November 19, 2014 - 15:30
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….