This story was killed real fast in Atlanta.
I heard it once on the radio and then nothing. She is now claiming the statement was released by mistake.
ordo
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/9/8/142946
Gore Accused of Low 'Negro Tolerance'
NewsMax.com
Friday, Sept. 8, 2000
A black Democratic congresswoman from the Deep South has accused Vice President Al Gore of going along with limiting Afro-Americans on his Secret Service detail.
Black agents have been complaining of racial discrimination within the agency charged with guarding at all costs the lives of the president and other top federal officials, ever since Gore and President Clinton first came into office in 1993.
According to a Friday story in the Washington Times:
Rep. Cynthia A. McKinney, in her fourth term from Georgia, said she found out only last week that the Clinton-Gore administration had placed a ceiling on the number of black Secret Service agents who could be assigned to protect Gore, who is the Democratic Party's nominee for president.
"Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high," she wrote on her congressional Web site. "I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time. I'm not shocked, but I am certainly saddened by this revelation."
The congresswoman said she learned about the limit of black agents permitted to guard Gore from a group of agents bringing a racial-discrimination suit against the Clinton-Gore Treasury Department, the mother agency of the Secret Service.
McKinney said she was troubled that the black agents had received no response from Gore or his staff about their complaints, even after the vice president and his staff had been informed.
"That these black officers had no response from Gore's staff is symptomatic of a larger problem," she said. "Gore would like these problems to just go away, but they'll never go away if they're not addressed."
Ron Schmidt, an attorney representing the agents, said those black agents who complained about the Gore cap were threatened with retaliation.
He said at least six "less qualified, less experienced" white agents were named over more-qualified black agents to informal supervisory positions on Gore's security detail – assignments that boost an agent's chances for promotion.
I heard it once on the radio and then nothing. She is now claiming the statement was released by mistake.
ordo
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/9/8/142946
Gore Accused of Low 'Negro Tolerance'
NewsMax.com
Friday, Sept. 8, 2000
A black Democratic congresswoman from the Deep South has accused Vice President Al Gore of going along with limiting Afro-Americans on his Secret Service detail.
Black agents have been complaining of racial discrimination within the agency charged with guarding at all costs the lives of the president and other top federal officials, ever since Gore and President Clinton first came into office in 1993.
According to a Friday story in the Washington Times:
Rep. Cynthia A. McKinney, in her fourth term from Georgia, said she found out only last week that the Clinton-Gore administration had placed a ceiling on the number of black Secret Service agents who could be assigned to protect Gore, who is the Democratic Party's nominee for president.
"Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high," she wrote on her congressional Web site. "I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time. I'm not shocked, but I am certainly saddened by this revelation."
The congresswoman said she learned about the limit of black agents permitted to guard Gore from a group of agents bringing a racial-discrimination suit against the Clinton-Gore Treasury Department, the mother agency of the Secret Service.
McKinney said she was troubled that the black agents had received no response from Gore or his staff about their complaints, even after the vice president and his staff had been informed.
"That these black officers had no response from Gore's staff is symptomatic of a larger problem," she said. "Gore would like these problems to just go away, but they'll never go away if they're not addressed."
Ron Schmidt, an attorney representing the agents, said those black agents who complained about the Gore cap were threatened with retaliation.
He said at least six "less qualified, less experienced" white agents were named over more-qualified black agents to informal supervisory positions on Gore's security detail – assignments that boost an agent's chances for promotion.