Today Mareen Dowd write a column in which she argues that the Obam white House is "too white". I usually do not read Modo since she is excessively nasty and generally without incite. Occasionally, though, she is funny, so I read what I expected to be a bit of typical Modo satire. Instead, Ilearned that Modo was serious. She thinks that Obama needs to hire Shirley Sherrod as White House Director of Black Outreach.
Modo makes a good point when she says that Obama rushed to judgment and was not familiar with the Sherrod family and their history in the South. That is the fault of a White House that is too politicized and not competent enough to do things properly. Modo blames the error, however, on the absence of people in the presidents inner circle who were part of the southern black experience. Even for Modo, this is nonsense. The NAACP, which is the quintessential organization for those from the Southern Black experience, also rushed to demand that Sherrod be fired. The NAACP made the same mistake even though it had plenty of folks from Modo's favored group. This completely disproves her contention.
Of course, this still leaves the question as to whether or not Sherrod is an appropriate choice for a national position. I do not think so. there is no dearth of class warriors (or warriors without class) in the obama White House. We do not need another one.
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