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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So is Jones claiming that Smollett is the first gay actor to get a part in Hollywood? Because if he is, I’ve got some news for him...
Radicals on his paternal side, too.
Here’s his grandfather’s obit.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/leaderpost/obituary.aspx?pid=184450120
Peter was a lifelong radical, a trade unionist, civil rights activist, self-educated person, reader and polemicist.
A guy I had never heard of is an Icon?
dont forget he also smeared white people
Hes a communist. No surprise what he does.
‘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.So the purpose of this is to show that "homophobia" is rampant in the USA and mostly in the black community.“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.”
No wonder I never watched it and wrote it off as just another show pushing various agendas.
That kind of bigotry is the antithesis of what supposedly Jackie Robinson stood for.
Smollett isn’t worthy to have shined Jackie Robinson’s shoes.
Wait until they decide that the FBI should track fake hate crimes and the Dems call for laws to make them easier to fake.
>>>This is the fall of an icon . . . <<<
Obviously, CNN has set their ICON standards pretty low. Humph.
Mr.Robinson was a Republican!!
Do they even stop to CONSIDER how stupid they sound?
Or do they have that much confidence in the stupidity of their viewers?
Smollet is closer to Tawana Brawley than Jackie Robinson.
Van Jones is a thug radicalized in prison
Now he is [S]arah [E]lizabeth Cupp’s BFF
I went through high school with one of Jackie Robinson’s sons and had the immense pleasure of hearing Jackie speak at length at my graduation. I can assure you, Jussie Smollett is no Jackie Robinson.
BTW when does the “free smollett” movement begin?
The movement will begin right after other inmates paint that phrase across his cheeks..
Same here.
I think this is one of the most vile and disgusting yet common aspects of “liberalism”; the seemingly constant need to lecture and conflate and compare things that bear absolutely no relationship to each other in any way. It never ends. Pathetic. It pays well apparently but it’s really bizarre. F these people. Not my clowns, not my Circus and I hope they die in a fire.
“CNN’s Van Jones compares Jussie Smollett to Jackie Robinson: ‘This is the fall of an icon’”
ROTFLOL!
i doubt if the majority of people in the U.S. had even heard of the guy until he started faking racist/homophobe attacks on himself ... i know i didn’t’ and none of my friends did either ...
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