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Great article to ALL of you knee-jerker's out

Posted: Jul 22, 2010

http://www.comcast.net/articles/sports-general/20100721/Russakoff-Shut-Up-And-Listen/

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Some people just cannot stop the name calling, huh? - sm

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I agree with a lot of what that article said actually. However, in the case of Shirley Sherrod, she admitted to not using her full force to help a farmer merely because he was white. No matter how you try and spin that....that is racism...racism that she herself admitted to when she told her story. Sherrod rightly lost her job just like Mark Williams was rightly kicked out of the tea party for his racist blog.

And some are so determined to undermine - the message that they

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address the message with an attack and react defensively-perfect proof of what the author was saying. Ironic, huh??

Bye.

When you tell a story about the personal - sm

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growth you went through from looking at someone different because of their color and later realizing that shouldn't have been an issue....that is a great message and I applaud Sherrod for that. However, her speech to the NAACP said nothing about her personal growth until the very end and some of her statements she used to tell the story were very racially insensitive....not to mention the reaction from the crowd.

No matter what her story is today, she admitted to allowing her prejudices against a white person interfere with her ability to do her job and give 100% to the person who needed her help.

You can talk about redemption all you want but when you use terms such as "his own kind" in a speech about race...that is a racially insensitive comment.

She also said that the farmer was trying to show he was superior to her. She never said how. She made it sound like that is just something white people do. Kind of like Obama's comment about his grandmother being a "typical white person." Well...how is a typical white person? How was this farmer trying to show his superiority to you? These are racial comments no matter how you look at it.

I applaud her for working with that farmer and coming to the realization that she had to help him as well no matter what color he was. However, the way she presented this story was racially insensitive and admitted her past racism in regards to her doing her job properly.

Her changed opinion on helping a white person doesn't change the fact that she allowed race to interfere with her job.

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