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reaching out...

Sure, it's a great idea, but insulting and dismissing the allies you're trying to recruit is a piss poor idea.  As a long time (and now professional) environmentalist, I've been hearing about how we environmentalists are such racists for not placing the needs of minority communities at the tops of our agenda.  I have worked for the Sierra Club for a while, and guess what?  The agenda gets set BY THE PEOPLE WHO VOLUNTEER TO DO THE WORK.  Sure, this is all true, that a green economy has to be more than something scratching the surface.  But guess what?  who's working for universal health care? those rich white liberals.  After all, head start families turn out for elections at about a 3% rate.  So, who is left to do the work of running a campaign and registering those Oakland parents to vote?  Who's working for working wages?  Rich white liberals.  Who's working for affordable childcare and good schools?  Yeah, those rich liberal marin environmentalists.  Why?  Not for us.  We already have those things.  Why?  because it's the right thing to do.  

oh, but we're all a bunch of racists.  Ooops.  I forgot.  silly me.  Maybe I'll just go back to trying to save polar bears from extinction instead.  After all, I must like them because they are, after all, white.  Yep.  That must be it.On An interview with Van Jones, advocate for social justice and shared green prosperity posted 2 years ago 9 Responses