Shirley Sherrod plans to sue Andrew Breitbart over the excerpted videotape showing Sherrod expressing racist sentiments. The general narrative goes something like this: Sherrod is this innocent, non-racist woman who was unfairly depicted as a bigot by the ‘right-wing attack machine’, and very temporarily lost her job. Now it seems the video’s impression might be the correct one after all (the source of this tape is still unknown and it’s quite possible Breitbart was set up).

Shirley gave a speech to the NAACP in which she made the following remarks about those who opposed ObamaCare: “I haven’t seen such mean-spirited people as I’ve seen lately over this issue of health care. Some of the racism we thought was buried. Didn’t it surface? (Audience responds approvingly.) Now, we endured eight years of the Bushes, and we didn’t do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black president.”

She accuses anyone who holds a principled opposition to expanding government powers (unconstitutional ones at that) as being racist. Sherrod wants us to believe she is “past black vs. white,” yet she paints all liberty-minded Americans as bigots.

During a CNN interview, she said: “I know I’ve gotten past black vs. white. He’s [Breitbart] probably the person who’s never gotten past it and never attempted to get past it. … I think he would like to get us stuck back in the times of slavery. That’s where I think he’d like to see all black people end up again. … I think that’s why he’s so vicious against a black president, you know. He would go after me. I don’t think it was even the NAACP he was totally after. I think he was after a black president.”

She obviously isn’t aware of the history of her own Party, which was the architect of the Jim Crow South. If she’s concerned about the subjugation of black people, she might want to reconsider her Party affiliation, with their policies of government dependency, family breakdown, and identity politics.

Her husband, the Rev. Sherrod, gave speech at the University of Virginia School of Law. He said he was inspired by the Rev. Martin Luther King’s vision of judging people by the content of their character, but then later said: “Finally, we must stop the white man and his Uncle Toms from stealing our elections. We must not be afraid to vote black, and we must not be afraid to turn a black out who votes against our interests.”

It stands to reason that she shares the same view as her husband, which is consistent with her earlier statements. So on the one hand we should judge all people by the content of their character, but on the other it’s the heated rhetoric of stopping the white man and “his Uncle Toms,” and not being afraid to vote black. So which is it?

Like many on the left, they pay lip service to the idea of a colorblind society but in practice express the exact opposite.

The White House fired her without doing any kind of investigation of its own into the video. However, she can’t exactly claim her career was adversely affected considering she was immediately offered back the position with a promotion. Apparently being black and racist is a career enhancing combination. Sherrod should drop her lawsuit against Breitbart as more and more information surfaces that doesn’t exactly support her.