Reginald Moore, who is suing the Secret Service for racial discrimination has sent offensive e-mails of his own, according to new evidence filed in court. So I guess the powers that be will now play tit-for-tat. The court documents include e-mails sent by Moore, who is black, containing a joke about a black woman hitting her daughter and a picture of a wedding reception at a White Castle hamburger restaurant.
A group of black employees have said that the agency has passed over black agents for promotion. They say white colleagues and supervisors regularly use a racial epithet to refer to criminal suspects and black leaders of other countries. The lawsuit claims the Secret Service has always had a discriminatory culture — a claim the agency has consistently denied. To add insult to injury, last month an employee found a noose in one of the Secret Service’s training centers. A worker who tied the noose out of canine training rope has since been placed on administrative leave, according to the agency.
According to the Associated Press, as part of the discrimination lawsuit, the Secret Service was ordered to turn over evidence. The agency paid an outside auditor more than $2 million to search 20 million e-mails and other electronic documents dating back 16 years. Among the 10 e-mails submitted to the court earlier this month in a separate filing were jokes circulated within the agency that referred to: the way a “20-year-old 5th grader” in Harlem spoke; assassination of the Rev. Jesse Jackson; and the work ethic of a black golf caddy. One of the e-mails was sent by a deputy assistant director, who has since been suspended.
This is too good–AP said that in addition, one of the supervisors who sent an e-mail was on Sen. Barack Obama’s security detail for the past year. The supervisor is no longer on the security detail and has been promoted to a position at the agency’s Washington headquarters.
In 2007, 80 percent of the people who worked at the Secret Service were white, and 10 percent were black, according to data obtained by The Associated Press. The remaining 10 percent were of other races. In the agency’s senior leadership, whites made up about 75 percent and blacks 13 percent. Blacks make up about 12 percent of the United States’ population. So, I wonder how the other 10 percent fare in terms of discrimination?
This is very embarrassing considering the fact that the Secret Service protects our presidents, heads of state, elected officials and so on. This was disclosed at the worst possible time, especially in the wake of the security breaches of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain’s passport files. Talk about national security? Hah.
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