However, the incident took place decades before she joined the department, and her speech in its unedited form made the point that people should move beyond race. In addition, the white farmer who Sherrod mentioned has told reporters that Sherrod helped him save his farm.
Breitbart "knew what effect that would have on conservative racist people he's dealing with," Sherrod said. "That's why I started getting the hate mail, and that's why I got the hate calls. He got the effect he was looking for."
Sherrod has since received an apology from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and a personal phone call from President Barack Obama.
And while she hasn't received an apology from Breitbart, Sherrod's not sure she's ready for that kind of a chat just yet.
"He would really need to come and sit down with me and look me in the eye so that we could see if we could find a place -- I'm not saying I wouldn't forgive him, but we would need to see if we could find a place for that to happen.
"I don't see it at this point. He hasn't been willing, he hasn't tried to apologize to me for anything he's caused me to go through," she said.
Breitbart's website included corrections Wednesday on two blog entries that included the video footage from Sherrod's speech.
"Correction: While Ms. Sherrod made the remarks captured in the first video featured in this post while she held a federally appointed position, the story she tells refers to actions she took before she held that federal position," said a notice added to one of the postings on Breitbart's biggovernment.com website.
A shorter version appeared on another posting of the Sherrod video footage. The corrections did not mention the edited nature of the video he posted Monday or the full context.
