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Van Jones will be teaching environmental policy, Princeton

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Van Jones Goes Back To School

Posted 07:48 PM ET

Academia: The former green jobs czar in the Obama administration and self-avowed communist has landed a job at an Ivy League school, where he'll be teaching your children why America is racist, capitalism is bad, and redistribution of wealth is good.

We have often commented on how academia leans far to the left and how nutty professors like the infamous Ward Churchill can find acceptance for their wacky philosophies. So it was not a total surprise last week when Princeton University announced that Van Jones will be teaching environmental policy at the prestigious school.

Jones has been appointed a visiting fellow in the Center for African American Studies and the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the university's Wilson School.

Noliwe Rooks, associate director of the Center for African American Studies, told the Daily Princetonian that Jones will also conduct research and host discussions on subjects such as "the next phase of green jobs, environmental policy (and) environmental justice."

What Jones means by environmental justice is the redistribution of wealth from successful capitalists and entrepreneurs to minorities and American Indians who he says have been shut out of the system and exploited by it.

Just two weeks before he started his White House job, Jones delivered the keynote address at Power Shift '09, billed as the largest youth summit on climate change in history. A reported 12,000 young people were at the D.C. Convention Center for the event.

In one section of his 20-minute speech, Jones referenced "our Native American brothers and sisters" who, he claimed, were "pushed," "bullied," "mistreated" and "shoved into all the land that we didn't want." It was then that Jones thundered, "Give them the wealth! Give them the wealth! No justice on stolen land. ... We owe them a debt."

Jones became radicalized, he says, when he was arrested during the 1992 Rodney King riots. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist," Jones told the East Bay Express in 2005.

Jones was the leader and founder of a radical group, the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or Storm. On Sept. 12, 2001, Jones led a vigil by the group that expressed solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans as well as what he called the victims of "U.S. imperialism" around the world.

He is a 9/11Truther and signer of a petition suggesting that people in the administration of President George W. Bush "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war." The unanswered question is why, considering Jones' radical background, was he asked to be one of the administration's czars?

On his self-titled show last Thursday on PBS, which receives taxpayer dollars, host Tavis Smiley gave Jones a forum for his views and told him he loved him and would take a bullet for him. Smiley ended the interview with Jones, who just received an NAACP Image Award, by saying, "Van Jones is among the best our community has ever produced."

Agreeing with that assessment is Valerie Jarrett, senior White House adviser, who explained in August 2008 at a Netroots Nation conference in Pittsburgh: "We were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House. We were watching him, uh, really, he's not that old, for as long as he's been active out in Oakland. And all the creative ideas he has. And so now we have captured that. And we have all that energy in the White House."

That certainly explains a great deal about the policies of this administration. Van Jones didn't just slip through the cracks of the vetting system. The White House knew what it was getting. Now the students of Princeton will be the beneficiaries of his energy and "creative ideas."

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