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To: Bill who wrote (262242)	7/19/2010 8:14:37 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

<< He accused three people. I was not aware that all three had made racist comments; hence my question.>> So you knew about Byrd's comments, but you don't know about the comments of "Jesse 'Hymietown' Jackson" and the New Black Panther party, whose video clip has been all over the news and Internet the past few weeks? Are you seriously suggesting you want links to prove it because you "are not aware" they made racist comments? Just give it up, Ted. Nobody's buying your nonsense. Where do you get off telling me what I know and don't know? I have no idea what Hymietown has to do with Jackson nor the racism that the BP party is guilty of. That's why I asked for links. You Rs make up a lot of crap. I never know what's the truth and what isn't. But please don't tell me how to think or what you think I am doing. I am not nearly as devious as an R. that's why I stick to the facts. Trust.

To: Bill who wrote (262242)	7/19/2010 9:02:02 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 306849

USDA Official resigns tonight after her racist speech to NAACP exposed Video Shows USDA Official Saying She Didn't Give 'Full Force' of Help to White Farmer July 19, 2010 foxnews.com Shown here is USDA Georgia official Shirley Sherrod. (YouTube) 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. 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. I did enough." The Agriculture Department announced Monday, shortly after FoxNews.com published its initial report on the video, that Sherrod had resigned. "There is zero tolerance for discrimination at USDA, and I strongly condemn any act of discrimination against any person," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a written statement. "We have been working hard through the past 18 months to reverse the checkered civil rights history at the department and take the issue of fairness and equality very seriously. Sherrod explained in the video that, at the time, she assumed the state or national Department of Agriculture had referred the white farmer to her. In order to ensure that the farmer could report back that she was indeed helpful, she said she took him to see "one of his own" -- a white lawyer. "I figured that if I take him to one of them, that his own kind would take care of him," she said. . . . The video clip was first posted by BigGovernment.com. The clip is dated March 27 from an NAACP Freedom Fund banquet. The clip adds to the firestorm of debate over the NAACP's decision to approve a resolution at its convention last week accusing some Tea Party activists of racism -- a charge Tea Party leaders deny. FoxNews.com was unable to get a response to this story from the NAACP.

To: Bill who wrote (262242)	7/19/2010 9:27:35 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Dude, George freakin' Wallace was a Democrat. Lester Maddox was a Democrat. Strom Thurmond was a Democrat until 1964. There were loads of racist southern democrats during the height of the segregation protests, the South was solidly Dem (due to blaming the Civil War on Lincoln) with a few splinter parties (like when Wallace ran as a third party candidate for Pres in 1968). When Nixon came in that changed due to a focused southern strategy, and he solidified it in 1972 when he landslided/Watergated McGovern. How many Democratic racists do you need, there were/are literally millions of them.