Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

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 [...]

Shirley Sherrod’s husband is Charles Sherrod. Yeah, that one. A SNCC organizer 0f the Albany Movement. Who was recently interviewed as part of the 50th anniversary of the SNCC. Talk about paying their dues. Who, along with Shirley, apparently was involved in a long-running court case involving Black farmers that was recently settled - which involvement REALLY has the [...]

Kudos to Little Green Footballs. Urgh? I know Charles Johnson has broken with the nuttier part of the GOP, but little other than that. Anyway, though… Apparently when others were piling on Shirley Sherrod yesterday, or running away from her, Lizardoids and Johnson consistently stood up for her, without even knowing what the rest of the story [...]

How disgusting is this? TPM (emphasis mine) Shirley Sherrod, an appointee to the USDA, was forced to resign yesterday after Big Government posted a video of a speech Sherrod gave in March. In the video, Sherrod, who is black, recounts how, 24 years ago, she didn’t help a white farmer as much as she could. [...]