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Sherrod gets biggest 'I'm sorry' from Obama Posted on 7/23/2010
Shirley Sherrod got the biggest "I'm sorry" of all Thursday and it came from President Barack Obama.
President Obama personally appealed to the ousted worker to come back.
President Obama Comments Obama said Secretary Tom Vilsack was too quick to seek Sherrod's dismissal.
President Obama said, "He jumped the gun, partly because we now live in this media culture where something goes up on YouTube or a blog and everybody scrambles."
Obama said he's instructed "my team" to make sure "that we're focusing on doing the right thing instead of what looks to be politically necessary at that very moment. We have to take our time and think these issues through."
President Obama told ABC News, "One of the things I shared with Ms. Sherrod was the fact that the stories that she was telling about her own biases and overcoming them, those were actually good leasons for all of us to learn, because we all have our own biases."
He said, "I wrote this in my own book."
Obama said, "There was times when I had stereotypes, both blacks and whites, that you had to work through, and you had to admit to yourself."
He said, "We should acknowledge the enormous progress that we've made since the time Shirley Sherrod was a child in the Jim Crow South. I'm sitting here as a testament to this myself, as President."
