1.0Religion & Public Life With Mark Silkhttps://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/religionandpubliclifeMark Silkhttps://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/religionandpubliclife/author/msilkShirley Sherrod testifies - Religion & Public Life With Mark Silkrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="OtuewsTtwp"><a href="https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/religionandpubliclife/2010/07/shirley-sherrod-testifies.html">Shirley Sherrod testifies</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/religionandpubliclife/2010/07/shirley-sherrod-testifies.html/embed#?secret=OtuewsTtwp" width="600" height="338" title="“Shirley Sherrod testifies” — Religion & Public Life With Mark Silk" data-secret="OtuewsTtwp" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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Shirley Sherrod’s speech to the NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet is a moving testimony to the importance of rising above the interests of tribe and kind in order to help all people in need. That she should have been fired because it was clipped and trumpeted on the conservative noise machine is a sad testimony to…