A message from Charles Sherrod

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Speaking of grace, Mr. Sherrod exhibits a bucketful here.


http://www.salon.com/news/shirley_sherrod/index.html?story=/opinion/walsh/politics/2010/08/01/message_from_charles_sherrod

A message from Charles Sherrod

I'd like to give him the last word, at least for now, on the meaning of his wife's battle with cruel right-wingers
By Joan Walsh

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Digby as usual has a wonderful rundown of everything that's been wrong with the treatment of Shirley Sherrod (her contrast between the courage and grit of Sherrod and her attackers is inspired; scroll to the end.) She does a better job than I did describing the bizarro world right wing Obama foes are trying to create, in which any black person who complains about white racism is the one who's racist.

Coincidentally, I got an email from Charles Sherrod tonight; I'd sent him a note when I wrote my piece about his civil rights heroism seeking comment. He got back to me, and this is all he said:

The attack on my wife has opened up an avalanche of discussion on a tabooed subject...RACE. It is a blessing to be an instrument of God's GRACE.

I'm going to try to let that stand as the last word on the Sherrods for a while.

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[Stinky The Clown]

2. Rec Number 5 here

Too bad it took the ugly attack on a private citizen to spark an actual discussion of race.

Clue to TPB: We are not "Post Racial" even as you wish we were.