Lets NOT Forget Sherrod's ORIGINAL MESSAGE:"It's really about those who have versus those who don't"

Don't forget Shirley Sherrod's original message

The whole awful Shirley Sherrod affair seems to be coming to a close. With the administration now apologizing and offering Sherrod a new job, it won't be long until we move on to the next artificial crisis.

What's been lost in all of this hubbub, of course, is the original message Sherrod was trying to convey in the speech that was edited to look like a declaration of racism. We shouldn't be talking just about race, she was actually arguing:

It's really about those who have versus those who don't, you know. And they could be black; they could be white; they could be Hispanic. And it made me realize then that I needed to work to help poor people -- those who don't have access the way others have.

This is not mere liberal hand-wringing. The concerns of "those who don't" haven't been this serious in at least a half-century: staggering income inequality, a steady decline in real wages and an increase number of people in poverty (now the highest since 1960!), not to mention the whole recession thing we've got going on right now. Low-income Americans have it incredibly tough, and the suffering engendered by not having enough money may be the most serious issue we face right now. But given the opportunity to talk about wealth, we talked, yet again, about race.

more:
http://www.salon.com/news/shirley_sherrod/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/07/22/shirley_sherrod_class

black, citizens vs. immigrants, general public against government workers, nonunion against union members. It's the politics of resentment for sure.

Zzzzzzzzzz.

Nailed it.

:kick: & R

Maybe some of you already knew about this, but her review of the transformation of white and black indentured servitude to all-black slavery was a real eye-opener for me.