In Saturday night’s late-night diary about the Jones resignation, I commented in the discussion threads that before the day was out today (Sunday), cries of “racism!” would sound. And just as predictably as the sun rising in the morning, there they are.
From page 2 of the Politico story, published late Sunday:
Some progressives said they saw racial overtones in Jones’ departure – which came as critics began to step up their scrutiny of Jones’ past words of support for Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther on death row whose murder conviction in the death of a police officer is a cause célèbre for some on the left.
“It struck me, why go after this guy? He is a minor player, he has no power, no budget, why take him? It’s because he looks like Obama and he has all those same attributes of being well-educated and he’s an electrifying speaker with an elite education,” said John Anner, a good friend of Jones and former chair of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, an organization Jones founded in Oakland. “It seems to me that he is symbolic of what the Obama administration is and could be and that’s inspiring for me, but for some people on the right, it’s terrifying and threatening.”
No one should be surprised at this at all, for apparently it is impossible for conservatives and/or Republicans to oppose anyone who isn’t white without spawning accusations of racism. As so many have written already in recent months, Obama’s so-called “post-racial” America is…not. And folks, it isn’t the conservatives and the GOP who brought this on - it is the leftists who cry “RACISTS!” every time something doesn’t go their way.
Here’s a clue, race-baiters: sometimes a person is just wrong, no matter what their melanin level, and that was clearly the case with Van Jones. Furthermore, on the czar-hunting front, I personally believe the next one we need to expose is John Holdren, Obama’s “science czar.” And guess what: he’s white.

No, it has nothing to do w/ that Communist thing
6eorge Jetson Monday, September 7th at 1:18AM EDT (link)Nor his support for the 9/11 truther witch hunt.
I'm biracial conservative veteran in my mid-20's
itsallverbatim Monday, September 7th at 10:07AM EDT (link)Van Jones set African-Americans back 25 years.
For the “progressive” crowd to claim racism is patently absurd.
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Nice feint, bs, but
blooch Monday, September 7th at 1:21AM EDT (link)Mark Lloyd’s staff is still checking to make sure he didn’t inadvertently sign an ELF petition.
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Meh. I'm more concerned about...
bs Monday, September 7th at 1:29AM EDT (link)…a person who supports forced abortions and sterilizations and who believes that “To provide a high quality of life for all, there must be fewer people.” (from the linked Foxnews.com story). More info from Michelle Malkin here.
And what a coincidence - he’s another greenie like Jones.
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I'm in complete agreement with *your* prioritizing,
blooch Monday, September 7th at 1:48AM EDT (link)but you know that all of Obama’s Vetless Wonders are now looking at each other suspiciously ,and most are prioritizing their chances of survival based first and foremost on race….especially the Diversity peddlers.
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It wasn't race. It was ideology.
archer52 Monday, September 7th at 1:31AM EDT (link)Van Jones is a walking grocery list of leftie ideas and agendas. He is an agitator and was willing to say, do and support anything to overwhelm the system. He probably signed that silly petition just so he could stick another pin in the side of “the man.” To look at him in action just makes you itchy and wince a lot.
The only thing Van Jones believes in is his own advancement. And in that way, he does resemble Obama.
Ridiculous.
redtillimdead Monday, September 7th at 1:33AM EDT (link)To the “progressives”, everything we do is because of race. Do the Democrats not realize that its Republicans who wanted to free the slaves? Lincoln was a Republican. But all Republicans are racists. Republicans like Michael Williams and Ryan Frazier, ya know, there racists too. They can’t stand blacks. Give me a %^$*!@# break!
Nancy Pelosi can kiss my asstroturf.
Really these baiters should read...
Bobcat51 Monday, September 7th at 1:36AM EDT (link)the UK Telegraph to obtain an honest fair and balanced view of why Jones was rumbled for being the self proclaimed communist he is?
Sadly they are blinded by race to even see the truth shining through, cry babies the lot of them.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6147267/Barack-Obama-aide-resigns-over-claim-that-911-was-a-pretext-for-war.html
Gee, like we didn't see this one coming...
Husker Monday, September 7th at 1:47AM EDT (link)When devoid of substance use the race card.
Beck vs. Van Jones
mgparrish Monday, September 7th at 1:56AM EDT (link)http://www.mgparrish.com/vanjonesweb.jpg
predictability of LeftyLoon excuses/deflections
JLenardDetroit Monday, September 7th at 1:57AM EDT (link)as I said on the 4th (Erick’s Diary):
… and….
and then on the 5th (streiff’s Diary)
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He looks like Obama?
Ben White Monday, September 7th at 2:37AM EDT (link)John Anner must think all black men look alike. Maybe he needs to get his eyes checked or learn to see more than someone’s skin color when looking at them
Van Jones doesn’t look much like Mr. Obama to me.
To liberals, all black people look alike ...
Martin Knight Monday, September 7th at 5:09AM EDT (link)And besides, isn’t Obama half-white …?
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NOTE: “consensus” = “Bipartisanship™”/”Centrism™”
I was thinking much the same when I read that
Fred Maidment Monday, September 7th at 10:53AM EDT (link)The two men clearly do not look alike. I’m rather sick of this concept of “white people think all black people look alike.” That’s just as prejudiced a sentiment as any.
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Eason Jordan and Dan Rather are both white and gone
katesmith Monday, September 7th at 3:40AM EDT (link)Eason Jordan forced to resign from CNN a few years ago over claiming the US military tried to shoot reporters. Jones is said to have had a multiple billion dollar budget from the porkulus bill. To the idea that he had no power, he was a White House appointee which certainly means he had more power than I do. The group he founded, Color of Change, apparently had enough power to scare the daylights out of Fox News advertisers. I understand he allegedly is no longer active with the group. But one might as well say George Soros has no budget and no power. As has been noted, this is the tip of the iceberg, there are plenty more where he came from.
Race Pace
GreyCloak Monday, September 7th at 4:31AM EDT (link)I suppose you could run on race, but Obama did his best not to, to his credit (Hey! He won the election; credit is due where credit is due … and when he maxes out America’s credit card, the ink will be red, not black.)
My wife points out that “being Black in America” means you can be a Supreme Court Justice (two: Thurgood Marshall, nominated by LBJ [D], and Clarence Thomas, nominated by George H.W. Bush [R]). A Secretary of State (Colin Powell and Condi Rice, both nominated by George W. Bush [R]), or a President (elected by all The People [well, at least a majority] … and out of a voting population only 11.5% Black).
It is pretty sad that few mention that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican (the first, incidentally) … or that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was only passed with overwhelming Republican (~80%) support (as opposed to Democrat filibusters and weak [~60%, finally] support).
When Rev. Jesse Jackson cried at Obama’s acceptance speech, he may have been crying in joy but it is more likely that he was crying because he could never again claim “The Black Man” can’t make it.
I didn’t even know that Van Jones was Black; nor do I care. He was “The Man” … and if the man doesn’t believe in America, he doesn’t need to have a cushy job in a position that shouldn’t have been created in the first place.
Remember: there was only one Czar [Tsar]; the equivalent positions in actual historical context were “Commissars!”
Diluting the effectiveness of the "Race Card"
EagleWatcher Monday, September 7th at 7:20AM EDT (link)If the Dems play the race card for everything, people will soon become immune to it. Like everything they do, the Dems are incapable of self-control.
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this is already happening.
kyle8 Monday, September 7th at 7:57AM EDT (link)In fact it is easy to destroy the race card argument in any conversation right now in regards to Obama by merely pointing out that the liberals did not like being accused of being unpatriotic when they opposed Bush, and now they label everyone who opposes Obama as a racist, same thing.
I used that in a few conversations and the liberals shut up immediately.
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I agree this could backfire on the left
bk Monday, September 7th at 8:24AM EDT (link)Lots of middle class white people will be saying, “Hey I voted for Obama. Don’t call me a racist!” His election was an absolution for lots of people.
The novelty is waring off
EagleWatcher Monday, September 7th at 8:29AM EDT (link)Most people voted for BHO because they wanted to participate in history. Now that the thrill is no longer running up their legs they are starting to see that BHO is just another fast talking Chicago pol.
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I don't see immunity, ever
derhoosier Monday, September 7th at 9:17AM EDT (link)Sorry, I can’t agree. There’ll always be a race card for a couple of simple reasons. First, the entire governmental apparatus is stacked to reward race. Second, the legacy media will never cease and desist letting people play it. Third, and most important, there is a certain segment of the population — of all colors– that is frankly just too bloody stupid to realize they’re being played.
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8 years of "you're a racist" will ware thin
EagleWatcher Monday, September 7th at 9:28AM EDT (link)It’s human nature. Just like Andy Warhole’s “we will all be famous for 15 minutes” we will all be “racists for 15 minutes” at which point it becomes a self-parody. The Race Card will still work with Pepsi and Toyota, but not with the voting public gagging on the stench of the beached whale the Obama Administration has become.
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RedBeard Monday, September 7th at 8:08AM EDT (link)…the cry of “RACIST!” is the cry of desperation. Whenever we hear this, it’s a confession on the part of leftists that they have no other armament, no other argument, nothing.
And, as others have pointed out, this false ploy is wearing thin with more and more people every time it is used. It’s almost to the point of being less convincing than a schoolyard taunt of, “Oh, yeah? Well, you’re a doodoo head!”
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There are legitimate cases...
Fred Maidment Monday, September 7th at 11:02AM EDT (link)…of racism. There are those who still think that one race is actually superior to another, and discriminate accordingly.
More often, however, the racism disguised as compassion: “You can’t do it because the odds are stacked against you. You have to get help from us. Vote me into office.”
Yup, I’m calling all those liberal pols who keep crying “racism” all the time… racists.
Because, clearly, there are too many examples of successful black, asian and hispanic individuals to believe that tripe.
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I remember in 2006
WarEagle01 Monday, September 7th at 8:52AM EDT (link)when Lynn Swann was running for governor of PA on the Republican ticket. I thought at the time, “he’ll win because all the non-racist Democrats will vote for him.” Of course, I was wrong. The Democrats overwhelmingly voted for Fast Eddy Rendell. Because he is white. And all Democrats are racists. Frickin’ Democrat Kluckers.
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I am going to guess the left doesn't get that we...
JadedByPolitics Monday, September 7th at 9:03AM EDT (link)and by we I mean Americans just don’t give a crap anymore about that word “racism”. It has no effect. They have chicken-littled that word to death in the past year (and 40 yrs) and WE DON’T CARE.
I will go so far as to say that from know on when we are called racists that it is a badge of honor and a job well done!
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If Jones was fired due to racism
docweasel Monday, September 7th at 9:12AM EDT (link)…shouldn’t he be able to sue someone? I think he should sue the Obama Admin for blatant discrimination. Other Admin members got a pass for tax evasion and worse, while he gets the axe for saying a few racist broadsides against white people. It’s just not fair and it’s un-American. Sue, I say.
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If I recall, he resigned, wasn't fired.... (nt)
larueladue Monday, September 7th at 9:24AM EDT (link)“Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.” - Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (Vegetius) in “De Re Militari,” Book III.
sheesh, don't be so literal
docweasel Monday, September 7th at 10:17AM EDT (link)I was making a joke, but all the same, if he were inclined to, I’m sure he could claim he was pressured to leave because of his views. And a DC jury, I’m suspecting, would be pretty sympathetic (that is, if you could indeed get a court to hear the case, it’s pretty hard to sue the president).
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this is what employers, teachers, retailers
mom2oneson Monday, September 7th at 9:21AM EDT (link)deal with all the time. Any type of negative consequence will get met with a cry of racism from *some* people even children.
Obama to win Nobel Peace Prize
EagleWatcher Monday, September 7th at 9:31AM EDT (link)I am predicting that BHO will win the Nobel Peace Prize for talks with Iran even if they yield nothing.
You heard it here first.
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A quick Time line for Referencing things:
Deskpilot Monday, September 7th at 9:41AM EDT (link)Discovery (MET) 8/29/2009 23:59 = 00Y/0M /09D/9H /24M
Hubble (HMET) 04/24/1990, 8:33 = 19Y/5M /17D /9H /23M
Post Racial Inaugural Declarative Event
Obama (PRIDE) 1/20/2009 12:00 = 00Y/8M/17D/21H/23M
Elapsed Racial Incident Charge
Jones (ERIC) 09.07.2009 = 00Y/00M/3D/9H/28M
Deskpilot RS Memberhship 11/6/2008 = 00Y/10M/1D/12M
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izoneguy Monday, September 7th at 9:45AM EDT (link)BREITBART: Couric should look in mirror
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/07/breitbart-couric-should-look-in-mirror/?feat=home_headlines&
For most people in this country, the resignation was the first they had heard of Van Jones. For this sin of journalistic omission, there’s institutional media blame. Bias is too tame a word for the utter shamelessness on display: Only Republican scandals - real and imagined - matter.
And it’s not just those the Democratic-Media Complex dub as “mobs” or “tea baggers” that are taking notice. Diminishing audience and evaporating subscribership reflect widespread consumer dissatisfaction. Eventually, the money will run out.
But until then, the growing alternative media of Internet and talk radio and a burgeoning mass of justifiably angry Americans will make every effort to expose the sham that is mainstream journalism.
Obviously, it’s not that the Jones story wasn’t newsworthy. His racist rants, his radical background and his membership in a 9/11 “truther” group made for heavy-rotation YouTube viewing that would have immediately destroyed other mere mortals if the shoe were on the right - or white - foot.
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VJ: Flashback to High School
minncon Monday, September 7th at 10:10AM EDT (link)Good Lord… I’ve been hearing this “it’s because I’m black” crap since going to a 30% black high school back in 1972! You reap what you sow… if you have a big mouth and make ongoing racist statements (like Vanity Jones did), you can’t cry race when you’re canned. It is a fact: the largest group of racists in America is made up of the very people who continually cry “racism!”
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It's sad, really.
NightTwister Monday, September 7th at 10:36AM EDT (link)Actual racism still exists in our country, and quite frankly always will. Reactions like this, unfortunately, will only serve to make race relations worse, not better. It should be offensive to those that have actually experienced racism for people to use it in this way, but unfortunately I think there are many these days that simply can’t tell the difference between true racism and race-baiting.
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From Huff Glue - We All Blew It
izoneguy Monday, September 7th at 11:42AM EDT (link)I know what they are blowing
From: Carl Pope Executive Director of the Sierra Club
(No surprise there)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-pope/we-all-blew-it_b_278514.html
Jones is an extraordinarily important leader. He cares, passionately, about helping young men and women find their way in the world, even if they had the misfortune to grow up in bad neighborhoods or make bad choices — and he sees in a new green economy a powerful instrument to heal their lives. But that kind of hope is profoundly threatening to Glenn Beck and people like him. When it comes from a black man, they reach back to an old and ugly instinct.
This is a lynch mob in the making.
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Anyone who believes
Warrior Tuesday, September 8th at 5:19PM EDT (link)a “green economy” is going to “heal” anyone’s life is completely out of touch with reality - both economic reality and the reality of human nature.
“Attorney General Holder’s decision to re-open the criminal investigation creates an atmosphere of continuous jeopardy for those whose cases the Department of Justice had previously declined to prosecute.”
—–signed by former [CIA] directors Michael Hayden, Porter Goss, George Tenet, John Deutch, R. James Woolsey, William Webster and James R. Schlesinger.
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Are we talking about the same guy?
Warrior Tuesday, September 8th at 5:27PM EDT (link)Van Jones?
“…he has all those same attributes of being well-educated and he’s an electrifying speaker with an elite education,” said John Anner, “…[which is] for some people on the right…terrifying and threatening.”
Is he joking? I got a better education in my high school than this slug apparently got in his “elite” college. At least I know better than to call a large, heterogeneous group of powerful people, most of whom I don’t know, “A**holes” on video tape. At least not and continue to have aspirations of political success on any level.
And “electrifying speaker”? Surely you jest. I’ve heard carnival barkers with more eloquence…
“[T]errifying and threatening”? To small children and the terminally nervous, maybe. But to adults with even a modicum of sophistication? Hardly.
“Attorney General Holder’s decision to re-open the criminal investigation creates an atmosphere of continuous jeopardy for those whose cases the Department of Justice had previously declined to prosecute.”
—–signed by former [CIA] directors Michael Hayden, Porter Goss, George Tenet, John Deutch, R. James Woolsey, William Webster and James R. Schlesinger.
Read http://www.redstate.com/warrior/ for insightful commentary on today’s events…