As far as I know, Jackie never concocted any fake crimes to advance the cause.
“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?
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?
I compare him to McCabe through Mueller.
ICON???
I honestly had no idea who the hell this dude was before all of this.
Give Van Jones a break. This might be the most intelligent thing he’s said on CNN (It may be ridiculous and nonsensical but still beats his typical comments)
Jussie Smollet isn’t fit to fill even one of Jackie Robinson’s shoes.
Van Jones is abysmally ignorant. And now he is slandering Jackie Robinson.
As far as I know, Jackie was never a pitcher or catcher.
Van Jones and Jussie Smollett: one POS looking out for another
I hope Rachel Robinson isn’t exposed to this nonsense. The woman is 96 and we would not want to shock her.
This might be the worst take I’ve seen in a very long time - that is a HIGH bar.
The RACISM RUNS DEEP in cnn’s Affirmative Action Jacksons
Never heard of this guy, and now he is an equal to Jackie Robinson? The black community should be outraged at this statement, they have a real ICON and allow a socialist race baiter to attempt to marginalize him.
The sole reason for Van Jones’ existence is that someone’s ass needs a hat...
So what happened to this guy?
From People magazine…
“A woman has claimed she saw a white “redneck” man, with a length of rope or clothesline, loitering outside Jussie Smollett’s apartment building in Chicago, Illinois, hours before he was viciously assaulted.
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According to editors at TMZ, the unnamed woman, who claims to be a neighbour, alleged she saw a suspicious man, who looked like a “redneck”, pacing agitatedly outside the star’s building as she took her dogs out for a walk at 12.30am – 90 minutes before Smollett was ambushed.”
“He looked out of place,” she said, reported the website, adding that the man was dressed in a blue sweatshirt, a blue beanie, and jeans that were too short that exposed his “thick grey hunting socks”. The woman also said he was smoking a cigarette and had a length of blue and white rope or “clothesline” hanging out of his zip-up sweater. And she saw another man about 300ft away standing nearer the entrance and described being “creeped out” by the loitering men.
Van Jones celebrates criminals, it explains why the Left still celebrate Al Sharpton.
They have zero moral standing.
I had no idea who Smellette was or that he even existed until this hoax was revealed. At no time did I ever believe this happened so when it first hit the news cycle; that’s when it was a hoax.