Trump Appointee Resigns After Bigoted Comments Surface

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Carl Higbie, who was appointed by President Trump to serve in the federal agency that runs AmeriCorps and other volunteer service programs, has resigned his high-level post and apologized after a report emerged quoting racist and anti-Muslim remarks he made in 2013. After his departure from CNCS, Samantha Jo Warfield, a spokesperson from the organization issued a statement that said: "Effective immediately, Carl Higbie has resigned as Chief of External Affairs at CNCS." Higbie said that black women think “breeding is a form of government employment,” and that blacks were “lax of morality,” and that culture “is breeding this welfare and the high percentage of people on welfare in the black race.”

In another talk show appearance in 2013, he expressed dislike for the term “African-Americans.”

“The whole African-American thing gets me whipped up because it’s like 99 percent – and I’m paraphrasing here – of people who write down African-American have never been to Africa,” he said. “I’d say 75 percent of people with PTSD don’t actually have it, and they’re either milking something for a little extra money in disability or they’re just, they honestly are just lying,” he said on another talk radio show in 2014. I’ll volunteer to go down there and stand on that border for, I don’t know, a week or so at a time and that’ll be my civil duty.”

He also spoke harshly about Sen. Dianne Feinstein, also on “Sound of Freedom,” calling the California Democrat a “bitch,” and saying he’d love to smack her and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s heads together.
Carl Higbie, Corporation for National and Community Service Chief of External Affairs, apologizes and resigns from his position with the agency that runs AmeriCorps after racist and anti-Muslim remarks he made in 2013 are reported by CNN.