@Politico: Shirley Sherrod: I want to speak to Obama

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Not Black Like Me?

SherrodGate continues…

Shirley Sherrod said she’d like President Barack Obama to reach out to her, not for an apology but for a conversation about what life is like where “the rubber meets the road.”

“He hasn’t lived the kind of life I’ve lived,” she said on CNN’s morning show.

“I know he’s African-American or part African-American, and many of us are not totally black in our genes. I’m one of them. But when you get down to where the rubber meets the road, I think he needs to understand a little more of what life is like at that level.”

Perhaps they’ll have a beer in the Rose Garden?

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