One thing I’ll say in Van Jones favor is this. If you watch CNN, they have panels. One of the people on the panels is a pro-Trump person named Kayleigh Mcenany. She gets attacked from all sides because the panels are sometimes stacked 7-1 (although sometimes they are now giving her one ally) with the other Republican being a Never Trump Republican. Kayleigh has specifically said multiple times on Twitter that Van Jones is one of the nicest people at CNN, and he has publicly complimented her on Twitter.
Van Jones is polished. He’s a polished devil. He’s polished himself in order to have more influence. He has not changed his goals. He is a full on Marxist revolutionary.
Key Wiki is one of the very best sites to look up leftist/commie type individuals and organizations. Very encyclopedic.
Here’s their page on Van Jones. I suggest EVERYONE read this page.
http://www.keywiki.org/Van_Jones
A few snips:
Anthony K. (Van) Jones, a Bay Area Marxist radical, was appointed on March 10, 2009 as Green Jobs adviser to the Obama administration-or officially Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).[1] Jones’ duties will include:
“helping to shape and implement job-generating climate policy; working to ensure equal protection and equal opportunity in the administration’s climate and energy proposals; and publicly advocating the administration’s environmental and energy agenda.”
Jones is a TIME Magazine 2008 Environmental Hero, one of Fast Company’s 12 Most Creative Minds of 2008, and the New York Times Bestselling author of The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Solve Our Two Biggest Problems (Harper One 2008), which is endorsed by Nancy Pelosi, Tom Daschle and Al Gore.[2]
In 1992, while studying at Yale, Jones interned at Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in San Francisco where he acted as a legal observer during the trial of policemen charged with assaulting Rodney King.
Not guilty verdicts in the King case led to mass rioting-and arrests.
Jones was radicalized by the jail experience.
“I met all these young radical people of color - I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of... I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary...I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th..By August, I was a communist.”’[3]
Jones went on to join and lead a prominent Bay Area communist organization-Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement
Van Jones attended the June 1998 Black Radical Congress in Chicago, where he got to work with famous communist militants of an older generation.
On Friday evening there was an inter-generational dialogue which was an attempt to blend an historical and contemporary review of the Black liberation struggle by means of older and younger activists interviewing one another.
Veteran activists Kathleen Cleaver, General Baker, Barbara Smith, Ahmed Rahman, Angela Davis and Nelson Peery were “paired up with younger activists” Van Jones, Kim Diehl, Kim Springer, Fanon Che Wilkins, Kashim Funny, and Quraysh Ali Lansana, respectively.[8]
Van Jones was a panelist at the Black Radical Congress conference held in Chicago, June 19-21, 1998, University of Illinois at Chicago, in the workshop “Sustaining Community Groups and Institutions”. The BRC was/is a marxist/Black Power melange of the old Communist Party USA, SNCC, Republic of New Africa and related groups of the 1960s and 70s, with the newer generations of the “Reparations” Movement, the Democratic Socialists of America , and marxists from the Black Power political movements of the 1970s thru 1990s.[9]
Panelists were Jerome Scott (chair), Sharon Powell, Van Jones, Jennifer Henderson, Judy Hatcher (coordinator).
Martinez and Jones also both attended a Challenging White Supremacy workshop together.
Jones wrote of the workshop[19];
“To solve the new century’s mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration. The Challenging White Supremacy Workshop is the most powerful tool that I have seen for removing the barriers to true partnerships between people of color and white folks. If the CWS trainings were mandatory for all white activists, the progressive movement in the United States would be unstoppable.”
In a 2003 interview[20]with CCDS National Committee member Manning Marable, Jones explained the radical tactics used by his activists from the Ella Baker Center;
We’ve been applying a concept borrowed from South Africa: “Govern from below.” We take high school students and college-age people who’ve decided they don’t care about anything and put them through workshops and educational programs so they can become advocates for themselves. We have a reputation for showing up with several dozen young people at city government meetings and turning the mic over to these young people, who then use hip-hop and poetry to describe the conditions they’d like to see changed in their community.
When we talk about neo-liberalism, essentially we have a system where there are no rules for the rich and no rights for the poor. Politics of liberation in the new century that [exists] in terms of integration vs. segregation is anachronistic. It has little to do with what’s happening today. So we raise new slogans: “schools, not jails”; “books, not bars”; “jobs, not jails.” Whereas people in the ‘60s were protesting on campuses, we have a generation of blacks and Latinos protesting for their rights to get on campuses and have the opportunity to learn. The dynamic is very different...It’s a very different fight. At the same time it’s a continuation of the fight that started years ago.
It’s a long read - I just copied snips - but everyone should take the time and inform themselves about Van Jones. BTW the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is named after (or started by) Ella Baker who was Malcom X’s sister.