Some find irony in Shirley Sherrod's USDA incident - proven bigots still at work

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Some find irony in Shirley Sherrod's USDA incident

By Krissah Thompson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 23, 2010

... She lost her job in a matter of hours under the suspicion of racism, but officials in the Department of Agriculture who were found to have withheld loans from Sherrod and her husband's farming cooperative were never fired.

"Discrimination happens in USDA. . . . And it's there because the agency never did deal with the people who caused it," Sherrod said Thursday morning on the "Today" show. "No one lost their job because they discriminated against black farmers, Hispanic farmers, Native American farmers, women farmers. . . . Those individuals . . . some have retired, but many of them are still there."

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"The government stands to pay out over $2 billion for discrimination against African Americans and not one person in the department has been fired because of that, yet the first African American woman to in Georgia was fired for alleged racism," Pennick said. "And nobody has been fired for proven discrimination."
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David Cantu, a farmer in Hidalgo County, Tex., who is a part of the Hispanic farmers' lawsuit against the USDA, said he senses "resentment" from the people in the department's county office. "Some of the people doing the discrimination at the county level are still there, and the people that they trained are still there," he said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/22/AR2010072206085.html

Where is your enthusiasm for peremptorily firing those who unfairly discriminate now, Mr. Vilsack?