The Ultimate Irony: A Despicable Race Hustler Like Shirley Sherrod Is Being Hailed As A Racial Role Model

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The Ultimate Irony: A Despicable Race Hustler Like Shirley Sherrod Is Being Hailed As A Racial Role Model

Written By : John Hawkins

It’s fascinating to see Shirley Sherrod being lionized as some sort of hero because after she racially discriminated against a white farmer, she had a change of heart. Would any conservative be treated as a hero for doing the same thing or would the Left sneer and refuse to believe that she changed her stripes?

Moreover, have people been listening to some of the other absolutely despicable, indefensible comments coming out her loud mouth?

Here’s a much less remarked upon excerpt from her speech that Breitbart made famous,

I haven’t seen such mean spirited people as I’ve seen lately over this issue of health care. Some of the racism we thought was buried, didn’t it surface? We endured 8 years of the Bush’s and we didn’t do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black President.

Now here’s what Sherrod said about Fox News for reporting pretty much the exact same story that everyone else did,

Sherrod ripped Fox in an interview Wednesday with Media Matters, saying the network would “love to take us back to where we were many years ago. Back to where black people were looking down, not looking white folks in the face, not being able to compete for a job out there and not be a whole person.”

In other words, here we have someone who’s spewing absolutely vile and despicable racial attacks at people merely for disagreeing with her and no one’s batting an eye. Meanwhile, everyone seems horribly upset because people feel this woman was unfairly accused of being a racist.

If irony were made of water, we’d be sitting in the middle of the ocean right now.

TheDarkKnight

Not me.. I'm sticking by my original opinion of Sherrod.. Racist.
http://twitter.com/tbogg Tbogg

John, I feel bad for you because you're kind of retarded, but you just went full retard.

Christopher_Taylor

Wow, Tbogg has decided to spread his particular version of vapid stupidity here too. How sad for us.

http://twitter.com/tbogg Tbogg

Well, since you were already here and soaking in it…

Kingfisher

I'm curious, how many more ID's will you create to falsely accuse of John of racism while hiding your own racism?
Mediumheadboy

Why don't you take the advice in your avatar, troll-boy?
Mr. EMT

Trying to soak people in your stupidity again? No wonder you are covered in drool.

Mediumheadboy

Coming from a true retard like you, I suppose that's something of a compliment.
Mr. EMT

When all of your logic comes from a movie like “Tropic Thunder” you went beyond full retard and became a drooltard.

UFKA_Smithwick

I wonder when they will propose a monument to Mrs. Sherrod for her courageous stand against rightwing fascism.

“We endured 8 years of the Bush's and we didn't do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black President.”

I knew the second Obama went on the ballot (as I'm sure most everyone else here did as well) that we'd have nothing but 4 years of “you're only saying that because he's black!”.

Yeah, because republicans never stood in opposition to democrats, or criticized them publicly before there was a black president.
Mahatma

Breitbart, a noose and an oak tree. Metaphorically of course. What a bung hole he is. No better for Hammer Head Hannity and O'Reilly.

StanW

Interesting that you could only come up with people on the Right for your lynching, Martha. I for one still rememeber your defense of Dan Rather for this efforts in yellow journalism.
TheDickNixon

leftists are always big on calling for violence but don't have the balls to do anything about it. Unless it is 10 union thugs slapping a single person around.

And lynching was a great Democratic party tradition. Don't try that shit over here.

StanW

Liberals belief on using violence to solve a problem is the same as their belief in using money to solve a problem. Both are all well and good, so long as it cost the Liberal NOTHING!

They would sooner use their own money to solve an issue as they would to use violence to solve it.

Kingfisher

Breitbart, a noose and an oak tree.

~~Martha~~Mahatma and a gun.

Metaphorically, of course.

Mahatma

And no John, I honestly don't think you are a racist. I think you are part of the other half of the Tea Party that uses racism as a means to a political end.

UFKA_Smithwick

Do you believe statements of fact should be backed with objective sources proving they are facts, or can you make someone true simply by stating it enough times?

“If you repeat a lie long enough, it becomes truth.”

Joseph Goebels (“JoGo” to his friends). Another fine example of leftwing political ideology.
StanW

“… that uses racism as a means to a political end.”

You think John is a DEMOCRAT?
anwatkins

“…that uses racism as a means to a political end.”

Like the Reverends Jesse Jackson (“Hymietown!!!”) and Al Sharpton?
Christopher_Taylor

“Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November.”
-Professor Marion Frances Barry, black leftist

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/07/pr…
Kingfisher

I think you are part of the other half of the Tea Party that uses racism as a means to a political end.

Sorry but the NAACP has the copyright on that issue.

Christopher_Taylor

Well she did say she learned to not be that way, but here's what she didn't learn: she's still a leftist pointy-headed academic type who views everything in terms of power structures and Marxist politics. She decided to help the White farmer (less than she usually did with Blacks) because he was poor and oppressed just like Black farmers. It wasn't about race, it was about the powerful vs the powerless, in her eyes at least.

StanW

First reactions are important, CT. And her first reaction was that the farmer was acting “superior” and that she'll let “his own kind” help him.

It would be hard to define racism any clearer thatn that!

Mr. EMT

Followed by discrimination based on race, “While he was talking, I was deciding how much help I wanted to give. So I did enough“

Mr. EMT

I missed any of that in any of the numerous versions of the videos I have seen, though I have seen news casters portray that meme.
I never saw where she said she learned not to be that way. I did see where she had her “Revelation” and realized that a problem bigger than race for her is there isn't enough socialism.

billdalasio

The left really seems to be losing it, don't they? I could easily see Ms. Sherrod making a case that she was an innocent victim of a political vandetta by the right. She probably would have gotten a lot of traction with it. Enough, at least, for mass consumption. But racism? Racism? Really? Is that really the best they can do? It just screams “I'm an opportunist trying to play the victim”.

sabiticus

Oh, they are losing it completely! Look at our own examples here, in jharp mahatma, and tbogg… Watching these jackasses lose their shit like they are is pure delicious awesome! They're so sweet, the tears of unfathomable sorrow!
Mr. EMT

It just screams “I'm an opportunist trying to play the victim”.
Which is no different.
In either event she clearly has problems identifying who really screwed her over. That or she is a typical bitter race baiter who screams “Racism” in order to get what she wants, no different from a child in a supermarket screaming across the building making everyone's ears bleed till she gets what she wants.

jharp

So now Ms. Sherrod is a despicable race hustler?

You sir, are a fucking asshole of epic proportions.

Fuck you and your fat fucking face, asshole.

TheDickNixon

jharp,

Don't cry into the fries, it washes the taste away.
Then, stfu.

jharp

Of course I won't cry into the fries and ruin the taste. I don't want anything to hold back John from adding to his fat fucking face.

It looks like that third chin is coming along nicely.

StanW

Having to defend the racism of your side really makes you bitter, JHarp. Maybe you should do something more relaxing, like looking for a job or cleaning up your mother's basement.

Mr. EMT

He has a job, not contaminating the fry baskets with his body fluids is demanding his utmost care and attention.

Kingfisher

Of course I won't cry into the fries and ruin the taste.

Good because if you can't do that job correctly, you'll be back on the street corner with your, “Please give” sign again.

UFKA_Smithwick

Maybe he could enjoy some of Obamas funemployement.

Mr. EMT

Don't forget to flip the burgers while you are avoiding crying tears into your fries.
TheDickNixon

Let's see a picture of you, errand boy.

You can wear your McFood uniform.
earlgrey133

Why do you read John if he makes you so mad?
gfchicago

If John's opinions and the rights offend you so much, why do you bother visiting this site?

You are not even debating the issue of what she said that the rest of us find so offensive and down right racist. Instead you are acting just like petulant three year old throwing a temper tantrum with the name calling.

Kingfisher

So now Ms. Sherrod is a despicable race hustler?

It certainly has extended her 15 minutes of fame. Race hustling has worked for Jackson and Sharpton.
Mr. EMT

Now Jharp, didnt you learn anything Shirley taught ya? “It isn't about black Vs white, well it is, but its more about the poor Vs those who have.”
Mediumheadboy

Oh look, the prodigal cockholster returns. I guess leftists just can't help themselves: they're all lying sacks of shit.
UFKA_Smithwick

“You sir, are a fucking asshole of epic proportions.”

Harsh, especially coming from someone who knows a thing or two about anuses stretched to abnormal sizes.
the_hawk

Way to bring some intelligence and maturity to the subject, genius.

Trench_Raider

Let me throw a scenario at you and see what you all think.

Let's say a White male employee of a goverment agency (the exact one does not matter, but for grins let's say it's HUD) attended last month's Council of Conservative Citizens conference. At the conference, the C0fCC asked him to give a speach because of his prior pro-White activism and he did so. During his presentation he explain how at some point in his past he abused his position of authority by refusing to help a black client, soley due to his race. The CofCC conference attendees react to this admission by nodding in aproval and some open laughter. Well, when his behavior and admission of unethical behavior gets back to his bosse at HUD he is fired within a few days.

But it gets better.

Two days after the HUD employee's firing a Republican administration (against whom in the past some reasonable accusations of racial bias have been leveled) issues a public apology and then makes matters worse by offering the fired employee his job back.

Let me ask you all these questions:
How would you feel about the HUD employee?
Do you feel that his firing would have been justified?
How would you feel about the White House that apologized for his firing and offered him a new job?
Now how is this scenario different than the real Sherrod case?
How do you feel about those clowns who are making excuses for the behavior of Sherrod and the White House in this matter?

Ah double standards and leftists. They go together like peanut butter and jelly.

TR

StanW

Your senario is silly, Trench.

Any governmental employee that even attended, much less spoke at, a CofCC rally would be unemployed and unemployable, regardless of their reason for attending.

The double standard is that a abjectly racist organizations like the NAACP or La Raza are treated as legitimate political groups by any government.
UFKA_Smithwick

Why that would be racist!

But you're missing the a key fact here: only white people can be racist. Actually ALL white people are, no blacks are. That's what it means to live in a post-racial world.

The Real Iron MIke

Big business is screwing every American, The Banks, Wall Street, Health Care Industry, and Petroleum to name a few. Social Security is at near collapse, manufacturing is at a record low, our balance of trade is a disaster. Our education system is heading to third world status. Our politicians are disconnected from the average Joe..let me see how many millionaires do we have in Congress. And you guys are getting all juiced up about the Sherrod story. Left Wing, Right Wing you're all a bunch of puppets, you need so badly to have your team win. True Americans should stand up to this bullshit; we need term limits, no lobbying in Washington, true tax reform, investment in America. Oh I forgot you dopes are still stuck on Race. Your passion is laughable. Spend time on the issues that count. Stop being a Republican or Democrat, be an American dammit.

TheDickNixon

sure thing sparky. Now fetch your shinebox and don't speak to your betters again in that tone of voice, moby.

The Real Iron MIke

Ah….Dick….I notice that all your answers are short and just packed full of wisdom. I can see you are a real deep thinker. I just bet you were the top student in your reform school class. I bet you even have your GED by now.
Your reference to Goodfellas is so powerful and on point. Your contributions here are a laugh…..you can't put together a few original thoughts and you putdowns suck. Good night……Dick.

gfchicago

You forgot to mention that the biggest part of the Wall Street failure is due to the likes of Barney Franks, Chris Dodd, Maxine Waters and Charlie Rangle amongst others so you might want to re-think that whole scenario about it being all of big business's fault for the condition of our economy.

The Real Iron MIke

gfchicago……..I'm not going to defend these people. They all need to be sent packing from Congress….we need term limits. So by your example here it's only the Dems that screwed the country. The top corporate CEO's, CFO's, earn more money in a day that most people earn in a year. If you look at corporate earnings vs performance you'll see it's so out of whack. I happen to like that America rewards true entrepreneurs, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs. You guys are so stuck on this Dem vs republican bullshit you can't see straight. You can't get past the horseshit you're fed by the Right and Left Wing (pic one) on a daily basis. All of just repeat and rehash the same old shit….and this is one of the reasons America is circling the drain.

gfchicago

So your jealous of people making money. No America is not circling the drain because we have producers in this country, it's all the crooked politicians that are screwing us. That goes for both the Republicans and the Dems. Although I think that the Dems are a hell of a lot worse than the Republicans. I'm a conservative, and I'll vote for a Repub before I'll ever vote for a Dem even if I have to hold my nose.

I don't a problem with corporate America, because they create the jobs that keep us going. What the hell does our government create other than trying to over regulate the producers that hamstring everyone.

They already had enough rules and regs that they were not enforcing and due to their malfeasance is why we find ourselves in the pickle that we are in economic wise.

The Real Iron MIke

Finally, we're getting some debate here. I'm not jealous at all for capitalism. I admire the entrepreneurs out there. Get off your assertion that I'm jealous. First I agree with you regarding politicians, corruption is rampant on both sides. The government doesn't create jobs, however, they do enable SOME job creation, i.e., roads and infrastructure spending.

If you don't see the connection to the collapse of the housing markets and big business you better go back and get educated on the subject. Banks offered loans to anyone that could breathe. Their theory was housing was on a continuous upward spiral. As such, even if they loaned money to poor risk people, they would recoup losses because housing price inflation would outpace the risk and they could re-sell the house and still make money. The other fact that people miss is that banks were lending 10 dollars on every 1 dollar on deposit. This ratio made the banking industry resemble more of a casino than a stable lending institution. Also……the banks had the extreme minimum of their own money tied up. So then they teamed up with Wall Street and sold these mortgages as securities. Do you know who was making the money….the Banks and Wall Street. This house of cards collapsed. Don't give me that mumbo jumbo that it was the low income people that killed the golden goose. Just look at our hunger for cheap credit…it's a drug. People are underwater on their mortgages…..you can't pay the mortgage or buy foreign goods if you're laid off. Big business has outsourced everything they could at the expense of everything but their profitability and bonuses. Corporate CEO's are just as out of touch with the average American as the politicians….get the point here……they're in lockstep.

Now as to your defense of 'Big Business'….manufacturing jobs in the US has declined every year for past two decades. Our beloved corporations closed factories and sent manufacturing jobs off shore to save money. They laid off the people that are also their consumers. The corporate profitability has been relatively good at the expense of closing factories and eliminating jobs. Wal-Mart, the worlds largest corporation, imports 85% of what they sell from China. Their job creation…stock clerks, checkout clerks, senior citizen greeters. Try to raise a family of three on your Wal-Mart income. Health care we'll hold off for another day. Oh and by the way the fact is job creation comes from small entrepreneurs and small business. It's an irrefutable fact. Oh I forgot we are the world leaders of Fast Food.

You still hold on to your misguided belief that it's the Republicans who will lead us out of our problems. No so, it's only going to happen when these two groups come together for the common good, and that ain't happening for a long time.

Also do some reading on how Wall Street makes their money…In America we have replaced our Electrical, Mechanical, and Chemical engineers with Financial Engineers who don't contribute shit to the manufacturing base in our country.

If you think we are the biggest, brightest, best on the world competitive stage…your looking into the rear view mirror.

My position is I want America to regain our place as top in the world. This Republican, Democrat bullshit is distracting. If you think it's only the Republicans that have the 'Truth, and the path to success of our country you and your like are dopes.

So, I again state……..act like an American……stick your Democrat/Republican bullshit up your ass.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1309653997 Cara Ellison

Big Business is NOT screwing every American. Thank your lucky stars we have big business in this country. Capitalism saves. God bless Enron, Exxon, Williams, BP, Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Haliburton, etc etc etc.

The Real Iron MIke

It amazes me how you continue to frame the problem that all of the problems in our country are solely attributable to the Democrats…I know this is a right wing site so you are blinded. You're not very well informed if all your reading and research is from right wing sources. I happen to think the Democrats are indeed dipsticks. And….the Republicans are equally dipsticks. Just look what happens when the Republcans are in power…do they restore the wrongs committed by the Dems, hell no. If you think big government is the sole provision of the Dems , you're an idiot.

I have friends that are Dems and Republicans when we get into a true debate about the country and where it's going all this democrat vs. republican bullshit goes by the wayside. We talk like Americans. If you can't see how this divisiveness is eroding our country you might as well open your bible and start studying for the final.

Cara, you say God bless Enron, shame on you. There are thousands of people who lost their pensions and savings because the top brass at Enron told everyone that all was well when it was far from the truth. I don't mind a good debate. Let's go away from the Right wing Game Plan and talk facts. When you realize our congress is answerable to only to Big Business you'll figure it out. I'm not saying all business and capitalism is bad. But your defense of Wall Street and the banking industry is a joke. You clearly don't know what you're talking about.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1309653997 Cara Ellison

Trust me, you know nothing about Enron. You can check my blog about it here: caraellison.wordpress.com.

Enron was healthy – that is why the “top brass” (ie Ken Lay) said all was well.

You are fucking moron.

The Real Iron MIke

Cara…I read your Blog…what happened to your to position to welcoming polite discussion…not nastiness or slurs. So along with your illogical diatribe on how poor Enron and everyone associated with this corporation is innocent you violate your own position of being civil.

So do I get your point correct that it was the banks and financial institutions that brought Enron down. Hmmm….banks can't be corrupt….why….. they're downright American!

I'm kind of wondering whose mistress you were to one of these Enron Saints of Society. These bastards are in jail. The evidence was clear and conclusive. Ken Lay did us a favor and expired before we taxpayers had to foot the bill for his lengthy incarceration.

If you focused your efforts on making America a better place with the same zeal you did writing your blog you could contribute something good instead of coming off as another goof with nothing better to do.

By the way, your blog is sophomoric.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1309653997 Cara Ellison

Aw, poor mental midget can't understand the big words on my big, scary blog.

Go fuck yourself. No, actually, have your sister do it for you as usual.
The Real Iron MIke

Cara you're a classic internet coward. You can see from my writing that I can comprehend you and your attempt at 'debate'. You can't handle a differing opinion so you reduce yourself a ranting, swearing, out of control lunatic. You're a dime a dozen. This site is full of people who in the absence of making a cogent argument resort to name calling and swearing up and done. You, lady, have distinguished yourself as low class.

Do you really think the people reading this here and now take you seriously. You bring attention to yourself as another clown who can't take what they dish out. Don't worry you're in good company.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1309653997 Cara Ellison

You don't even have an opinion. Your brain is mush. Cunts like you are a dime a dozen.
The Real Iron MIke

Cara you've proved my point, case closed. Thanks for the opportunity to draw you out. I'll go debate with someone who has something to say as opposed to you where you have to say something. Bye and thanks for making my day.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1309653997 Cara Ellison

You're a douche. You really are. You think you're brilliant – that's the funny thing.

You are dismissed.
The Real Iron MIke

I knew you couldn't leave it be. Thanks for dismissing me, I was getting bored with your circular logic and adolescent behavior. You just can't pose a decent rebuttal without a nuclear meltdown. it's a shame that your vanity overshadows everything you said here. I baited you and you did a free fall and crashed to earth. Too bad, we could have had some real discussions on a number of fronts but you blew it girl. I'm out of here and I shall not come back to you. You don't know how to play nice….in fact you don't know how to play at all. Thanks for giving us all a good laugh. Good luck with the Blaaaaaaag.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1309653997 Cara Ellison

I simply do not understand all the apologizing for Shirley Sherrod. Even Rush Limbaugh did it to a certain extent and it makes me nuts.

Fact: she didn't do all she could do for a white farmer because he was white.

Even if she later realized the error of her ways (and saw things as class envy instead of racial terms) she DENIED THAT FARMER HELP BECAUSE OF HIS RACE. Why is there no outrage?

She said she changed. Great. Did the accept George Allen's apology for using the made-up word “macaca”? What about Strom Thurmon's comments? What about ANY other conservative who has ever uttered anything that even if not insulting, sounded vaguely “wrong-headed.”? Where is all this forgiveness for anyone who is not a race-baiting waste of federal tax dollars like Sherrod?

She's a racist. Period.

I am so sick of the race discussion. SICK OF IT! And Sherrod and Obama and the NAACP are just race-baiting for political reasons. It is disgusting. We are better than this.

We are Americans.

gfchicago

Amen. I'm not certain that Obama et al are race baiting due to political reasons. I think that they are flat out and out racist period, end of story.

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