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Class Notes about Van Jones

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People in upper class won’t work with others on these issues

Profit from environmental destruction, example: oil business

Can’t psychologically embrace whole world-especially communities separate from theirs

Also, poorer people can’t think past economics

Deeper racism also means young black men targeted for prison

Van Jones but doesn’t think issues through

Does he have enough knowledge of this?

Is he like Frank?

Van Jones is naïve in his thinking---?

Acknowledges that is hard to do both but says it’s harder not to

Laws in place that won’t allow the solutions to happen

Not giving a solution is part of his strategy

He’s trying to get the people of lower incomes to get involved, but there are no jobs

In the long run, they are trying to inspire them….