Obama throws nice non-racist bleeding heart under bus for "racism"

Obama really needs to pay more attention but perhaps he can't because he's so stupid that he really does need a teleprompter to tell him what to think and say.

Stephen Spruiell:

The NAACP has posted the full video of the Shirley Sherrod speech. After watching it, it is impossible not to conclude that the Obama administration made the wrong decision in forcing her resignation.

I'd encourage you to watch the video for yourself, but the summary version is as follows: After experiencing some hard-core white racism in the segregated South (her father was murdered by white men who were never convicted), Sherrod made a commitment to help black southerners in bad situations. "When I made that commitment," she said, "I was making that commitment to black people and to black people only. But you know, God will show you things... you realize that the struggle is really about poor people." She then proceeded to tell the story featured in the clip that Breitbart published (he says he received the clip in its edited form). A white farmer came to her for help, and because she perceived him to be like the others, she fobbed him off on a white lawyer — "his own kind." But the lawyer didn't help the farmer, and that is what led Sherrod to revise her previous biases against whites and to resolve to assist all economically distressed farmers, white or black, who came to her for help.

As for the ongoing dispute between the NAACP and the tea party and the various accusations of racism that have been flying of late: Sherrod's speech was about overcoming racist views, including those held by blacks, illustrated by way of her personal story. There would be no need for her to tell that story to that particular audience if she didn't feel that some in the NAACP still harbored prejudiced views of whites; the moral of her story would be obsolete if black racism didn't exist.

I saw the full video today and I also saw a video of the Spooners, the white farmer and his wife, who say that they are grateful to Sherrod and have regarded her as a friend for the past 24 years.

Spruiell adds that Sherrod was not working for the USDA when she helped the Spooners. She was working for a non-profit do-gooder bleeding heart group.

I wonder how Obama will wriggle out of this mess. I guess he'll throw Vilsack under the bus just like Lenin threw the Menshevik bleeding hearts under the bus.