A Berkeley, California man named John Ramondetta, known as Johnny Monoxide in the white supremacist world, is out of a job, according to SFGate. Ramondetta is an union electrician working in the Bay Area whose employer Rosendin Electric told the paper that he was no longer employed there.
The spokeswoman, Salina Brown, declined to say whether Ramondetta had quit or been fired.
Ramondetta, reached by phone, declined to comment, saying only that he “knows California law” and was “conferring with people.” He said he would issue a statement in the future.
Here is Southern Poverty Law Center’s dossier on Ramondetta.
Prominent amongst the alt-right podcast syndicate, Johnny Monoxide has recently gained notoriety for his various broadcasting endeavors on the white supremacist blog, The Right Stuff (TRS). As the co-host of two current shows and a frequent contributor on several others, Monoxide has staked out his own neo-Nazi niche. Focusing on wholly unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, he seeks to bring a hint of comedy and a healthy dose of hate speech to his broadcasts.
Born John Ramondetta in June, 1972, Monoxide was raised in the Greater Hartford, Connecticut, area by a family of predominately Italian heritage. Such an upbringing, he claims, was crucial to his current anti-Semitic views. In a June, 2016 interview with Red Ice Radio, Monoxide says he’s always been “red-pilled on the Jews,” explaining that Italians, especially those from the Northeast, have a “natural racism” toward Jewish people. He went on to share an anecdote of being reprimanded by his father after helping a neighbor, with: “Never work for a fuckin’ Jew because you’re not gonna get your money.”
Funny, as he’s now a Trump supporter and Trump is the exact person one should never work for if you want to be paid for your services. According to the SPLC, Ramondetta was considerably more left-leaning when he first appeared in the Bay Area, being a part of the Occupy Movement out there as well as attending a Black Lives Matter protest—which, according to him, was part of his conversion away from the light and into the warm white arms of white supremacy.
Following the August, 2014, killing of Michael Brown, Monoxide began to reflect on his own burgeoning beliefs. During a June, 2016 interview on a Rebel Yell podcast, he paints a scene of racial disparity, with peaceful white protesters, violent, looting black protesters, and young, scared policemen. In the interview, Monoxide continued on his tirade of claiming double standards that are disadvantageous to white people. “I wasn’t comfortable with being on the side of Black Lives Matter when it was like,” he proclaimed, “the only people that are getting arrested at these protests are white people and the blacks are like, breaking into the buildings and smashing the bank … The more I saw it that Black Lives Matter is literally just a terrorist group using these swipple whites as just like, a buffer.”
Classic white supremacist stuff. Maybe Ramondetta will find his way back to clarity one day.