ALL WHIE PEOPLE HAVE A 'VIRUS' IN THEIR BRAIN KNOWN AS RACISM

CNN’s Van Jones says ‘white, liberals’ are more worrisome than the KKK

 

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May 31, 2020

 

CNN’s Van Jones has continued to weigh in on the racism that plagues America amid the riots and protests that have gripped the country following the death of George Floyd, saying that white liberals like Amy Cooper are more worrisome than the Ku Klux Klan. 

During a recent segment, Jones said all white people of having a ‘virus’ in their brain known as racism no matter how ‘well-intentioned’ they may be.

‘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 – “oh, I don’t see race, race is no big deal to me, I see us all as the same, I give to charities.”

Jones was referring to Cooper, a white woman dubbed ‘Central Park Karen’, after she made a false call to New York City police, claiming that an African American, who asked her to leash her dog, threatened her life.

‘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 Klan member could not have been better trained to pick up the phone and tell the police, “It’s 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,’ Jones, who is the co-founder of several social justice nonprofit organizations, said. 

Last week, Jones said he hasn’t ‘seen black people this upset in 20 years’.

‘If you are white and are you watching this, look in your own life,’ Jones said. ‘How are you choking off black dignity? Choking off black opportunity? Choking off black people from asking an opportunity to thrive?’

‘Because it’s not just that officer. This is a much deeper problem. How are all of us complicit in this? And how are all of us allowing this to happen?’ he said. 

‘I don’t have an answer to that,’ Jones continued. ‘I have not seen black people this upset in 20 years, maybe longer.’

Jones’ comments comes nearly a week after Floyd, 46, died after bystander video showed police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on his neck for at least seven minutes while Floyd was handcuffed during an arrest on forgery charges.

‘We thought we got an answer, it’s called body cams — that we just put body cams on all these cops and you can see what they were doing,’ Jones said. 

‘They would either be stopped or the public would be so outraged.’ 

‘These guys knew they had on body cams. There were people standing there with the cell phones out. 18 complaints should trigger a separate review,’ he continued.

‘You build up to that level of contempt. You build up to that level of dehumanization and desensitization and you are now witnessing the outcome of that,’ Jones said.