Thursday, July 22, 2010
Teh Origami Narrative
unfolding
More on Shirley Sherrod.
[In] Shirley Sherrod’s 17th year ... 1965, her father was shot and killed by a white man in a dispute over cows, the family says.
That year, she was one of the first black students to integrate the high school in Baker County in rural southwest Georgia.
That year, she decided to become involved in the civil rights movement in that area of the state.
...Grace Miller, Sherrod’s mother, said she remembers the night that most likely nudged her daughter into public service. Until then, Sherrod has said several times, she was determined to move out of the South and away from farming.
She changed her mind a few days after her father was killed, an event Sherrod often includes in her talks.
Sherrod’s father, Jose Miller, had a dispute with a man over cows that had come into his pasture. The neighbor insisted that three of Miller’s cows were his. Miller said he would call the “law” to settle the dispute. As Jose Miller was closing the gate, he was shot in the back, the family says.
Grace Miller said that the neighbor was not held accountable.
She later went on to receive a B.A. in sociology from Albany State University and an M.A. in community development from Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
“She was not able to go to jail like the rest of them [protesters],” Grace Miller said. “She was off at school. She really wanted to go [to jail].”
Which leads the HuffPo to ask:
Is Shirley Sherrod the Rosa Parks of our Time?
No. No linky for that kinda crap. But I will link this:
SHIRLEY SHERROD, FORMER USDA OFFICIAL: They want you to pull over to the side of the road and do it because you’re going to be on Glenn Beck tonight.
The regeime administration scared of a dork with a four blackboards; now that’s the function of journalism.
[as opposed to JournoLism]
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