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'''Shirley Sherrod''' was [[United States Department of Agriculture]]'s director of rural development in [[Georgia]] until July 20, 2010 when the Obama [[White House]] directed Secretary of Agriculture, [[Tom Vilsack]], to have her fired. According to Sherrod, the USDA called her while she was driving, told her to pull over to the side of the road and resign using her Blackberry.
'''Shirley Sherrod''' was [[United States Department of Agriculture]]'s director of rural development in [[Georgia]] until July 20, 2010 when the Obama [[White House]] directed Secretary of Agriculture, [[Tom Vilsack]], to have her fired. According to Sherrod, the USDA called her while she was driving, told her to pull over to the side of the road and resign using her Blackberry.
In a video clip from a local [[NAACP]] chapter posted on biggovernment.com Sherrod regalled an audience with a story about how she didn't do her best to help a White farmer threatened with losing his land. In her story she said she "didn't give him the full force of what I could do" because "I was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farmland and here I was faced with helping a white person save their land."<ref>http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2010/07/19/video-proof-the-naacp-awards-racism2010/</ref>
NAACP president Ben Jealous wrote: "Racism is about abuse of power. Sherrod had it at USDA. She abused a white farmer because of his race. NAACP is appalled. Go to naacp.org."<ref>http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/07/too_quick_a_trigger.php#more</ref> The NAACP's initial statement regarding Sherrod's comments has been removed from its website. [[President Obama]] later apologized to Sherrod.<ref>http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/23/sherrod-regards-obamas-call-as-apology/</ref>
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