Monday, July 19, 2010

USDA Official Resigns After Video Of Remarks NAACP Event Surface

Fox News reports that the "Agriculture Department announced Monday, shortly after FoxNews.com published its initial report on the video, that Sherrod had resigned."

“There is zero tolerance for discrimination at USDA, and I strongly condemn any act of discrimination against any person,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a written statement. “We have been working hard through the past 18 months to reverse the checkered civil rights history at the department and take the issue of fairness and equality very seriously.

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