The Real Feel For 7/21/10: The Only Bright Spot In A Dark Hole

Sometimes in an ugly situation can arise a beautiful glimmer of inspiration.

While the media continue to wrangle in the discussion of what the Obama White House knew about Tom Vilsack's utterly panicked decision to force Shirley Sherrod out of the Agriculture Department (while not fully castigate and abase the utter trash that is Andrew Freightfart, Bill O'Liely, and all of those who helped smear this woman), we saw a perfect example of human element at its best, as well as a true embodiment of what unselfish American spirit should be.

Sherrod had her father killed by reportedly a KKK member (the attorney of that case confirmed that), who she instead just labeled only as a "white farmer" on CNN yesterday.

That obvious pain and mourning over a salvage bastard killing her father in already high charged and pestilent times for Black America in this nation (and particularly in the South) could have lead Sherrod to have a perpetual feeling of abomination and willingness to not facilitate any white farmer for the rest of her life, let alone not even containing the desire to work in the public sector of this country to serve others.

The murderer of Sherrod's father was never prosecuted, but that didn't let her creating a sentiment that every white farmer was responsible for her fathers' death. It would have been facile to do just so, as well was painfully wrong.

Instead, the motivation to do her job so that no one would suffer any of the grave injustices that transpired in front of her eyes was the terrific end result, highlighted in the real moments of this entire saga:

The needed assistance provided to Roger and Eloise Spooner by Sherrod 20 years agohas more value on our race relations in this country than any "Black in America", "Beer Summit", or any speech on Rev. Wright.

This whole situation wasn't at all about race. On the contrary, it was all about the downtrodden helping the downtrodden, the other key narrative that has been missed by almost everyone.

That was exhibited with how expedient the Spooner family was in coming to the defense of Ms. Sherrod, clearly indicating just how wonderful this lady was to this desperately in need of help white family.

Last night on Anderson Cooper (who then unsurprisingly proceeded to drop the ball with the clown hack reporter that is Joe Johns), Sherrod and the Spooners were overjoyed to see and hear from each other again, vowing to have a reunion after all of these years. It was definitely something to realize that Sherrod had not seen this long time couple since she helped them two decades ago.

It certainly isn't the panacea for all that Shirley Sherrod has suffered in the past day, as she may not even want her job back after all of this.

But this reunion of a story that was foreign to us 24 hours ago is something that all the racists, as well as our myopic media, should embrace to the high heavens.

Sometimes an ugly situation can arise a beautiful glimmer of inspiration. And with how ugly this saga has been (and continues to be), it sure is quite something to see any beautiful come from it.