Obama Administration and Race 11

This is the White House view of the case of Shirley Sherrod and the rush to fire her from the Obama Administration, the White House Press Secretary stated the following, " ..... I think this is a fair way to put it: Members of this administration, members of the media, members of different political factions on both sides of this have all made determinations and judgments without a full set of facts. I think that is wholly and completely accurate. I think without a doubt Ms. Sherrod is owed an apology. I would do so certainly on behalf of this administration. I think if we learn -- if we look back and decide what we want to learn out of this, I think it is, as I said, everybody involved made determinations without knowing all the facts and all the events..... think we live in a culture that things whip around, people want fast responses, we want to give fast responses, and I don't think there’s any doubt that if we all look at this, I think the lesson -- one of the great lessons you take away from this is to ask all the questions first and to come to that fuller understanding. I say that, again, from the perspective of this administration; I say that from the perspective of those that cover this administration, and those that are involved in the back and forth in the political theater of this country. ". The Press Secretary is a 100% in this case. In this 24/7 news world its quick to rush to a judgement about an incident, but it also important to check a story out from top to bottom and sideways when it comes to race issues. The case of Shirley Sherrod shows that a story can be taken out of context, a story that has implications of racism turn out to be a story about learning how racism can be seen and how it can be reversed. In this case the from the White House down everyone jumped on the poor lady without the context of the story, this blog in future will be careful about racism stories, you have to be right folks, it does not matter if the White House gets the wrong end of the stick, they are politicians, when do politicians ever get the point. One has to in these days of political heat not allow ones political judgement to overcome the UK's believe in the truth, and also justice is blind, lets hope this is the last case of racism being used a political weapon by all sides in the political spectrum.