You see, her racism only took place "20 years ago".  

 

Shirley Sherrod said the Obama administration got scared after the YouTube clip surfaced. In the video, the department's ex-Georgia director of Rural Development is shown telling the story about how she withheld help to a white farmer in trouble. 

But Sherrod, in an interview overnight with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, said she was telling a story about events that happened 24 years when she was working for a local non-profit group. 

She said the whole video would reveal that she eventually came to work closely with the white farmer and that she was trying to impart a lesson about how important it is to get "beyond the issue of race." 

Ah, I see. 

Wait, no I don't.

On Tuesday morning the NAACP, which forcefully condemned Sherrod in an overnight statement from CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous, had stripped the statement from its website. 

The USDA did not have an immediate response when contacted by FoxNews.com. On Monday evening, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack released a statement announcing Sherrod's resignation. 

"There is zero tolerance for discrimination at USDA, and I strongly condemn any act of discrimination against any person," he said. 

The original NAACP statement acknowledged that there was an apparent moral behind Sherrod's story but said she gave "no indication" in the video that she tried to "right the wrong." 

Hmmm....now why would the NAACP remove the statement condemning her from their site?  

"He had to come to me for help. What he didn't know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me was I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him," she said. "I was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farmland and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land -- so I didn't give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough." 

Sherrod explained in the video that, at the time, she assumed the state or national Department of Agriculture had referred the white farmer to her. In order to ensure that the farmer could report back that she was indeed helpful, she said she took him to see "one of his own" -- a white lawyer. 

"I figured that if I take him to one of them, that his own kind would take care of him," she said. 

The point of the story wasn't entirely clear from the clip. 

"It was revealed to me that it's about poor versus those who have," she said toward the end, suggesting she had learned that race is less important.

Wow.  I am at a loss for words.  "His own kind".  And the NAACP decided that they should remove a statement condemning this.  All because of her "explanation".  She certainly is "one of them", alright...a racist that got caught being a racist and was removed from her position, albeit 20 years too late.