Feeling several days behind the "national conversation on race" that the media has been conducting, as I am working on a performance about race issues in America , so I will post the latest and what I think are the more interesting articles and editorials on the Shirley Sherrod smearing/firing/apologizing. But first, the video of Roger Spooner - the farmers at the center of Sherrod's NAACP speech:
Also worth a look - Melissa Harris Lacewell on MSNBC framing the story as the "vilification of black women for sport and political gain."
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From Eugene Robinson in this mornings Washington Post:
After the Shirley Sherrod episode, there's no longer any need to mince words: A cynical right-wing propaganda machine is peddling the poisonous fiction that when African Americans or other minorities reach positions of power, they seek some kind of revenge against whites.
Willie Nelson weighs in on The Huffington Post about Sherrod's advocacy for family farming, as does Andy Borowitz with his headline:
USDA Offers Sherrod Authority Over FarmvilleAnd finally, Rachel Maddow's report on the flip-flopping of Fox News on the Sherrod story:
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