Good for Shirley Sharrod for standing by her principles and declining the USDA's job offer. If they're so willing to throw you under the bus once, don't think they wouldn't do it again.
Showing posts with label Shirley Sherrod. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shirley Sherrod. Show all posts
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Bsi 2,054.15 -2.97 -.14%
As comedy writers we can't tell you how much it hurts our soul to have to move the Index down over Wisconsin state assembly candidate Ieshuh Griffin's campaign slogan: "Not The White Man's Bitch." Really, it's killing us.
WINNERS
Shirley Sherrod (USDASS) 1.84 +1.84 NA
Teaching moment for all -- us included.
LOSERS
Ben Jealous (NAACPBJ) 7.81 -6.39 -45%
You were not duped by the right -- they just gave you enough rope.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Bsi 2,035.53 0.0 0.0
The Index takes a pause as in the past few days discourse on race in this country has gotten so out of control that everyone needs to take a step back.
America may have elected a black president, but we think the argument can be made that we're still not ready for one. At least by judging the vitriol on the right and their victim mentality that's looking for "reverse racism" in any form. Their kind of gotcha politics thrusts someone like Shirley Sherrod forth to be a sacrificial lamb -- red meat -- in a ridiculous effort to either drive web traffic, headlines or worse... policy. It's sickening.
But the left isn't blameless either. The NAACP essentially said "how high" to Andrew Breitbart's "jump", condemning Sherrod before getting all the facts. And then there's the Obama administration. Whether or not they're involved in this there's the appearance that they are. They need to get their house in order -- now.
Nobody's looking good in all this -- except for perhaps The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates, who once again breaks it down just right.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Bsi 2,035.53 -7.61 -.37%
It's not a good sign if the White House is so afraid of racial bogey men that they need to intervene in a controversy involving the USDA rural development director for Georgia. It's the job of the White House, liberal and conservative media and the NAACP not to make kneejerk reactions just because a story may or may not involve race.
You don't need this shit right now, man... c'mon!
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Damn Oakland. Just... damn.
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