meet henrietta holsham fore, your current undersecretary of state for management! she has been nominated by the president for the vacant position of "Deputy Secretary of State and Administrator of the US Agency for International Development" (that's s job title). unfortunately for her (and the folks in developing countries that the position is in charge of aid for), someone when ahead and did some actual research and found a racist lecture she gave in 1987 that pretty much hits all the stereotypical racism buttons:
at the time, fore was the owner of a manufacturing facility in Los Angeles, she 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." 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."
at wonkette.com, they had an interesting take whites being resentful of working with machines:
We have to give her points for this one, because it’s a racial stereotype we have never heard before. Maybe that explains why we hate these fucking computers so much?...Barack Obama said, “I’m troubled by the lack of clarity.” What’s not clear, Barry? Holsman-Fore says Blacks prefer to make more money selling dope, Mexicans are lazy, Asians are crafty and white people hate robots.
on a side note, the reason the position was vacant? yep, that guy who was a huge abstinence-for-foreign-aid in afica advocate that was also enjoying the services of a d.c. madam is the one who needs replacing.
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