quote:I don't know why though, she clearly was a racist and who knows how much damage she did before her "conversion". She went into the job with the wrong attitude and should have never been hired. Why did she need to change her attitude?
Perhaps it had something to do with this:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/PO...ZqY2ummcnO&wom=false
"On the night in 1965 when her father, Hosie Miller, a black man and a deacon at Thankful Baptist Church, was shot to death by a white farmer in what ostensibly was a dispute over a few cows, Sherrod -- then 17 years old -- changed her mind.
"I decided to stay in the South and work for change," said Sherrod, now 62, who believes her father's killing was more about a Southern black man speaking up to a white man than about who owned which animals. The all-white grand jury didn't bring charges against the shooter.
That summer, when she and several other blacks went to the county courthouse to register to vote, the county sheriff blocked the door and even pushed her husband-to-be, Lester Sherrod, down the stairs, she said."