Advance Placement: Van Jones on The Four Corners of Power in America: Black People Have It Wrong!
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🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this riveting episode, Van Jones sits down with EYL to discuss "The Four Corners of Power in America: Black People Have It Wrong!" Uncover the critical domains of politics, finance, tech, and media and delve into their interconnected influence. Jones offers fresh perspectives and challenges preconceived notions, providing insights that are both enlightening and thought-provoking. Be sure to like, comment, share, and subscribe for more insightful conversations!
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| 0:00.0 | You know, people come to me all the time now and say, you know, I want to start not for |
| 0:03.8 | profit organization. They want me to help them do that. I really challenge them. Like, is |
| 0:09.9 | that what's missing in our community? Like, we don't have enough not for profits. We don't |
| 0:14.9 | have enough charitable organizations. Is that really where the where the lack is? People |
| 0:19.6 | say, oh, I want to go to law school. You know, you went to law school. I want to go to law school. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm like, really? Really? Is that is that is that what you think? We don't have enough, |
| 0:28.4 | we don't have enough lawyers. You know, we've had lawyers going back to Thurgood Marshall. |
| 0:34.2 | We've had lawyers, you know, we got not for profits. I mean, it's it's it's good |
| 0:40.4 | maybe for your first five, six years out of school, just to kind of like give back and be |
| 0:45.2 | grounded. But what we don't have is enough people who understand finance and technology. |
| 0:51.2 | If you look at how power functions, there's four corners of power in this country. |
| 0:57.5 | There's Washington DC, politics, a bunch of lawyers there. I know that world. I come out of that |
| 1:02.5 | world. But that's one corner. New York City, where we're sitting right now, Wall Street, |
| 1:10.3 | finance. I don't see any black people doing that. And so automatically, you know, something is wrong |
| 1:16.8 | because here we have all these black people in politics, public affairs, lawyers, senators, |
| 1:22.0 | congresspeople. We've got a black vice president. We got two black senators. The top 10 cities in |
| 1:28.0 | America, seven have black mayors. Hakeem Jeffries is about to run all Democrats in the house. I mean, |
| 1:33.9 | we got a lot of black people in politics, public service, not for profit, a lot of Greece. But you |
| 1:38.8 | get in a train from DC and come up here to New York and go to Wall Street. You don't see as many |
| 1:44.0 | black folks up here. Wait a minute. That's a problem. Then you hop on an airplane, go from New York |
| 1:49.2 | City, JFK, land in the Bay Area, SFO, now you're in Silicon Valley, technology. Very few of us |
| 2:00.4 | in that world. Hold on a second. Trillion dollar interest is being launched, biotech, AI, quantum |
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