I posted twice on Monday about the now-famous speech by Shirley Sherrod to a Georgia NAACP gathering. In the speech, Sherrod tells the story of how she did only the minimum for a white farmer simply because he was white.

I told my wife that in the video Sherrod starts out telling this chilling story of her act of racism, but that she seemed to be setting up a parable of redemption, that it seemed she was about to say something like “But I’ve learned from my mistake.”

I wish I had expressed that feeling in my posts about the video, but I didn’t. Now it turns out that this was pretty much what she said and that Andrew Breitbart, who disseminated the video, received an edited version that did not include the part of her story where she says she learned from that incident that it’s not about race, but about class, and poverty, regardless of color.

The question now is, why did the Obama administration fire Sherrod so quickly, when it took them weeks to fire avowed communist Van Jones? And why did the NAACP so quickly denounce her? The NAACP claims it was snookered by Breitbart and Fox News, but when was the last time you saw the NAACP so quickly turn on someone criticized by conservative media?

HotAir.com has a link to the full 43-minute video, which the NAACP released. The NAACP, by the way, has rescinded its criticism of Sherrod. No word that it has rescinded its criticism of the NAACP audience which applauded her story of discrimination before hearing the ending. And we still haven’t heard from the White House as to whether Sherrod will be given her job back.

Apologies to Shirley Sherrod from me for linking too quickly and not going with my instincts. Meanwhile, Andrew Breitbart, if things stay as they are, has done some damage to his reputation.

UPDATE: A post today on Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com reminds people today of this sentence in his first post of the Sherrod video:

In the first video, Sherrod describes how she racially discriminates against a white farmer. She describes how she is torn over how much she will choose to help him. And, she admits that she doesn’t do everything she can for him, because he is white. Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. But she decides that he should get help from “one of his own kind”. She refers him to a white lawyer.

The post also points out that Ben Jealous, the NAACP president, knew there was a second part to her story than appeared in the first video, yet he still condemned her. Here’ s an excerpt from Jealous’ statement (emphasis added):

Her actions were shameful. While she went on to explain in the story that she ultimately realized her mistake, as well as the common predicament of working people of all races, she gave no indication she had attempted to right the wrong she had done to this man.

The reaction from many in the audience is disturbing. We will be looking into the behavior of NAACP representatives at this local event and take any appropriate action.

UPDATE 2: More interesting information about Shirley Sherrod. Turns out she and her husband were part of a huge financial settlement to black farmers before she was appointed by the Obama administration.

UPDATE 3: Dan Riehl says the other stuff Sherrod said was bad enough:

Sherrod labels the entire Republican Party racist, claiming they simply can’t stand to see a black man in the White House. She also characterizes totally legitimate political opposition to ObamaCare from average citizens as mean and ultimately racist in the end. Had some previous Bush appointee called the Democrat Party a bunch of race-baiting hucksters, or poverty pimps – putting black citizens in that camp, too – there is no way said official would be able to keep their position. Yet, that is precisely what Sherrod did, only it was Republicans and her political opponents she so openly smeared.