RACIST MANIAC IS ON THE GOVERNMENT PAYROLL

This past week the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued a new report that identifies Ayo Kimathi, an employee of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division of Homeland Security, as "the Irritated Genie," the proprietor of a site that calls for the mass murder of whites and homosexuals. The site, War on the Horizon, is dedicated to intellectually, spiritually, psychologically and physically preparing blacks for "a global clash that will mean the end of white rule on this planet or the end of the Black Race as we know it."

By day, Ayo Kimathi works for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a small business specialist in a unit that buys such items as handcuffs, ammunition and guns.

Off-duty, he calls himself "the Irritated Genie." He's a gay-bashing, revenge-seeking black nationalist who advocates on his website – War on the Horizon – the mass murder of whites and the "ethnic cleansing" of "black-skinned Uncle Tom race traitors."

"Warfare is eminent," the website declares, "and in order for Black people to survive the 21st century, we are going to have to kill a lot of whites – more than our Christian hearts can possibly count."

A former supervisor of Kimathi's at the DHS told Hatewatch, "Everybody in the office is afraid of him."

"This guy is filled with hate," the supervisor continued. "People are afraid he will come in with a gun someday and go postal. I am astounded, he's employed by the federal government, let alone Homeland Security."

Ah yes, Homeland "Security."  What a bureaucratic nightmare it has turned out to be.  It was Big Sis Janet Napolitano's DHS that four years ago produced a thoroughly execrable report on the dangers of extreme "right-wing terrorism."  How much trust can the people have in an agency that either couldn't or wouldn't deal with this maniac until an outside group, in this case the SPLC, brought it to their attention?

Because the left-wing SPLC issued a report the left-wing media had no choice but to hold their noses and cover the story.  But notice how they managed to work in references to Westboro and Stormfront.  While it's true that they're all haters, it's as if Raw Story is implying that Kimathi is merely the black franchise of a Westboro-Stormfront homophobic-racist complex rather than an organic product of the black community.

Among the videos available on his site are ones in which he warns that "the Homophiles are coming," and that "black resistance to the white-sex [gay] assault" begins with "the Brothers and Sisters on the Afrikan continent…taking true leadership in the fight against the expansion of white-sex among Black people." He criticizes President Obama for being "a treasonous mulatto scum dweller…who will fight against reparations for Black people in amerikkka, but in favor of [gay] rights for freaks in amerikkka and Afrika."

In this respect, Kimathi's rhetoric mirrors that of many anti-LGBT and white supremacist groups, whether it be the stream of anti-LGBT statements from Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church or the white nationalist National Vanguard, which writes of "the certainty that multiracialism is a death sentence for any society that attempts it [so] it is inevitable that at some point the distribution of power and authority in America - and the rest of the White world - will change dramatically."

Abby Ohlheiser at The Atlantic Wire was even more specific in making the comparison.

The content of Kimathi's advocacy demands some clarification. In some (white, conservative) circles, the term "black supremacist"  is applied with a very wide brush. Black supremacy was the implication of Maine Governor Paul LePage's reported comments that President Obama "hates white people," for instance. Kimathi's site is not in this vein of this imagined threat - on the contrary, War on the Horizon calls Obama a "a treasonous mulatto scum dweller," and lists him among the movement's enemies (also on the list? Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, and Condoleezza Rice, among others).

And, of course, the real threat is not a maniac like Kimathi and those who take him seriously and approve of his views but rather white Conservatives who raise awareness about it.

Conservatives don't tend to be fans of the Southern Poverty Law Center: this is the same group that labeled The American Family Association and pretty much the entire anti-Islam movement as hate groups. But their report seems primed to stoke the fires of a set of American conservatives who already believe the DHS is hoarding ammunition (contrary to the evidence), either to build a secret army, or to prevent gun owners from accessing it.

As a federal employee, Kimathi was required to get permission to operate his website.  Apparently this wasn't all that difficult.

Kimathi obtained official permission but only by misrepresenting the true nature of his endeavor. He told management that it was an entertainment website selling videos of concerts and lectures. He called it simply WOH, never saying that WOH stood for War on the Horizon.

"If he had adequately and truthfully described his group," the supervisor said, "I can't imagine for a minute he would have been granted permission."

That's your Department of Homeland Security, folks.  Nothing gets past them.  For the record, ICE did respond to The Atlantic Wire with this statement:

ICE does not condone any type of hateful rhetoric or advocacy of violence of any kind against anyone.  Every ICE employee is held to the highest standard of professional and ethical conduct. Accusations of misconduct are investigated thoroughly and if substantiated, appropriate action is taken.

Yesterday Fox News reported that on Friday the DHS announced that Kimathi had been placed on "paid leave."  Paid leave is bureaucratic double-talk for "vacation."  His website is still up but YouTube shut down his account.  Nevertheless, here's a short clip of a typical Kimathi rant.