New Bush nominee found to have race-baiting past
President George W. Bush’s pick for a top position at the State Department may have failed to follow through on a commitment she made to African-American and Latino lawmakers to address diversity issues in America’s diplomatic corps.
The Congressman, who serves as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, was referring to a 1987 New York Times article that showed Fore had stepped down from the Wellesley College Board of Trustees after she made racially suspect remarks.
The Times reported that Fore, then known by her maiden name of Henrietta Holsman and owner at the time of a manufacturing facility in Los Angeles, remarked in a lecture that “she had trouble keeping black assembly-line workers from going ‘back to the street to earn more money’ selling drugs.”
Furthermore, the Times reported that Fore had 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.”
In 2005, when Fore left the US Mint to serve as the Undersecretary of State for Management, where she is responsible for human resources decision-making and other issues, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) threatened to block her nomination.
“I’m troubled by these statements,” the Chicago Tribune’s Jeff Zeleny reported Obama as saying in a June 10, 2005 article. “I’m troubled by the lack of clarity.”
Read the full article here. Not sure why I posted but I always find it amusing when I read stories like this because this lady only said how most white folks think anyway especially older white people.
Now the Mexicans’ are lazy, was a bit of a surprise, but the crack about blacks going back to the streets to sell drugs, shit every liberal I know thinks that way.
“it’s not your fault dude, it’s (the man) holding you down, brother”
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September 20th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
So, does anyone have a transcript of the original 1987 Wellesley speech?