O'Reilly: "I owe Ms. Sherrod an apology for not doing my homework, for not putting her remarks into the proper context"

I don't post all that frequently here, mostly because I don't see the reason to post just to agree with someone else, nor do I see the reason to argue with someone who will not, no matter the evidence to the contrary, change their opinion. I'm responding to you, fairliberal, because you seem to have not listened to Sherrod's entire speech, and if you listened to the entirety of Sherrod's speech you would have seen it was about how views can change, and how she overcame her own prejudices.

Her speech was a moving and an important lesson about why racism must end, and how one person was able to move beyond judging people just by the color of their skin. The crowd listening to her speech appeared to me to react appropriately, and I do not see any racism in Sherrod currently (if we are to judge her, as you did, on the basis of this one speech).

Over the course of many years, most people change at least some of their beliefs. Sherrod was courageous in admitting that she had held racist views, but that her experiences with the Spooner family helped to change her views. Her speech is about moving from a racial viewpoint to a non-racial one. Seems like the antithesis of racism to me.


As far as your comments regarding her appointment to President Obama's "administration", I was not aware of the fact that all government jobs were presidential appointees. Sherrod works for the administration as much as my mailman does. She works for the government, but that is not the same thing.

I tend to think everyone (with the exception of Sherrod herself) acted inappropriately in this case, including the NAACP for bashing her without properly researching her case first, the head of the USDA for basically firing her, and everyone else who condemned this woman before properly vetting the lies that Andrew Breitbart spread. I blame Breitbart most of all, because even if we take his statement about not having the full tape at face value (and I don't), if he were a responsible journalist he would have done his research as well.

The sad result of this fiasco is that nobody wins. Everyone looks bad, and this poor woman was fired because Andrew Breitbart is a liar and wanted to get even with the NAACP.