Oh! Teh Iron...
Iron Hand of the Overseer, that is
Imagine farm workers doing back breaking labor in the sweltering sun, sprayed with pesticides and paid less than minimum wage. Imagine the United Farm Workers called in to defend these laborers against such exploitation by management. Now imagine that the farm workers are black children and adults and that the managers are Shirley Sherrod, her husband Rev. Charles Sherrod, and a host of others. But it’s no illusion; this is fact.
[written by Ron Wilkins, black Civil Rights activist, former organizer in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, left-leaning African-American professor at CalState, Dominguez Hills, published in the far-left magazine CounterPunch] ["In 1974, under an assumed name, [Wilkins] hired-on at New Communities Inc. The Emergency Land Fund, an Atlanta-based black land retention organization, which shared oversight responsibility for NCI’s progress, wanted to know the basis for NCI’s continued poor performance.” ]
After which the Sherrods’ New Communities Farm got a $13 million tax-dollar settlement for raaaacist behavior by the USDA [Pigford v. Glickman] and that Shirley and Charles Sherrod got $300,000 all their very own for “pain and suffering.” Thus earning their membership cards in The Ruling Class.
So, given this, is Sherrod a raaaacist?
Tell me again what part of the "true American black experience" Teh iWon doesn’t get?
Zombie has way more; UFW involvement, working conditions, more linkies.
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