After the fraud committed by a right wing blogger and his co-conspirators at Fox Noise Channel, there are lingering questions we should be asking each other.
Would the same thing have happened if it was a white woman accused of racism? Would the white woman have been fired? If she had been, would the Administration have been pressured to hire her back? Would any of the media cared?
My point is that discrimination against black, brown and yellow people takes place all of the time. They face discrimination with regard to the money allocated for education. They face discrimination with regard to property taxes (it has been proven that those in the inner cities pay a disproportionate amount compared to those in the exurbs). They have long been discriminated against by the police. They are discriminated against by the court system. (If you doubt this, look at the difference in sentencing for those using crack cocaine and those using powder.) And politicians have blamed them for nearly every problem our nation faces.
Yet you seldom see reports of their abuse. And you almost never see the kind of furor generated by Fox. Why? To some degree, it can be explained by the theory that dog bites man is not news while man bites dog is. But a more troubling explanation is that those on the right, who generated the story of Shirley Sherrod, dont care about discrimination of others. Theyre merely ideologically opposed to our mixed race President and theyre pulling out every stop in repeated attempts to discredit him. In other words, theyve pulled out the playbook used against President Clinton (with the accusations of Travel-gate, Whitewater, Trooper-gate, etc.).
Shirley Sherrod was simply a convenient pawn in their evil game.
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