Shirley Sherrod: A Reminder of Racism in Politics and the Importance of Voting with Conscience.

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Shirley Sherrod: A Reminder of Racism in Politics and the Importance of Voting with Conscience.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Remember Shirley Sherrod? Relatively few people do. Ms. Sherrod was hired in 2009 to work for then President Barack Obama’s USDA as its Georgia Director of Rural Development — the first African American ever to hold that position. Several months into Sherrod’s tenure, the late propagandist Andrew Breitbart purposely smeared her by releasing a video of a speech that she had delivered to the NAACP. In a move that should have surprised absolutely no one, Breitbart deliberately edited the video to make it appear as though Sherrod had discriminated against a white farmer. Of course, the exact opposite was true. (One

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