The next Sherrod issue

[BeAChooser]

Glib, contentless, racist.

LOL! You LOSE.

 

[BeAChooser]

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/o...-exploiting-black-farm-laborers-99880014.html

Former Shirley Sherrod employee accuses her of exploiting black farm laborers

Readers who read my original Washington Examiner post about Shirley Sherrod know that she and husband Charles received $150,000 each for "pain and suffering” as part of "a thirteen million dollar settlement in the minority farmers law suit Pigford vs Vilsack."

Based on history presented by Ron Wilkins yesterday at Counterpunch, it's appropriate to ask: "Whose pain and suffering?"

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Wilkins, who says he is "a former organizer in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee" and is currently a professor at California State University Dominguez Hills, in the Africana Studies Department, writes: "I know this story well, for I was one of those workers at NCI."

Here is some of what Wilkins describes … snip …

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.

... 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.

... 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.

... Worker protest at New Communities eventually garnered some assistance from the United Farm Workers Union in nearby Florida in the person of one of its most formidable organizers, black State Director, the late Mack Lyons.

At Riehl World View, Dan Riehl has posted a graphic of a 1974 United Farm Workers (UFW) El Malcriado article about a strike by child farm workers at NCI. That article reveals that "Wages vary from 67¢ - $1.63 per hour, and management pays each worker whatever they please, according to personal preference."

This story just gets better and better…

 

[TraneWreck]

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/o...-exploiting-black-farm-laborers-99880014.html



This story just gets better and better…

Ah, yes. Let's wait and see what the true story reveals...

 

[Lurker]

BAC:

You glee upon finding alleged stories of reverse racism reminds me of Hannity. Sean Hannity always does PR work in repairing white people's images who uttered racist statements under duress. Sean allows them an incredible amount of time on his show as guests to be penitent and proclaim that they don't have a racist bone in their body. Oddly, Sean attacks black people relentlessly for racist statements they make, never givng them the lattitude or forgiveness he extends to his white guests.

Is Sean Hannity a racist?

 

[BeAChooser]

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-bl...accusations-sherrods-mistreated-workers-new-c

Shirley Sherrod, and to a lesser extent her husband Charles, were media celebrities for a while in late July. … snip …

That stopped being true on Monday, August 2, when a column by Ron Wilkins ("The Other Side of Shirley Sherrod") appeared in the leftist alternative publication Counterpunch.

… snip …

Despite the contemporaneous evidence that his allegations of serious labor mistreatment are credible, Wilkins's column has been ignored by the establishment press:

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It is not reasonable to believe that the establishment press is not aware of the story by this time. … snip … No cocoon of ignorance is that tight.

It's more reasonable to believe that the establishment press is not interested in letting Wilkins's charges get out to the majority of the population that isn't paying close attention, lest it damage the current "Shirley good, Breitbart bad" meme.