They don't like black people, either

From Capitol Buzz:

Henrietta Holsman Fore, the Bush White House’s nominee to be Under-Secretary of State for Management, was forced to resign from the Wellesley College Board of Trustees for saying that blacks preferred pushing drugs to working in a factory. Even when she tried apologizing for the comments in a letter to the college newspaper, 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. [NYT, 2/12/87]

Ties into my previous post quite nicely.

Update (6/10/05): The Center for American Progress reports in their daily Progress Report email:

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) grilled Henrietta Holsman Fore, currently director of the U.S. Mint and nominee to be undersecretary of state for management, about racially insensitive comments that had been attributed to her in a speech she gave in 1987 at Wellesley College. According to the Chicago Tribune, Fore had suggested blacks preferred pushing drugs to working in factory jobs and that Hispanic workers were lazy. Obama peppered Fore with questions for 20 minutes before suggesting that her "stereotypical notion about how people performed" do not make her well-suited for overseeing human resources and the civil rights office of the State Department. The Tribune noted that Fore never issued a firm denial of the statements attributed to her in the 1987 speech.