My recent post, What's Driving President Obama's Agenda?, mentioned Obama's new "green czar," Van Jones.

Here's a little background about the man that you may not know:

He was a self-proclaimed COMMUNIST, ANARCHIST, and BLACK NATIONALIST while he was a law student at Yale Law School. Speaking about his time in jail (he was arrested at a protest), Jones said "I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary."

In the late 1990s, Van Jones was involved in Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), a multi-racial activist collective with Marxist influences.

Source: Wikipedia

I can't find a quote from Jones saying he is no longer a communist, anarchist, or black nationalist.

Since the administration’s “czars” do not go through congressional confirmation, and are therefore not scrutinized or vetted, many Americans have no idea who they are.
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