None of this shocks me - the shock has worn off long ago. A few years ago, my sister worked for a federal agency at 26 Federal Plaza - during black history month there was some sort of "cultural event" or celebration every other day. None of them took place during lunch time, and the events were filled with all the blacks who were getting paid for their regular jobs while attending such "cultural" activities as: hearing stories from African storytellers. learning how to tie African headdresses and turbans (this class for was for the women), the differences and meanings of the kinds of kente cloths that blacks wear, and believe it or not - the hosting of an "enstoolment ceremony" of some phony African prince or chieftain, that included drummers, a parade of golden umbrellas, and a bunch of fat African mamas chanting and swinging their butts and playing rattle gourds! But the crowning glory was the fact that during a round table discussion on "black issues", the Nation of Islam sent a representative and despite outcry from many Jews and white gentiles at the federal agencies involved to throw the bum off the dais, he was allowed to go on because the then Regional Administrator of the host agency did not have the balls to go up against the blacks in the agency. All this on taxpayer time, at taxpayer expense - and it goes on year after year. It is not limited to Black History Month - there is Hispanic Heritage Month, Asian-Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Women's History Month - and get ready for this.......Pride Month (June) - yes, that's right - an entire month celebrating a sexual preference as a "culture". A friend of my sister's questioned this insanity, and asked why there was no lobby display for Columbus on Columbus Day or during the month of October - she was told by the powers that be (and with a straight face, no less) that the Columbus display could not happen because you have to have a Presidential order to celebrate a historic or ethnic heritage celebration. It did not seem to matter that Columbus Day is a federal holiday, recognized by the federal government, and this was at a federal building housing federal agencies. No, we can not celebrate Columbus in October, why? Because October is now Hispanic Heritage month - which is directly related to the Spanish presence in the New World - but not that awful white guy, Columbus! Go figure. It is important for taxpayers to know how their dollars get spent - and this is just the tip of the iceberg where federal agencies are concerned - more to follow.