On Monday night, Van Jones blasted the Black men who spoke at the GOP convention saying that they don't know how to talk to Black voters.
On the first night of the Republican National Convention, the Republican party attempted to appeal to African American voters. Four separate Black lawmakers; John James, Tim Scott, Mark Robinson and Wesley Hunt praised Trump on the first night of the convention.
Trump has made targeting Black men an important part of his 2024 campaign. The way these politicians spoke didn't quite land with African American voters, though, according to Jones.
The CNN pundit began:
"There's an opening to get Black men, because of the double-whammy with Black men feeling the economic pain seriously and also feeling some social dislocation with when it comes to gender and feminism and what's going on. But this is not it, I'm going to tell you right now. All four of them sounded like Black people who talk about Black people, but don't talk to Black people. That's how they sounded. My phone's blowing up because it felt so off — it felt so off — in terms of the tone."
Jones continued by noting that the speakers acted as if they were above people throughout the country, "You don't say that Black children can't read, the way that James did. And that there's a time where you could go back to when zip codes didn't matter. We've never had that time in America. Those guys sound like people who talk about Black people, not to Black people."