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’.

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