If you want to read only one thing today about Shirley Sherrod and USDA, make it this piece by Rachel Slajda, which puts this entire sordid episode in the context of the right-wing’s vehement opposition to USDA’s settlement of long-standing discrimination claims from black farmers, including from Sherrod herself. Some very interesting and relevant background here.
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