Van Jones Explained: "I Was Always Picked Last For Phys. Ed."; Scammed Law Degree From Yale

Saturday, September 5, 2009 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

It appears the reason high level Obama appointee Van Jones has such a deep seated hatred for America has been found: He was a nerd who was bullied in school and was "always picked last" in team sports.

In an undated interview published at Collage Foundation, Jones spoke of his growing up as a nerd and how he scammed a graduate degree from Yale:

When you were younger, what were you interested in?

I was mainly interested in journalism and poetry and writing. I read a lot of comic books, James Bonda lot of good guy vs. bad guy type of stuff. I was a big 'Star Wars' fanÉI played a lot of strategy board games—I was basically a nerd.

Do you see any connection between that and the work you ended up doing?

Definitely—when I was younger I was really small and I was always picked last for Phys. Ed, sports teams and stuff. I was a bully magnet, so I grew up with a really strong hatred for bullies and people who abuse their power.

SNIP

I had a professor who encouraged me to apply to Harvard and Yale [for law school], which was almost unheard of for students coming from the kind of public schools that I was coming from in the rural South. I was accepted to both places, and decided to go to Yale because Yale didn't have any grades and was smaller than Harvard. I figured, once I enroll I'm guaranteed to graduate, so I can just go and be a radical hellraiser student, and they can't do anything about it. Which is pretty much what happened.

Jones also spoke about going to undergraduate school and getting internships and scholarships based on being Black:

I went to college on a minority scholarship. All my internships were minority internships...

So there you have it. Another tyrant working out his childhood issues on America.

[bitt]

didn’t know that! got more?

[grundle]

I was a nerd who was bullied in school and always picked last in sports, and I love the United States of America!!!

[blackbart.223]

"I was a bully magnet.

Read that I'm a puss who never leaned how to deal with it.

[haroldeveryman]

[”Van Jones is a raging, flaming homosexual with several axes to grind, not the least of which is his severely gender-conflicted self image. There is no greater perpetual victim than a black homosexual, whose only hope for any sense of self-worth is to imagine (and believe!) that the majority of people around him are cruel and villainous users.
His sociopathic penchants and deeply conflicted extreme mental disorder found him naturally drawn to the most liberal and aberrent forms of political self expression as a way to justify his otherwise useless existence.”]

Hey! This looks like the list of qualifications for the recently created Government “Green Czar” position. Are you sure that he’s really the “hate-filled anti-social loser”, who “can fulfill no meaningfully productive role in normal society”? Or is he just acting that way that so he can hang onto his job as President Obama’s most trusted adviser?

[Dallas59]

This guy is your current US government folks in a nutshell.

[ponygirl]

This guy sure fits the Commie profile. Read “Witness” by Whittaker Chambers and see what I mean. I bet his daddy ignored him, too.

[elizabethgrace]

MY HERO, VAN JONES

~snip~

He was not always the dynamic, witty, confident figure he is today. Van would be the first to tell you that he started out life as a constantly sick skinny kid with a speech impediment and a limp, and had to work hard to overcome these setbacks.

He was, however, able to rise above his challenges to become one of the most well known, well liked, powerful and strategic human rights activists alive today. Marianne Manilov, a close friend and ally of Van’s, says that when she first started working with him fifteen years ago, he was extremely shy and wouldn’t lift his head from his legal books long enough to engage in conversation during their activist carpool ride. When they pulled up to his home, he’d say, “thanks” and then practically run inside.

After years of working on himself and adjusting to the limelight, he’s finally earned the Superman belt buckle a friend of his awarded him as a Christmas present last year. It’s taken much encouragement and support from close friends for him to accept himself and his position enough to step into the role as the spearhead of a major social movement. Van strongly believes that if we’re going to change the world, we’re going to have to do it together. He believes that each one of us has the power to affect this shift.

It took Van two years of facing his spiritual self, feeding his health needs, and spending time with people outside of his work to return to what he considered a stable place. His breakdown happened just a few months after Julia Butterfly Hill came down from her two year tree-sit. Both of them emotionally raw and wanting to work hard to change the world, they helped each other walk through this difficult time.

I also asked if he is ever afraid that someone will exploit his mistake and make him look bad. He says that, no, he doesn’t worry about this because he’s not so concerned with the way he’s making himself look.

He’d rather confess than accuse. “I can't rail against all the warmongers, polluters and incarcerators OUT THERE,” he says, “without first confessing to all the warmongers, polluters and incarcerators that I carry within myself.

I am just as bad and terrible and greedy and selfish as all the people in the White House whom I like to criticize and oppose. I have no doubt about that.” !!!!!!

Van and Rosemary at Bioneers, 2007

Written by Rosemary Pritzker

[LibFreeOrDie]

Interesting... I just googled "van jones" and the suggested search comes up as "van jones wife"! Must be a lot of other people trying to find out.

http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/1321 says he lives with his wife and TWO sons in Oakland. Photo of him and a son...

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[LibFreeOrDie]

From a 2008 article:

Jones lives in Oakland with his wife, Jana, and their three-year-old son, Cabral, named after African revolutionary Amilcar Cabral.

http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/387/bridging_the_green_divide

[bobby.223]

yes I remember that game, we called it ‘soak ‘em’ way back in the day...I have no idea why it was termed that. ‘dodge ball’ is a much more accurate description of one of the game’s three basic objectives, or at least the 3 of those times.

[elizabethgrace]

salon.com

~snip~

So, let's summarize: He works to alleviate poverty, helps at-risk youth and finds eco-friendly solutions to our job crisis, all while looking like he's wandered straight off of a Ralph Lauren shoot. We're not sure, but we suspect that he loves puppies, too, and that when he goes home at night, he asks his wife how her day was and really, really wants to know. And yes, that's the bad news: Jones is married with two young sons. But, hey, we can still dream, can't we?

____________________________________

This is where I read he's married: salon.com.

[elizabethgrace]

Thanks! I just found the salon.com article I read yesterday. I posted the snip.... sickeningly slobbery.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Wife Jana and sons Mattei and Cabral

[RedRooster]

Van’s Dungeons and Dragons character is a hobbit called Douche Baggins.
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/3052/lotnq.jpg

[elizabethgrace]

He’s just a nice family man, right?

[devolve]

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Actually, it was called “Battle Ball” in my school.

And it was....

[dixiechick2000]

"I had a professor who encouraged me to apply to Harvard and Yale [for law school], which was almost unheard of for students coming from the kind of public schools that I was coming from in the rural South."

Do you know where in the rural South he was raised?

Interesting that the word "South" is capitalized.

[dixiechick2000]

Thanks, bitt! Good to “see” you!