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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>
 
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>
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[[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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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. The NAACP and other [[mainstream media]] news organizations only days earlier slandered the tax protesting [[Tea Party movement]] as "racist."<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20010498-503544.html</ref> [[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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