Chicago Sun Times
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) may block President Bush's nominee for a top State Department position because she may have made racially charged comments in 1987.
Obama, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, raised his concerns at the Thursday confirmation hearing of Henrietta Holsman Fore, currently director of the U.S. Mint. President Bush has nominated her to be undersecretary of state for management.
Obama was concerned about Fore because of a 1987 newspaper article regarding comments she made about African Americans and Hispanics in a speech she made while a Wellesley College trustee.
The 1987 New York Times article paraphrased her as saying "blacks preferred pushing drugs to working in a factory" and reported she "also said she had found Hispanic workers to be lazy."
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