In the last few hours, Shirley Sherrod resigned her post at the Department of Agriculture. The resignation comes after a video surface in which Sherrod, who is black, tells about being asked to help a white farmer avoid foreclosure. She says she was torn over how much to help him because so many black farmers were also struggling, and decided to do just enough to be able to say she'd tried. she sent him to a white lawyer so that he could be helped by "one of his own kind". After the video was posted by Breitbart, both the secretary of Agriculture and the head of the NAACP condemned Sherrod's actions. Sherrod now claims that she was telling a story of something that happened 24 years ago -- before she worked for the Department of Agriculture. She says that she is upset at both the administration and the NAACP for condemning her before learning the facts of what had happened.
I do not believe Sherrod's story. If this really was a story of something that happened in 1986, then Sherrod would not have resigned. First she would have told her side of the story and then waited for a response. She did not wait. She just quit.
My guess is that Sherrod is telling a cover story now. Probably by resigning, she secures her full pension and other benefits. Were she fired for cause, she might lose those benefits.
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