Friday, November 09, 2007

DHS employee wore offensive costume in office all day.


Thinkprogress:


DHS immigration chief Julie Myers yesterday met with senators about an employee’s racially offensive Halloween costume that she lauded. She claimed ignorance about the fact that the man, dressed in a dreadlocks wig and prison outfit, had also been wearing make-up to darken his skin: “I was surprised and mortified to learn the day after the event that the employee’s true skin color was not as it had appeared.” Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) also revealed that the employee had been wearing the costume all day:

“He was dressed in this costume during his entire shift at work all day, which means that in the workplace there wasn’t a manager that said, ‘You need to change, you need to leave,’” McCaskill said.

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