Van Jones apologizes to the Jewish community “for the silence of my community” allowing “an African American icon praising Hitler and Nazis, and we act like we don’t know where that hatred came from”

@VanJones68 apologizes to the Jewish community “for the silence of my community” allowing “an African American icon praising Hitler and Nazis, and we act like we don’t know where that hatred came from.” 

But he says “the silence is over.”

Last night, while driving home from the monthly meeting of the Downtown Association of Black Leaders and Colored Keynote Speakers (DABLACKS), I felt like we had forgotten to bring up something.

I remembered the heated debate over whether we should condemn or congratulate Deion Sanders on his new job. I recalled drafting a statement in case Herschel Walker became a senator. Even though we agreed to restate our support for Tiffany Cross and passed a resolution to sit down and have a talk with T.J. Holmes, I still feel like we had overlooked an important subject. After a few phone calls to fellow members of DABLACKS, I decided to let it go.

Thankfully, a respected leader of the African-American community had our backs. When reports surfaced that CNN’s tearmonger-in-chief Van Jones issued “an apology for the silence of my community” at the ​​UJA-Federation of New York Wall Street Dinner, I breathed a sigh of relief. Now, Jones may have been referring to the community of people at the Trump-centric CPAC convention he attended. Perhaps he was talking about the community that is moved to tears by a white supremacist. But for the sake of this argument, I’m going to assume that he was talking about Black people. I’m not the only one.

“CNN host Van Jones, the keynote speaker, opened his speech with ‘an apology for the silence of my community’ regarding discrimination against Jews,” wrote EJP’s Ben Sales. “Jones, who is Black, invoked his Jewish godmother in calling for a renewal of the Black-Jewish civil rights alliance and condemned Kanye West, now known as Ye, for his stream of antisemitic remarks.”

I don’t really believe in the “African-American community,” but I was wondering why the members of Oh-negro Sigh Phi were so silent. Sure, public figures from former President Barack Obama to Dave Chappelle to “African-American” tech mogul Elon Musk have vociferously spoken out about Kanye West and his recent dalliance with pro-Hitler white supremacists, but did anyone check to see if Van Jones heard from us?

Who is more qualified to accurately gauge the sentiments of the Black community than the guy who told his community to give Donald Trump “his due” for being the “uniter-in-chief.” Maybe Jones missed all those tweets condemning Ye’s antisemitism because he was invited to so many cookouts. Instead of browsing Black Twitter, he could’ve been busy workshopping the chant he debuted during his speech.

CNN contributor Van Jones said on Tuesday the campaign of Republican Herschel Walker for the U.S. Senate is an insult to black people: “What I do know is this. Tonight is about Georgia. Tonight is about Trump picking somebody who frankly used to be a hero. Herschel Walker used to be an inspiration, now it means insult. He’s an insult to the black community. And what you may see tonight is people coming out, not just to vote in favor of a Senator they love but to vote against Donald Trump picking somebody like this and throwing this person at the voters in Georgia. Like you’ll just pick anybody who is black. 

His judgment, Trump’s judgment tonight is going to be, I think, called into question by a lot of people. And I think that when you have a situation where it’s obvious that Trump, he was a little too clever by half. I know, I’m going to put a black guy against a black guy. But the guy he pick was the wrong black guy.”