Where’s Tom Vilsack’s Resignation?
If you haven’t been following the latest tempest in media land, I’ll summarize. A few days ago a video clip of a speech by a Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod hit the blogsphere via biggovernment.com. In the clip, Sherrod spoke of an incident in 1986 where she was struggling with racism — she was asked for a help by a Georgian white farmer and up till that point had been focused on being more engaged in helping black farmers. Naturally, any discrimination of white farmers is sure to be trot out by the “we’re afraid of black people” crowd, and the media storm was on.