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I feel like I'm always having to pursue the guy I want instead of him picking me... what's up with that? Why do I have to get the ball rolling? If you're interested then why not just make it known?

Guys - need to know whats going on up there in those noggins of yours.

This speech was giving at a local NAACP event, and the film posted on the web was edited (Shirley has said the comments were taken out of context). Shirley also says she stuck with the case and saw that the farmers (folks in their 80's) kept the farm. She also says that she said later in her speech that she learned "it was about rich and poor, not race," though that part of the video has not surfaced.

Today the Secretary of Agriculture said that he "reacted too quickly" and has made an offer to reinstate her and offered her a promotion. The question I ask is this. Would we let these kinds of remarks stand if it was someone besides a woman of color? I don't think a white male making similar comments towards a minority farmer would be offered a promotion and an apology by their boss. I'm not even certain that if it would have been a black man he'd of been able to keep his job.

So then it's okay to use racist practices while serving in a capacity as a government official, as long as you admit to it and say you learned from it at a later date? Does the full version of her story tell of how many cases she had cross her desk before her "epiphany?" What of those people? The civil rights act applies to all of us, and has been in place longer than she has been working at the Ag. Dept.

"Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep... wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you' re just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have YOU... The one who turns to his friends and says, that’s her..."
~ UNKNOWN