The Obama administration, the NAACP and Roland Martin - Glenn Beck and FOX News when the full tape of Shirley Sherrod's remarks was not made public. Watch real journalism in action as CNN broadcasts the whole story, including remarks from Eloise Spooner in support of Mrs.Sherrod, calling her a friend and commending her efforts to save the Spooners farm, this case is a classic railroad job, only in America.
CNN - Shirley Sherrod, a former USDA employee who resigned after a controversial video surfaced, told CNN Tuesday that the administration, who pressured her to step down, "wasn't interested in hearing the truth."
Sherrod said she was asked to resign because "you're going to be on Glenn Beck tonight."
An NAACP statement applauding her resignation after the release of the video clip "hurts," former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod said Tuesday.
"That hurts, because if you look at my history ... I've done more to advance the causes of civil rights in this area than some of them who are sitting in those positions now in the NAACP. They need to learn something about me. They need to know what I've contributed over the years."
The clip showed her talking about a white farmer said Tuesday her remarks were taken out of context.
Sherrod, the department's former state director of rural development for Georgia, told CNN on Tuesday the incident she discusses in the clip took place more than two decades ago, and she recounted it to an audience to make the point that people should move beyond race.
"I was speaking to that group, like I've done many groups, and I tell them about a time when I thought the issue was race and race only," Sherrod said on CNN's "American Morning" from her home in Albany, Georgia. The incident took place in 1986, while she worked for a nonprofit and before she joined the Agriculture Department, she said.
"I was telling the story of how working with him helped me to see the issue is not about race. It's about those who have versus those who do not have."
Sherrod resigned Monday after conservative media outlets aired the video, in which she says she did not give the white farmer "the full force of what I could do" to help him avoid foreclosure.
She said she tried to explain to USDA officials, "but for some reason, the stuff Fox and the Tea Party does is scaring the administration. I told them to get the whole tape and look at the whole tape and see how I tell people we have to get beyond race and work together."
Asked why she resigned instead of fighting, Sherrod said, "I didn't have any support from USDA. What would I do?"
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