Green jobs Czar: Van JonesPosted Sunday, July 26, 2009, at 12:17 PM
Who is the new green Czar? Today he is known as a civil-rights lawyer, founder and executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, an innovative nonprofit that made its name working to prevent youth violence and incarceration. Impressive and on the surface a very worthy cause. In the 1990's he went from college student to prison inmate to Marxist --Communist, to racial injustice activist to green activist to Green Czar. In an interview, he explained: "I'm arguing for a progressive eco-populism with an appropriate role for government, that rewards and helps the problem-solvers in the U.S. economy but taxes the hell out of the problem-makers. That can be a winning formula to realign U.S. politics and economics." (www.grist.org/article/vanjones/)
In 1990, he enrolled in Yale Law School to learn how to reshape laws focusing againist perpetuated injustice towards blacks. He arrived on campus in combat boots and a Black Panther Party badge on his backpack. During his stay at school, he interned for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco which put him in the middle of the Rodney King trial and subsequent riots. He was arrested and put into jail. While in jail, he states that he met a broad cross section of young people fighting for change and was so impressed that, after finishing law school, he moved to San Francisco to be part of their movement. That movement evolved into the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC-ellabakercenter.org) Overall, this organization has lofty noble goals that seems to focus on training youth of color to become the green employees of the future. I personally have no problem with this training young people for green technology. My concern is the founders past and what that means for the future. Using "green" as his new movement is politically correct yet a smoke screen for his socialist beliefs. It also makes me mad because there is reverse racisim in play. He focuses on the black population and what we can do for them. There is no thought to the white minorities. Blacks in many cities are no longer the minority. Jones himself said that blacks were 60% of the population in San Francisco. And another thing that makes me angry is that these Black organizations can promote and focus on their race and receive accolades but if a group of White Activist get together to promote their race, it's called White Supremist. I am not a supporter of any organization that focuses on one race, excluding everyone else. Why are Blacks given this leeway to be exclusive and anyone else would be considered racist if they do the same? Furthermore, Jones was proudly wearing a Black Panther button and this organization has a very dark past. He wrote a book called, "The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems." He argues, in his book, the best way to fight global warming and urban poverty is by creating millions of green jobs, weatherizing buildings, installing solar panels and constructing mass transit systems. A percentage of these jobs should go to the disadvantaged and the chronically unemployed. Quote: "The green economy should not just be about reclaiming thrown away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown away communities." So his plan is to take money from the wealthy and use it to get wind and solar energy to everyone's house. The "Share the Wealth" idea that Obama has spoke of is another way of saying, The Red movement is now the Green Movement! Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
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Didn't you know? Even after all the years of affirmative action, we "honkies" and "crackers" are all still bigots. Attrocities that happened 150 years ago, are STILL OUR FAULT today. Didn't you know that?
There are all-black universities. If there was an all-WHITE one, it would br racist.
There is a Miss Black America pageant. If someone proposed a WHITE one, it would be racist.
If a white guy shoots at a cop and is killed in return, the cop was doing his job. If he was shot at by a black or latino, returned fire and killed the guy..........it was "racially motivated"........ obviously police brutality.
Sotomayor was obviously correct in her handling of the firemen debacle. Knowledge, study and TEST SCORES don't come into play here..........those guys were only promoted because they were WHITE. She'll be an OUTSTANDING pick after she gets "rubberstamped" in.
I wonder if any of the democrats who helped put Obama in the White House were of caucasion dessent?
If I sound a bit angry, it's NOT out of baing some kind of "racist" as our little buddy "Censored" would summize.
I'm just tired of hearing this crap, after we have bent over backwards providing avenues for minorities that NONE OF US HAVE. We don't celebrate John Wayne's birthday or Bob Hope's but we celebrate Dr King's.
We have a black history month, asian awareness month, cinco demayo and other celebrated latin weeks..........hell, we even have gay pride parades and such.
If someone suggested a "white week"..............ARE YOU KIDDING? YOU BIGOT!
Ever got a job, whether you were qualified or not for it, because they needed another white guy?
I'm SICK of this. We have black doctors, attorneys, Congressman, Senators................and understand.............these are folks are as qualified as anyone else, some of them MORESO..............and I don't have a problem with that. I really don't.
Even got a black PRESIDENT....(I DO have a problem with THAT, but not because of skin color).
But I don't see where we are STILL supposedly "keeping them down."
This is 2009. There isn't a black person walking around today that was ever a slave, and I'm tired of hearing about (and MOSTLY from WHITE beeding heart liberals), how I "OWE" all these guys some sort of geneological "reparations' for what my great great grandmother's half-uncle might have been involved in, back in 1854.
We "OWE" the Japanese for Hiroshima (Pearl Harbor doesn't count).
We probably owe the Germans for bombing their refineries , and I'm QUITE SURE that we MUST owe the French for tearing up a few of their neighborhoods while we were pulling them out from under the NAZI's. (TWICE within a 3-year period).
People think that they still have these "axes" to grind...............no matter how long ago, or WHO was involved.
I was born in 1948, and didn't have nothin' to do with ANY of this crap..................so this new "Green Czar" can go take a long walk on a short pier, along with his "green movement).
Right now I'm gonna make a "movement" of my own, then go out and get a few things done today.
I understand your frustration so very much. I am so mad at these Czars and that there is nothing in the form of outrage over this. Did you read about the Nazi-Science Czar? He is so close to the type of mentality of the Nazi Scientist that it is terrifying! Nobody has read it and commented , yet it is the stuff of SCiFi novels!
To anyone who claims to know anything about history, Kim, this can't be a surprise to any of these wizards out there.
And you know that all these "Czars" (and to ME that's a communist term), aren't doing any of this for FREE. You can bet they get THEIR chunk of our tax money plus all the perks.
Maybe I'll fill out an application to be the Dog Czar. My job would be to follow stray dogs around and count the number of times they leave "presents" on people's lawns, so the government can compute the percentage of heat it adds to "Uncle Al's" global warming.
A project grant like that should EASILY be worth about 3 million to me under THIS administration, plus perks and maybe even my own private little Lear Jet..........(I'd never rate my own 757 like Princess Nancy).
No, I didn't read about the Nazi-Science Czar, but like I said, it's no surprise.
Kim, about 2 months ago, I wrote a letter to the Mountain Home Editor, and you may have read it. In it, I listed the comparisons thus far between the Third Reich and the Obama Administration.
I strangely did NOT draw the public rebuttals to that letter that I USUALLY get from the "messiah cherishers" around here. Maybe even some of THEM are waking up in the morning now, realizing what they helped to do last November.
And they're STUCK now, like the rest of us who TRIED to prevent this disaster.
PS............."TYPO"......in my initial response, I mentioned "twice" in a 3-year period"..................that SHOULD read 30 year period, so as not to confuse anyone. We liberated the French from the Germans in BOTH World Wars.
You remember the grateful french......the ones who spit at us with disdain, and do NOT join with us on our fight against terrorism..........
Maybe we should have sent Hitler more gasoline when he was in Paris.
Hey Bazooka, I was wondering. My ancestors came here as indentured servants from Ireland. They in all sense of the word were slaves. No one fought a war to free them. No one marched up and down the southern states to protest their treatment. So does this mean I'm owed something since to this very day no one has stepped up and apologized for the treatment my ancestors received from the rich, elite? Just curious when I could expect my check. I'm not a racist but the next time I hear someone say we owe them money for their great, great whatever being a slave, I say buy them a plane ticket back to the homeland and see if life would have been any better for them there.
Ohh wait..I guess the Irish do have their own holdiay, and how is it portrayed..by going out and getting drunk. Isn't THAT a stereotype?? Isn't that racist or bigoted?
But, alas, as I've been told whiskey is God's way of keeping the Irish from taking over the world.
Well, I'd say you had a legitimate gripe, Bouncer. After all, St Patrick's Day is only ONE day............the other guys all have a week or a month of celebration!
And as everybody seems to be using this new "green" term, I'd have to say you Irish should be entitled to some royalties. My wife is Irish and I'll bet SHE'd like that too. I'll have to discuss that with her.
Al Sharpton was being interviewed one time (And I STILL want to know what church this "Reverand" preaches in), and he was on his soapbox about how his ancestors were brought over in chains, and how they are still being kept down, (even with Obama in the White House).
I couldn't help but wonder how HIS bank account compares to mine, what kind of car HE drives (or is chauffered in), and if he'd be happier "back home" wearing a dashiki in place of his 3-piece suit, living in a mud hut, dying of aids, or dodging malaria trying to figure out where his next meal was coming from.
You know, some of the better paying jobs around the country are NOT available to you unless you are BI-LINGUAL. Isn't THAT some kind of prejudice? Instead of insisting they learn to speak the language here, we CATER to them, and no matter what your educational skills might be, you can get beat out of some good jobs by someone who might have barely finished high school, but if he/she can rattle off some espanol.........."sorry Charlie."
And if you don't like it, it's just too bad, because we don't HAVE any grievance organizations to complain too. We don't have an EOC, or a caucasion version of affirmative action. There do not exist an "NAAWP." The ACLU is a communist-based subversive organization that represents the scumbags, but little else.
If there is a LEGITIMATE gripe in this country, it is with our Native Americans.
And like I tell folks........."just ask an American Indian what happens when you don't contril immigration!
The bi-lingual thing as beena gripe of mine for years. During my stint as a police officer we advertised for bi-ligual officers and were offering them 50 cents more an hour because they were rasied in a home where a foreign language was spoken. I asked if I became certified in sign language if I would qualify for the same pay raise. I had been learning to sign to communicate with my daughter. I was told NO. They didn't see sign language as being bi-lingual. Apparently if you speak spanish, french, swahili, I have to learn these laguages or call in an interpreter to speak for me so they don't have to learn ENGLISH. But an American who has a speech impediment as my daughter does or is DEAF, who CAN'T communicate any other way doesn't qualify to have the same respect as a foreigner. Someone explain THAT to me.
As far as controlling immigration, I guess Beck has it rigth in his new book. A country that can put men on the moon can't figure out how to build a fence along it's southern border. And as comedian Carlos Mencia has said, "All you need to do is go down to the local Home Depot and pick up a crew that would be willing to build it for you." Is that Irony?
Hey Bouncer............isn't Beck's new book GOOD?
Unfortunately, it is frightenly accurate.
But it has brought my own point of view into focus. I agree with him that we need to vote for the right PERSON NOT PARTY to represent us. A good case on point is our representative Walt Minnick. He has taken a stance for IDAHO more often that not since he got there in January. God forbid that a democrat from a republican state might have some blue dog tendancies.
Yeah, Minnick's been pretty good for us so far. Cecil Andrus was a good GOVERNOR as well, and Democrat or not, I always voted for him.
Couldn't agree more, Bouncer.
It's this age old crap of filling in the circle wherever there's a "D" or wherever there's an "R" that has screwed this country.
People don't bother to check their voting records FIRST, they just assume that ALL Democrats stand for one thing and ALL Republicans stand for another.
And look where we are.
Blacks represent 9% of the US population in the last 2000 census. Latino's both legal and non-legal represent 18%. the country is being hijacked by 9% of the people to the detriment of the balance. It is clear that the country has spent trillions since 1863 to help the black, and a small percentage have been helped, but the majority are still under educated, unemployed and still represent a disproportionate number of the criminals. I am for fairness, but not a the expense of everyone else. When will the 70% of the rest of the people stand up for their rights, their American dream. The work the rest do does not count i guess. We need to unite and have our voices heard.
Hello Igros. Thanks for reading and commenting. I grew up in the great (cough-cough) state of Louisiana. One thing I learned was that the minority rules. The minority gets every break in the book and the so-called majority have to fight tooth-n-nail to get anything. The main reason that most of our freedoms have been slowly taken away is because the majority are so busy trying to keep their heads above water that they don't see it happening until it's too late. Suddenly, the majority see laws and politically correct crap blocking them and it's too late to stop it. Every whim of the 5% is catered to in the spirit of fairness while the rest of us stand shell-shocked in disbelief. You are absolutely right! It is our time to stand up and be counted. It is our time to make our voices heard with a roar! (time 7:00am)
And still they play the racecard. Even with Obama in the White House, all of his appointees, Sotomayor.............yep, we're still keeping them down, and by golly, we should be paying reparations for everything from the Civil War to Hiroshima.
Maybe we should blow another 10 million to research the Mexicans killed at the Alamo and pay reparations to THEIR existing family tree members as well! The descendants of Davy Crockett and those dirty rightwing Tenneseeans should CERTAINLY be willing to help the illegals, shouldn't they?
Kim, do you have any verifiable stories of the injustices you suffered as a member of a minority in Louisiana? The right to vote? The right to own a business? Perhaps you were beaten for improperly or disrespectfully presenting yourself when addressing those citizens who belonged to the minority ruling class? It appears you lost your battle for a decent education.
I'm sure those on this forum are aware of the Federal Hiring Laws that prohibit hiring discrimination. I'm not aware of any Federal requirements that may infringe on an employer's prerogative to hire bilingual employees. Just as a market determines the products and services that thrive in it, so goes the employee base.
You'd better do a little homework. There are FREQUENT jon announcents by the state that make bilingual skills REQUIRED.
Federal Hiring Laws do not apply to Obama, when you take a good look at some of the backgrounds of his appointees.
It still goes on. When was the last time you tried to order something over the phone and could clearly understand the person on the other end?
Hey.............Hey...............I'll go you one BETTER than THAT..............
Right here in Elmore Country. Check the court proceedings that are printed in the paper each week:
"Smith" runs a red light and gets hit for $150.00.
"Gonzales" is caught driving without privileges, no insurance, 3rd offense---------$75.00---------MAYBE
Mr. Thompson, it seems that you have taken offense to my comment about minority rules. First off, I lived most of my childhood in La. My experiences are my experiences and how I feel about that life are my own. I never said the word "suffer". Though I have some stories that would amuse you. (OH my goodness, I can hear the southern accent coming out the moment I started writing, ya'll)
2ndly: You actually want to quote law to me as if to say that what I experienced was not valid? Because there is a discrimination law, no employer does it? Laws, Hah! Come on! Federal laws abound, yet many were enacted due to the wishes of a few (thus a minority). And businesses discrimanate constantly! For goodness sake, stores don't have "Merry Christmas" anymore due to a small amount of people who felt offended! That's what I'm talking about.
And thirdish: The word minority doesn't mean a particular race but in the context that I wrote it; minority in numbers. Racial minorities don't own the word! So smooth your feathers, give yourself a little shake and breath out slowly! Ok? Look at the wonderful tea parties and town meetings that are filled with a quilting of races that are all of one mind---give us our country back! There is no color that defines the grassroots majority that are coming together to bond in ways that I have never seen. God Bless America!
Oh, and finally...everyone has expereinces in their life that affect them in one way that another may not understand or experience in the same manner. Therefore, any memories that I have living in the south will always be unigue as your memories would be. I'm sure that you precieved a negative experience that is strongly valid for you and may not be as strongly felt by another.
Thank you for your comments. Join in more often.
Kim, there is one MORE "minority"..............
Those who go to the polls and think for THEMSELVES before filling-in any circles!
I'm just following along with the thread of the conversation here; some of my comments refer to the inital post, some refer to comments posted by other users.
In the initial post you made Kim, you stated, " It also makes me mad because there is reverse racisim in play. He focuses on the black population and what we can do for them. There is no thought to the white minorities. Blacks in many cities are no longer the minority. Jones himself said that blacks were 60% of the population in San Francisco. And another thing that makes me angry is that these Black organizations can promote and focus on their race and receive accolades but if a group of White Activist get together to promote their race, it's called White Supremist. I am not a supporter of any organization that focuses on one race, excluding everyone else. Why are Blacks given this leeway to be exclusive and anyone else would be considered racist if they do the same? Furthermore, Jones was proudly wearing a Black Panther button and this organization has a very dark past."
It appears that you are addressing race, not numbers.
Racists may be under the impression that they are superior to other races merely by their skin color, which is completely dissimilar to a group of individuals of a particular race stepping forward to encourage belief in themselves and to maximize their potential by working within a legal framework based upon our Constitution. Blacks (and women) just had to fight a while longer before the United States extended equal Constitutional protections to them, and it is taking some time for them to gain equal footing.
What are your thoughts on organizations devoted to the resolution of issues that do not affect men?
I've re-read my comments regarding your post and I don't see where I quoted law. I mentioned Federal Hiring Laws, but didn't quote any. Let me pare it down for you; to my knowledge, Federal Law makes no provision that requires an employer to hire bilingual employees. It's up to a business owner to determine whether it will be in the best interest of his business to determine whether his business, his employees and his customers will best be served by employees with skill in more than one language. Now, in a state that benefits from the labor of so many non-English speaking migrant workers, it makes sense that the state would hire bi-lingual employees for the positions that may require contact with those migrant workers.
bazookaman, what is the difference between a reparation that may be paid to a descendant of a former slave that fought for the Union during the Civil War and the VA benefits you've revealed that you receive? Certainly neither the former slave turned soldier nor you hoped to be placed in the unenviable and perilous positions that each of you found yourselves in before or after the wars you served in.
Sooo when my German immigrant ancestors moved here there should have been a push for the local stores and government offices to learn German? Then why aren't more people in this area fluent in German, or Basque? You know why..because MY ancestors worked hard to become AMERICANS..not German Americans. They learned the language so they could assimilate seamlessly into this great country. MY ancestors required their children to speak english and to think of theselves as AMERICANS. Not Mexican Americans or African Americans. MY ancestors may have been a minority because of language and culture but they worked hard, opened businesses, built churches, tore sagebrush out and planted crops in it's place. They never asked for a handout from the government. Not one of them asked the government to GIVE them something for NOTHING. I also have Irish ancestors. They came over as indentured servants...SLAVES. Does the government OWE me something for that?
I agree that soldiers deserve alot more respect than they are getting from this administration. To be asked to look at their life and ask themselves if they are a burden on their family is atrocious. But to be given money JUST because you might have descended from slaves is crap. Your ancestors may have had it rough but it gave you a chance to becaome ANYTHING in this country you want to be....including PRESIDENT. Quit your whining and make something of yourself...don't expect someone else to make something for you!!!
I know professionals who provide services to non-English speaking clients everyday. In many of their interactions with these clients, their clients' English speaking children provide translation. There are people in this area fluent in Spanish, who work hard, open businesses, build churches and now tend the crops planted on the land that other generations of immigrants prepped for planting.
I do not believe that descendants of those previous generations of immigrants, who obviously could not have contributed to their ancestors efforts, are entitled to any exclusive claim to the hard work of their ancestors. The work of your ancestors was their own, and your work is yours.
There is a difference between an indentured servant and a slave. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indenture and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave. So, no, it appears the government doesn't owe you anything.
To say that slaves "had it rough" is a profoundly underdeveloped statement. If you can summon the courage, read http://cclce.org/files/ResourceCD/docume...
And following the Emancipation Proclamation, the governments that freed slaves and their descendants had no vote in electing, subjected those people to systemic discrimination. One hundred years following the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
When we speak in terms of years, 1865 is a long time ago, no one born then is around. However when we speak in terms of generations, 1865 is roughly only four generations ago. There are people alive who have heard stories of how their ancestors worked hard to clear and cultivate the land and grow crops for no gain and no hope of freedom. Nearly one hundred years later in 1963, they saw a church they built in Birmingham, Alabama, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, blow up with their children inside. I'm sure Condoleeza Rice viewed this event as a strongly valid negative experience. See http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...
What is the difference, Dave?
A contract.
YOU give up your individuality.
YOU go to war and fight whenever we start crap someplace
YOU move your family whenever and wherever we say
YOU get paid a small portion of what your civilian counterpart gets
YOU wear a uniform and haircut to OUR liking, not yours
YOU go get your butt blown off while the civilians go camping this weekend.
If you survive at least twenty years of this, there'll be a little pension at the end that you can't live on, but it'll be there.
You can use the V.A. Hospital if you live close enough to one, and they'll just farm you out when they don't have the equipment or specialists to help you due to budget cuts.
Oh, and that free dental and medical for your spouse we promised at the beginning when you first enlisted?.......we were just kidding about that. (we needed your signature and commitment).
If you ever get up to Boise, Dave, drive through the north gate of the V.A. Center. There is a huge rock at the entrance with the inscription on it the reads "The Price of Liberty is Visible Here.
Then go inside, and see some of the guys who sacrificed, so you civilians could kick back on your tushes and play your video games.
"REPARATIONS" Mr thompson, is when you repay someone for the WRONG you have done them. I haven't seen a DIME from Japan for their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, have you? They got THEIR "Payback" at Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Nagasaki was just a little "interest" added on).
I've never mistreated a slave, nor attacked anyone without provocation, so I don't figure I owe anybody ANYTHING. I'm not responsible for anything my great great grandfather might have done...............it's got nothing to do with me.
What I get from government each month, I have CONTRACTED for and have EARNED, doing and enduring things both here and abroad, so the "lilly-livered" wouldn't have to.
I've been shot at and hit, I've been mortared, rocketed, lived like an animal, had the "magic orange dust" dropped on me and I never killed anybody that wasn't trying to kill me first. (not yet, anyway).
In my 2nd military career, I worked on flightlines from the wind at Mountain Home, to the rain in England to the frozen ice in Korea. Endless 12-hour shifts, weekend duties, remote assignments where you couldn't take your family.
I almost got to watch my kids grow up, so you could watch yours.
And for what? So our kids hopefully wouldn't have to.
And for who?
For YOU.......and so many others to have the freedom to get on these blogs, write letters to editors, march in the streets and spout all the rhetoric learned from newspapers and marxist college professors who would undermine everything that's been fought for since the beginning.
Mister...............don't talk to ME about "reparations."
You're new to this blog Mr. Thompson, so I'll fill you in just a mite.............I am well known as one of those "ill-tempered rightwing extremists"
What that actually MEANS, is an old warhorse that's fed up with the system and all the bleeding-heart liberals who support it.
And I AM ready to do it one last time. BEEN ready.
And if you think the slaves had a rough time? Try the Marine Corps.
That comparison of "reparations" to the V.A. pensions really riles me.................
although I suppose one COULD look at it in the sense of re-payment for being "wronged." Today's vets have been "wronged" for AWHILE now.
Those who've never shouldered a pack and rifle through heat, snow or swamp fighting people we shouldn't even be at war with............as well as the leeches........wouldn't know what I'm talking about anyway.
Why the hell do I even turn this computer ON in the morning? Probably time to quit.
Oh, and before I go, I'd be remiss in not including one more little item on my initial military list........................unlike our civilian counterparts, if you're working for an outfit or boss you cannot stand..........................................................
there IS NO "two-week notice" and walk out the door! You're STUCK pal! Just like the jerks out there who support Obama.
I suppose Japan hasn't paid any reparations to you for their attack, but one country attacking another, as Japan attacked the United States, is entirely different than the enslavement of people in a nation where the self evident truth is "all men are created equal". Any reparation that Japan was to make followed the ceremony on the Missouri, and was administered by MacArthur.
As a side note, MacArthur's son, Arthur, was treated by the same orthodontist my son was.
I have a relative that was a combat photographer. He was shot at and hit, mortared, rocketed, lived like an animal, and never killed anybody that wasn't trying to kill him first. He was awarded the Bronze Star for specific action he took in battle. He is proud of his service, and bears no malice toward those he served. He confronts the difficulties he now faces as a veteran in the same manner he did when he was a soldier, and views any disabilities he now suffers from as an extension of the difficulties he faced on the battlefield, except now he works with those at the VA to lessen the effects of his war related disabilities.
It appears that your post is directed at me, and I'm surprised at some of the assumptions you make in your post. I'm also a veteran, disabled, Lifetime Member of the DAV. I shall not honor you with any further details of my service. Although I will tell you that after taking into consideration the terrible disabilities facing recently disabled veterans, I have made the decision not to burden the VA with providing any further treatment for me. They'll have more room to care for those who are now making the sacrifices that we once made. I'm aware that the price of freedom is visible in VA Hospitals and have seen the sign you mentioned.
Unless we should meet in Boise some day, this is the last time I will address you.
If that's so, then you of all people should know where I'm comin' from.
But no matter. I'm tired of this crap and have read all the rhetoric I'm going to.
Talking is over. Adios folks.