More race embarrassment for Obama as gaffe-prone adviser says ‘only suburban white kids carry out Columbines’
An adviser to Barack Obama has claimed school massacres are only carried out by ’suburban white kids’.
Van Jones, the US president’s Special Advisor for Green Jobs, was calling for more attention to be paid to alienated white youth when he made his gaffe.
Referring to the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, in which two white teenagers shot dead 12 pupils and a teacher before killing themselves, Mr Jones said ‘a black kid is not going to shoot up the whole school’.
His comments were revealed no sooner than he had been forced to apologise twice for other slip-ups.
He first had to say sorry for calling Republicans ‘a********’ and then when it emerged he had signed a petition that claimed George W Bush’s officials ‘may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps a pretext for war’.
It is unclear why the interview, recorded in 2005, has been unearthed now but it will raise further questions about his involvement with the White House and put the spotlight once again on race which is already a flashpoint for the President.
Watch video of Mr Jones’s comments here:
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