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Obama's Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, appointed Shirley Sherrod as Georgia's Director of Rural Development on July 25, 2009, where she worked helping spend billions of non-existent ObamaDollars. Well, she worked for the USDA, on taxpayer's dime...up until this week.

She was fired for speaking RACISM at the NAACP (gasp~! say it ain't so, you Race Card Playin' Fools!) Freedom Fund Banquet in Georgia, March 27, 2010, just three short months before the NAACP and Michelle Obama decried supposed Tea Party racism at their meeting in Kansas City.

But...but...I thought racism was only a one-way street, that black people couldn't possibly be RAAAAACIST!, especially in Obama's post-racial America.

Guess I was wrong.

The Agriculture Department announced Monday, shortly after FoxNews.com published its initial report on the video, that Sherrod had resigned.

"There is zero tolerance for discrimination at USDA, and I strongly condemn any act of discrimination against any person," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a written statement. "We have been working hard through the past 18 months to reverse the checkered civil rights history at the department and take the issue of fairness and equality very seriously." [emboldenings mine -ed.]

Oh, and when did you ever see "zero tolerance" and "resigned" appear in the same termination of employment announcement? Her ass was FIRED, and here's hoping she was escorted to the front door kicking and screaming and shown her way out whilst in the custody of a Federal security officer~!

Enjoy your time in the unemployment line, there, Shirley. You've earned it.

OH! Especially sweet...

In a second clip from the same event posted online, Sherrod appeared to urge black job seekers to find work at the Department of Agriculture because the federal government won't lay people off.

"There are jobs at USDA and many times there are no people of color to fill those jobs because we shy away from agriculture. We hear the word agriculture and think, why are we working in the fields?" she said. "You've heard of a lot of layoffs. Have you heard of anybody in the federal government losing their job? That's all I need to say."

As a matter of fact, Shirley, I have heard of federal government employees losing their jobs. It usually takes a monumental act of stupidity, of overwhelming imprudence and thick-wittedness, much as you've more than amply demonstrated.

But if it'd been a white guy doing the same sort of thing to a black person? I would expect the same results.

It's about time we see what goes around, come back around and bite, and just as hard.

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