This incident occurred at an NAACP event, and recorded by the organization, who owns the video. The release could have come only with cognizance from someone in the organization. How strange that they then declare that they were "snookered".

Someone sent the video clip to Breitbart. Presumably it was someone associated with the NAACP.

That's gotta be the real story here.

Who sent it to Andrew?

What was that persons motivation?

I'm really tired of hearing about racism. For 30 yrs I work as a super in the construction industry, usually large jobs and union workers.

I have had black,white,female,Indian and every other type of people working for me. In those 30yrs I had exactly 1 racial incident because I simply wouldn't allow it. In that one incident a black worker referred to another black worker as "a lazy N". When I got in the guys face for what he said he told me it was OK because they were both black. I told him if I heard it again he was gone,period.

I had good & bad from every stripe but they were all just people.

The media and others perpetuate the racial divide (non existant in my book) by prefacing the description of everybody by their race. Instead of saying "Joe Shmo for Indiana" it's always "Joe Shmo,an Afro-American man, from Indiana".

If I was a black man I don't think I would want the "Afro" before "American".

That Ms. Sherrod has received an apology does not excuse the fact that she once committed a racist act. Does she acknowledge it? Yes she does. Has she transcended it? It would appear so. I am quite sure Sen. Robert Byrd made ammends for his past with the KKK, and had also attempted to transcend it. Does it excuse the fact that it happened? Probably not, but at least it is in the open, it happened many years ago, and for intents and purposes, should be water well beneath the bridge. The fact that the NAACP and its ilk continues to practice many forms of racism while simultaneously fighting against racism is inexcusible. There are people of color in some of the highest offices in the land, as well as being captains of industry, leaders in every facet of American culture and society. In my opinion, they have overcome. Anyone who insists otherwise is only demonstrating their total ignorance and lack of will to become something other than a professional victim.

Wow! what a powerful example of how the Liberals jump without thinking or investigating, only this time it really bit them back. They are so quick to blame they just can't stop to think before they open their mouth to spew hate.

Breitbart is guilty of some selective editing in this case. This was a rather blatant attempt to use the NAACP's own tactics against them. I'm more than a little tired myself of the unjustified charges of racism directed at conservatives, but that doesn't justify the same behavior from conservatives.

"There is (a) class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. … There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."

-- Booker T. Washington, Founder of Tuskegee Institute, in Up From Slavery (written in 1911)

To Bob (7/24/10): The real story is that there are millions of Americans (of every race, e.g., Caucasian, Black, Brown, Oriental, Red; and almost every ancestry, e.g., Irish, Italian, Hispanic, Asian, French, Egyptian, etc.) who are not racist. These people may have at some point in their lives suffered some type of racial or ancestral discrimination but they chalk it up to pettiness in the hearts of men and women, not in a given race or ancestral background. By and large, the vast majority of Americans are sick and tired of the race card constantly being played by those who believe they are not racist all the while they are making the most vicious racist comments!

Pretty nasty editing job. By a real hack too. The sound's terrible for example.

Journalists really should have more integrity.

I love how she blames Fox News, even though Fox didn't make a PEEP about the story until she'd already been strong-armed into resignation. I do believe she was wrongfully terminated, but I'd say she's substituted racism for class warfare, which is barely any exchange at all.

What is really telling and keeps coming back to me is that Sherrod keeps saying that she took this white man over "To one of his own kind". Now that sounds to me as if her racial bias isn't sleeping just a bit under the surface. I've found that those who shout 'racist' the most are themselves quite racist.

Every time someone starts a sentence with, "This isn't about race, but", they've just brought race into it. There are three main race groups, Caucasoid, Mongoloid and Negroid. Or in more familiar terms, white, asian and black. Mexican by the way is NOT a race. It is a nationality and a white man born in Africa and becoming an American citizen is indeed, African/American. Barak Obama isn't black either. He's a mulatto, mixed-blood, mulatto or any other term you might asign. I too am a half-breed. My Dad was pure blood Cherokee and my Mother was European.

We should also remember that slavery is an ancient custom in the world. The Greeks and Romans had slaves, as did Africans and Asians. Blacks were the first to enslave other blacks and also the ones who sold their fellow Africans for profit. It's nothing new.

I would suggest to those blacks who wish to seek reparations for their ancestors enslavement, that they go seek the slavers in Africa. See how far that will get them. It might just show them how lucky they are to live in this great land called America.

I may be the only one in the country with this take on this incident, but, IMHO, Ms Sherrod is not the heroine she is being portrayed to be.

In her own words, she went from discriminating motivated by the overt evidence of race to discriminating based on her perception of claimant's class or financial status,ie have vs have not. Either way, she has been denying the equal protection of the law to every one who appeared before her desk for over 24 years. Either way, she is in violation of the Constitution and numerous federal laws.

The United States of America was once a nation of law. We are now without the rule of law and have become an emerging third world country. Ms Sherrod, and all others like her, in AG or any other Fed. Gov't Agency should be fired; for cause.

Bob Shearer

Her racism is shown in her comment about the white guy "thinking he was superior to me." Is she capable of reading minds? Or is this a mirror on her own attitude and feelings when she sees whites?

Your preception of me is based more on what you see and hear than on how I look and what I say.

TAL re: July 23, 2010 at 13:09 --

"Wow! what a powerful example of how the Liberals jump without thinking or investigating, only this time it really bit them back. They are so quick to blame they just can't stop to think before they open their mouth to spew hate."

The expression is, "acted stupidly".

Come on apologists! Listen to the entire video and your only possible conclusion is that this woman is a racists! The audience agreed with her. NAACP is an organization that profits from real or imagined racism. STRAIGHT UP RACISTS right Janeane? Where are you bigmouth?

One might say that the best thing that ever happened to the blacks in the USA is that their forefathers were sold into slavery and brought to the US. Slavery in itself is horrible but look on the positive aspects. It got them out of a country that even today is still living in poverty and is still in the slave trade. They were brought to a country where eventually they were freed and to those who wish to better themselves have the opportunities to do so. The problem, as I see it, is that so many still blame the former slave owners (whites, even though there were also black slave owners) for all their problems. It is time to stop the "blame games" and make a life for yourselves.

But, Sherrod is the one who used the term "I took him to one of his people". Imagine the uproar from Sharpton, Jackson and the NAACP if she were white saying this about a black farmer, "I took him to one of his people for help". They would have all called fo rher scalp and tossed the r word around to no end. I do not care what the entire video shows, she is still a bigot at the minimum, a racist at most for using the phrase how she did. Sherrod made teh bed, now lie in it.