"Racists of a feather flock together"

A community liaison is someone who serves as a bridge between an organization and the people they serve. Their tasks are varied depending on where they work and there really isn’t any formal training that would make someone perfect for the job, just a general disposition to liking and wanting to help people. But as we’ve come to expect recently, people appointed to positions within the Trump administration don’t meet the basic requirements for their jobs and are wholly unqualified.

So it’s not at all shocking then to learn that the head of faith-based and neighborhood partnerships in Trump’s Department of Homeland Security actually loathes the community. Well, certain segments of it, anyway.

The head of faith-based and neighborhood partnerships at the Department of Homeland Security has said in the past that the black community is responsible for turning cities into "slums" and argued that Islam's only contribution to society was "oil and dead bodies," a CNN KFile review of his time as a radio host reveals. Rev. Jamie Johnson was appointed in April by then-Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly to lead the Center for Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships at the department. In radio appearances from 2008 to as recently as 2016, Johnson was critical of the black community and painted Islam as a violent, illegitimate religion.

This department was established in the agency after Hurricanes Katrina, Wilma, and Rita in 2006. Its overall purpose is to engage faith-based and community organizations in disaster and emergency preparedness and response. To boil it down to basics, it’s essentially about organizing, coordinating, and helping people aid needy people; making sure the right people are talking to each other and working together for the benefit of folks impacted by disasters. Literally, the most basic thing you need to do in a job like this is to like people. Or, at least not have complete disdain for them. But nope—Johnson can’t even do that.

And he was given the task of working with these communities by John Kelly. With everything we know about Kelly (or hell, even what he’s shown us in the last few weeks), let’s go ahead and revisit this big fat lie people have been telling about him being a moral compass. He’s a liar and a racist and, apparently, so are his friends.

Johnson is now saying he’s sorry about the things he’s said.