Yesterday I speculated that Shirley Sherrod, far from being just a random attempted “gotcha!”, was specifically targeted by the right wing for who she is. Married to Charles Sherrod, one of the SNCC organizers of the Albany Project, a Civil Rights activist herself, and both of them party to the recently settled – but not funded – Pigford case, a long-running court [...]
I can’t view the video well, plus it’s easy for words to get lost, so here is a full transcript of what she said. I have removed the blockquotes because they make it more difficult for me, at least, to read and have instead cased Ms. Sherrod’s remarks in asterisks. It is obvious that someone [...]
i am accused of tending to the past as if i made it, as if i sculpted it with my own hands. i did not. this past was waiting for me when i came, a monstrous unnamed baby, and i with my mother’s itch took it to breast and named it History. she is more [...]
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