Van Jones Calls for Right and Left to "Come Together" and Act Amid Protests
hollywoodreporter.comVan Jones discussed feeling a range of emotions from "despair" to "hope" in the wake of the death of George Floyd's death while appearing on Conan on Monday night.
From the perspective of a black parent, the CNN commentator said, the death of yet another unarmed black man while being detained by police erased all his lingering notions that he could teach his children to act a certain way to survive encounters with the police. "We had this one little hope, this tiny thread, that we could tell our children that there was something they could do to keep them safe from even the worst officers," like if they didn't "talk back," run or kept their hands on the steering wheel, he said. "In this situation, there's nothing that we could have told our.
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