Posted By CotoBlogzz 07-22-2010
With much experience apologizing to world leaders and bowing
to kings, the President’s apology to hastily fired Agriculture
Department's Shirley Sherrod for racists
remarks made pre-rebirth are anit-climatic.
Most news accounts paint Ms.
Sherrod as a victim caught in the political cross-fires. No argument here,
other than actions have consequences, whether we repent for previous sins or
not. Hold this thought.
The comedy of errors starts with
the NAACP gratuitously vilifying Tea Party Members, and as stated above,
actions have consequences – in this case, the NAACP fell on its own trap, and
quickly dug itself a deeper hole, by blaming Fox New and other “conservatives,” perhaps lending credence to the old adage
that “if you have done nothing wrong, you should fear no evil”, or act in haste
to correct the evil you claim you have not done, we might add. Ditto for the White House: The latter continues to underline the also
old adage: “Do as I say, not as I do.”
Let’s be clear, we are all
individuals, we are unique, and consequently various forces of influence have
an impact on our decision-making, such as gender, age, race, education, and so on. That is to say that we can all expect to
find a number of racists in the United States of America, regardless of
political affiliation and or skin tone.
However, when the first line of defense for demagogues and self-describes
victims, is the race card, such as the
Reverend Wright, Reverend Sharpton and even Senator Byrd, we all should try to
connect the dots, and perhaps follow the money.
The point here is that while
Ms. Sherrod is the victim in the Snookered case, she does not get a pass from
us. When she was asked to speak to Fox
News, Ms. Sherrod in essence accused the network of being racist – that is, we
are back to where we started from – from the abundance of the heart, the mouth
speaks.
In other words, although it
appears that Ms. Sherrod has seen the light and no longer resembles the remarks
–taken out of context, as the media accounts assert - her heart appears to
dwell in a very dark place, still.
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