Black Women Allege Racist Treatment at Homeland Security Department

Monday, November 1, 2004 at 03:47PM
TheSpook

Three black female managers in the New York office of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security were abruptly removed from their posts and two of them were sent out of state without assignments -- raising complaints of a "modern-day lynching." The mysterious transfers came after one of the women and a white male boss, who had promoted her, received an anonymous letter in reference to a merger with the rival New Jersey office. The letter said: "If you think you are taking over Newark with your staff of STUPID BLACK C--- BITCHES, You are DEAD WRONG. You can't imagine the consequences if you keep pushing." Yvonne Smalls, 53, who received the letter, Theresa Regis, 49, and Charlene Monroe -- all veteran employees who earn more than $100,000 a year -- say they were respectively banished to Texas, Florida, and another New York office on Aug. 13 and replaced by white males. "I never expected such hatred," Smalls told The Post. All three women say they were not told of any problems with their performance. [more ]

Article originally appeared on (http://brownwatch.com/).