Dan Riehl
Riehl World View
7/27/2010
Any notion that I’ve manipulated, or otherwise edited clips of Charles Sherrod to malign him has always been ridiculous. I haven’t done such a thing in six-years and wouldn’t begin, now. The evidence of that has always been readily available for an interested party above a junior high school-level of Internet savvy given the info I provided in my post.
Here is the full 26 minute speech from UVA Law school, where Charles Sherrod keynoted “Fifty-Years after the Sit-Ins.” Media Matters either wasn’t up to that simple task, or was only looking for something to use against me by emailing.
Rev. Charles Sherrod Delivers Keynote Address at Race and Law Conference
In response to Rush Limbaugh, no, at no time does he denounce racism in the speech, nor does he say a word about any concept of racial harmony, as near as I can recall after listening to it in full twice. And the context of the curious clip below* is also complete.
Rush: “Again, we don’t know the context. He could have disavowed racism at some point in the speech prior to these comments. He could have disavowed racism at some point in the speech after these comments. All we have is what we played.”
I’m not an unfair person. I suppose the notion of laying down one’s life to save black children when you know who and where the would-be offenders work and live could be broadly interpreted. But he didn’t say, dedicate one’s life, or career, or anything else – he said, someone must lay down their life to save them. And not long before that in the full speech, he also talks about bullets flying in his past and not fearing death. So, who knows?
Perhaps Joan Walsh, who seems to be cowering, unable to defend her hero’s words, could reach out to him and see what he may have actually meant to say. Otherwise, Joan, a hero whose words you can’t defend doesn’t seem like much of a hero to me at all.
Finally, as this clip makes clear – he is a collectivist, in fact, a Marxist, so far as I can tell. And given that his wife has been offered this job in USDA when she thinks just like him, I am left wondering why – given the Sherrod’s political and economic views?
Shirley Sherrod’s USDA Job Offer: Deputy Director of the Office of Advocacy and Outreach
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*Dan Riehl’s original video of Mr. Sherrod is at the end of our post here. At GatewayPundit Jim Hoft has some comments about this video.
