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Keith Olbermann weighs in on Shirley Sherrod debacle
All this week I had been trying to pay no heed to the media stoning of Shirley Sherrod, a former-USDA employee who was fired after a “racist” video of her speaking at the NAACP went viral. Basically, she was explaining that twenty-four years ago she discriminated against a white farmer, and that it was wrong and she ended up saving his farm – and then the video was chopped up to make it seem like she was bragging about discriminating against a white farmer. That’s like taking 50 Cent’s line “I love you like a fat kid loves cake” and making it sound like he’s saying “I like fat kids especially when their faces are covered in cake batter while they’re dragged across the village by angry stallions.”
The shit’s just fucked up. Well of course Keith Olbermann, a.k.a. the white guy who gets more appalled by racism than colored folk, weighs in most eloquently. Just watch the video. He says it all so well. Such a tribute to his race. Damn…was that racist? Please don’t fire me, Nico…unless it means I’ll get a call from Obama.
This entry was posted on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 at 2:02 pm. It is filed under Uncategorized and tagged with barack obama, Keith Olbermann, shirley sherrod.
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