Margaret Carlson - I Was Snookered

Like the White House and the NAACP, I was snookered. When I saw the video footage of Shirley Sherrod, Georgia’s rural development director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, I leapt to the conclusion that she’d committed a firing offense. For admitting she gave less aid to a farmer because he was white, off with Sherrod’s head! I shouldn’t have been so credulous. Like many in the media, I now appreciate how sensitive I am to being labeled a liberal bigot if I don’t hurry to condemn cases of reverse racism: black people in positions of authority, like Sherrod, who seem less than color-blind in dispensing help. Read more here:

Margaret Carlson - I Was Snookered