Carl Higbie resigns of AmeriCorps resigns after KFile review of racist comments on the radio.

CNN ^ | January 18th 2018 | Andrew Kaczynski

[Ennis85]

Trump administration appointee Carl Higbie resigned Thursday as chief of external affairs for the federal government's volunteer service organization after a CNN KFile review of racist, sexist, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT comments he made on the radio. "Effective immediately, Carl Higbie has resigned as Chief of External Affairs at CNCS," Samantha Jo Warfield, a spokesperson for CNCS, said in a statement. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Higbie's resignation. Higbie, a former Navy SEAL and conservative media personality, was a surrogate for Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, appearing on cable news and serving as the spokesman for the Trump-aligned Great America PAC. He was appointed to the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) in 2017 to direct the public image and messaging of the federal department that manages millions of Americans in volunteer services like AmeriCorps and Senior Corps.

CNCS, formed in 1993, connects volunteers with service opportunities, often in the neediest areas across the country. According to the organization's website, the projects are mainly focused on six priority areas: disaster services, economic opportunity, education, environmental stewardship, healthy futures, and veterans and military families. In one of the comments unearthed by KFile, Higbie said you could "guess the color" of a family he described that lived in his condo association. "I told this story the other day on my show. Somebody who lives in my condo association that has five kids, and it's her and her husband with the five kids and the mother, the grandmother of the kids, and they don't have jobs, they're there all the time -- I bet you can guess what color they are -- and they have no job," he said.

The remark is just one of several racist and inflammatory comments the KFile review found.

[Ennis85]

Apologies for the typo in the title.

[peggybac]

I’m a big Higbie fan.

[lee martell]

There used to be a very popular chain of retail stores called
Higbies. I recall seeing newspaper ads about 40 years ago. Most on the order of a Macy’s or Hudson’s.
Not sure if they still exist or not.

[PIF]

Carl Higbie ... proud of distant relative ...

[lodi90]

“KFile” is CNN dirtbag doxer Andrew Kaczynski. He’s the scum that doxed the guy that made the Trump/CNN meme.

[IronJack]

Higbie ... was a surrogate for Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign

So if he's guilty of something, so is Trump. Or so the "logic" goes.

[goodnesswins]

"Somebody who lives in my condo association that has five kids, and it's her and her husband with the five kids and the mother, the grandmother of the kids, and they don't have jobs, they're there all the time -- I bet you can guess what color they are -- and they have no job," he said."

THAT's Racist....the truth

[ifinnegan]

Just get rid of Americorps.

[Skywise]

No more racist than Obamas speeches about those people running for their bible and guns.

[Revolutionary]

Obviously, if the liberals guessed other than white, then they are by default racists.

[BykrBayb]

Did they guess?
Did they guess right?

[Lurking Libertarian]

I’m a big Higbie fan.

You're a big fan of a guy who said of military veterans that "severe PTSD... is a trait of a weak mind. I'd say 75% 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"?

I'm not.