''People Believe I Am A Racist Person"
6:00AM ET July 22, 2010
Contributor : Hip Hop Blog Staff
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Former Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod said she has been receiving threatening calls and e-mail since a deliberately misleading video clip of her posted by Andrew Breitbart of FOX News hit the airwaves. ““I got one call last night at my house at 12:30 a.m. that said, ‘you lost your job, good for you’ and ‘b****’ There are people out there who will believe that I am a racist person, even though the story is getting out there. I got crank calls right away. Someone sent me an e-mail and link and said, ‘shame on you’ and other stuff. I was sitting in a meeting, and I was really upset,” she said. “I texted back that they were so wrong and that they need to know the message, and they got it wrong.”

Sherrod was fired by the Department of Agriculture and denounced by the NAACP over the video clip, which appears to show her saying that she does not provide her “full force” to help white farmers. But the full video reveals that Sherrod's comments were taken out of context. The NAACP renounced their previous statement regarding Sherrod and the white farmer in question has repeatedly defended her against allegations of racism. “The news media should tell it like it is and not the way they want it to be,” she said. “I think it is race. You think we have come a long way in terms of race relations in this country, but we keep going backwards.”