Why did Shirley Sherrod Resign from the USDA?

FOXNews.com – Video Shows USDA Official Saying She Didn’t Give ‘Full Force’ of Help to White Farmer.

There’s a big firestorm about a video of Shirley Sherrod, Georgia Director of Rural Development, giving a speech at an NAACP meeting, telling of her interaction with a White farmer who needed assistance to avoid losing his land.   This was said to be a very  old incident, her first interaction with a White farmer on the job.  Apparently her perception of his attitude caused her to offer him less than maximum help, and to refer him to one of his own.

A new story has surfaced, claiming that the wife of said farmer had a much different perception of Sherrod’s service, and was upset that she had lost her job.

The main question stemming from this incident is:  “WHY did Sherrod resign?   If she was wrongly accused of discrimination, as later news stories claim,  she should have refused to resign,  and fought dismissal  through the human services department and in court.

Discrimination would be quite hard to prove, in this old case,  if the supposed victims did not have a perception of being discriminated against.

Failures of political correctness have cost the jobs of countless  good workers.   Pharmer suspects that this will continue as long as these workers are willing to run and hide when accused of wrong speech or thought.

Among other possibilities, not mentioned in the news seen by this blogger thus far,   is that the agreement to resign was really a response  to a $$$$ buyout $$$$.

Shirley Sherrod  has a mixed past with the USDA, having sued them successfully for 13 million dollars as part of a minority group called New Communities.   She obtained  a $150,000 portion of that sum.

The video below is Ms. Sherrod’s recounting of being thrown under the bus by the NAACP and the Obama administration 24 years after the controversial episode  in question.