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.”
Sure is, but to say so generates a snow storm of race cards.
The only way they will get blacks to join the Greenie movement is to tie it to free handouts.
Diversity is a code word for the idea “we greens need money because we don’t work”.
Greens = commies.
Winner!
Agree, but those race cards are flying at us every day from the left. It might be time to crawl into the gutter with the
slime.
And the NFL and NBA are TOO BLACK. /s
“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...”
I guaranty you — they are being directed by somebody.
Why "own" property/real estate when you can just control property/real estate...and the air.
Not really, Van. Too many people are the problem, you believe, and it’s blacks who are way out in front reducing the population any way they can.
Yeah, because black participation saved the science of phrenology. Idiot alert.
My employer won't say or do anything about it (we have guards everywhere) because that would be racist. In corporate America, one must not be called racist.
Instead we have to hire a company to come clean up the grounds and street once per quarter to keep up with the blight.
Translation: "You have LOTS of money. We want our share, plus reparations, late fees, consulting fees,...."
hey van old son, are you a part of the problem or part of the solution? Did you see the complete mess after the Democrat coronation? Have you seen the complete disaster after any rap concert?
They simply, “Aint got no time fo’ dat!”
It’s white because, let’s face it, 98% of 13% of the nation (i.e. blacks) don’t give a $#$% about it.
I went to high school with a 55% population of blacks. When my fellow crackers were trying to save the whales and prevent acid rain (like dumb-@#$ cattle idiots) the black kids couldn’t have cared less.
And these weren’t blacks from broken, jobless, homes either. They may not have been really middle class or anything, but they had pretty solid families - so that argument is moot, in my opinion.
Donald Rumsfeld said, “They [Al Qaeda] blow up bridges they don’t even know how to build.”
Pretty much Detroit right there.
Environmentalists are like watermelons, green on the outside and red on the inside.
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