After a carefully edited video excerpt of what most considered as racist hit the internet waves a week ago, Shirley Sherrod, ex-USDA director of the rural development office in Georgia, was immediately told to resign from her post. Due to blogger Andrew Breitbart TRYING to expose racism in the NAACP in retaliation attempts against their claims of racism in the Tea Party, Ms. Sherrod became a target of criticism from both sides of the political fence. Not until the proper due diligence was done (which was a couple of days later) was there an apology from the White House and “scaled back comments” from the NAACP. More details on her story here. Continue reading →