Posted on 02/21/2019 10:09:23 AM PST by ETL
Moments after Chicago cops laid out their case against Smollett, the CNN pundit made the eyebrow-raising comparison during a conversation with anchor Kate Bolduan.
“This is the fall of an icon and I don’t think people understand how important he has been in the black community.
‘Empire’ as a show, to have him as a beloved character, I think did a great deal to knock back homophobia in the black community,” Jones said.
“The fact that he has been celebrated and you see homophobia in the black community through his eyes on the show, this is a Jackie Robinson against homophobia.”
As for Smollett, 36, he is accused of orchestrating an elaborate hoax involving two "bogus" hate crimes -- one involving an alleged attack, and one involving a threatening letter -- all in order to get a pay raise.
Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said Smollett orchestrated a "phony attack" in order to take "advantage of the pain and anger of racism to promote his career" during a press conference on Thursday.
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Jewish, Black, Gay:
WOW.
To get the SJW jackpot, maybe he could convert to Islam and get AIDS..?
Icon? I never heard of Smollett before a few weeks ago.
Re: Obama’s former “Green Jobs Czar”, communist Van Jones
“in “The Audacity of Hope,” he [Obama] wrote: “I chose my friends carefully.
The more politically active black students.
The foreign students.
The Chicanos.
The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/01/29/carteresque_100093.html
Comparing this low life piece of vermin & scum humanity, Democrat, Jussie Smollett to the great Jackie Robinson is pure insanity on the part of Van Jones.
Jackie Robinson was a true “man for all seasons” and a great american to boot. I was one of the blessed Americans to see Jackie Robinson play in Ebbets Field for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He paved the way for all the great African-American baseball players to come up to the major leagues after him. This was truly a great, historical American.
Low life, Jussie Smollett does not belong being mentioned in the same sentence as Jackie Robinson. Case closed!!!
Well stated.
Van Jones is an outright Communist............................just ask him.....................
icon lol never even heard of him before til he made up this bs
He blacklashed hisself
the world knew about robbinson- hardly anyone ever heard of jussie- jussie is NO icon- never was
“I think he did a great deal to knock back homophobia in the black community”
Quite a legacy.
Jackie Robinson was a Republican, Smollett is no republican or a Jackie Robinson.
Excuse me, but how and when did Jackie Robinson fall?
‘Empire’ as a show, to have him as a beloved character, I think did a great deal to knock back homophobia in the black community,” Jones said.
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Then, Van Jones, it's a damn sad-sack black community!
funny, how when I hear Van Jones, I think, “This douche sounds almost exactly like Ann Coulter.
Jones comment is a big insult to the great Jackie Robinson.
Powerful stupid.
Just when ya think the fake news media and the sleazy world of show biz couldn’t get dumber...They say politics is show biz for the ugly. And show biz is politics for the stupid. Those lines have been blurred. Is there an Academy Award category for biggest dumbass?
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Nike could give him that one size 15 shoe that didn't fall apart left over from the college basketball game last night.
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