On Countdown last night, Christina Bellantoni did a bang-up job of summarizing our piece that puts the Shirley Sherrod mess in the broader context of the right-wing’s deep antipathy to USDA’s settlement of its well-documented history of discrimination against black farmers. Watch.

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