She was smeared by right-wing media, condemned by the NAACP, and canned by the Obama administration. It wasn't pretty, what was done this week to Shirley Sherrod.
And maybe something good can come of it. The thought occurred to me after reading her now-famous speech, which is about the power of grace and the possibility of redemption.
Here's a way to get some good. This September, when school begins, we should make the speech required viewing in the nation's high schools. It packs quite a lesson within quite a story.
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At the Wall Street Journal Peggy Noonan draws a powerful lesson from the Shirley Sherrod's speech. Not much politics here, just wisdom. Let's hope we all learn from this incident.