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Even More Than Just Cowardice

The whole video : So far in this entire 24 hour saga now, we have just one person who has given a public apology to Shirley Sherrod. Ben Jealous is the only individual to display needed penitence to the now former prominent Agriculture Department official. And the NAACP leader only did offered up that apology on his Twitter page after getting slammed throughout the day on there, as well as not including the apology in the letter condemning Andrew Freightfart and the right wing nutcases, for not coming sooner after knee jerk chastising he placed on Sherrod last night. No one else from the "Condemn her quick and swift" crowd has yet to offer a full "I am sorry" to Ms. Sherrod. Not the NAACP as a whole. Not the Obama Administration, Tom Vilsack, Cheryl Cook. Not Roland Martin. Not anyone besides Jealous' with his one lonely tweet. In the aftermath of this utter mess of a situation, Janelle Bouie re-brought up Eric Holder's "discussion on race an...

Too Proud To Say "Sorry"

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy A lot of people this week (particularly a good bit of black people) criticized the NAACP for even thinking one minute about the Tea Party. "They are giving the Tea Party ammunition." "Don't they have more important things to focus on like education and gay rights." "WOW NAACP, way to come to what everyone was saying about the Tea Party last year." "What is the NAACP's purpose anymore." You may have been cognizant of all the lambasting the organization received for speaking out about the Tea Party (not from the Palinities or the Tea Baggers), and they deserved it...... ......If they called the Tea Party "out right racists." Instead, what the NAACP simply did was cast a resolution , declaring that some of the element of the Tea Party for what they were. They didn't call the party "racist". It wasn't an out of control "Look ...