A top Homeland Security Department (DHS) official has resigned after it emerged that he had repeatedly made shocking racist remarks on radio stations over the course of nine years.
In April, Rev. Jamie Johnson was appointed to lead DHS’ Center for Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships, which works with churches and community organizations on disaster response.
But he has now been kicked out of the office after CNN revealed that he called black people lazy and drug-addled, and said ‘all that Islam has ever given us is oil and dead bodies over the last millennia [sic] and a half.’
Rev. Jamie Johnson (pictured) has resigned as an interfaith outreach coordinator for the Dept of Homeland Security after it emerged he made Islamophobic and racist remarks over years
Johnson (far right, with Habitat for Humanity last month) said in 2008 that black people are lazy, drug-addicted, and jealous of Jews, who are successful because they work harder
Johnson, a long-time friend of the GOP who aided Donald Trump in Ohio during his presidential campaign, was appointed by former DHS head John Kelly.
His job involved making regular ‘deploys to disaster areas throughout the nation to assist FEMA with faith-based outreach and engagement.’
It’s an indictment of America’s black community that has turned America’s major cities into slums because of laziness, drug use and sexual promiscuity
A long-time Republican, he also helped made the remarks over several years while appearing on local radio.
In a 2008 appearance on Accent Radio Network, Johnson claimed that black Americans hate Jewish people because they are jealous of their success.
He said that Jewish people who arrived in the US in the 1800s ‘rolled up their sleeves and began to work so hard and applied themselves to education and other means of improvement and other means of climbing the, I hate this phrase, but the social ladder if you will.
‘And they have done exceptionally well for themselves. For only representing about 1.4 per cent of America’s population, they make up 12 per cent of America’s millionaires. Why? Because they work.
‘And it’s an indictment of America’s black community that has turned America’s major cities into slums because of laziness, drug use and sexual promiscuity.’
Johnson has helped several GOP presidential candidates in Iowa, including Rick Perry (pictured) and Donald Trump. Johnson also said Islam is ‘not a religion of peace’
Another guest suggested that Jewish-American success ‘removes the argument of victimization from the black community,’ to which Johnson agreed.
He also said he didn’t want black people to join the Republican party because ‘diversity is simply a cloak to hide a far-left Marxist globalist ideology that seems to undercut and undermine every principle on which this nation was built.’
In other statements on the network, he made several heinous remarks about the religion of Islam, which he characterized as violent and crude.
While filling in on the show Mickelson in the Morning, he said of Islamic terrorism: ‘I never call it radical Islam. If anything, it is obedient Islam. It is faithful Islam.’
All that Islam has ever given us is oil and dead bodies
He also described Islam as ‘not our friend’ and ‘not a religion of peace,’ adding: ‘I agree with Dinesh D’Souza – your friend and mine – who says all that Islam has ever given us is oil and dead bodies over the last millennia [sic] and a half.’
In 2011, while filling in on the show again, he said: ‘Jews do not want to cut our heads off, Muslims want to cut our heads off.’
In 2013, he said that Islam ‘is an ideology that is posing as a religion that is standing against everything that America was built upon’.
‘We have to have somebody who understands the Islamic threat to American freedoms,’ he said.
And last year, he said: ‘I always believe that in the days following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and also on the Pentagon, that George W Bush made a critical mistake that we are still in a sense paying for.
‘He began to say a phrase that no one had ever said before in popular political culture, which is that Islam is a religion of peace.’
Tyler Q Houlton, acting press secretary at DHS, told CNN: ‘The administration does not support these statements made by Rev. Johnson, some of which were said nearly a decade ago, and for which he has apologized.
Jews do not want to cut our heads off, Muslims want to cut our heads off
‘We believe Rev. Johnson has proven himself as a valuable supporter and proponent of the interfaith community’s recovery efforts, particularly during Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria and most recently bringing counseling and support following the tragic shooting at the church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.’
Johnson himself said: ‘I have and will continue to work with leaders and members of all faiths as we jointly look to strengthen our safety and security as an interfaith community.
‘Having witnessed leaders from the entire faith spectrum work to empower their communities I now see things much differently.
‘I regret the manner in which those thoughts were expressed in the past, but can say unequivocally that they do not represent my views personally or professionally.’
Johnson (seen with Marco Rubio) said that ‘Jews do not want to cut our heads off, Muslims want to cut our heads off’ and Islam was only good for ‘oil and dead bodies’