Posted on 09/09/2009 2:15:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
On Monday, Sept. 7, 2009, President Obama's hand-picked "green jobs czar," Van Jones, resigned. It was a week too late to prevent all the revelations about Jones: his admitted agreement with communist philosophy; his membership in the 9/11 "truther" movement; his racist views on environmental policy (he accused "white polluters and white environmentalists" of "steering poison into the people of color's communities"); his ridiculous ideas about school violence ("You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child … a black kid might shoot another black kid. He's not going to shoot up the whole school"); his unmitigated hatred for President George W. Bush (he compared Bush to a crack-pipe-licking cocaine addict, and accused him of using the American flag to "beat and whip and lynch" political opponents).
Now the media, which ignored all of Van Jones' foibles back when President Obama appointed him in March, has determined that there's nothing more to report here. With Jones gone, all has returned to normal.
Except that one unanswered question remains: Why did the White House appoint Jones in the first place?
We were told during the 2008 campaign that President Obama was the most technologically able candidate in our history. The Obama campaign ran commercials targeting John McCain's ignorance of the Internet. Obama was so connected that he wanted to keep using his BlackBerry from the Oval Office.
And yet he couldn't get a single member of his administration to do a simple Google search on Van Jones.
Every tidbit of information on Van Jones was publicly available. There were videos on YouTube and articles at major websites. And yet just three weeks ago, Valerie Jarrett, Obama's special adviser, told a crowd of leftists at the Daily Kos conference that "We were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House."
So, why did Obama pick Jones in the first place?
He picked Jones because he is deeply insecure about his racial status. Despite his repeated insistence that he is the culmination of the American dream of racial unity, Obama surrounds himself with racial radicals -- and he has for decades. Obama's associations with black communist Frank Marshall Davis during his teenage years, his apprenticeship to Rev. Jeremiah "God Damn America" Wright during his adult years, and his continuously comfortable relationships with racialists like Cornel West and Van Jones demonstrate his commitment to racial polarization.
Where did this commitment come from? Barack Obama has always been a man in search of identity; as he writes in "Dreams From My Father," "I was engaged in a fitful, interior struggle. I was trying to raise myself as a black man in America …" And that struggle centered on his father -- a father who abandoned him in childhood, and about whom he knew little. Little, that is, except for two basic facts: Barack Obama Sr. was black, and Barack Obama Sr. was a socialist who sought to "redistribute our economic gains to the benefit of all." President Obama has always attempted to identify with his black father rather than his white grandparents, and he has therefore sought to fill the paternal gap with black racialists rather than moderates of any stripe.
The Van Jones story isn't about another radical federal employee or even about President Obama's addiction to executive authority (he has appointed over 30 czars with whom he meets regularly, but he has held just one cabinet meeting since his inauguration). The Van Jones story is about our president: a man who fills the void in his emotional past with "authentic" black men who have no interior struggle for definition. President Obama has incessantly injected himself into racial matters that require no clarification (see Henry Louis Gates Jr.); he has turned every debate into a racial debate (see his 2008 campaign, which repeatedly referenced his "funny name" and the fact that he does not look like the "other presidents on the dollar bills"). He does so out of convenience -- few will argue openly about race with a prominent black man, no matter how extreme. More than that, however, he obsesses about race out of insecurity.
President Obama's pathologies are playing out before us on a national stage. Unfortunately, the policies and appointees his pathologies produce are not merely wrongheaded -- they are dangerous. How much racial polarization and economic and international instability must we endure to fill the hole that Barack Obama Sr. left in his son's heart?
I believe this is a factual statement. That he would see something in it to share with others tells us something unpleasant about him, but it is accurate.
This will end when the American people ignore the MSM and reject Obama in the next election. It cannot come soon enough.
I can’t remember....what was the story around 9/11, about the black man and teenager who were driving around DC gunning people down?
Zero was elected because some people felt insecure for being Whites.
Not at schools.
And those were serial shootings, not a mass shooting.
There is also that Ferguson guy on the railroad, but again that wasn’t a school.
The guy made a stupid though technically accurate comment.
Malvo and company, I think was the name. I live in the DC area and I was afraid to go to the gas station. The 2 of them shot up Northern Virginia as well. And even went down to Fredricksburg.
I listened to that entire bit where made that statement. It wasn't in a racial context or at least not overtly. What he was trying to say was that young white men are essentially being ignored whereas black men with the same types of behavior are criminalized. He was talking about reaching out to all boys irrespective of their color with love.
I'm not trying to defend this commie POS and I'm glad he's gone. There's plenty of things to hate this guy about, this one isn't it.
Well, there were those two snipers who shot a bunch of people in Maryland. Does that count?
Thanks for the post. I hadn’t seen anything about the context of this remark, which is obviously pretty important.
The guy was talking about mass school shootings. Serial random sniper attacks on the general public are an entirely different issue.
Despite what the press says, there are quite a few black serial and mass murderers.
I questioned this back during the campaign. The dysfunction was apparent then, but none would admit seeing it or being concerned with it. It is something 0bama never sought help to resolve. Instead he fabricated his history to fill in the holes left by being abandoned by his father, his stepfather, and his mother.
Of course /sarc!
I am not yet caffeinated enough.
The guys a racist. If you choose not to believe, then feel free.....
Bingo. Freud would have a hay day with that super ego.
A very poignant analysis.
School violence in the Columbine manner,seems to be perpetrated by white students who are outcasts within the student culture. This kind of isolation is not usually found in the black dynamic which is largely more tribal in nature and where the individual is usually the member of some type of group. That being said, however, for general school violence ,schools with large black populations have daily violent episodes where often times the police are called. One has simply to look at the reports coming from city school systems across the country. The Columbine type violence makes for a more dramatic example, and racialists like Van Jones embrace it for that particular characteristic.
Obama had a choice, he made it. He decided he didnt want to eschew the white race he wanted to be a black man.
That’s what he is. A racist black man.
Say it out loud. Dont be frightened and beat around the bush about his mental problems, Its all BS. We have a racist black man in the White House , and he is picking his friends to support him.
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