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It was chiefly blogger Jim Hoft (Gateway Pundit) and Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck who dug up the details of Mr. Jones' colorful past. To do so, they utilized that newfangled instrument called "Google," with which reporters for the Times and Post seem to be unfamiliar.

The Obama administration would like to have the controversy over Mr. Jones end with his dead-of-night resignation. But it should be just beginning.

Jeffrey Lord, who was a speechwriter in the Reagan administration, noted that in administrations past, the Secret Service would not have permitted someone with Mr. Jones' background to enter the White House with a visitor's pass. Yet Mr. Jones was made a high-level appointee with considerable influence.

For Mr. Jones to get a White House job, even more senior aides to President Obama either had to be unaware of his background, or indifferent to it. The former suggests an appalling degree of incompetence. The latter is more likely:

"Ooh. Van Jones. We were so delighted to recruit him to the White House," White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett told a conference of left-wing bloggers last month. "We were watching him ... for as long as he's been active out in Oakland."



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Ron, Robert likes to jump in without any knowledge of the conversation. Do you see the Beck connection?

The veiled warning from Jones was a concern to Glenn Beck, and during his nightly television show seen on GBTV, Beck showed Jones’ somewhat cryptic threat. Mr. Beck also responded and delivered a special message of his own to the 9/11 Truther:

Van, I know exactly who you are. I know what you are capable of. I have studied you as much as you have studied me…

Beck also told to Jones (and the GBTV audience) that Beck, too, was now free to accomplish the things he knows “need to be done.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/05/09...

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Brothers and Sisters here on Black In America is some information on Brother Van Jones in a simple search on the internet according to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I found some information on Brother Van Jones that is very interesting to see. Join me in exploring the life of Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones “A MAN WORTH LISTENING TOO.”

Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones (born September 20, 1968) is an American political activist, commentator, author and attorney. He is a cofounder of several nonprofit organizations including the Dream Corps, a “social justice accelerator” which presently operates three advocacy initiatives: #cut50, #YesWeCode and Green for All. He is the author of two New York Times bestselling books, The Green Collar Economy and Rebuild The Dream. He has served as President Barack Obama’s Special Advisor for Green Jobs, as a distinguished visiting fellow at Princeton University, and as a co-host of CNN’s political debate show Crossfire. He is currently President of Dream Corps and a regular CNN contributor.

In 2004, Jones was recognized as a "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum. In 2008, Fast Company called Jones one of the "12 Most Creative Minds in 2008." In 2009, Time magazine named Jones one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2010, he was the recipient of the NAACP President’s award. After the death of the musician Prince in April 2016 it was revealed that Jones acted as an advisor and go-between, helping the artist anonymously fund humanitarian work.

Early life and education

Jones and his twin sister Angela were born in 1968 in Jackson, Tennessee. Their mother was a teacher at a high school and their father was a principal at a junior high school. Jones' sister said that as a child he was "the stereotypical geek—he just kind of lived up in his head a lot."

He has described his own childhood behavior as "bookish and bizarre." His grandfather was the senior bishop in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, and Jones sometimes accompanied his grandfather to religious conferences, where he would sit all day listening to the adults "in these hot, sweaty black churches". Jones was a young fan of John and Bobby Kennedy, and would pin photographs of them to a bulletin board in his room in the specially delineated "Kennedy Section". As a child he paired his Star Wars action figures with Kennedy-era political figures; Luke Skywalker was John, Han Solo was Bobby, and Lando Calrissian was Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jones was educated at Jackson Central-Merry High School, a public high school in his hometown of Jackson, Tennessee, from which he graduated in 1986. Jones received his B.S. in communication and political science from the University of Tennessee at Martin (UT Martin).

Jones worked as an intern at the Jackson Sun (Tennessee), the Shreveport Times (Louisiana) and the Associated Press (Nashville bureau). He made up the shorter and more memorable nickname "Van" when he was 17 during his time at the Jackson Sun.

At UT Martin, he helped to launch and spearhead a number of independent, campus-based publishing efforts. These publications included the Fourteenth Circle (University of Tennessee), the Periscope (Vanderbilt University), the New Alliance Project (statewide in Tennessee), and the Third Eye (Nashville's African American community). Jones credits UT Martin for preparing him for life on a global stage: I left UT Martin confident that I could take on any challenge and do well at it if I studied hard and worked hard and kept my nose clean. I really do think you can get absolutely anywhere from UT Martin . . . because of the quality of caring and individual attention.
After graduating from UT Martin, Jones left his home state to attend Yale Law School. In 1993, he graduated and moved to San Francisco.

Career

Earlier activism

In 1992, while still a law student at Yale, Jones participated as a volunteer legal monitor for a protest of the Rodney King verdict in San Francisco. He and many other participants in the protest were arrested. The district attorney later dropped the charges against Jones. The arrested protesters, including Jones, won a small legal settlement. Jones later said that "the incident deepened my disaffection with the system and accelerated my political radicalization." In October 2005 Jones said he was "a rowdy nationalist on April 28th" before the King verdict was announced, but that by August of that year (1992) he was a communist.[12] His activism was also spurred on by witnessing racial inequality in New Haven, Connecticut: "I was seeing kids at Yale do drugs and talk about it openly, and have nothing happen to them or, if anything, get sent to rehab...And then I was seeing kids three blocks away, in the housing projects, doing the same drugs, in smaller amounts, go to prison."

When he graduated from law school, Jones gave up plans to take a job in Washington, D.C., and moved to San Francisco instead. He became a member of a "socialist collective" called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM) that protested against police brutality.

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

In 1995, Jones started Bay Area PoliceWatch, the region's only bar-certified hotline and lawyer-referral service for victims of police abuse. The hotline started receiving fifteen calls a day.[10] PoliceWatch began as a project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. "We designed a computer database, the first of its kind in the country, that allows us to track problem officers, problem precincts, problem practices, so at the click of a mouse we can now identify trouble spots and troublemakers," said Jones. "This has given us a tremendous advantage in trying to understand the scope and scale of the problem. Now, obviously, just because somebody calls and says, 'Officer so-and-so did something to me,' doesn't mean it actually happened, but if you get two, four, six phone calls about the same officer, then you begin to see a pattern. It gives you a chance to try and take affirmative steps." By 1996, Jones founded a new umbrella NGO, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which "consisted of a closet-like office and a computer that Jones had brought from his apartment."

From 1996–1997, Jones and PoliceWatch led a campaign which was successful in getting officer Marc Andaya fired from the San Francisco Police Department. Andaya was the lead officer accused of the in-custody death of Aaron Williams, an unarmed black man. In 1999 and 2000, Jones was a leader in the failed campaign to defeat Proposition 21, which escalated penalties for crimes by youth & sparked a student movement that made national headlines. In 2001, Jones and the Ella Baker Center launched the Books Not Bars campaign. From 2001 to 2003, Jones and Books Not Bars led a campaign to block the construction of a proposed "Super-Jail for Youth" in Oakland's Alameda County. Books Not Bars later went on to launch a statewide campaign to transform California's juvenile justice system.

Color of Change

Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Jones and James Rucker co-founded a Web-based grassroots organization to address Black issues called Color of Change. Color of Change's mission as described on its web site is as follows: "ColorOfChange.org exists to strengthen Black America's political voice. Our goal is to empower our members—Black Americans and our allies—to make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone." Jones amicably parted ways with Color of Change within two years after founding the group.

Shift to environmentalism

By 2005, Jones had begun promoting eco-capitalism and environmental justice. In 2005 the Ella Baker Center expanded its vision beyond the immediate concerns of policing, declaring that "If we really wanted to help our communities escape the cycle of incarceration, we had to start focusing on job, wealth and health creation." In 2005, Jones and the Ella Baker Center produced the "Social Equity Track" for the United Nations' World Environment Day celebration, held that year in San Francisco. It was the official beginning of what would eventually become Ella Baker Center's Green-Collar Jobs Campaign.

The Green-Collar Jobs Campaign was Jones' first concerted effort to meld his desire to improve racial and economic equality with his newer desire to mitigate environmental concerns. It soon took as its mission the establishment of the nation's first "Green Jobs Corps" in Oakland. On October 20, 2008, the City of Oakland formally launched the Oakland Green Jobs Corps, a public-private partnership that will "provide local Oakland residents with job training, support, and work experience so that they can independently pursue careers in the new energy economy."

Green for All

In September 2007, Jones attended the Clinton Global Initiative and announced his plans to launch Green for All, a new national NGO dedicated to creating green pathways out of poverty in America. The plan grew out of the work previously done at local level at the Ella Baker Center. Green for All would take the Green-Collar Jobs Campaign mission – creating green pathways out of poverty – national.
Green for All formally opened its doors on January 1, 2008. In its first year, Green for All organized "The Dream Reborn," the first national green conference where the majority of attendees were people of color. It cohosted, with 1Sky and the We Campaign, a national day of action for the new economy called "Green Jobs Now." It launched the Green-Collar Cities Program to help cities build local green economies and started the Green for All Capital Access Program to assist green entrepreneurs. As part of the Clean Energy Corps Working Group, it launched a campaign for a Clean Energy Corps initiative which would create 600,000 'green-collar' jobs while retrofitting and upgrading more than 15 million American buildings.

In reflecting on Green for All's first year, Jones wrote, "One year later, Green for All is real – and we have helped put green collar jobs on the map... We have a long way to go. But today we have a strong organization to help get us there."

Jones advocates a combination of conservation, regulation and investment as a way of encouraging environmental justice and opposing environmental racism. In an interview for the "EON Deep Democracy Interview Series" Jones spoke of a "third wave of environmentalism":
The first wave is sort of the Teddy Roosevelt, conservation era which had its day and then, in 1963, Rachel Carson writes a book, Silent Spring, and she's talking about toxics and the environment, and that really kind of opens up a whole new wave. So it's no longer just conservation but it's conservation, plus regulation, trying to regulate the bad, and that wave kind of continued to be developed and got kind of a 2.5 upgrade because of the environmental justice community who said, "Wait a minute, you're regulating but you're not regulating equally, the white polluters and white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people-of-color communities, because they don't have a racial justice frame." ... Now there's something new that's beginning to gather momentum, and it's conservation plus regulation of the bad, plus investment in the good ... beginning to put money into the solutions as well as trying to regulate the problem.

The Green Collar Economy


Van Jones meets with San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom at The Green Collar Economy book signing, October 14, 2008.
On October 7, 2008, HarperOne released Jones' first book, The Green Collar Economy. The book outlines his "viable plan for solving the two biggest issues facing the country today—the economy and the environment." The book has received favorable reviews from Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Tom Daschle, Carl Pope, and Arianna Huffington.

In the book, Jones contended that invention and investment will take us out of a pollution-based grey economy and into a healthy new green economy.[Jones wrote:

We are entering an era during which our very survival will demand invention and innovation on a scale never before seen in the history of human civilization. Only the business community has the requisite skills, experience, and capital to meet that need. On that score, neither government nor the nonprofit and voluntary sectors can compete, not even remotely.

So in the end, our success and survival as a species are largely and directly tied to the new eco-entrepreneurs—and the success and survival of their enterprises. Since almost all of the needed eco-technologies are likely to come from the private sector, civic leaders and voters should do all that can be done to help green business leaders succeed. That means, in large part, electing leaders who will pass bills to aid them. We cannot realistically proceed without a strong alliance between the best of the business world—and everyone else.
Jones had a limited publicity budget and no national media platform. But a viral, web-based marketing strategy earned the book a #12 debut on the New York Times bestseller list. Jones and Green For All used "a combination of emails and phone calls to friends, bloggers, and a network of activists" to reach millions of people. The marketing campaign's grassroots nature has led to Jones calling it a victory not for him but for the entire green-collar jobs movement. Jones was featured on the grassroots radio program Sea Change Radio, talking about the book and about creating a "new, clean and green economy...in a way that's inclusive." The Green Collar Economy is the first environmental book authored by an African-American to make the New York Times bestseller list.

White House Council on Environmental Quality

On March 10, 2009, it was announced that Jones would serve as Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Jones, while an ardent supporter of President Barack Obama, originally did not intend to work for the White House, later explaining "when they asked the question, I burst out laughing because at the time it seemed completely ludicrous that it would even be an option. I think what changed my mind was interacting with the administration during the transition process and during the whole process of getting the recovery package pulled together."

His position with the Obama Administration was described by columnist Chadwick Matlin as "switchboard operator for Obama's grand vision of the American economy; connecting the phone lines between all the federal agencies invested in a green economy." Jones did not like the informal "czar" term sometimes applied to his job, and described his position as "the green-jobs handyman. I'm there to serve. I'm there to help as a leader in the field of green jobs, which is a new field. I'm happy to come and serve and be helpful, but there's no such thing as a green-jobs 'czar.'"

Controversy

After his White House appointment, Jones began receiving criticism from media sources such as WorldNetDaily and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck, who featured Jones on fourteen episodes of his show. They criticized Jones for his past political activities, including his involvement with STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement) and his support for Mumia Abu-Jamal, a prisoner sentenced to death for murdering a police officer in a highly controversial trial. In July 2009 Color of Change, an organization that Jones founded in 2005 and left in 2007, launched a campaign urging advertisers on Beck's Fox News show to pull their ads, in response to comments by Beck stating President Obama has a "deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture." In September 2009, a video on YouTube was circulated of a February 2009 lecture at the Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative at which Jones used strong language to refer to Congressional Republican lawmakers, and himself, when conveying that Democrats need to step up the fight. Jones was asked how Republicans could manage to pass measures through the Senate without a supermajority, yet Democrats, with 58 votes of their own, were being blocked by Republicans. Jones explained, "Well, the answer to that is, they're assholes. As a technical, political kind of term. And Barack Obama is not an asshole. Now, I will say this: I can be an asshole, and some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama, are going to have to start getting a little bit uppity." Jones apologized, "for the offensive words I chose to use during that speech. They do not reflect the views of this administration, which has made every effort to work in a bipartisan fashion, and they do not reflect the experience I have had since I joined the administration."

Then-Representative Mike Pence (R-Indiana), the chairman of the Republican Conference in the U.S. House of Representatives, and Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, publicly criticized Jones, while Senator Kit Bond (R-Missouri) urged Congress to investigate Jones' "fitness" for the position. Bob Beckel, a Fox News political analyst who was formerly an official in the Carter administration, became the first prominent Democrat to call for Jones' resignation. In response to the criticisms, Jones issued a statement that said, "In recent days some in the news media have reported on past statements I made before I joined the [Obama] administration – some of which were made years ago. If I have offended anyone with statements I made in the past, I apologize."

Resignation

After what Jones described as a "vicious smear campaign" by "opponents of reform [of health care and clean energy]", he resigned on September 5, 2009, saying that he could not "in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future". During an interview on ABC's This Week, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs thanked Jones "for his service to the country" and said that Obama "doesn't endorse" Jones' past comments regarding race relations and politics, and his support for Mumia Abu-Jamal. Some liberal commentators expressed continued support for Jones, singling out the efforts of Glenn Beck to force his resignation. Arianna Huffington predicted Beck's efforts would backfire by freeing Jones from being "tied to his desk with a sock in his mouth". John McWhorter, in The New Republic, related his analysis to the Obama presidency in general, saying that allowing Jones to resign was "spineless".

In a post-resignation interview with The Washington Post, Jones said he did not have "any bitterness or anger about the situation" and expressed his "hope and belief" that people would judge him based on his work. Later, in an op-ed about the resignation of another Obama administration official, Shirley Sherrod, Jones described the media as having "rushed to judgment" about him.
9/11 "truther" accusation and exoneration.

Jones came under additional criticism for his name appearing on a 2004 petition from 911Truth.org that suggested the Bush Administration "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen". This accusation was particularly controversial, prompting conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer to declare that while other accusations against Jones were "trivial" this was "beyond partisanship."

Jones immediately issued a statement saying, "I do not agree with this statement and it certainly does not reflect my views now or ever" and later clarified that he had never signed the 911Truth petition.
On July 27, 2010, the group 911truth.org released a statement confirming that they had "researched the situation and were unable to produce electronic or written evidence that Van agreed to sign the Statement".

Center for American Progress


Jones speaking at Power Shift 2011, an annual youth summit, in Washington, D.C. on April 15, 2011
In February 2010, Jones became a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he leads their Green Opportunity Initiative "to develop a clearly articulated agenda for expanding investment, innovation, and opportunity through clean energy and environmental restoration".

Princeton University

In 2010 Jones received appointments at Princeton University, as a distinguished visiting fellow in both the Center for African American Studies and in the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Rebuild The Dream

In June 2011 Van launched an advocacy project called Rebuild The Dream[58] which aimed to "to give the progressive mass movement that rose up to elect Barack Obama a new banner to march under." The launch included performances by The Roots and a DJ set by artist Shepard Fairey.

In August 2012 Prince announced a series of concerts in Chicago to support Rebuild the Dream. Prince went on The View with Van Jones and Rosario Dawson to promote the concerts.
Book

In April 2012 Jones published a book titled Rebuild the Dream. It debuted at number 16 on the New York Times Best Seller list.

CNN Crossfire

In June 2013 Van was announced as a co-host of a re-boot of the CNN political debate show Crossfire, alongside Newt Gingrich, Stephanie Cutter and S.E. Cupp. In October 2014 the show was canceled.
Commentator

Van continued on after the end of Crossfire as a regular CNN contributor. He has contributed to segments on a wide range of topics including Obama administration policies, Supreme Court decisions, Ferguson protests, and the 2016 Republican primary.

The Dream Corps

Jones is currently the President of The Dream Corps, a "social enterprise and incubator for powerful ideas and innovations designed to uplift and empower the most vulnerable in our society." The Dream Corps owns and operates several advocacy projects including Green for All, #cut50, and #YesWeCode.

#YesWeCode

In early 2015 Jones launched #YesWeCode, an initiative aiming to "teach 100,000 low-income kids to write code". The musician Prince appeared at the Essence Festival to help support the launch. Jones credits Prince with the idea to form #YesWeCode. #YesWeCode has hosted several hackathons, including one in Detroit in partnership with MSNBC, and Oakland.

In an interview on CNN on 21 April 2016, hours after the musician Prince's death, Van Jones revealed on CNN that Prince had secretly contributed to the funding of #YesWeCode.

#cut50

In 2015 Jones launched #cut50, an organization focused on bi-partisan solutions to criminal justice reform issues. In March 2015 #cut50 hosted a "bi-partisan summit" with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to promote bi-partisan solutions.
Celebrity support.

In November 2015 #cut50 gained the support of singer Alicia Keys. In 2016 Keys made a video appeal to Paul Ryan asking him to "be her Valentine" and commit to giving legislation on criminal justice reform a vote. Ryan made this commitment days later.
#cut50 received additional celebrity support from "100 A-List celebrities"[76] including Amy Schumer, Steph Curry, Ed Norton, Jesse Williams, Chris Pine, Russell Simmons, Shonda Rhimes, Russel Brand, Jessica Chastain, and Piper Kerman.

Friendship with Prince

Jones was a longtime friend of the musician Prince. Prince publicly supported several of Jones advocacy projects, and after Prince's death Jones revealed that the musician was a frequent anonymous funder to a wide spectrum of charitable causes. Prince would use Jones and others as surrogates to distribute his gifts to maintain his anonymity; as one of Jehovah's Witnesses he did not want to receive public credit for his charitable work.

Jones also worked as Prince's attorney alongside his manager Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins in the successful fight to regain ownership of his masters. Jones was among the 20 people who gathered for a private memorial service at Paisley Park after Prince's death.
Other projects


Van Jones in June 2016.

During the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election, Jones served as Arianna Huffington's statewide grassroots director.

On February 26, 2010, Jones received the NAACP President's Award at the 41st annual NAACP Image Awards.

On October 2, 2010, Jones spoke at the One Nation Working Together rally in Washington, DC, where he spoke about linking the fight against poverty with the fight against pollution, saying that green jobs would bring "real solutions" instead of "hateful rhetoric".

On April 15, 2011, Jones spoke at Powershift 2011 in Washington, DC, where he addressed over 10,000 students on issues of climate justice and standing up for underrepresented communities. Powershift 2011 was the largest youth activism and organizing training in U.S. history.

In 2011, Jones worked with MoveOn.org to launch the Rebuild the Dream campaign, which was intended to start a progressive American Dream movement to counter the Tea Party movement. Following a kickoff on June 23, 2011, Rebuild the Dream announced a "Contract for the American Dream", intended as a counter to the Tea Party-supported "Contract from America", and held house meetings in July. Jones claimed 127,000 people had become involved in the movement by the end of July 2011.


At the beginning of October 2011, prior to a Rebuild the Dream conference in Washington, DC, Jones compared the Occupy Wall Street movement to an "American Autumn" comparable to the Arab Spring uprisings, saying, "You can see it right now with these young people on Wall Street. Hold onto your hats, we're going to have an October offensive to take back the American dream and to rescue America's middle class."

At a speech in San Francisco in February 2012, Jones spoke out on behalf of underwater home owners, saying "”They call it class warfare…if anything, it’s warfare against people who have no class…they won’t even return our phone calls when our houses are underwater

Boards

Jones has served on the boards of numerous environmental and nonprofit organizations, including Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), 1Sky, the National Apollo Alliance, Social Venture Network, Rainforest Action Network, Bioneers, Julia Butterfly Hill's "Circle of Life" organization and Free Press. He currently serves on the board of trustees at Demos.[ He also served as a Senior Fellow with the Center for American Progress and a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He was a keynote speaker at the youth conference Power Shift 2009 and 2011 in Washington, D.C.

Awards and Honors

Jones' awards and honors include:
1996 – Brick Award Now renamed as Dosomething Awards
1997–1999 – Rockefeller Foundation "Next Generation Leadership" Fellowship
1998 – Reebok International Human Rights Award
2000 – International Ashoka Fellowship
2008 – Best Dressed Environmental List (#1 of 30); Sustainable Style Foundation[relevant? – discuss]
2008 – Time Magazine Environmental Hero
2008 – Elle Magazine Green Award
2008 – One of the George Lucas Foundation's "Daring Dozen"
2008 – Hunt Prime Mover Award; Hunt Alternatives Fund
2008 – Campaign for America's Future "Paul Wellstone Award"
2008 – Global Green USA "Community Environmental Leadership" Award
2008 – San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Award
2008 – Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship
2008 – World Economic Forum "Young Global Leader"
2008 – Essence Magazine 25 Most Inspiring African Americans
2009 – Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award
2009 – Eco-Entrepreneur Award, Institute for Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Innovation; Howard University
2009 – Individual Thought Leadership, Energy & Environment Awards; Aspen Institute
2009 - Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World
2010 – NAACP President's Award
2010 – Commonwealth Club of California – Inforum's 21st Century Visionary Award
2010 – Global Exchange Human Rights Award Honoree.
2011 – Ebony Magazine's Power 150
2012 – Rolling Stone Magazine 12 Leaders Who Get Things Done
2013 – The Root Magazine 100 Honorees
2013 – Ebony Magazine's Power 100
2015 – National Urban League's Toyota Clean Energy Honoree
2015 – Environmental Media Association's Green Biz Global Innovator Award
2015 – Rainbow Push Coalition's 2015 Vanguard Award
2015 – David E. Glover Vanguard Award


These are just some points I found in my simple search that I wanted to share with you, just to set the record straight.

Ron, Robert likes to jump in without any knowledge of the conversation. Do you see the Beck connection?
Wednesday, August 31st 2016 at 4:54AM
Steve Williams | delete

No!!! Point it out to me.

Van Jones threatened to exercise his Second Amendment right against Beck and Beck threatened to exercise his Second Amendment right against Van Jones.

The veiled warning from Jones was a concern to Glenn Beck, and during his nightly television show seen on GBTV, Beck showed Jones’ somewhat cryptic threat. Mr. Beck also responded and delivered a special message of his own to the 9/11 Truther:

Van, I know exactly who you are. I know what you are capable of. I have studied you as much as you have studied me…

Beck also told to Jones (and the GBTV audience) that Beck, too, was now free to accomplish the things he knows “need to be done.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/05/09...

Wednesday, August 31st 2016 at 6:36AM
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I watched this clip twice and I don't see a connection from Van Jones to Glenn Beck at all. Never once did Van Jones mention Glenn's name at all in this clip but what I do see is Glenn trying his best to connect himself with to a man of importance.

Now the only connection Jones and Beck happened In July 2009 Color of Change, an organization that Jones founded in 2005 and left in 2007, launched a campaign urging advertisers on Beck's Fox News show to pull their ads, in response to comments by Beck stating President Obama has a "deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture."

Which you now know was a LIE, as Beck tried his best to stir up the countries white hate groups and the poorly educated white's against The First Black President of The United States of America. Steven, beck's motives was a LIE then and your connection and this information you state is a LIE now... Now this clip of Beck's was reported in May. 9, 2012 and now is 31 Aug 16 WOW!!!

Your SHOUTING LIE is getting old Ron. You see the connection between Van Jones, Beck, O'Donnell, and Nate-from-Virginia.

I told you and pointed out to you what I saw Steven. I also saw that your proof was dated May. 9, 2012 in a article titled: Glenn Beck Responds to Van Jones’ Threats With Direct Message: ‘I Know What You are Capable Of’

Pointing out LIES will never get old as long as LIES are being told and I will continue to SHOUT OUT LIES FROM THE ROOFTOPS and tell the world about a LIE, A CON, A FRAUD, A SCAM, A DECEPTION the way I see it and be the first to tell you that I was wrong, if proven so.

Today we are talking about a video titled: Van Jones Trump's Outreach To Black Folks Sucks Here's Why | New Video 2016

Now Steven do you have any comments on this video that you saw?

Sure Ron. I think it's a shame Van Jones resigned and I understand how he feels about Trump.

You are all over the place now. First you came to me with the Jones and Beck connection which you failed badly in. Then you wanted to open your talking points up to O'Donnell and you could not prove that at all. Then you said this: Your SHOUTING LIE is getting old Ron. When I told you right out that Pointing out LIES will never get old as long as LIES are being told and I will continue to SHOUT OUT LIES FROM THE ROOFTOPS and tell the world about a LIE, A CON, A FRAUD, A SCAM, A DECEPTION the way I see it and be the first to tell you that I was wrong, if proven so. You stepped off that line of attack, Now you want to talk about Jones resignation.

Ok Steven, let us talk about van Jones resignation for a moment since you ran there trying to save your face.

Resignation

After what Jones described as a "vicious smear campaign" by "opponents of reform [of health care and clean energy]", he resigned on September 5, 2009, saying that he could not "in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future". During an interview on ABC's This Week, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs thanked Jones "for his service to the country" and said that Obama "doesn't endorse" Jones' past comments regarding race relations and politics, and his support for Mumia Abu-Jamal. Some liberal commentators expressed continued support for Jones, singling out the efforts of Glenn Beck to force his resignation. Arianna Huffington predicted Beck's efforts would backfire by freeing Jones from being "tied to his desk with a sock in his mouth". John McWhorter, in The New Republic, related his analysis to the Obama presidency in general, saying that allowing Jones to resign was "spineless".

In a post-resignation interview with The Washington Post, Jones said he did not have "any bitterness or anger about the situation" and expressed his "hope and belief" that people would judge him based on his work. Later, in an op-ed about the resignation of another Obama administration official, Shirley Sherrod, Jones described the media as having "rushed to judgment" about him.
9/11 "truther" accusation and exoneration.

Jones came under additional criticism for his name appearing on a 2004 petition from 911Truth.org that suggested the Bush Administration "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen". This accusation was particularly controversial, prompting conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer to declare that while other accusations against Jones were "trivial" this was "beyond partisanship."

Jones immediately issued a statement saying, "I do not agree with this statement and it certainly does not reflect my views now or ever" and later clarified that he had never signed the 911Truth petition.

On July 27, 2010, the group 911truth.org released a statement confirming that they had "researched the situation and were unable to produce electronic or written evidence that Van agreed to sign the Statement".

In short Steven, that VAN JONES name appearing on a 2004 petition from 911Truth.org that suggested the Bush Administration "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen". This accusation was particularly controversial, prompting conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer to declare that while other accusations against Jones were "trivial" this was "beyond partisanship."

THAT TOO WAS A LIE AS WELL!!! Steven can't you see that you have being scammed by all these LIES from the right wing of The Republican Party?

Now do you want to talk about the video you saw? Wait a minute, that is right, you never said that you saw this video, did you?

Steven, did you see this video?

Of course I saw it Ron. I said I understood how he feels about Trump. He felt the same way about Beck.

You could not possibly come to that conclusion about how Jones feel about Beck from this video Steve, STOP LYING MAN, you don't have to do that, WOW!!!

TRY TELLING THE TRUTH. WOW!!!

Your video isn't the only information out there Ron.

See this is what I am talking about. The purpose of this blog is to TALK ABOUT IT STEVEN!!!! If you don't want to TALK ABOUT THE MATERIAL CONTAINED IN A BLOG, STAY OFF OF IT!!!

Remember this word in Spanish "PAYASO" means CLOWN this word I was going to use for TRUMP.

You don't want to talk Ron, only vent. That's why you always run behind your 'topic'.

Oh, I saw the "Spanish for clown" thing on MSNBC too.

Staying on topic is the reason why I started this blog Steven. It would be foolish for me to let a troll derail my topic, wouldn't it?

Ron, I think it's smart for SOMEONE to reply.

If no one replied you might be in the same fix as Harry.

Did you read my last comment to you with understanding? That was in response to your statement of" YOUR WORDS: "You don't want to talk Ron, only vent. That's why you always run behind your 'topic'."

Is that "troll" as in fishing, or "troll" as in The Hobbit?

None of the above.

Internet Toll

In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory,[1] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[2] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion,[3] often for their own amusement.

So what is the Internet slang for crybaby?

waa waa

Someone who is always ***ing and whining about someone or something. A crybaby. A whiner.

http://urbanthesaurus.org/synonyms/waa%20w...

We are talking in circles, back to the subject of Van Jones Trump's Outreach To Black Folks Sucks Here's Why?

Is Donald trump reaching out to all to all American people?

Will Donald trump stop insulting Black and Hispanic people?

I believe Donald Trump will try to do right by all Americans.

He has starting out on the bad from the beginning a same not to care.

What?

Seem not to care...

Ron, I've worked for some very tough people. Many of them didn't care, but the best of them did. The worst of them were the pure politicians.

Do you have any more to say on the subject of Van Jones?

No.

Ok Steven...