thirty — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:50:33 +0000

And by the way, she was apparently at the receiving end of racial discrimination herself.

So let’s see; an avowed racist who practices and endorses racial discrimination is discriminated against on the basis of race.

And of course, Countervail endorses her racist views and racist behavior, because Countervail is also a racist.

By: jann

jann — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:36:25 +0000

You know what even 20 years ago it sounds icky, especially the audiences reaction. How many times did this happen? That is about white’s what about Gays, Hispanics, Asians, racist is racist. I’m glad something kinda changed her mind, I hope. Enough with the race stuff, now we know the nomedia made it up in the last two years!

By: heliotrope

heliotrope — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:05:41 +0000

Levi loads us up with “ironclad” Levitine factuality: “and that is in no way true whatsoever.”

Okey-Dokey Levi-chokey: if you declare so, it must be an immutable fact of the universe.

By: Countervail

Countervail — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:41:56 +0000

And by the way, she was apparently at the receiving end of racial discrimination herself. Again, not that it would change your mind after you’ve seen a 30 second video snippet that a highly partisan, conservative activist posted edited in just a way to lead you to believe the worst.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/if-only-government-moved-as-quickly-to.html

By: Countervail

Countervail — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:38:01 +0000

Not that it will change your mind but here’s the full video.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/watch_full_video_of_sherrods_speech.php

By: North Dallas Thirty

North Dallas Thirty — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:47:33 +0000

She was telling a story about an incident that occurred decades earlier when she was working for an advocacy group.

In which she displayed clearly racist behavior, and was in fact relating that fact with relish to the NAACP group, who acknowledged and applauded her racist behavior.

So what you’re doing, Levi, is defending and supporting her racist behavior. You support and endorse people who are admittedly racist and have behaved in a racist manner holding government office.

Funny, you usually have shrieking fits about how racist behavior makes one unfit for government office. Yet here you are supporting and endorsing someone whose behavior you admit is racist and who is bragging about that racist behavior to a group that supports her racism.

So you support racism, Levi. You support racists, and you support racist behavior. No surprise whatsoever.

By: Levi

Levi — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:25:16 +0000

Lol, another swing and a miss by Breitbart, and the conservatives movement that inexplicably loves him can do nothing but continue to sing his praises and pretend like any point he was trying to make was still valid.

Here it is, morons; Breitbart was implying through deliberate distortion of the videotape that this woman was using her current position in the government to discriminate against white people…… and that is in no way true whatsoever. She was telling a story about an incident that occurred decades earlier when she was working for an advocacy group. The point of her story (not aired by Breitbart) was to demonstrate that race doesn’t matter as much as poverty.

There really wasn’t much to be said about your sides’ intellectual honesty or credibility before this incident, but you guys just keep doubling down, seemingly intent on making sure that no sane or reasonably intelligent person will ever take anything that conservative says seriously again. Breitbart has already suffered a number of humiliations and he just keeps fooling you? Sounds like you want to be fooled to me, just so long as you can accuse the black President of being a racist!

By: The_Livewire

The_Livewire — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:21:25 +0000

/me hands NDT an ambien. No need to get vitrolic NDT. He's hung himself. Then again, doesn't Countervail come from the country that supports their troops like this?

By: North Dallas Thirty

North Dallas Thirty — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:35:10 +0000

And thus does the racist bigot inadvertently make his bigotry obvious.

I’m waiting for the full transcript but does it bother any of you that you jump to conclusions from a 10 second video clip of a prominent political appointee posted by a blogger who’s notorious for how he twists video through the editing process to have you jump to the wrong conclusion?

So even though Countervail admits he does not have the full transcript, he states automatically that Breitbart is lying and that this black Obama Party puppet is not a racist.

Meanwhile, that’s a lot more than ten seconds. Apparently the racist bigot Countervail can’t keep time, either.

Anything to defend the racists, eh Countervail? Doesn’t it bother you that your racist hatred and self-loathing lead you to make a fool out of yourself publicly by supporting racists like this woman and her fellow Obama Party members?

By: heliotrope

heliotrope — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:06:32 +0000

Countervail,

My comment #16 speaks to how this woman cuddled up to her homies.

Let’s give her the credit you seek and say she was there to open minds. If she has to do that by getting the “Amen” corner to bobble their heads and mutter their chorus of agreement, she is playing a role by going native. Either the audience is beyond race enough to take straight talk or they need to be cooed to like sheep.

As I read you, Countervail, these are ignorant people who need to be stroked in their bigotry and frustrations. So, Shirley Sherrod came down from the big house to talk to the field negroes.

By: The_Livewire

The_Livewire — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:19:30 +0000

Oh, and listening to your link, it's her claiming that's the case Countervail. If it really was, then where's the rest of the video as someone demanded? Come on Countervail? Why should we believe a woman with a demonstrated history of discrimination, who resigned from her position, based on her history?

By: The_Livewire

The_Livewire — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:15:34 +0000

No more than it bothers you about the NAACP condemning Americans for non-existant racial slurs, nor about the current administration targeting Americans for assassination, Countervail.

By: Countervail

Countervail — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:45:47 +0000

As I guessed, there is more to the story than the select, salacious clip Brietbart chose to publish. She’s relating a story about an incident over 24 years ago when she worked for a charity organization, not in any way like her current position. That being said though, the story continues after the clip where she explains that she realized that it wasn’t about race but rather “the haves and the have nots.” She then talks about how she then made an emergency effort on behalf of the white farmer and they became friends from the experience. I’m waiting for the full transcript but does it bother any of you that you jump to conclusions from a 10 second video clip of a prominent political appointee posted by a blogger who’s notorious for how he twists video through the editing process to have you jump to the wrong conclusion?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/20/agriculture.employee.naacp/index.html

By: heliotrope

heliotrope — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:49:21 +0000

This black woman was feeding the “you right, sister” chorus she was chatting up. She was feeling their pain and feeding their biases. She was walking the walk and talking the talk. She was doing a full blown Clinton on them.

She was Hillary quoting black poetry without the comic accent for good measure. She was just being a good old boy doing cracker talk.

So, does that mean she gets a free pass when a good old boy doing cracker talk, like Trent Lott, gets tar and feathers and the rail?

We have either risen above such stuff in our race blind government relations or we are telling blacks that it is your turn to corrupt justice.

She resigned. Good for her. Even if the evidence were to prove that she gave “C” effort to the white farmer, she is still on record talking trash with her homies.

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:10:29 +0000

Scherie #14, I agree with you except on this one point: " . . . these are the kinds of bureaucrats we may face in the future. Nope, these kinds of bureaucrats are here now Especially in the White House.