USDA To Reconsider Official's Ouster Over Comments : NPR: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says he will reconsider the department's decision to oust a black employee over racially tinged remarks after learning more about what she said.
Vilsack issued a short statement early Wednesday morning after Shirley Sherrod, who until Tuesday was the Agriculture Department's director of rural development in Georgia, said she was pressured to resign because of her comments that she didn't give a white farmer as much help as she could have 24 years ago.
But Sherrod said she's not quite certain whether she would return to the Agriculture Department if invited back.
'I am just not sure how I would be treated there,' she said Wednesday on NBC's Today show, adding that she was shocked at being forced to resign by Vilsack.
