Sherrod plans to sue over edited video
Andrew Breitbart and Shirley Sherrod.
/ Associated Press.
Shirley Sherrod is the ousted United States Department of Agriculture employee who was forced to resign after conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart posted a video that made her appear racist. In the full video of her speech, which she gave to the NAACP, it is revealed that instead of discriminating against a white couple she actually had gone out of her way to save their farm. Sherrod said this week she will sue Breitbart who posted the heavily edited video. She says, she has not received an apology from Breitbart.
Since the saga began, the woman at the center of the storm says she has been swamped with apologies. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has since offered Sherrod a new job in the department. Since resigning July 19 She is still deciding whether to accept the offer. She also received an apology and phone call from President Obama.
Sherrod believes her experience provides a new opportunity to talk about race in America. But can the first black President of the most powerful nation in the world talk about race without risking the wrath of the right or not showing enough sympathy to the left? Apologizing for Sherrod’s hasty ouster by his administration President Obama said that Sherrod “deserves better than what happened last week.
Breitbart who is not responding to calls or e-mails says he posted the edited video where Sherrod expresses reservations about helping the white farmer to prove that racism exists in the NAACP, which has demanded that the tea party movement renounce any bigoted extremist elements in the Tea Party.
Tell us what you think? Should Conservative Blogger Andrew Breitbart apologize for the Sherrod Saga?
More coverage from the National Association of Black Journalists.
