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(57,936 posts)so severely that they have pushed them out of office thus far have been mostly African-American.
Tuesday's resignation of an Agriculture Department official from Georgia continued to reverberate throughout the day, with the White House denying that it pushed her out of a job and the NAACP reversing course to defend the employee.
NAACP President Benjamin Jealous had condemned Shirley Sherrod for describing at an association banquet how, 24 years ago, she did not help a white farmer as much as she could have because of his race.
But Jealous responded just as forcefully Tuesday in accusing conservative activist Andrew Breitbart and Fox News of distorting Sherrod's remarks and said the NAACP had been "snookered."
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/07/usda_worker_quits_over_racism.html
Van Jones, under fire from the extremist television show host for his background in radical activism, has resigned from the administration.
Jones was Special Adviser for Green Jobs at the Council on Environmental Quality - the so-called 'Green Jobs' Czar. Jones' 2008 book, The Green Collar Economy, was a New York Times best-seller.
The saga began with Glenn Beck, a talk show host for Fox News, who hammered at Jones relentlessly the last several weeks for his radical past.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/06/glenn-beck-gets-first-sca_n_278281.html
Two examples. Racism always gets the Republicans fired up. It's a shame, but it is true.