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Id go one further...Id bet body parts that most of the people commenting on this never saw the originial OR the extended version and just squirt out their opinions based on the names involved.
I watched both.
In the long version, Sherrod spoke about how conflicted she was that she was helping out a white farmer, when black farmers were getting foreclosed on and not getting help. She then spoke about doing the right thing, and as a result, saved that farmer from foreclosure, and become close friends with him. She spoke in the context that bias must be overcome, and how she overcame those kinds of thoughts, and did the right thing. Her speech is about OVERCOMING racist thoughts and doing the right thing, and this speech was a very brave thing for her to make, for it picks at a scab that has divided Americans for centuries. It is there, whether we want to admit it or not. She was admitting it, and addressing how this scab can be healed. I applaud her for what she said.
On the other hand, Breitbart selectively picked a very small part of that speech, where she was talking about the conflicted thoughts she was having, and even conveniently cut off where she said that these were thoughts running through her head, but not what she actually believed. This was some of the most dishonest race baiting and smear tactics I had ever seen in my entire life. Breitbart is dog crap, that is all he is, and he is about to be picked up with a pooper scooper and disposed of, which is the only appropriate thing to do with a POS like him. In another time and place, this SOB would have been the one holding a rope. Let him hang. Better yet, let him be transported to a time and place he would be more comfortable with.... Soviet Russia.
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