Just one more on that speech by Shirley Sherrod – the speech that Peggy Noonan would like to make “required viewing in the nation’s high schools.”

The speech (full transcript here) includes this:

But before I … go into what I have here, I want to … second something that Olivia said. You know, I grew up on the farm and I didn’t want to have anything to do with agriculture, but she was right. There are jobs at USDA, and many times there are no people of color to fill those jobs ’cause we shy away from agriculture. We hear the word “agriculture” and think only of working in the fields.
And you’ve heard of a lot of layoffs. Have you heard of anybody in the federal government losing their job? That’s all that I need to say, okay? And I – I might say a little bit more to the young people. It’s good to have you all here.

In other words Ms. Sherrod’s message to the yoof is: GET A GOVERNMENT JOB!

Plainly she is a Radio Derb fan. If she will have her people get in touch with my people here at Buckley Towers, we’ll be glad to comp her an RD Premium Membership.