Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Official Viking Pundit retraction - Well, it looks like I jumped the gun on the Shirley Sherrod story, although I'm not the only one. Her resignation came so swiftly, I thought there must have been something more to the whole thing. My bad.

3 comments:

Nigel Tufnel said...

"Well, working with him made me see that it's really about those who have vs. those who don't, you know. And they could be black; they could be white; they could be Hispanic. And it made me realize then that I needed to work to help poor people. ...

"But where am I going with this? You know, I couldn't say 45 years ago — I couldn't stand here and say what I'm saying — what I will say to you tonight. Like I told you, God helped me to see that it's not just about black people — it's about poor people. And I've come a long way. I knew that I couldn't live with hate. You know. As my mother has said to so many, 'If we had tried to live with hate in our hearts, we'd probably be dead now.'

"But I've come to realize that we have to work together, and you know, it's sad that we don't have a room full of white and blacks here tonight, because we have to overcome the divisions that we have. We have to get to the point where, as Toni Morrison said, 'Race exists but it doesn't matter.' We have to work just as hard."

-Shirley Sherrod, whose father was murdered by a white farmer when she was 17 years old.

Anonymous said...

So its a better thing now that she has adopted Marxist ideology over a racist one.

Yeah! I'm sure that will have a happier ending.

Nigel Tufnel said...

This woman's speech was transformed by editing and viewer preconceptions into the polar opposite of what it really was: a story that was inspirational on the most basic human level, a triumphant example of how hard work and Christian values can overcome hatred and the desire for vengeance to make the world a better place in which to live.

Shall we pause for a moment and reflect on the human condition? Or perhaps question the state of modern inernet-based journalism and it's impact on our society and its leaders?

Nah...back to the talking points.