In this episode of Oops, He Did It Again…
So, “he” is a former advisor to then-President Barack Obama and current CNN contributor Van Jones, and the “oops” was Jones once again speaking out in direct conflict with one of the left’s many narratives.
During an appearance on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday, Jones laid bare the hypocrisy of the left-wing media about the murder rate among America’s young black males.
Maher began the segment with several related statistics:
We do know that, for young black men, gun homicides are the leading cause of death. And … that leading cause outstrips the next 15 causes combined. That’s how bad it is. Also, black men ages 18 to 25 die from gun homicides at a rate nearly 19 times that of white young men the same age. And they’re not being killed by white supremacists, they’re being killed by each other, that is the truth.
Bingo. And I can only imagine the reaction of left-wingers watching the show when Jones not only agreed but also tossed the media way under the bus.
Absolutely. I’m really glad that you raised it because I think there is this myth that the black community only cares about a black kid getting killed if a white cop does it or a white supremacist does it, and it’s just not true. The media only cares. But there are candlelight vigils every weekend, there are teddy bears, there are balloons, there are crying mothers, there are marches.
What the media — including race hustlers like MSNBC’s Joy Reid and ABC’s “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin — “only care” about is fanning the flames of racial division, and doing so by despicably connecting virtually every concocted dot from black-on-black crime to “racism,” “white supremacy,” or… wait for it… Donald Trump.
Maher asked Jones why “the [black] leaders” aren’t calling out the reality of black-on-black homicide.
But where are the leaders saying, just hey, it’s coming from inside the house, cut it out, guys.
Jones suggested black leaders are calling out the reality, but agreed that more should be done.
It happens every Sunday in every black church. It happens every Saturday in every basketball program. … [W]hen you have people like pastor Carl Day … and others, they leave the church and they go out there and they get no credit, they get no support. I agree with you; the amount of self-inflicted harm, there’s a suicide crisis among young white kids and a homicide crisis among young black kids, and we’re not doing enough about either one, and we should be doing a lot more.
You can watch the full segment here.
And kudos to Van Jones.
The Bottom Line
The dirty little non-secret secret on the left is this:
The Democrat Party has sewn the seeds of racial division for six decades because, for example, while black Americans comprise less than 14 percent of the population of the country, Democrat presidential candidates must garner an overwhelming percentage of the black vote to win elections.
Moreover, the Democrats secure the support of a veritable patchwork quilt of disparate demographic groups to win. It really is that simple. Hence, black influencers like Van Jones — an Obama Bro Democrat, no less — blowing up the left’s various narratives are to be dismissed, discredited, or simply ignored.
