Are Conservative Sherrod Apologists The Real Racists?

As you'll learn below, supported by video, Shirley Sherrod believes Andrew Breitbart did what he did because he genuinely wants to see a return to actual slavery for blacks in the United States. Think about what that view says about her and her views on race.

Without making a sweeping generalization, I suspect some of Sherrod's Right-side apologists do so without realizing they are displaying the soft bigotry of low expectations not untypical of upper-middleclass whites.

I grew up in a lower middleclass neighborhood fairly well integrated - by economics, not by buses. There were blacks and whites who treated their own and the other race with a disciplined set of reasonable expectations. They tended to rise up economically, leaving behind what were less than ideal circumstances. Then there were those, both black and white, who had no positive expectations for self, or for others, white or black. They tended to remain stuck.

Anyone viewing both Breitbart's original video snippets and the fuller tape and not appreciating how Sherrod doesn't come close to living up to a set of reasonable standards, or expectations for a public official, while displaying significant signs of racial bias is missing the point, in my opinion. And I can't help but wonder if the soft bigotry of low expectations for blacks to be found across many would be and actual white elitists isn't the reason.

Here's a new snippet of the Shirley Sherrod you believe is owed an apology discussing Andrew Breitbart. The full video of her with Anderson Cooper is here. Who really deserves the apology here, given Sherrod's views?

I think he would like to get us stuck back in the times of slavery. That's where I think he would like to see all black people end up again.

And I think that's why he's so vicious against a black president, you know. He would go after me. I don't think it was even the NAACP he was totally after. I think he was after a black president.

Comments

[w3bgrrl]

I could not agree with you more. This woman is vile and should not be in any government position whatsoever. She has broken trust with the public. I especially cannot stomach her repeated assertions that she knows what every white man and woman thinks and feels in their heart.

She is vile, but I am of two minds. Part of me wants her to go away, and part of me enjoys what she reveals about herself every time she opens her mouth. Saint Shirley, indeed.

[Sissy Willis]

The soft bigotry of low expectations explains everything about the Northeast Corridor Conservatives.

Their tribal-solidarity dissing of Sarah Palin was a classic example of their Pauline-Kael-bubble arrogance. I'm remembering Peggy Noonan's gratuitous disparaging of Palin when she thought the microphone was turned off: http://bit.ly/9rTITd

It's sweet to savor the irony of Noonan's words back then at the thought of Palin as McCain's runningmate: "It's over." Yes, Peggy, it's nearly over, but not what you think.

[Mrs. Peperium]

"Shirley Sherrod believes Andrew Breitbart did what he did because he genuinely wants to see a return to actual slavery for blacks in the United States. Think about what that view says about her and her views on race."

It proves beyond a reasonable doubt Andrew's words that Cooper quoted to Sherrod - listen to her and you see she hasn't gotten beyond black and white.

LOL!

[jakee308]

A lot of liberal/reparationist/liberationist blacks spend a lot of time talking about whitey and what THEY'D do if they ever got power over whites. (I was once a flaming radical leftist in New Haven, CT so believe me when I say that I know how these folks (liberal/leftists) think and what goes on at their meetings and protests.)

It's no surprise that that's what they think WHITE people do all the time.

Humans tend to ascribe to others the same faults they themselves have; the thief accuses everyone of stealing from them, the gossip accuses everyone of talking behind their back, those in secret cabals tend to believe that they are being watched and they're every word recorded.

Shirley would fit in just fine at many Black Churches these days. You know the ones like Rev. Wright's Church. Hear something every Sunday and you begin to believe it. Of course our president never attended when the Rev. spouted off like that. {smirk}

[King Simar Shabazz (D-black panther)]

Where 2penny at???? Why ain't you all up in here hold'n up the whipped cracker end.... Where you at cracker boy!!!!!!

[joyMc]

As to the issue of what Ms Sherrod has done to get past her racism. Looks like a comfortable affirmative action do nothing mid level government career enjoying a substantial and (normally) secure income at the taxpayers expense with a promise of secure retirement. And then there is the occasional cameo appearance at the NAACP. That would be enough to bring anyone to an epiphany. Anderson looked pained doing the interview. I don't think even he is buying Ms indignant's BS. She certainly is hot on the law suit angle. I understand she has had a history of rather lucrative suing in the past at the tax payer's expense. Should be right up her alley. Though I don't know how you sue and win just for having your own words played on a blog. I still maintain she is only being offered employment back because she knows where the skeletons are buried.