I guess he's not that much of a racist.
Posted on 09/06/2009 6:46:38 PM PDT by kristinn
Carl Pope, the white male executive director of the Sierra Club wrote an after the fact defense of former Obama administration official Van Jones published at the Huffington Post tonight that smears everyone, including Jones, with racial insults.
Pope says he served with Jones on the board of the Apollo Alliance and calls himself a friend of Jones.
But like so many privileged liberal white males, Pope doesn't see Jones as a Yale Law grad and successful author. No, he sees Jones as just another black man from the ghetto.
Pope lets his inner racist out as he writes a defense of Jones calling President George W. Bush a "crackhead" and Republicans "a**h***s" by explaining it as Jones speaking "in the language of his own community," in other words 'he can't help it 'cause he's Black'.
(full context: "They were cuing up video clips from teenagers that Jones taught in the Oakland ghetto in 2000. If you watch the infamous "a**h***s" video carefully, it's clear that what Jones was saying was that Republicans play hardball better than Democrats, and that we need to start playing by their rules. He said it, though, in the language of his own community -- and that, at the end of the day, was his crime. He spoke to and was of a part of an America that Fox and the reactionary right would like to put back on the plantation or pretend is not part of our nation."
Pope can't bring himself to admit that what drove the effort to oust Jones from the administration was the outrage at Jones' vile anti-American, pro-terrorist, Communist, cop-killer supporting politics being rewarded with a prestigious appointment to the United States government by the president.
Instead, Jones accuses everyone of being a racist: And why did Fox News go after Jones but not Friedman, not Schwarzenegger, not even Presidential Science Advisor John Holdren, who in July of '06 criticized the president for failing to follow through and help us kick our "oil addiction"?
There are three possible reasons. They are connected, and it is their connection that is important.
1) Van Jones, unlike everyone else I have quoted on the topic of our oil addiction and George Bush's complicity with it, is African-American.
2) By specifying that Bush's addiction was "crack-head"-like, Jones linked Bush to a drug largely used in the black community.
3) Van Jones works for the first black man to be elected president.
And:
What we underestimated was the power of the fact that both Jones and the Barack Obama are black. Yes, the hysteria was about politics -- I don't think Fox News really cares about Jones's ethnicity -- but it was enabled by race. Calling Bush a "crack-head" is seen by a large part of America as worse than calling him "addict-in-chief" because crack is not just a drug -- it is a drug used largely by black people. It reminds those Americans who are still uncomfortable with Barack Obama that we have a black president.
But remember, Jones can't help himself according to Pope. With friends like these, Jones no wonder Jones got tossed overboard.
The libtards are screaming like the Wicked Witch of the West doused in water and melting.
BWAHAHA! A little paternalistic racism from a white liberal. I love it!
The Sierra Club should have been investigated a long time ago. I learned what they were about back in the late 60s. An investigation is way overdue.
Get out the popcorn. This is FUN!
This is one of the best meltdowns I’ve ever enjoyed.
lol
They LOVE keeping the ‘black in the back’, don’t they? Utterly absurd! They always treat minorities as if they can’t think for themselves.
This punk puke was just a communist entrusted in a high position in our government. And then there was Van Jones.
This Pope creep is just as bad as Jones. Worse even, since he knows much better how to hide his beliefs. Jones was just sloppy.
Examples?
More of the “soft bigotry of low expectations.”
I seriously doubt Jones had any interest in “green jobs”. He was probably more interested in power, particularly the power to hand out money.
LOL. Reminds me the many white liberals that I know who felt so proud of themselves the day after the election. One of them even told me that she felt “hopeful for a change. Maybe now young black men will have a positive role model”. She’s lived all her life in liberal NJ and only after casting a vote for a community organizer with no leadership or executive experience did she feel hopeful for young black men. Just peachy.
“what drove the effort to oust Jones from the administration was the outrage at Jones’ vile anti-American, pro-terrorist, Communist, cop-killer supporting politics being rewarded with a prestigious appointment to the United States government by the president.”
EXACTLY
Are these really the comments of a sane person?
But they had such nice posters of the woods and mountains. Who could have known what they were morphing into?
An old southern black woman once told me she prefered the open racism of the old south to the “we gotta help the negro” racism of liberals.
The open racism is easy because you can see it ans sidestep ut. Liberal racism won’t allow a sidestep because they just have to help whether you need it or not.
Are these really the comments of a sane person?
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Ummmmmm, from a ‘lefty’? I’m preaching to the choir, I know. ;-)
As always, kristinn, impeccable research! The left will be in shambles long before all of Obama’s czars are removed. :)
There are no bigger racists than arrogant white liberals.
Carl Pope, the clueless white male executive director of the Sierra Club, is calling Van Jones a sub-human.
I’m wondering if Pope will get Jones’ czar job.
A little pay back for the Jones remark about white environmetalist steering toxins into minority neighborhoods?
Someone once called it the soft bigotry of low expectations.
He is a truther, documented on video.
He is a supporter of Mumia Abu Jamal, documented on video.
He is a racist, documented on video.
Is that enough for you?
Yep exactly, I was just going to say that. And we know those billions for “green jobs” was going to be redistributed to the environmental honchos and elites. I doubt that very little, if any, was going to be used to help the inner-cities and poor.
I’ve been hearing about Van Jones and his connections, and all that time, I pictured him as white until I saw him on TV the other day. This is about the man’s political agenda and nothing else.
Jeffery Immelt and the GE board are deeply saddened...
Sooo, by his own reasoning, Pope himself has no excuse at all for being a racist and a blithering idiot!?!
gotta wonder if in fact Jones didn’t have a few of his puppet-strings controlled by or dedicated to the Sierra Klub.....”green jobs” seem to be more related to Sierra Klub wishes and ducks-in-a-row than anything at all in Jones background......
Not green jobs or money, Obama and his Marxist tools are
dismantling America as we know it.
Many on FR still don’t get it, thinking by siting at home or voting third party, this is what they helped facilitate.
gotta wonder if in fact Jones didn’t have a few of his puppet-strings controlled by or dedicated to the Sierra Klub.....”green jobs” seem to be more related to Sierra Klub wishes and ducks-in-a-row than anything at all in Jones background......
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All of these ‘groups’ are in cahoots. Just ‘follow the ‘green’ (money).
Hey, we all know black men have no self-control, right Sierra? Just a typical black guy, eh?
Van Jones works for the first black man to be elected president.
Anthony Jones (his real name before he picked the inflated ‘Van’), did know what he was signing on that petition and in fact was a 9/11 Truther. His denial is implausible and insulting. In one breath the left cannot proudly speak of him as a brilliant Yale Lawyer and then in another breath say he signs legal documents without knowing what they say and therefore cannot be held accountable. Let’s stop dancing around these issues. Barack Obama is firing him, if all these talk radio hosts are lying then Anthony Van Jones would still have his job. But they are not lying and Van Jones has lit his own hair on fire and is now putting it out with a hammer. Why wasn’t he vetted! Don’t forget, he also said white people were spreading pollutants on to people of color, directly attributing moral quality to race - which is something racists do. This man also did not know what a green job was, never ran a business and never really created a job unless someone like the government handed him a bunch of money that he never had to pay back. He is a community organizer, a big talker, mouthing tropes taken from various environmentalists, believing it all as scientific truth, unquestioningly, and then putting a racist spin on it. All to very friendly crowds who agree that America is a white racist genocidal imperialist nation. If these are Obama’s leaders, I would be afraid to look at the people he rejected for the job.
Cripplecreek:
“An old southern black woman once told me she prefered the open racism of the old south to the “we gotta help the negro” racism of liberals.”
I have always found that disgusting about liberal whites. The truth is that their “help” is always about them. I worked with them for almost thirty years. Whenever I would pose a question that suggested my understanding of their real motivation, they either ended the conversation or became angry. They were always threatened by the truth. To me that is what being a white liberal is all about. Self delusion, thinly defended.
The liberal help of blacks stems from an assumption that a black person is incapable of doing for themselves.
The old style open racism didn’t make that assumption. They just didn’t like blacks and didn’t want to be around them, end of story.
It’s amazing how these left-liberals can advance to the defense of this guy without the slightest bit of information. They obviously don’t care about who the guy is, just what he can do for them. At least conservatives are more circumspect about who and what they support.
The Huffington post writers got angry at the Bush administration for catching the Fort Dix Six.
“hopeful for a change. Maybe now young black men will have a positive role model”.
What a clueless bitch. There are plenty out there yet the liberal media chooses to ignore them. Instead they cover the loudmouth race pimps, who are not even fit to polish Col Fred Cherry’s (USAF-Ret) boots.
What a condescending comment. I can’t believe in 2009 someone would make that a public comment.
I guess he's not that much of a racist.
He targets white men in his statments about poisoning people.
Indeed they do. They’re all for “diversity” as long as it’s not their neighborhood, school, shopping area, or granddaughter’s boyfriend.
Indeed they do. They’re all for “diversity” as long as it’s not their neighborhood, school, shopping area, or granddaughter’s boyfriend.
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Absolutely.
Yes he is. He hates black chicks...
This just keeps getting better.
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