Much as the right-wing media has tried the real story at USDA is not the Shirley Sherrod affair. Its a decades long history of discrimination against people of color. Ms. Sherrod was part of the solution -- guess no good deed goes unpunished.
http://www.thenation.com/print/article/37911/real-story-racism-usda
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