| sortie |
07-23-2010 09:17 AM |
Shirley Sherrod versus Breitbart
Wow!
If this guy wanted to pick on someone who has a load of ammunition to fire back with
then he succeeded.
I've never in my life seen someone fired and then offered to come back to work.
Her "back story" is one story that Breitbart is not going to want to hear.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...oo-top-linkbox
Quote:
It was 1985, 20 years after her father was murdered by a white man who was never prosecuted, and the nearly 6,000-acre collective farm she had helped form in the early 1970s to create a sort of African-American utopia in the midst of Georgia's white farming community was going under. Governor Lester Maddox, a segregationist, called the tract of land "Sharecropper City," and refused to sign off on a grant that could have helped the families who owned the farm stay afloat. They had applied for loans from the Department of Agriculture's Farmers Home Administration, but often they were turned down or approved late in the crop season, delaying planting and harvesting, to devastating economic effect. The USDA would not let the collective restructure loans or take over the land and lease it back, as had been done for other farmers. Eventually, the land was sold to a white businessman who later turned it into subdivisions.
Back then, local USDA offices with power over loans were....
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I don't know where this is going from here, but right now it looks like the biggest
backfire ever! |
