A recent post I wrote for Change.org, examining why the Shirley Sherrod controversy was intended to resonate amongst White viewers:
Shirley Sherrod: A Lesson in White Victimhood
Back in March, the speech Shirley Sherrod gave before the NAACP seemed innocuous enough. In it, the Obama appointee urged her audience to heed the words of Toni Morrison, declaring, “we have to get to the point where race exists, but it doesn’t matter.” Sherrod — the current state director of rural development — also movingly recounted how her attitudes toward race have shifted since growing up in the South, at a time when lynchings were still commonplace.
Yesterday, though, Fox News managed to twist Sherrod’s words. The network aired a video that was edited to suggest Sherrod currently discriminates against white farmers. (View the edited video here.). As edited, the video suggests Sherrod has previously tried to avoid having to actually help a white farmer keep his land — and that she made this decision based on the color of his skin.
Actually, what Sherrod discussed was how her views on race changed after witnessing how a white farmer whose land was being foreclosed suffered the same apathy and mistreatment at the hands of wealthy whites that she’d seen black farmers experience. Ultimately, she encouraged her audience to view the world not just in terms of black and white, but in terms of “haves” and “have nots.” (Full speech here — the relevant anecdote is around minute 17.)
But so much for “fair and balanced.” Instead, Fox News chose to insinuate that Sherrod actively discriminates against whites in her current job with the administration. Fox News also went a step further to argue that the NAACP was backing Sherrod’s supposed discrimination against whites.
Sherrod holds a fairly obscure position within the Obama administration, and it’s plain that the edited video that surfaced was just that — edited, and heavily so. So why the sudden controversy?
Yes! Well done, Mistress. This’ll throw off the evil ones.
Obscure the fact that Breitbart’s original 2 and a half minute video actually included her recantment of racial hatred, as well as how the article to which it was attached emphasized the audiences jovial assent to Sherrod’s exhilarating sadism.
Proffer the justice of “eye for an eye” retribution for an “ugly history” whilst making absolutely certain that no thought is ever, ever, ever given to the record of emancipation and civility given to those in the thrall of those nonwhite systems that we hold so dear and that America should have emulated (especially as we demand not only that people of color be afforded whatever power they can accrue, but that we burn the 14th amendment, grant indefinite racial preference, and demand due submission to all notions and whims of nonwhites at the threat of permanent stigmatization and immediate and arbitrary consequences). GENIUS!
Tell the demons that not only when this is popular opinion, but when a crowd of the most legitimized organization of race activism in the country jovially lauds naked sadistic racism, that if they show any kind of concern they’re either fearful or hateful and should be admonished and/or punished accordingly, all while we make ceaseless assertions about the unlimited and never-ending white crypto-fascism of everything from the 0.8 seconds of eyelid stretching of a half-drunk Toby Keith to the west-loathing, native nobility allegory of Avatar. Brilliant!
And finally, we’ll foment an end to “us vs. them” mentality, but we’ll never take note of whistleblowers in the justice department claiming explicit pro-black bias. We’ll never show resentment for video-disproven claims of “victimhood” by the congressional black caucus. We’ll never show outrage for any of the acceptable cruelty towards whites in popular culture or anywhere else but we’ll write half a dozen essays on the next movie that comes along that doesn’t cast the way we want them to and the next one, and the next one, and the next one and we’ll never, ever stop!
Surely the children of evil are stupid enough to accept all of this as understanding and progress.
Well, the first poster certainly proved the white victimhood sentiment around this whole Sherrod issue.
Yes! Excellent! Eternal blanket statements! Never-ending race-based dismissal! Complex potential counterpoints to unquestioned conventional grievance? WHITE VICTIMHOOD! Lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalaaaaaaaaa!