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Sherrod says she feared being ‘monitored’, censored

By Robert "Rob" Redding Jr.

Editor & Publisher

Aug. 30, 2010, 8 p.m. - Shirley Sherrod says that she did not want to be “monitored” and censored in her return to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

“They would have monitored everything,” Sherrod said in remarks made over the weekend. “I would not have been able to speak about anything that they didn’t approve. I don’t intent to go there. I have always spoken my mind and I want to continue to do that.”

Sherrod’s comments, which were made at a gathering in Las Vegas, were first aired on Ryan Cameron’s show, which is heard on WVEE-FM.
 

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Sherrod’s had said that she did not take a higher paying and larger profile job at the USDA because she did not want "the the one person at USDA that's responsible for issues of discrimination within the agency." She also turned down her old job as the head of the state office in Georgia.

Sherrod was forced to resign after she appeared to make racially charged remarks to a NAACP gathering.

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