Discovery in a federal lawsuit brought by black agents in their discrimination action against the Secret Service reveals racist and sexist messages sent to and from the accounts of Secret Service supervisors. The "jokes" included a message about a "Harlem Spelling Bee" and so-called black slang. Another message about Rev. Jesse Jackson (referred to as the "Righteous Reverend") referred to a missile striking an airplane carrying Jackson and his wife and concluded that it "certainly wouldn't be a great loss and it probably wouldn't be an accident either."
E. Desmond Hogan, the black agents' lawyer, commented that his clients were "shocked but not surprised by the late production of significant evidence of racism at high levels in the Secret Service."
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