The Secret Service, an organization that has been protecting presidents since 1901, obviously has a huge problem with racism. A U.S. agency that has been held in the highest regard worldwide has turned into the KKK with a government badge.
I have to wonder how an agency who is suppose to protect our presidents, vice presidents, foreign heads of state of all nationalities and religious beliefs, can be trusted. How can the Secret Service perform their jobs when supervisors write and send racist emails to one another regarding interracial sex, killing Jessie Jackson and his wife and ridiculing African American slang.
In a previous post regarding the Secret Service’s behavior, you really have to wonder if the first African American nominee is safe. Safe, not from the nuts who run around this country, but safe from the men and women who are suppose to protect him.
Racism in the Secret Service was brought to light in a lawsuit was filed in 2000 by African American agents who complained of discrimination during promotions. After years of stonewalling by the Secret Service, Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson recently ordered the Secret Service to produce documents and emails. This document production exposed racism at the highest levels of the agency.
According to a NYTimes article
The filing includes 10 e-mail messages that were among documents the agency recently turned over to lawyers for the black agents as part of an increasingly bitter discrimination lawsuit. The messages were written mainly from 2003 through 2005, and were sent to and from e-mail accounts of at least 20 Secret Service supervisors.
In some of the court documents, the senders of the e-mail messages are identified only by the jobs they currently occupy and the rank they held when the messages were sent. For example, an Oct. 9, 2003, message referring to a “Harlem Spelling Bee,†ridiculing black slang, was sent by Thomas Grupski, then assistant director for protective operations, who, according to the filing, now heads the Office of Government Liaison and Public Affairs.
A March 3, 2003, message describing Mr. Jackson as the “Righteous Reverend†was passed among several Secret Service supervisors. The message, about a missile striking an airplane in which Mr. Jackson and his wife were traveling, concludes, it “certainly wouldn’t be a great loss and it probably wouldn’t be an accident either.â€
Another message contains what one Secret Service official said was a joke referring to interracial sex. The joke circulated in February and March 2003. It was sent, according to the lawsuit, by Donald White, who heads the Presidential Protective Detail, to Kurt Douglass, an agent in charge of the Secret Service office in Cincinnati.
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