While the economy continues to suffer because millions of Americans are unemployed, TV talk shows and news programs focused on a single job loss in which a black government official was forced to resign for nationwide attention on making racial comments about a white farmer.

The Obama administration shamefully got involved in the fiasco caused by conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart who posted an edited video of U.S. Department of Agriculture director Shirley Sherrod’s “racist” comments in March expressing a hesitancy to help a white man save his farm. Because of the national uproar from conservative media and Tea Party members, Agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack acted on pressure from the White House and asked Sherrod to resign over the comments.

But it turns out Breitbart edited the video of Sherrod, which didn’t show the whole story. In the video taped in March, Sherrod explained how her childhood dream was to move North after growing up in a racist, discriminatory rural environment in Georgia, but she decided to stay in the South to help bring change for Blacks after her father was discriminated against and then killed by racists when she was 17 years old. So she was conflicted when a white farmer looked down upon her while asking for her help saving his farm, 24 years ago before she worked for the USDA. Because of the farmer’s cavalier attitude and her memories of racism and discrimination, Sherrod decided to go through the motions of helping him but soon realized her mission should be to help poor people and not just Blacks, so she give her full effort and saved the white farmer’s land. The white farmer and his wife have come forward to say Sherrod is a “good person” and “no way in the world” is she a racist.

Here is the full version of the infamous video of Sherrod speaking at an NAACP banquet in March.

With egg on their faces by letting a conservative make a mockery of them, President Obama and Vilsack have apologized profusely to Sherrod and offered her job back. Meanwhile, Sherrod is giving a nationwide tour on countless talk shows to tell her story and still hasn’t decided whether to return to her job.

But who cares if Sherrod lost her job or whether she takes it back?

Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, from low-paying gigs to top-dollar positions. Instead of focusing on this one person that a conservative spun into the spotlight to create enough chaos to distract from the hate-spewing tea party movement, Obama and the TV programs should discuss solutions to help millions of displaced workers get back on their feet to help jolt our economy out of a depression-like recession.

Helping millions of people gain employment is a much better use of time and does more good than chastising or applauding a misquoted individual government employee.

By Teneshia LaFaye

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