*This link shows Jesse Jackson stating his disagreement with NPR decisions on firing Juan Williams *
Jesse Jackson has made two key points while stressing his disapproval of NPR decision. Jackson feels that Juan Williams freedom of speech was compromised and Jackson feels this situation is highly relatable to Shirley Sherrod.
NPR granted Williams with freedom of speech but there were pre-set boundaries given when he originally took the job as an analyst. What he said was not fully the problem but how he said it.
Sherrod worked as an official in the Agricultural Department and was fired this past summer for appearing to be racist on a video that was edited and misleading. She was told to resign in July after Andrew Breitbart’s site, Big Government posted an edited version of her comments at a NAACP event in where she stated that she had considered not giving a white farmer her full capability to help him avoid foreclosure. It became clear from the full video that she ultimately steered the farmer to a lawyer who helped save the man’s land. The resemblance in these two cases state that these two candidates resignation was taken in an immediate force. In both cases the full situations were not fully examined before the taken action. Jackson said the comments Williams made have been taken out of context. The fear of Muslims is unjustified but real, just like incorrect stereotypes of African-Americans and Latinos.
