Is vindication enough for Shirley Sherrod?

Former USDA official Shirley Sherrod, forced by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to abruptly resign this week, was a victim of a conservative activist. On his website BigGovernment.com, Andrew Breitbart posted a video clip of Sherrod, who is an African American, telling an NAACP gathering that 24 years ago she had considered not giving as much help to an impoverished farmer as she might have because he was white. Truth be told, the clip did not run Sherrod’s full speech in which she said she realized that she had been wrong, and that need, not race, was what mattered.

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