Shirley Sherrod is Reverend Jeremiah Wright Part II

President Obama was forced (yes forced) to renounce, reject and repudiate Shirley Sherrod the same way he was forced to renounce, reject and repudiate Reverend Jeremiah Wright,his Pastor, mentor, and friend. The man who united him in holy matrimony with Michelle. The man who baptized his children. I said it then, and I will say it now, it's the media. Strike that. It's the white wing media.

The lack of diversity in the media must be corrected. Has anyone noticed all the Talking TeeVee Pundit heads are white men and women? And they wonder why President Obama "rushed to judgement" and fired Shirley Sherrod before having all the facts? Are Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Rielly, Matt Drudge, Andrew Breitbart , Rush Limbaugh, and other Smear Merchants are running the country? It sure looks that way to me.

Let's rewind. Faux News found clip of Reverend Jeremiah Wright preaching in his own darn church, took a segment out of context thus portraying him to the world as President Obama's anti American pastor. Forget what Jeremiah Wright said BEFORE he said "God Damn America". Forget what Jeremiah Wright said AFTER he said "God Damn America". No one thought to look at the entire video or to examine Reverend Wright's life and his experiences. Strike that no one in the media wanted to do these things. Why? Because they wanted to expose so called "black racism" and make Reverend Wright the focus so they wouldn't have to concentrate on the substance of his sermon.

Fast forward to Shirley Sherrod. Andrew Breitbart found a clip of a speech of Sherrod made at a NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet. Took the a segment of the speech out of context and used her as the poster woman for "racism". Forget what Shirley Sherrod actually said. Forget Shirley Sherrod's life and experiences. Why? Because the media wanted to expose so called "black racism".

Let's get something straight. There is so such animal as "black racism". As a matter of fact, let's stop using the word "racism" and call it what it is, White Privilege

White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict in the Middle East is God’s punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you’re just a good church-going Christian, but if you’re black and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on black people, you’re an extremist who probably hates America.

President Obama needs to stand up to this reverse racism spin.

After the Shirley Sherrod episode, there's no longer any need to mince words: A cynical right-wing propaganda machine is peddling the poisonous fiction that when African Americans or other minorities reach positions of power, they seek some kind of revenge against whites.

Let's HOPE the lesson in all of this is Shirley Sherrod and Alan Grayson teach President Obama how to deal effectively with the media, I mean Bullies.

Right-wing bullies thrive on fear, cowardice and on political leaders like Barack Obama who don't want to make waves and would rather "split the difference." When I was just a wee lad in elementary school no one had explained the physics of muscles and fists to me properly. I was a safety crossing guard and there was this one big bully-- he towered over me-- who used to terrorize weaker, smaller students. He pushed some poor kid down at my post one morning and I walked over to him and pulled him off the guy. We got in a fist-fight... and he pulverized me. But he never bothered me again and he never made any trouble on my corner again. It's when you don't stand up to bullies, as Neville Chamberlain learned, that they feel empowered.

Lost in all the Sherrod hoopla is the fact President Obama scored two legislative victories yesterday. but thanks to his fear of the white...I mean the right it was drowned out by news about Shirley Sherrod.

Anyway, once again, we have a teachable racial moment in A-merry-ca. Black pundits are all over the cable networks, and they are telling the rest of A-merry-ca how black folks really feel. They hope that A-merry-ca will care. They wont. It seems everybody got the memo except black folks: There is no more racism in A-merry-ca.

Remember what Ronnie B. said;

The so-called mainstream media, now knowing that the President--for whatever reason(s)--will do nothing, watches for and covers the assaults whenever they happen. Their (rather logical) conclusion is that: "well, if the President of all people doesn't act as if Black Americans are worthy of a certain level of honor and respect, then it appears that we don't need to either".

When political leaders regard us with utter disdain and contempt, and a mainstream media goes along with blind indifference, then we are in serious trouble.

Amen.