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In reply to the discussion: Secret Service doesnt much care about protecting the black family in WHITE house? [View all]underahedgerow
(1,232 posts)I'm falling off the couch making that connection.
Couldn't we also speculate that the fault lies with the hiring practices? Or the leadership of the Secret Service?
Of course racism exists, no one claims it doesn't. But why attribute that one, solitary thing to the indiscretions of some employees? Why not fault their characters, their drinking problems, their penchant for partying and being very naughty?
It's not always about skin color. Sometimes people just screw up, and if it's being tolerated by management, then you have to question the management and leadership.
Most likely, President Obama trusted the wrong people to run his team. It happens, he's a busy guy, and those SS guys and their ilk tend to toss a LOT of horse shit around.
I just fired a long time employee who was head of security for a very high profile person I've recently been working for. He was a genuine f*** up who baffled everyone with his BS for nearly 8 years until I called him on it and got rid of him. He was Mr. X military, rude, wife beating, cheating, lying, swaggering bully guy with a LOT of crap to swing and nothing to back it up.
It happens.