Op-Ed: Glenn Beck Barks Up The Wrong Tree When Criticizing Van Jones

Glenn Beck's criticisms of Barack Obama's appointed Czars is usually well aimed, but he's wrong when he slams Van Jones for the Green Jobs' czar cries for social justice.

Recently on Glenn Beck's Fox News program he profiled the Green Jobs Czar Van Jones, who turns out has very radical and Marxist leanings and has a very low opinion of white people. For example: "The white polluters and the white environmentals are essentially steering poison into the people of colored communities. " But when Glenn Beck decided to go after this quote I took issue.

"And our Native American sisters and brothers who were pushed and bullied and mistreated and shoved into all the land we didn't want, where it was all hot and windy, well, guess what. Renewable energy. Guess what, solar industry. Guess what, wind industry. They now own and control 80% of the renewable energy resources. No more broken treaties. No more broken treaties. Give them the wealth. Give them the wealth. Give them the dignity. Give them the respect that they deserve. No justice on stolen land. We owe them a debt."

Native Americans are one of the truly beaten and broken ethnicities in modern America. Many tribes have lost their heritage and live in squalor partially because of the government, and partially because of their own self defeating attitude, essentially they have been ghettoized. Meth usage and diabetes plague many Native American Nations due to poverty enforced by a restrictive and enslaving welfare system. To further depress the situation Native Americans have taken turn to directly compete with the more puritan leanings in America by selling tobacco cheaply and permitting gambling on their soil. In this way ensuring that they will be able to employ their people and can keep a steady stream of business with not much competition in local areas. It is with this in mind that one looks on the latest development in green energy and what it could mean to the Native Americans and why Green Jobs Czar Van Jones said what he did.

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Fox News anchor Glenn Beck

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It is Ironic in a way that the very atrocities that put the Native Americans where they are could in the end bring them back to not only wealth but their heritage as one who respects and uses nature. In this instance social justice is the slow and deliberate work of irony and I believe the love of God and his wisdom. If Native Americans chose to profit off of their own land, with the opportunity that chance has given them, even if they received government grants, how is this a negative social justice? Who is being punished by their wealth or their success if they do embrace the green initiative and build large wind farms or solar farms where the buffalo graze? Who will be damaged when they remove old broken cars from their front yards and put in a turbine? Nobody as long as they do not hold the power they generate hostage in some form of retaliation. In which case, they would only hurt themselves and not see the prosperity this opportunity is affording them. Glenn Beck is definitely barking up the wrong tree by demonizing that particular comment by Van Jones. The Czar is radical, extreme, and as a whole not someone who should have power in the government, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day.