Your tax dollars at work: ‘The Pilgrims were illegal aliens’

Internal video exposes USDA staffers chanting ‘The Pilgrims were illegal aliens’ during taxpayer-funded cultural sensitivity training

Billy Hallowell
The Blaze
2/15/2013

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is coming under fire for hosting a “compulsory”*  ”Cultural Sensitivity Training” program that required some intriguing participation of those in attendance. In addition to being implored to bang on tables, everyone in the room was instructed to chant, in unison, “The pilgrims were illegal aliens.”

But that’s not the full extent of the curious elements surrounding the session, as the lead trainer also joked that he doesn’t like the word “minorities” and that he prefers to replace it with “emerging majorities.”

After nine months of waiting for the government to release the video content, clips of the three-hour session were published this week by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group. It was on May 18, 2012, that the organization first made a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to secure the footage.

Judicial Watch was originally tipped off by a whistle-blower who offered information about the expensive diversity sessions (the USDA has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the program)…

The article continues, with video, at The Blaze.

Update: From October 2012,  USDA Diversity Workshop Instructed Attendees to Chant ‘Our Forefathers Were Illegal Immigrants’

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