Van Jones Awarded $100 Million by Jeff Bezos
  • 3 years ago
After successfully completing his mission to space, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos awards political commentator Van Jones $100 million as part of a new initiative. Bezos announces the Courage and Civility Award to honor "leaders who aim high, pursue solutions with courage, and always do so with civility." "We live in a world where sometimes instead of disagreeing with someone's ideas, we question their character or their motives," Bezos says. "What we should always be doing is questioning ideas, not the person. We need unifiers and not vilifiers." Jones is the founder of Dream Corps and when accepting the award, he speaks about dismantling oppressive systems and giving everyone access to opportunities
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