CNN’s Van Jones: Obama’s Latest Comments on Race ‘Honest and Accurate’

Mediaite ^ | January 20, 2014 | Matt Wilstein

[2ndDivisionVet]

What did CNN’s Crossfire host Van Jones think when he read President Barack Obama’s latest quote about race in this week’s New Yorker profile by David Remnick? “I thought that actually was a pretty honest and accurate assessment.”

“There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President,” Obama told Remnick during one of their many interviews over the last few months. “Now, the flip side of it is there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because I’m a black President,” he added.

Obama’s quote was singled-out by many sites across the right-wing web as being in some way inflammatory, but Jones told Wolf Blitzer Monday afternoon that it’s a perfectly reasonable comment for the president to make.

“It’s not surprising to me race comes up when you have the first black president, elected so quickly after the Civil Rights Movement,” Jones said. “One thing that’s interesting to me, we have actually in some ways gone backwards.” While it’s gotten “easier” for Americans to talk about issues like gay rights, immigration and “even marijuana,” he said “there’s still this discomfort” when it comes to African-American issues, “and I think President Obama does bring that out in people.”

Jones suggested that because leaders like Obama don’t want to be seen as “playing the race card,” the “black agenda has in some ways stopped.” He added, “In some ways, ironically, we’re actually maybe moving backwards on black racial issues, even as we move forward on other civil rights issues.”

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[PghBaldy]

So did these people just discover Obama’s color? He is either delusional or dishonest.

[SECURE AMERICA]

“There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President,”

Yeah, about five of them. The other 10’s of millions hate you because you are destroying their Country

[hal ogen]

F’em. They both should be in prison and deported after prison. This racist crap is very, very old.

[Farmer Dean]

Would that cotton had never grown in America.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Along the lines of my statement.

[cashless]

May I suggest an alternative view:
In the beginning of his failed first term, his popularity was soaring and that from people of all colors since only a few knew him to be the Marxist he has turned out to be. I suggest that those people and the true racists that hate blacks or other nonwhites, were those who answered consistently No in every survey, every time and their number stayed relatively constant. As time progressed and more and more people got over their initial starry-eyed assessment of the POTUS and begin to listen to his rhetoric and found his words lies and doublespeak as well as his penchant to campaign incessantly and not lead, their opinion changed. Now since we have a relative constant number of racists and anti-Marxists already know to be a portion of the negative number, the logical conclusion is that the decreasing popularity numbers are not driven by racist and anti-Marxist base rising but rather the previously positive responders having their opinion changed by this would be boy king, his actions, his comrades and his insistence on destroying this nation day by day. That and the fact he is delusional and narcissistic. Wait till he founds out his fecal matter does stink and it costs the Democrats the Senate in 2014 and the Presidency in 2016.

[ozzymandus]

Why does CNN have an avowed communist on thier payroll?

[Dante3]

Good question.