Van Jones

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Van Jones
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Born September 20, 1968
Jackson, Tennessee
Spouse Jana Carter[1]

Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones (born September 20, 1968) is a CNN contributor, and an ardent supporter of President Donald J. Trump and conservative Republican Prison Reform initiatives.[2] Since the Biden/Clinton Crime Bill of 1994, more than 2.5 million black males have been incarcerated under the Democratic party's New Jim Crow regime.[3] Jones lauds President Trump for taking the initiative on criminal justice reform.[4][5][6]

CNN analyst

See also: Trump-Russia collusion hoax

In June 2017, James O'Keefe of Project Veritas released an undercover video that showed Van Jones calling CNN's Trump-Russia allegations a giant "nothingburger."[7]

2020 Antifa riots

See also: 2020 Antifa riots

Jones summed up the Leftist insurrection in the wake of George Floyd's death:

It's not the racist white person who is in the Ku Klux Klan that we have to worry about. It's the white liberal Hillary Clinton supporter walking her dog in Central Park who would tell you right now, you know, people like that, 'I don't see race, race is no big deal to me, I see us all as the same, I give to charities,' but the minute she sees a black man who she does not respect or who she has a slight thought against, she weaponized race like she had been trained by the Aryan nation.[8] A Klansmember could not have been better trained to pick up her phone and tell the police a black man, African-American man, come get him.

So even the most liberal well-intentioned white person has a virus in his or her brain that can be activated at an instant. And so what you're seeing now is a curtain falling away. And those of us who have been burdened by this every minute, every second of our entire lives are fragile right now. We are fragile right now. We are tired. And so I appreciate people who have been reaching out, I've had people reaching out to me for two days now, expressing their empathy and sympathy.

My only prayer, look in the mirror at how you choke off black opportunity. How you choke off black dignity. How you behave in ways that make it harder for African-Americans to rise in your profession, in your place of work, on your campus, in your house of worship, and start working on that. Because this is the last domino of a whole series of dominos that have been falling for a long time. And black people have been getting gas lit every time we point this out.[9]

Prison reform advocacy

Van Jones is a longtime advocate of prison reform.

Observer in the Rodney King riots

On April 29, 1992, more than a year after the founding of STORM, members of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) looted and trashed the downtown and government districts of Los Angeles, triggering the infamous Rodney King riots. The RCP is known as the premier Maoist party in the United States.[10] During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP, which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods, circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled It's Right To Rebel, a quote popularized by Mao Zedong. Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead and more than 2,300 people injured.[11]

While studying law at Yale, Van Jones traveled to San Francisco in the spring of 1992 when the leftist Lawyers Committee for Human Rights hired several organizers to be on hand for the trial of policemen charged with the beating of Rodney King. Jones was arrested in the aftermath of the riots. While in jail Jones is said to have experienced a jailhouse conversion to communism although the record shows Jones founded STORM a year earlier as a communist organization. The truthout.org site gave this cover story:

“ I met all these young radical people of color - I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.'...I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.... I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist.[12] ”

Like other associates of Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn for example, Van Jones is a lawyer, avowed communist, associated with communist front organizations, and arrested in the aftermath of a deadly riot.

Cop Watch and Ella Baker Center

In 1995, Jones co-founded Bay Area Police Watch with Diana Frappier, which eventually morphed into the Ella Baker Center.[13][14]

Climate issues

Jones was appointed by Barack Obama to serve as the Obama administration's "Green Czar".[15] He announced his resignation at midnight, September 6, 2009 after a series of controversies over past inflammatory statements.[16]

Apollo Alliance

In 2004, Jones became a founding board member of the Apollo Alliance for "clean energy and green-collar jobs." [1] p.87 Jeff Jones of the Weather Underground is the New York State director of Apollo Alliance.

Eco-apartheid

“ I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends....Our question is: Will the green wave lift all boats? That's the moral challenge to the people who are the architects of this new, ecologically sound economy. Will we have eco-equity, or will we have eco-apartheid? Right now we have eco-apartheid. ”

Early life and career

Jones was born on September 20, 1968 in Jackson, Tennessee, to Willie Anthony Jones and Loretta Jean Kirkendoll Jones.[17] He has a twin sister, Angela.[18]

As a child, Jones considered himself "bookish and bizarre". On his first day at the University of Tennessee at Martin, he decided to change his name to "Van", because "it has a little touch of nobility, but at the same time it’s not overboard."[19]

He has worked as a John Podesta subordinate at the Center for American Progress and sat on the board of an environmental activist group at which a founder of the Weather Underground terrorist organization is a top director.[20]

In the 1990s, Van Jones described himself as a communist in an in-depth interview for the radical publication East Bay Express:

But in jail, he said, "I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.'" Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. "I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary." In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist."[21]

Although communism is predominantly atheistic (see: Atheism and communism), Jones says he is a "person of faith" and became very upset in an interview when the topic of open atheists having difficulty in American politics was repeatedly brought up.[22] The African-American community has extremely negative views concerning atheism and ostracizes atheists.[23][24]

After being fired by the White House, Jones went to work at the fake news network CNN.[25] Jones sits on the board of Demos, a progressive policy think tank.

See also

References

  1. ↑ How Van Jones Became a Star of the 2016 Campaign, The New York Times
  2. ↑ https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-van-jones-to-cpac-crowd-conservative-movement-is-now-the-leader-on-criminal-justice-reform/
  3. ↑ http://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/incarceration_rates_growth_causes/
  4. ↑ https://www.thewrap.com/cnn-van-jones-praises-trump-on-prison-reform-you-got-to-give-him-some-credit/
  5. ↑ https://www.thedailybeast.com/van-jones-defends-presidential-trump-praise-not-saying-hes-george-washington
  6. ↑ https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/cpac_invites_van_jones_to_celebrate_the_greatest_lie_of_our_generation.html
  7. ↑ Concha, Joe (June 28, 2017). O'Keefe video shows CNN's Van Jones calling Russia story a ‘nothingburger’. The Hill. Retrieved June 28, 2017.
  8. ↑ https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/central-park-karen
  9. ↑ https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/05/29/van-jones-george-floyd-white-liberal-hillary-clinton-supporter-sot-newday.cnn
  10. ↑ Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). Retrieved from dicoverthenetworks.org, March 8, 2010. In 1962 a group of Maoist radicals split with the Soviet sponsored CPUSA and formed the Progressive Labor Movement (PLM). By 1966, the PLM renamed itself the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) and joined forces with the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). PLP tried unsuccessfully to take over SDS's National Office, thereby pushing SDS even further to the left toward hard-line Maoism. Opposition to PLP tactics led to the formation of another Maoist faction, the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM). The RYM eventually split into two factions, one the notorious terrorist group Weatherman; the other spawning a 1969 splinter group called the Bay Area Revolutionary Union (RU), co-founded by H. Bruce Franklin, Robert Avakian, and Charles Hamilton, which became the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) in 1974.
  11. ↑ 12 Years After the Riots, Rodney King Gets Along, J. Emilio Flores, The New York Times, September 19, 2004.
  12. ↑ Eliza Strickland, The New Face of Environmentalism, November 2005.
  13. ↑ Community members celebrate The Ella Baker Center’s 20th anniversary
  14. ↑ Our Victories, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
  15. ↑ Will a 'red' help blacks go green?, White House appoints 'radical communist' who sees environment as racial issue, WorldNetDaily.com, April 12, 2009.
  16. ↑ http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5itKcwMMlf6EtyLvYW9VjF2xcVK7gD9AHJII00
  17. ↑ Rebuild the Dream
  18. ↑ Greening the Ghetto, The New Yorker
  19. ↑ The “True Identity” Of Van Jones, Accuracy in Media
  20. ↑ Obama's 'green jobs czar' worked with terror founder Van Jones served on board of activist group where Weatherman co-founder Jeff Jones serves as top director, By Aaron Klein, WorldNetDaily, August 13, 2009.
  21. ↑ The New Face of Environmentalism
  22. ↑ What's The Matter With Van Jones?, video
  23. ↑ Confessions of a black atheist, CNN
  24. ↑ Black Atheists Say Non-Belief Means Cultural Outsider, NPR, May 28, 201012:00 PM ET
  25. ↑ Van Jones, CNN

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