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Topic: USDA staff taught that the pilgrims
were ´illegal aliens´ in compulsory
´Cultural Sensitivity Training´ video
that cost the taxpayer $200,000 |
USDA staff taught that the pilgrims
were ´illegal aliens´ in compulsory
´Cultural Sensitivity Training´ video
that cost the taxpayer $200,000
Daily Mail [UK], by James Nye
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Original Article
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 2/20/2013 1:27:47 PM
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| The USDA is under fire for spending $200,000 of taxpayers money on a mandatory ´Cultural Sensitivity Training´ program in which employees were told to refer to the Pilgrims as ´illegal aliens´ and minorities as ´emerging majorities´. In previously unseen footage, diversity trainer Samuel Betances, who describes himself as a ´citizen of the world´, tells the audience to repeat that ´every federal agency has discriminated against African-Americans, Hispanics, Native American Indians and other groups.´ Made public on the government watchdog website Judicial Watch who obtained it through a Freedom of Information made on May 18th, 2012, Betances says that everyone
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jonr, 2/20/2013 1:33:14 PM (No. 9186981)
Let´s face it, this government is totally out of control and corrupted by 535 people in Congress that have no business being there. You could pull 535 people out of the phone book that would do a better job than these corrupt bureaucrats that pass for politicians.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
RightShoe, 2/20/2013 1:39:01 PM (No. 9186991)
Kindly cite the law that the pilgrims broke.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Sheepfarmer, 2/20/2013 1:50:31 PM (No. 9187026)
Unbelievable. And once again, we´re reading about it in a UK newspaper.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bufflwyr, 2/20/2013 1:53:55 PM (No. 9187034)
Right on, #2. The Pilgrims did not cross any national boundary, as none existed. I wouldn´t expect any USDA employee or consultant to realize that the passport had not yet been devised in 1620.
By Betances´ inane standards, the Indians were "illegal aliens" too.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
nimby, 2/20/2013 1:57:54 PM (No. 9187039)
What the bleep is cultural sensitivity towards law breakers? What next? Sensitivity to all sorts of criminals: child molesters, rapists, murderers etc etc?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Boneshaker, 2/20/2013 2:03:36 PM (No. 9187055)
We don´t have a white-against-black racism problem in America.
We have an "Elitism" problem in America.
The elites in government, education, film and entertainment and a few other segments of society attribute their guilt and their own feelings of superiority to the attitudes of less fortunate whites.
I guess they aren´t aware (or don´t care) that there are poor whites working hard to make it on their own without the benefit of wealth redistribution.
These people have more in common with working class poor blacks than either group has with the black and white elites behind this kind of racist dogma.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
realrep, 2/20/2013 2:09:57 PM (No. 9187084)
I´m related to John Howland, his wife and several other people who came here on the Mayflower. So, I guess I can now be labled as an ´illegal alien.´ Where´s my loot for being an ´illegal alien´?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
The Architect, 2/20/2013 2:13:38 PM (No. 9187093)
Illegal Alien, according to which law exactly? And shouldn´t that be "Undocumented Immigrant"? Illegal has such a negative connotation. Besides, the indians welcomed them. Remember the Thanksgiving Feast between the indians and Pilgrims?!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
4Justice, 2/20/2013 2:15:12 PM (No. 9187095)
I can´t believe that flat outright lies are the norm now. Revisionism, lies, false statements, manipulation, etc. The truth is not even allowed in public anymore. Only lies and more lies. I cannot stand what is happening to our country. It is pure evil.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
civilservant, 2/20/2013 2:16:06 PM (No. 9187098)
Well, the claim that they were ´illegal immigrants´ is specious, but the Pilgrims were.............English.
Ya´ know, from England?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
aindyin, 2/20/2013 2:36:34 PM (No. 9187146)
Samuel Betances can take his happy little butt somewhere else in the world since he is a citizen of the world.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jdmii, 2/20/2013 2:42:04 PM (No. 9187159)
The cost of this foolishness and all of the others when found should be subtracted from their next budget.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
roger h. cook,MD, 2/20/2013 2:42:35 PM (No. 9187162)
Guess who got paid to brain wash the USDA for 200grand?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw, 2/20/2013 4:33:39 PM (No. 9187426)
#7 Did you know 10% of Americians are related to the survivors of the Mayflower? Using same logic as the USDA, Americian Indians are also illegals since they came from somewhere else.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Lawsy0, 2/20/2013 4:38:58 PM (No. 9187446)
Coincidence? Betances is a ´citizen of the world´ just like Obama. He didn´t say which world, though.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
joew9, 2/20/2013 5:16:55 PM (No. 9187522)
They weren´t illegals. They were invaders. They invaded and they conquered.
Invaders is what the "illegals" are today and conquer is what they are trying to do today. And they don´t intend to treat us as well as the invaders of the past treated the American Indians.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
mustang flyer, 2/20/2013 9:18:00 PM (No. 9187853)
Ok, Ok, I confess that we have not done enough with the illigal immigrant issues... We should start righting that wrong right away. Lets get people back to where they belong or at least help them to go where they came from since they act like they don´t want to be here. I suggest we start with that group that feels strongest that they were wronged, that they ripped away from the lap of luxury back in their homeland. The fact that their leaders over there at that time were happy to get rid of them has no impact on them. So lets set aside a few billion this year to get these folks back home...one way tickets should see say 25+ million for starters. Send them back home where they can feel as equals with their countrymen and expunge all feelings of inadequacies and no longer have to hyphenate their identification as citizens. Do you suppose this group would jump at the chance to go? If not, why not? If the choice is to stay then start acting like it and strive to be fully Americans and quit acting like something is owed to you. You had the choice to go, which is it? Now, on to the next group...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
mustang flyer, 2/20/2013 9:24:09 PM (No. 9187861)
Emerging Majorities...??? I´m sure he means the Hispanics.
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