Sunday, July 25, 2010

Zo on Sherrod and more on Pigford

At Breitbart, Zo explains the racist Sherrod charade:



American Thinker has more on Pigford and USDA corruption:

"Shirley Sherrod's quick dismissal from the Obama administration may have had less to do with her comments on race before the NAACP than her long involvement in the aptly named Pigford case, a class action against the US government on behalf of black farmers alleging that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) had discriminated against black farmers during the period from 1983 through 1997"

"a few bigger-picture questions:

•Did Shirley Sherrod resign so quickly because the circumstances of her hiring and the lawsuit settlement with her organization that preceded it might expose some unpleasant truths about her possible and possibly sanctioned conflicts of interest?
•Is USDA worried about the exposure of possible waste, fraud, and abuse in its handling of Pigford?
•Did USDA also dispatch Sherrod hastily because her continued presence, even for another day, might have gotten in the way of settling Pigford matters quickly?

I second his conclusion that the media and bloggers shouldn't be so quick to dismiss Shirley Sherrod. Let me start by adding another question to the list. In her position at not for profit, Rural Development Leadership Network, a network of activists and community builder, was Sherrod involved in any way in encouraging people to submit fraudulent claims under Pigford? Did she put black people who owned rural land in touch with lawyers who would file the paperwork claiming attempts to farm had been prevented by the non cooperation of the local USDA?"

hmmmmm

4 comments:

  1. I read the number of claims exceeded the total number of black farms owned in the entire US!

    She dismissed that as a number of the claimants "intended to farm" but the USDA had discouraged them... good grief.

    What is wrong with the US system where the courts submit to such blackmail, afraid to call out a group of scammers stealing my tax money?

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  2. good question Mr. Reaganite

    I smell corruption

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  3. I've noticed corruption smells a lot like a dead skunk in the road...

    Gotta love Zo.

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  4. hi Bubba... We don't have any squirrels, racoons, foxes, opossums nor skunks down in NZ, but we sure had them in N.Illinois when I lived there...

    I miss small mammals

    how would one describe the smell of a skunk to a group of people who have never smelled it?

    now you see my quandary down here ;) hehe

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