A top Interior official has controversial views on race. He used a white supremacist website to supp
Jeremy Carl called Black Lives Matter a racist organization in articles written before his appointment this month. He also cited an opinion by Jared Taylor, who said Black people destroy any civilization they control.
By
Darryl Fears
Oct. 30, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. CDT
Weeks after the Interior Department halted diversity training to comply with an executive order from President Trump, a top assistant at the agency is under scrutiny for defending Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager accused of fatally shooting two people and injuring a third during a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wis.
The official, Jeremy Carl, a newly appointed deputy assistant secretary for fish, wildlife and parks, also called peaceful Black Lives Matter protests racist and cited an opinion piece in a white supremacist publication, American Renaissance, to support an argument denouncing the anti-discrimination work of former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr.
American Renaissance, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, has been one of the vilest white nationalist publications, often promoting eugenics and blatant anti-black and anti-Latino racists. Featured on the publications website are articles such as Twelve Steps to White Recovery: Recovery from white conditioning and The Dangers of Diversity: What happens when races mix.
Jeremy Carl, appointed deputy
assistant secretary for fish,
wildlife and parks at the Interior
Department this month, called
. . .
Carls conservative writings arent the first to be denounced as racially bigoted at the department. Former Bureau of Land Management acting director William Perry Pendley once mused that federal treaty obligations to Native American tribes could end because Indians will cease to exist.
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