The woman at the center of a racially tinged firestorm involving the Obama administration and the NAACP said Wednesday she doesn’t know if she’d return to her job at the Agriculture Department, even if asked.
“I am just not sure how I would be treated there,” Shirley Sherrod said in a nationally broadcast interview. Agriculture Secretary [...]
Wall Street Journal
- A leader of the Tea Party on Sunday called for a national “tea summit” to ease tensions over race in America.
In a face-off between the conservative political movement and the NAACP on CBS “Face the Nation” on Sunday, TeaParty365 co-founder David Webb said the head of the NAACP was practicing “selective racism” [...]
Detroit Free Press
- The game that radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh plays isn’t new. History is full of individuals who’ve sought to forge a coalition by rallying people against “the other.”
What makes Limbaugh different is the lack of consequence and public outcry over his repeated racist remarks. Just this past weekend, Tea Party Express [...]
Washington Post
- The NAACP ignited a firestorm last week when it passed a resolution at its national convention condemning racism within the tea party movement. Not surprisingly, the issue was a topic of much discussion on the Sunday talk shows.
On CBS’ “Face the Nation,” NAACP President Ben Jealous faced off against David Webb of the [...]
