In Praise of Shirley Sherrod, George Wallace and Malcolm X

By | cultural diversity, diversity and inclusion, Malcolm X, racism, Robert Byrd, Shirley Sharrod

Shirley Sherrod an official with the USDA, recently lost her job because she told an audience at a local NAACP chapter meeting that she had not given a white farmer “the full force of what I could do” to help him save the family farm. She then went on to say that she knew it was a mistake to differentiate…

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