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My prediction for Shirley Sherrod of USDA fame is here:
She got caught up in the emotions of 'racial politics' with groups like the NAACP and stated her 'essentially racist, anti-white' piece, but good. Her comments were greeted with the snickers and sneers and guffaws of NAACP members who are 'publicly polite to whites' when they have to be. That 'have to be' is generally when they are speaking in public and/or when they want sympathy or money. We get it now and some of us are calling your bluff.All of the above is 'alright', because white people do the same thing all the time, even though we don't admit to it either. (Actually, none of this is 'alright'--what I mean is that , 'yes, everyone does this').
UPDATE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/12/samuel-l-jackson-obama-vote-black_n_1271797.html
President Obama & Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Personally, I find the 'race war' of 2010 to be disgusting, disingenuous and just plain phony. Still...there is a certain sense of satisfaction in being able to call blacks 'racists' when they really are. That's what I would call 'equality'. Blacks have gotten away with flinging that moniker around freely for decades, now. So how about giving whites a chance to do that, too?So, Ms. Sherrod has an 'epiphany' and says she decides against being so 'racially-biased' against whites. This is good. It reminds me of the whites I know who have become more 'enlightened' over time when it comes to their attitudes towards blacks.
'They' might still not sit next to one or shake a black's hand, but at least I've helped a few get away from the public usage of the word 'colored'...explaining that it is a hurtful term. I had to fight them, but finally I got my local congregation to 'accept the presence of black people in the pews'--a battle that took years. And I got my just reward: a kick in the pants and a kick in the head, thankayew!
But back to our Ms. Sherrod. Now we hear that some relative or other of Ms. Sherrod was killed by a white? So naturally we hear 'white gay apologists' --even on FOX--emphasize the 'pity angle' for Ms. Sherrod, thus giving her the benefit of the doubt with her unfortunate anti-white 'slips of the lips'. Gays don't defend blacks because they think blacks are so 'righteous'. In my experience (which is quite substantial, by the way, should any of you protest) blacks and gays are mere 'co-concubines' for any and all socio-political and economic benefits they might reap together. The UCC church of President Obama and Rev. Jeremiah Wright has seen to that very thing!
But the LGBT/black 'alliance' is tenuous at best and as I've indicated before, I do believe it is a marriage made in hell which cannot survive. It is built upon falsehoods and more phony politeness. People just cannot 'put away' their prejudices 'like that' and I don't care HOW engaging and persuasive their adored Presidential candidate may be.
And so, with reference to an adored President, we are back to Ms. Sherrod. Now the very people who threw her under the bus, ostensibly at the behest of President Obama, have recanted and apologized. Ms. Sherrod will undoubtedly nurse this for all it is worth. But I do beg her to PLEASE stay out of public life and get employed by the private sector. The last thing I want to do is subsidize her further inflammation of racial tensions at cost to myself and other American taxpayers. I beg her to go write a book or something and live happily ever after...privately.
But I can tell from today's news that this will not be the case.
Now I'll tell you how this will all shake out in the end. Ms. Sherrod's goose is cooked. She has forever and always branded herself as a 'white-hater'. No matter how much she protests, she will always be branded as such, rightly or wrongly. Now, the only persons who will be sympathetic to her plight will be groups like the NAACP and New Black Panthers who also hate white people. And Ms. Sherrod will naturally be aligned with them. She will also enjoy the 'support' of a repentant United Stated government Administration and will be lauded if only out of sheer 'regret and embarrassment'.
Ultimately, I predict that --after not receiving any benefit of the doubt re: her racial redemption--Ms. Sherrod will once again attend NAACP meetings and make all the snide, anti-white remarks they all continue to deny. She will be back in the racially-biased cadre of the White House and her essential prejudices will be nurtured.
Ms. Sherrod won't be able to help herself, for the culture of Power is seductive--like a drug and a lover and an addiction. So she will be exactly where she was years ago, with all the old hurts and all the old prejudices and all the old chains to that old slave mentality. But now, she will have recourse like never before. And best of all, the 'guy who actually fired her' is white and ripe for the picking under the umbrage of 'righteous indignation'. I can almost hear her now, squealing like the Queen of Hearts in 'Alice': "OFF WITH HIS HEAD!"
What better 'justice fix' than for Ms. Sherrod to be 'kicked upstairs' and become the new head of the USDA? She's perfectly qualified: she's black, a woman and a victim several times over. I think that's what will happen anyway. Vilsack (who 'sacked' Sherrod) is already parroting the 'teachable moment rhetoric' which has lead me to respond in kind many times in the past. Watch now for the NAACP and New Black Panther videos dissing Vilsack as the 'white devil' that he is. As sure as I write this, it will happen.
Rev. Michael Pfleger & Minister Louis Farrakhan
But I'm an optimist. There's a minute chance that Sherrod MAY decide to be a beacon of hope for racial equality. But she's an old dog not likely to want to change in her ways. Besides, she's now got a 'stick on her shoulder about a mile wide' over the Obama Administration for what they did to her. While I totally sympathize with that part of her narrative here, I am no longer one of those 'sympathetic white people riddled with all sorts of white guilt' who gives everyone the benefit of the doubt with racial issues. I was that way once and all it got me was a good 'mouthful' of Obama and Wright and I know better now that a lot of it is total bunk.Still--this Sherrod could, I guess, be a trailblazer, depending upon how she comports herself. Everyone loves a 'whistleblower', don't they? Whistleblowers and malcontents learn that they can depend on absolutely no one, in the end. No one wants to go outside of their comfort zone to support them. So...if Ms. Sheppard is willing to go outside of her comfort-zone in a very real way, I'd probably be one of the first ones to enthusiastically support her and her efforts to ease racial tensions in the 'race war' of 2010 in the United States today.
But, I don't think that'll happen. I think Janus Adams will do one of her typically racist rants in Ms. Sherrod's defense. People like Adams plight poor Ms. Sherrod's trough on the side of 'black supremacy, retribution, reparation' and most of all 'pay-back'. That's why I am writing this in this style so that I can beat the Janus Adams of the world 'to the punch'. If nothing else, I'm a 'quick study' born of twenty years with the Progressive-lib Obama/Wright church.
As far as Ms. Sherrod is concerned, this is 'a two-fer'. I'm too old and cynical myself to allow myself to be too optimistic about our poor latest 'vicim' and too faithful to totally rule out the possibility of Ms. Sherrod being a true redemption story in and of herself. Already I am hearing the 'anti-white buzzwords' of 'teachable moment', 'Glenn Beck' and 'FOX News' by the Sherrod contingency, so I am naturally suspicious of anyone's motives.
Still, if Ms. Sherrod is good for her word, then I want 'in'. This is the stuff that saves our country and which can stop all the 'offending' going on.
God Bless & Keep You,
Reverend Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist--Where Science Meets the Cross"
http://www.dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/
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