Shirley Sherrod
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama regrets the firing of a government official based on a misleading video clip portraying her making racist remarks, the White House said Thursday.
NEW YORK - A conservative blog posts 2 minutes, 38 seconds of video clips of a black federal agriculture official saying she didn't do everything she could to help a white farmer.
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is standing by its quick decision to oust a black Agriculture Department employee over racially tinged remarks at an NAACP banquet in Georgia, despite evidence that her remarks were misconstrued and growing calls for USDA to reconsider.
ATLANTA (GaeaTimes.com)- A black federal worker who was employed with the United States Department of Agriculture had to quit after a video clip was released that showed her making racists comments in which she said that she did not help a farmer as much as she could have as he was white.