From: LawrLCL@aol.com
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:53:32 -0500
Subject: Fwd: USDA Cultural Sensitivity Training
To: lawrlcl@aol.com; angusfarms@hotmail.com
USDA Cultural Sensitivity Training
Last Updated: February 19, 2013
Synopsis
Whistleblower Reveals Indoctrination Program Requiring USDA Staffers to Bang on Tables, Chant, "The pilgrims were illegal aliens"
Judicial Watch has released previously unseen USDA videos revealing a compulsory "Cultural Sensitivity Training" program. A whistleblower reported to Judicial Watch that employees were required to bang on tables, chanting in unison "The pilgrims were illegal aliens" while being instructed to no longer use the word "minorities," but to replace it with "emerging majorities." Judicial Watch received the videos pursuant to a May 18, 2012, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
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The sensitivity training sessions, described as "a huge expense" by diversity awareness trainer and self-described "citizen of the world" Samuel Betances, were held on USDA premises. The diversity event is apparently part of what USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack described in a memo sent to all agency employees as a "new era of Civil Rights" and "a broader effort towards cultural transformation at USDA." In 2011 and 2012, the USDA paid Betances and his firm nearly $200,000 for their part in the "cultural transformation" program.
USDA Training Administrator, Vincent Loran, in an October 10, 2011, email previously revealed by Judicial Watch, asked Betances for a copy of a training video vowing to keep it secret. "It will not be used for or show [sic] in any way shape or form," Loran promised.
To see the videos and press release click here.
To see all documents regarding this investigation click here.
To the Corruption Chronicles blog on the investigation click here.
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