The video Andrew Breitbart released on Monday featuring former USDA Georgia Rural Development Director Shirley Sherrod, where she recounted how she had withheld help from a white farmer who was facing foreclosure on his property, appeared to reveal yet more evidence that Barack Obama is quite comfortable working with racists. Except that not all was as it seemed. When I viewed the full video of Sherrod’s speech released by the NAACP on Tuesday, it became clear to me that Sherrod’s words were taken out of context.

Breitbart’s excerpt stops at the point where Sherrod says she referred the farmer to a white lawyer so that “his own kind could take care of him.” In the full video, Sherrod went on to explain how she helped the farmer when it became clear his lawyer wasn’t going to do anything. So while Sherrod may have subscribed to some racist views at one time, it appears that she altered her these in light of the farmer’s problems.| MORE ›