a story about her personal struggle over race. the story of that white farmer who came to her for help decades earlier. >> i was struggle with the fact that so many black people had lost their farm land and here i was faced with having to help a white person save their land. so i didn't give him the full force of what i could do. when this short edited version of the speech was posted by a right wing blogger, shirley sherrod was labeled a racist and asked to resign. but there was much more to the story. >> that's when it was revealed to me that it's about those who have versus those who have not. and not so much about white and black. if is about white and black, but it opened my eyes. >> reporter: the next day, sherrod appeared on cnn. she said her words had been twisted and taken out of