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If someone like myself, who is married to a white woman, who has spent my entire life building bridges, can't point out the alt-right whitelash reaction without being accused of being a racial polemecist, we're going to have a big problem.
Van Jones
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Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
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