"Hispanics Are Lazy" - Bush’s New USAID Nominee

[kpete]

Bush’s New USAID Nominee: Hispanics Are ‘Lazy’

President Bush plans to nominate Henrietta Holsman Fore to head the U.S. Agency for International Development “to replace Randall Tobias who resigned after his name was linked to an escort service.”

Fore is currently the State Department undersecretary for management. When Bush nominated her for this position in 2005, ThinkProgress noted that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) grilled Fore over her previous comments in which she suggested blacks prefer pushing drugs on the street to working in factory jobs.

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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

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/09/henrietta-holsman-fore/

[BOSSHOG]

1. Yeah, I see all those Hispanics

working their asses off all day on construction jobs all around New Orleans. Lazy bums.

[hatrack]

2. The real FEMA - Find Every Mexican Available

Stole that from a George Lopez stand-up special.

[BOSSHOG]

5. Made into a nice T-Shirt sold in the French Quarter

Along with:

- Fix Everything My Ass

And NOPD: New Orleans Police Department

- Not Our Problem Dude

Or, FEMA's evacuation Plan

- Run Motherfucker Run

T-Shirts still on sale in the Big Easy

[EFerrari]

9. Right. Because they can't sue when they begin to die

from all the toxins. BFEE enterprise at its finest.

The Gulf Coast is an even bigger crime scene than I-Rack is. :(

[gatorboy]

3. But, but, they said they were doing the jobs we won't do.

That must make us SUPAH lazy!

[rosesaylavee]

4. What a surprise that * would nominate her...

Not.

[EFerrari]

6. Beth: Ms. Holsman is a racist pig with sheepskin. n/t

[mitchtv]

7. I think she meant

Alberto Gonzales is lazy

[atreides1]

8. I'll Bet

That she's going to be a Recess Appointment!!!!!

[MADem]

10. Wow, Archie Bunker in a dress!!! Without the HUMOR, even! nt

[Raksha]

11. Sounds like she's been hanging out with Alberto Gonzales too much,

and it's giving her a warped opinion of all Hispanics.

[EFerrari]

12. I think Berto has been cast out. He's officially not one of us.

[formerrepuke]

13. She has a pedigree:

http://www.businessofgovernment.org/main/interviews/bios/henrietta_fore2_new_bio.asp

..and she's "a collector of antique HOLSMAN automobiles."
..OK, I just had to find out what a 'Holsman automobile' is:


..apparently, she descends from a prominent early 20th century architect/industrialist...

http://www.holsmanautomobile.com/history.htm

[krispos42]

14. So, blacks are preferring jobs that pay more...

let them keep their own schedule, and give them more time with family and friends?

So how is that different from millions of white-collar workers in this country? Especially all the independent contractors and such that work from home?

Lord knows that plenty of white-collar workers are up to their eyeballs in illegal activities.

Oh, I know! She can mock my cousin next, the independent licensed plumber in Illinois! He makes more money than on an assembly line, picks his own work, and makes his own schedules!

Why hasn't she dropped her cushy board job toake a lesser-paying job working on an assembly line? Here, I'll be happy to swap jobs with her. Can she run a pipe bender? Bandsaw? Swage? I bent 764 faucet spouts on Monday in 9 hours. What's her productivity?

[Cobalt Violet]

15. Wow. She has us all pegged.

Now it's my turn to peg. Republicans are all so stupid.