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Line 12: − + − Jones was born on September 20, 1968 in Jackson, Tennessee, to Willie Anthony Jones and Loretta Jean Kirkendoll Jones.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tFAeBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA247 Rebuild the Dream]</ref> He has a twin sister, Angela.<ref>[http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/01/12/greening-the-ghetto Greening the Ghetto], [[The New Yorker]]</ref>+ − + − As a child, Jones considered himself "bookish and bizarre". On his first day at the University of Tennessee at Martin, he decided to change his name to "Van", because "it has a little touch of nobility, but at the same time it’s not overboard."<ref>[http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-true-identity-of-van-jones/ The “True Identity” Of Van Jones], [[Accuracy in Media]]</ref> − − He has worked as a [[John Podesta]] subordinate at the [[Center for American Progress]] and sat on the board of an environmental activist group at which a founder of the [[Weather Underground]] [[terrorist]] organization is a top director.<ref>[https://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106653 ''Obama's 'green jobs czar' worked with terror founder] Van Jones served on board of activist group where Weatherman co-founder [[Jeff Jones]] serves as top director'', By Aaron Klein, [[WorldNetDaily]], August 13, 2009.</ref> − In the 1990s, Van Jones described himself as a [[communist]] in an in-depth interview for the radical publication ''East Bay Express'':+ − <blockquote>But in jail, he said, "I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.'" Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. "I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary." In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist."<ref>[http://www.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/the-new-face-of-environmentalism/Content?oid=1079539&showFullText=true The New Face of Environmentalism ]</ref></blockquote>+ + + − Although communism is predominantly [[Atheism|atheistic]] (see: [[Atheism and communism]]), Jones says he is a "person of faith" and became very upset in an interview when the topic of open atheists having difficulty in American politics was repeatedly brought up.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXKM5TBwCo0 What's The Matter With Van Jones?], video</ref> The African-American community has extremely negative views concerning atheism and ostracizes atheists.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/28/living/black-atheist-confession/ Confessions of a black atheist], CNN</ref><ref>[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127239913 Black Atheists Say Non-Belief Means Cultural Outsider], NPR, May 28, 201012:00 PM ET</ref>+ − After being fired by the [[White House]], Jones went to work at the [[fake news]] network [[CNN]].<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/profiles/van-jones-profile Van Jones], [[CNN]]</ref> Jones sits on the board of [[Demos]], a progressive policy think tank. + − − ===CNN=== − In June 2017, [[James O'Keefe]] of ''Project Veritas'' released an undercover video that showed Van Jones calling CNN's [[Trump-Russia]] allegations a giant "nothingburger."<ref>Concha, Joe (June 28, 2017). [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/339867-okeefe-video-shows-cnns-van-jones-calling-russia-story-a-nothingburger O'Keefe video shows CNN's Van Jones calling Russia story a ‘nothingburger’]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved June 28, 2017.</ref> Line 82:
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'''Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones''' (born September 20, 1968) is a [[CNN]] contributor, and an ardent supporter of [[President Donald J. Trump]] and [[conservative]] [[Republican]] Prison Reform initiatives.<ref>https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-van-jones-to-cpac-crowd-conservative-movement-is-now-the-leader-on-criminal-justice-reform/</ref> Since the [[Biden]]/[[Clinton]] Crime Bill of 1994, more than 2.5 million [[black]] males have been incarcerated under the [[Democratic party]]'s [[New Jim Crow]] regime.<ref>http://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/incarceration_rates_growth_causes/</ref> Jones lauds President Trump for taking the initiative on [[criminal justice reform]].<ref>https://www.thewrap.com/cnn-van-jones-praises-trump-on-prison-reform-you-got-to-give-him-some-credit/</ref><ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/van-jones-defends-presidential-trump-praise-not-saying-hes-george-washington</ref><ref>https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/cpac_invites_van_jones_to_celebrate_the_greatest_lie_of_our_generation.html</ref>
'''Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones''' (born September 20, 1968) is a [[CNN]] contributor, and an ardent supporter of [[President Donald J. Trump]] and [[conservative]] [[Republican]] Prison Reform initiatives.<ref>https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-van-jones-to-cpac-crowd-conservative-movement-is-now-the-leader-on-criminal-justice-reform/</ref> Since the [[Biden]]/[[Clinton]] Crime Bill of 1994, more than 2.5 million [[black]] males have been incarcerated under the [[Democratic party]]'s [[New Jim Crow]] regime.<ref>http://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/incarceration_rates_growth_causes/</ref> Jones lauds President Trump for taking the initiative on [[criminal justice reform]].<ref>https://www.thewrap.com/cnn-van-jones-praises-trump-on-prison-reform-you-got-to-give-him-some-credit/</ref><ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/van-jones-defends-presidential-trump-praise-not-saying-hes-george-washington</ref><ref>https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/cpac_invites_van_jones_to_celebrate_the_greatest_lie_of_our_generation.html</ref>
==Early life and career==
==CNN analyst==
:{{See also|Trump-Russia collusion hoax}}
In June 2017, [[James O'Keefe]] of ''Project Veritas'' released an undercover video that showed Van Jones calling CNN's [[Trump-Russia]] allegations a giant "nothingburger."<ref>Concha, Joe (June 28, 2017). [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/339867-okeefe-video-shows-cnns-van-jones-calling-russia-story-a-nothingburger O'Keefe video shows CNN's Van Jones calling Russia story a ‘nothingburger’]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved June 28, 2017.</ref>
===2020 Antifa riots===
:{{See also|2020 Antifa riots}}
Jones summed up the [[Leftist insurrection]] in the wake of [[George Floyd's death:
{{quotebox|It's not the racist white person who is in the [[Ku Klux Klan]] that we have to worry about. It's the white liberal [[Hillary Clinton]] supporter walking her dog in [[Central Park]] who would tell you right now, you know, people like that, 'I don't see race, race is no big deal to me, I see us all as the same, I give to charities,' but the minute she sees a black man who she does not respect or who she has a slight thought against, she weaponized race like she had been trained by the [[Aryan nation]]. A Klansmember could not have been better trained to pick up her phone and tell the police a black man, African-American man, come get him.
So even the most liberal well-intentioned white person has a [[virus]] in his or her brain that can be activated at an instant. And so what you're seeing now is a curtain falling away. And those of us who have been burdened by this every minute, every second of our entire lives are fragile right now. We are fragile right now. We are tired. And so I appreciate people who have been reaching out, I've had people reaching out to me for two days now, expressing their empathy and sympathy.
My only prayer, look in the mirror at how you choke off black opportunity. How you choke off black dignity. How you behave in ways that make it harder for African-Americans to rise in your profession, in your place of work, on your campus, in your house of worship, and start working on that. Because this is the last domino of a whole series of dominos that have been falling for a long time. And black people have been getting gas lit every time we point this out.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/05/29/van-jones-george-floyd-white-liberal-hillary-clinton-supporter-sot-newday.cnn</ref>}}
==Prison reform advocacy==
==Prison reform advocacy==
:''Main article:'' [[Truther]]s
:''Main article:'' [[Truther]]s
In 2004 Jones signed a petition sponsored by the conspiratorial 9/11 Truthers.org alleging President [[George W. Bush]] and high-level government officials may have been behind 9/11.<ref>http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041026093059633</ref><ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/back-story/2009/sep/03/green-jobs-czar-signed-truther-statement-in-2004/?feat=home_blogs</ref>
In 2004 Jones signed a petition sponsored by the conspiratorial 9/11 Truthers.org alleging President [[George W. Bush]] and high-level government officials may have been behind 9/11.<ref>http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041026093059633</ref><ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/back-story/2009/sep/03/green-jobs-czar-signed-truther-statement-in-2004/?feat=home_blogs</ref>
==Early life and career==
Jones was born on September 20, 1968 in Jackson, Tennessee, to Willie Anthony Jones and Loretta Jean Kirkendoll Jones.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tFAeBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA247 Rebuild the Dream]</ref> He has a twin sister, Angela.<ref>[http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/01/12/greening-the-ghetto Greening the Ghetto], [[The New Yorker]]</ref>
As a child, Jones considered himself "bookish and bizarre". On his first day at the University of Tennessee at Martin, he decided to change his name to "Van", because "it has a little touch of nobility, but at the same time it’s not overboard."<ref>[http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-true-identity-of-van-jones/ The “True Identity” Of Van Jones], [[Accuracy in Media]]</ref>
He has worked as a [[John Podesta]] subordinate at the [[Center for American Progress]] and sat on the board of an environmental activist group at which a founder of the [[Weather Underground]] [[terrorist]] organization is a top director.<ref>[https://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106653 ''Obama's 'green jobs czar' worked with terror founder] Van Jones served on board of activist group where Weatherman co-founder [[Jeff Jones]] serves as top director'', By Aaron Klein, [[WorldNetDaily]], August 13, 2009.</ref>
In the 1990s, Van Jones described himself as a [[communist]] in an in-depth interview for the radical publication ''East Bay Express'':
<blockquote>But in jail, he said, "I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.'" Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. "I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary." In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist."<ref>[http://www.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/the-new-face-of-environmentalism/Content?oid=1079539&showFullText=true The New Face of Environmentalism ]</ref></blockquote>
Although communism is predominantly [[Atheism|atheistic]] (see: [[Atheism and communism]]), Jones says he is a "person of faith" and became very upset in an interview when the topic of open atheists having difficulty in American politics was repeatedly brought up.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXKM5TBwCo0 What's The Matter With Van Jones?], video</ref> The African-American community has extremely negative views concerning atheism and ostracizes atheists.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/28/living/black-atheist-confession/ Confessions of a black atheist], CNN</ref><ref>[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127239913 Black Atheists Say Non-Belief Means Cultural Outsider], NPR, May 28, 201012:00 PM ET</ref>
After being fired by the [[White House]], Jones went to work at the [[fake news]] network [[CNN]].<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/profiles/van-jones-profile Van Jones], [[CNN]]</ref> Jones sits on the board of [[Demos]], a progressive policy think tank.
==See also==
==See also==