Food insecurity and assistance isn't a hot take issue and should never be treated as such, especially when speaking on matters that disproportionately affect Black and brown people toppling under multiple intersections of oppression.
But we aren't feeling that. We haven't heard of anyone getting sick from choosing to wash poultry before cooking it.
The former Agriculture employee is being wooed with a bigger job.
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) — Kenyatta Sherrod, left, and Russia Sherrod, the children of Shirley Sherrod, speak to a reporter after a rally in support of their mother, Shirley Sherrod Wednesday, July 21, 2010 in Albany. Shirley Sherrod has been at the center of controversy after she was fired, then offered her job back, by the […]
(New York Times) — President Obama on Thursday urged Shirley Sherrod, the black Agriculture Department official whose firing and subsequent offer of rehiring this week renewed a conversation about politics and race, to continue “her hard work on behalf of those in need,” the White House said. Read More…
Obama has clung tightly to the centrist blueprint Bill Clinton laid out for a Democratic presidential candidate to win elections, and to govern after he won.
It’s a travesty, surely. The case of Shirley Sherrod was an embarrassment to all who were involved. The USDA, The NAACP, The White House, and the supreme fools in all of this, conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart and FOX News. But as Sherrod remarked to Anderson Cooper on Tuesday, the initial reaction was symptomatic of the […]
Ah, whoops. Now say sorry N.A.A.C.P. and USDA.
The USDA official's ousting conveys the dangerous popularity of race politics.
(theloop21.com) Given the recent of the passage of the Affordable Health Care for America Act and the huge battle surrounding it, there has been little room for coverage of the looming March 31 deadline for Black farmers in their long battle with the U.S. Agriculture Department. Read More…