Posted on 09/25/2013 2:52:31 PM PDT by markomalley
Is the “green” movement too white? According to former Obama administration green jobs czar Van Jones, it is.
Jones told the news site Grist that the environmental movement has a diversity problem.
“The mainstream donors and environmental organizations could be strengthened just by recognizing the other ‘environmentalisms’ that are already existing and flourishing outside their purview,” Jones said. Historically, many environmental organizations have been mostly white, and organizations tying environmentalism to social justice received a much smaller amount of funding than mainstream groups.
But Jones said that a movement that welcomed more diversity would flourish.
“If you go to Detroit, you will find lots of community gardening going on, lots of community cleanup going on, lots of small-scale manufacturing going on. None of this is being directed by any mainstream environmental group — these are organic, well-considered responses from people who are trying to make their lives better,” Jones said. “Those people should be called environmentalists as much as anybody who is standing up for endangered species.”
Jones has recently returned to the political scene, co-hosting CNN’s “Crossfire” after months of being a “social pariah,” reports the San Francisco Chronicle. His re-emergence in public life has allowed him to become a major voice on environmental issues once again.
Jones said that mainstream environmental groups should help small-scale environmental justice groups get funding from donors and foundations to help further their missions. He argues that diversifying the donor lists of foundations would help African-American environmentalists make an impact on the environmental movement.
“I think there’s always been way more support in the black community for climate solutions and environmental solutions than we have credit for,” Jones said. “Some affluent white communities are more vocal and maybe have more intensity, and also more resources to single this one issue out, but the polling data’s pretty clear that African-Americans are among the most supportive of environmental regulation and climate solutions.”
What’s that saying about a hammer and a nail?
Blacks are so busy beatin up whites they don’t time for no enviro-ment.
Not a lot of minorities among the wine and cheese liberal set.
Naw, the environmental movement is too red.
“The environmental movement is too white.” I thought it was green.
Back to Africa Van Jones
You are a disgrace to America and your race
100’s of 1000’s of great American Blacks are in our
United States Armed Forces SERVING our country ...
And then there are pukes like you .
You belong in the bush , digging for grubs and living in a brush wood hut .
Be gone !
Hear THAT Hollywood? bwahahahahaha!
Did pretty good with Detroit and Chi-Congo ....
Thou Shalt not covet Al Gore's money which has arisen from pseudoscience and regular Tomfoolery !
You and the other commies can tax it later , unless it is hidden abroad .
It’s true what the Bell Curve says about Negroes.
Van Jones is simply a vile Marxist. The whole green movement is simply the stealth way that virtually every business in America is de facto licensed, regulated and by the Federal government. Soon you will need a federal permit to own an internal combustion engine.
Van Jones don't care about the environment; like the majority of environmentalists, it is just a means to an end to help usher in socialism and they'll be exempt from rules that will be forced onto the public.
easy solution to this one,
all “white” people should drop out of the environmental movement (since they are not appreciated there anyway)
problem solved
“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.” ~ Abraham H. Maslow
What difference does it make? green thumb, black thumb, white thumb many are doing a lot of damage to this country and not talking about “gardening”. Greenie wackos
Most blacks aren’t wildly concerned with invisible demons that might kill them someday.
That’s why the GOP would be well advised to put choices out there for democrats to decide. Food stamps or the EPA, choose 1.
““If you go to Detroit, you will find lots of community gardening going on, lots of community cleanup going on, lots of small-scale manufacturing going on. None of this is being directed by any mainstream environmental group — these are organic, well-considered responses from people who are trying to make their lives better,” Jones said.”
You would be hard pressed to find a statistically significant number of cities which have not gone down hill at the same rate they browned up.
Ted, may he never rest in peace, Kennedy put us on the road to ruin when he pushed to have our immigration laws tilted in favor of Diversity Debris.
Diversity is only a positive if you only add positive cultures/races but that is not the case and Detroit is a perfect example.
Yep, if you're picking up gum wrappers in the street - or hundreds of cigarette butts in the 7-11 parking lot... you're an environmentalist - same as Al Gore - and entitled to share in the graft - I mean funding ... And grandmothers who put a band-aid on a child's knee? They should be called doctors... Ban Jones has found a well spring of white guilt with these groups...
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