More Van Jones quotes. (Vanity Compiled)

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[mnehring]

"Most of the people who die in police custody die not from drugs or some mysterious syndrome but from police abuse," says Van Jones, executive director of the Ella Baker Human Rights Center in San Francisco. "Officers choose to escalate confrontations and use force when dealing with disturbed and excited people." Jones points out that many of the cases cited as prime examples of excited delirium or sudden in-custody death syndrome involve gross police misconduct and extreme violence.

...it’s just very, very hard for white people to hear the pain of the subjugated people in this country...

...But white supremacy, to use the provocative term, will reinterpret that experience for you; and make it not be about your inability to hear, but be about other people’s inability to speak. This is one of the most remarkable things: if you can get this, all doors open. There is the assumption—this is deep, this is deep—there is the assumption that when there’s a breakdown in communication between people of color and white people, that there is an deficiency but that the deficiency is not in white listening, that the deficiency is in black speech. “Why are they so angry?” People start critiquing, and then you find somebody who keeps themselves together just for a little bit and it’s, “Oh that one’s very eloquent, that one’s very articulate.” Right? Always the assumption is that the deficiency lies with the people of color. “Why don’t they care about the environment? What wrong with them, don’t they see the big picture? We’ve been talking at them about this for years? Don’t they see that we have this big beautiful conference, this big beautiful training? Why aren’t they coming? What’s wrong with them? We’ve been outreaching at them for years, I could show you the e-mails I’ve sent outreaching at them. I even make phone calls out reaching at them. What’s wrong with them? Maybe they are just too poor or busy, because certainly there is nothing wrong with our speech!” ...

...it is literally impossible for most white people to hear people of color speak about our pain, just literally impossible. The only people who have a chance to pull it off, are people who have a spiritual practice, who have a meditation practice, who have a contemplative practice..

[mnehring]

I'll keep digging through archives and add to the thread as I have time. Feel free to join in.

[Jo Nuvark]

Wonderful post. Hope you don’t mind that I put it on my profile.

...You’re a genius you know!

[agere_contra]

What a disgusting racist this man is.

[SoldierDad]

Yeah, sure, and no white person has every died while in police custody./sarc

[2banana]

Black racist - just like his master

[mnehring]

“I love Barack Obama,” he said. “I’d pay money just to shine the brother’s shoes. But I’ll tell you this. Do you hear me? One man is not going to save us. I don’t care who that man is. He’s not going to save us. And, in fact, if you want to be real about this—can y’all take it? I’m going to be real with y’all. Not only is Barack Obama not going to be able to save you—you are going to have to save Barack Obama.”

[mnehring]

“I’m willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.”

Van Jones, a tall, dark-skinned man wearing a "Kanye was right" T-shirt...the self-described "rowdy black nationalist" is best known as founder of the Ella Baker Center... (remember Kanye West's comment about President Bush?)

[hampdenkid]

This says “more.” Where can I find the others?

[Michael.SF.]

“Republicans are assholes” - Van Jones, Berkeley, Calif.

[WKUHilltopper]

We need to continue hammering these Marxist goons (president included). Mark Lloyd is also a pathetic red as well.

[mnehring]

All over the news.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/vanjones/index?tab=articles

[wardaddy]

the story will not be that Van Jones is a nutjob.

the story will be that racist right wingers persecuted him

[SonOfDarkSkies]

To paraphrase Van Jones to his stoned and radical followers:

"Someone is going to make a million dollars on windmills and green technology...I think that somebody should be you (you meaning you Boyz-in-the-Hood)!"

Now just how does a sane human being come to such a conclusion?

[mnehring]

What persecution? These are his own words, he should be proud of them. I am advertising for him.

[combat_boots]

Academe and its satellite organizations all know each other.........

“...Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute of Afro-American Research was making quiet waves with the launch of a computer-based digital divide outreach program in inner-city Boston.

“It’s time to bring Harvard to the hood. It is also time to bring the hood to Harvard,” Gates told the crowd gathered at a ribbon-cutting ceremony last fall at the Ella J. Baker House in Dorchester.”

“Harvard Establishes a Digital Divide Program in Boston - Ella J. Baker House - Brief Article”
“Black Issues in Higher Education,” March 1, 2001 by Ronald Roach

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DXK/is_1_18/ai_72607481/

“Working Group on Environmental Justice”
http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/working-group-on-environmental-justice

“The Working Group on Environmental Justice of the
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and The Extension School, Harvard University present ENVR E-145: Introduction to Environmental Justice”

http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre145

James Hoyte and Timothy C. Weiskel

“Van Jones
PBS - Tavis Smiley
27 March 2007”
http://ecojustice.net/2008-ENVRE145/Environmental_Justice/Audio/20080327-PBS-Tavis-VanJones-1-Index.htm

[ncfool]

What happened to the Obama 63 question

vetting process.  It seems as the Messiah does

not follow the rules that he established. 

hit the link to read the questionnaire.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/11/13/obamaquestionnaire.pdf.pdf

[TradicalRC]

Doing A Different Version over here. Please contribute.

[Girlene]

I'm sure you could find a few in this interview. Q&A: Van Jones

He seems to like linking his green movement with reducing racial inequality using words like "environmental racism" and "ecoapartheid economy".

Here's a "nice" statement about Pres. Bush (presumably):

.......". You may have noticed there's this jackass in the White House that's not letting anything happen, whether you're talking about health care or getting out of the war or fixing the energy crisis or solving global warming or getting the economy to work. So right now nothing's happening. It's a tragedy. "...........

[jonrick46]

"the story will be that racist right wingers persecuted him"

When I first heard about him, I saw him for the Stalinist he was. I didn't know what he looked like. His name suggested that he was Dutch!

[wardaddy]

sorta like Hootie...you never knew he was black till you saw him..lol