APTOPIX USDA Racism Resignation
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack tells reporters that he acted in haste in Shirley Sherrod, a black U.S. Agriculture Department official, after it appeared she had made racist remarks in unfair and heavily edited video posted on a conservative Web site, during a news conference at the Department of Agriculture in Washington, Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Vilsack said he asked for Sherrod's forgiveness. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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