Former West Virginia Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Carrie Bowe. Image courtesy of Facebook.
A spokeswoman for the West Virginia Attorney General’s office is out of a job this morning after she was seen spewing well-known white supremacist phrases in a shocking video titled “THE ‘Stop White Genocide’ Video.”
According to the Charleston Gazette-Mail, West Virginia AG Patrick Morrisey fired spokeswoman Carrie Bowe Thursday after it was revealed that she had participated in the outwardly racist video. Bowe began working under Morrisey in 2015 as his assistant communications director.
In the 6-minutes-long video, the former spokeswoman is heard repeating the phrase, “anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.” The well-known slogan was coined by a notorious South Carolina white supremacist named Bob Whitaker.
“Everybody says the final solution to this race problem is for every white country, and only white countries, to assimilate, i.e., intermarry with all those non-whites,” Bowe says in the video. Soon after, an unidentified woman chimes in and asserts that this isn’t about a race problem, but rather finding the “final solution” to the “Black problem.”
The “final solution” was the term for Nazi Germany’s efforts to exterminate Jews across Europe, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reports.
“If I tell you the ongoing truth about genocide against my race, the white race, liberals and ‘respectable conservatives’ agree that I’m a Nazi that wants to kill six million Jews,” the ex-spokeswoman continued.
Bowe was fired shortly after the Gazette-Mail published a story about the video Thursday. The West Virginia Attorney General’s Office released a statement as well, announcing the spokeswoman’s termination.
“The employee’s conduct and statements, which occurred years before being employed by the attorney general’s office, were not previously disclosed until today, which is contrary to the transparency requirements for being a member of this office, do not reflect the opinion or the perspective of the attorney general or this office,” the statement read.
Bowe posted an apology to her Facebook page earlier this week. She referenced a “project” that may have been “offensive” to some, but said she had no intention of hurting anyone. She has since taken “full ownership of my role in the message.”
“Unfortunately, I did not view the finished edit – my understanding of the project was not the reality of the completed product or the malice intentions of its creators,” Bowe wrote. “And while this action cannot be undone, I am working with all of my power to remove the content.”
The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that at least seven YouTube Channels have picked up the video, including European American Awakening, which features videos from white supremacist David Duke. The video was originally uploaded in 2012 by a user named “Johnny Mantraseed.”
A week after her firing, Bowe issued another apology via West Virginia Public Broadcasting in which she stated how “embarrassed and heartbroken” she was over the video. She also explained that she’d only taken part in the project because she thought its purpose was to spark “discussion on race relation from a white perspective.”
“Growing up, you could not question why some races could talk or behave a certain way and it was seen as OK, whereby if the behavior was repeated by a white person, it was automatically racist,” Bowe wrote. “As a child and a teenager, the inability to even question this was confusing and, really, the opposite of the honest dialogue we need to have in order to understand different cultures and their history better.”
The former spokeswoman asked for “prayers during this time.”
The attorney general’s office has made no further comments on the matter.
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