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Playing the villain gets you higher ratings on reality TV and saying outrageous stuff on Twitter gets you more followers.

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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
Civil Rights Advocate
Environmentalist
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Anthony Kapel Jones
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You don't get lower ratings playing the villain on reality TV.
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The main obstacle is the entrenched power of the legacy polluters.
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This [2016] election was lost because a total of 70,000 people - out of 120-130 million votes - in the Rust belt, but as a result America is in the calamity.
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To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.
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People care. Their hearts are open, but people don't know exactly what the Dreamers are going through, or what sanctuary cities are for, or what's positive about the American Muslim community. When you don't know a lot, you can't do a lot.
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If all we are for is black people and white people who like black people, then I have nothing to say to Trump who is only for white people and black people who like him.
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I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.
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