Shirley Sherrod, a former USDA employee who resigned after a controversial video surfaced, told CNN Tuesday that the administration, who pressured her to step down, “wasn’t interested in hearing the truth.”
Sherrod said she was asked to resign because “you’re going to be on Glenn Beck tonight.”
An NAACP statement applauding her resignation after the release of the video clip “hurts,” Sherrod said Tuesday.
“That hurts, because if you look at my history … I’ve done more to advance the causes of civil rights in this area than some of them who are sitting in those positions now in the NAACP. They need to learn something about me. They need to know what I’ve contributed over the years.”
The clip showed her talking about a white farmer said Tuesday her remarks were taken out of context.
Sherrod, the department’s former state director of rural development for Georgia, told CNN on Tuesday the incident she discusses in the clip took place more than two decades ago, and she recounted it to an audience to make the point that people should move beyond race.
