Black nationalist Ayo Kimathi, who was placed on leave four months ago after his website calling for the mass murder of whites was discovered, has finally been fired, National Journal reports.
Kimathi was placed on administrative leave in August after his website was discovered.
But Wednesday afternoon, DHS Deputy Press Secretary Gillian Christensen confirmed to National Journal that Kimathi, a procurement specialist for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has left the agency. "Mr. Kimathi is no longer an ICE employee. His last day with the agency was Dec. 6," she said. She could not, however, clarify whether he resigned or was formally terminated, citing government-wide employment privacy policies.
Kimathi, who went by the nom de guerre "the Irritated Genie," ran a website called "War on the Horizon" and gave lectures preaching that blacks had to rise up in a massive war between the races. "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," he wrote in one such post.
Civil Service laws make it exceedingly difficult for the government to fire employees, even in cases like this, but many observers expressed outrage that Kimathi was still cashing a government paycheck while his case was under review.