From www.obamafoodorama.blogspot.com
Unbeknownst to most Americans, apparently we not only have the first Black/Bi-racial/Post- racial/African American president in our history, but we might also have the very first Black/Bi-racial/Post-racial/African American Secretary of Agriculture. On February 21, while giving a rambling, pandering speech to a group of black farmers at a conference in Albany, hosted by the Federation of Southern Cooperatives Land Assistance Fund, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack briefly touched on USDA’s long, troubled history of failing to promote people of color within its ranks, and failing to offer non-white and female farmers the equivalent assistance available to their white, male counter parts.
And then Vilsack made an excellent claim to close:…I’m frank to say I don’t know much about my roots. In fact, I’m pretty much a blank slate. What I know is that my mother was 23 years old – my birth mother was 23 years old – when I was born. She stayed for about a month in the orphanage and then she left and I’ve not had any contact with her since. I know I was fortunate enough to be adopted into a family and that my adopted Mom struggled with alcohol and prescription drug addiction and we went through some tough times. But I don’t know were I started. So I feel like I can claim I’m possibly connected to you folks. I know I don’t look that part. But I’ve watched my mother struggle with her addiction and I learned something about life from watching her overcome her addiction, that people of faith can literally move mountains….
Now, is Secretary Vilsack claiming he’s black because his birth mother might have been black, or is he claiming he’s black because his adopted mother, who apparently gave him a life-long eating disorder, was a liquor-happy pill head, and turned him into a person of faith, and by extension–black? Or–WTF?
