Shirley Sherrod

SHIRELY SHERROD AND HER HUSBAND EXPLOITED BLACKS ON FARM…….

Shirely Sherrod: This is where my husband and I 
exploited our brother workers for 67′ cents an hour

The more you understand the mind of the leftist, the more you realize that they are the opposite of what they present themselves to be. It’s sick. They say that they’re for “the little guy” but they’re actually in it for themselves and screw “the little guy”.
Here’s an excellent example of the woman who was supposedly wronged by Andrew Breitbart for his exposing her racism and the indifference of the Dems who allow such people within their ranks. It’s sick.
So it has to be bad for the hard-left Counterpunch loons to expose this witch for the exploiter that she is, read and wonder, and in November, if you’re a US voter, vote conservative constitutionalist. KGS
From the hard-left Counterpunch no less:
Imagine farm workers doing back breaking labor in the sweltering sun, sprayed with pesticides and paid less than minimum wage. Imagine the United Farm Workers called in to defend these laborers against such exploitation by management. Now imagine that the farm workers are black children and adults and that the managers are Shirley Sherrod, her husband Rev. Charles Sherrod, and a host of others. But it’s no illusion; this is fact.
The swirling controversy over the racist dismissal of Shirley Sherrod from her USDA post has obscured her profoundly oppositional behavior toward black agricultural workers in the 1970s. What most of Mrs. Sherrod’s supporters are not aware of is the elitist and anti-black-labor role that she and fellow managers of New Communities Inc. (NCI) played. These individuals under-paid, mistreated and fired black laborers — many of them less than 16 years of age — in the same fields of southwest Georgia where their ancestors suffered under chattel slavery.
When I first noticed the story of her firing and the association of Shirley Sherrod’s name with the rural black poor and concern for “black land-loss”, I wondered if the person being praised was the same Shirley Sherrod whom I knew. One piece posted on the July 23rd Alternet and captioned “Shirley Sherrod and the black Land Struggle” even claimed that she “devoted her entire life to economic justice”. The mistreatment of black workers at NCI under the Sherrods is a matter of record that contradicts this claim.
. . . Shirley Sherrod was New Communities Inc. store manager during the 1970s. As such, Mrs. Sherrod was a key member of the NCI administrative team, which exploited and abused the workforce in the field. The 6,000 acre New Communities Inc. in Lee County promoted itself during the latter part of the 1960s and throughout the 70s as a land trust committed to improving the lives of the rural black poor. Underneath this facade, the young and old worked long hours with few breaks, the pay averaged sixty-seven cents an hour, fieldwork behind equipment spraying pesticides was commonplace and workers expressing dissatisfaction were fired without recourse.

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Via: Weasel Zippers

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