Bush's Nominee For U.S. Mint Is A Racist Bigot
http://thinkprogress.org/index.php?p=1063
On May 10, 2005, the current director of the U.S. Mint, Henrietta
Holsman Fore, was nominated by President Bush to be the next Under
Secretary of State for Management. In announcing the nomination, State
Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Fore would be instrumental in
helping to "expand and support State Department management
initiatives."
The position of Under Secretary of Management is a vital one, as
described by the State Department's website. It is responsible for
leading the offices of administration and human resources, which deal
with the hiring and firing of personnel. Fore's nomination to this
post has raised many concerns due to her record of making
racially-insensitive remarks.
Yesterday, Sen. Barack Obama grilled Fore over her previous comments in
which she suggested blacks prefer pushing drugs on the street to
working in factory jobs. Fore's remarks came from a speech she gave
at Wellesley University in 1987. Here's how the New York Times
covered that speech:
A Wellesley College trustee's remark that blacks preferred pushing
drugs to working in a factory has precipitated an emotional debate on
this bucolic campus already grappling with charges of racial
insensitivity...
The trustee, Henrietta Holsman, a 1970 graduate of Wellesley who runs a
manufacturing concern in Los Angeles, resigned from the board last
weekend after apologizing for her comments, which also cast aspersions
on the work ethic of Hispanic and white employees. But in a letter to
the college newspaper, Ms. Holsman reiterated her statement that she
had trouble keeping black assembly-line workers from going ''back
to the street to earn more money'' selling drugs...
In her lecture, Ms. Holsman also said she had found Hispanic workers to
be lazy, white workers resentful of having to work with machines, and
Asians, while very productive, likely to move on to professional or
management jobs. [NYT, 2/12/87]
http://thinkprogress.org/index.php?p=1063
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