7.22.2010

Shirley Sherrod's epiphany: it's rich vs. poor

Epiphany - a sudden realization: a sudden intuitive leap of understanding. Shrirley Sherrod had one, it was the subject of the infamous video from which came the edited bit that both the Tea Partiers and the NAACP used to hang themselves. The hits just keep on comin from the fiasco. Now it's the MSM who are flumoxed, they can't bring themselves to 'report' on a class war so they retreat to the safety of racial division as the context for all their questions. What Shirley said then and says now is:

SHIRLEY SHERROD: "There is no difference between us. The only difference is that the folks with money want to stay in power and whether it's health care or whatever it is, they'll do what they need to do to keep that power, you know. It's always about money, y'all. Like I told you, God helped me to see that it's not just about black people -- it's about poor people."

In another excerpt from her speech to the NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner, Shirley Sherrod gives the audience a history lesson on how the rich created the divide of the races so they could stay in power and keep the poor down.

Shirley gets it, the rich use fear of the unknown to keep the poor divided. Whenever in history the many unite to overcome the wedge issues used by the few to divide them they've risen up, resisted, rebeled and overthrown their oppressors. Divide and conquer is a biggy in elite-ville, without it the greek slaves overran the republic, without it the gauls might still be gauls, without it those folks woulda died in the Bastille, without it... lottsa shit woulda been different.

Shirley gets it, MSM media does too. The capitialist corporations own the news, they spin it anyway that suits them and what definately doesn't suit them is to have a genuine African-American female hero stand up/rise up and talk about class war. The indivisible fact is 'we the people' are being manipulated and divided by our fears so as to distract us away from fixing our gaze upon our real enemy - the rich.