PROJECT 21 ARCHIVE – 2010

NAACP Mounts New Attempt to Discredit Tea Party Movement

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Washington, D.C. – In what promises to be yet another attempt to play the race card against the tea party movement, the NAACP teamed up with the little-known Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights on a yet-to-be released study that alleges tea party ties to hate groups. Members ...

Big Business Look Out! Liberal CEOs are the Next Target for Tea Party Activists, says National Center for Public Policy Research

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Experts at the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project and Project 21 say the cover story of Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, "Why Business Doesn't Trust the Tea Party," explains why big business should be wary of the Tea Party movement. "Progressive CEOs who embrace inherently anti-capitalist policies are ...

Obama’s Race Taunts Unsuited to the Presidency, Says Project 21 Chairman

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Washington, D.C. – Mychal Massie, chairman of the Project 21 black leadership network, says President Obama's recent playing of the race card is inappropriate for a President and for someone who has publicly professed a desire for a post-racial America. "Obama's comments further calcify his commonality, lack of couth, lack ...

Big Apple Becoming Big Nanny; Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Paterson Want to Restrict Beverage Choices of Poor Citizens

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Washington, D.C. – New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Governor David Paterson are asking the federal government to deny New York City residents on food stamps the ability to use aid to buy certain beverages. Deneen Borelli, a fellow with the Project 21 black leadership network, sees ...

MSNBC Shake-Up Called for After Host’s Racial Remarks Against Black Conservative

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Washington, D.C. – Despite MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell's alleged regrets about making a race-tinged remark about Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele, the nature of the offense and the double-standard regarding liberal hosts has a member of the Project 21 black leadership network calling for a shake-up at a network ...

Is Black Support for Obama Racist? by Jerome Hudson

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Is Black Support for Obama Racist? by Jerome Hudson (bio) With poverty at an all-time high, daunting black unemployment levels and Obamacare threatening black babies, black support for Barack Obama remains surprisingly strong. Why? Blacks are not uniformly as radical as Obama. So why do 91 percent of blacks still ...

Black Activists Critical of President Likening Adoption of His Agenda to Ending Slavery

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Washington, D.C. – In trying to pacify supporters angry because he has not imposed his liberal policies fast enough, President Barack Obama began equating his agenda of increasing government and reducing individual liberty to overcoming slavery. Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are condemning Obama's apparent belief that ...

My Challenge to the Race Hustlers, by Mychal Massie

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My Challenge to the Race Hustlers by Mychal Massie (bio) At a recent press conference sponsored by the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Walter Fauntroy blasted Glenn Beck's August 28 "Restoring Honor" rally by saying that when one refers to the Ku Klux Klan and the tea party movement, "you ...

There Must Be a Flaw, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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There Must Be a Flaw by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D. (bio) Bishop Eddie Long stands accused. Long, the leader of Atlanta's 25,000-member New Birth Baptist Church, is accused of using his position in the church and gifts financed by it to seduce young men into homosexual encounters. Upon hearing the allegations, ...

Back Against the Wall, President Plays Race Card; Returns to Black America for Support

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Washington, D.C. -- A member of the Project 21 black leadership network says President Obama “has a lot of nerve” soliciting aid from black Americans only after his reputation with the rest of America has soured. The charge, from Project 21’s Kevin Martin, comes following Barack Obama’s partisan appeal this ...

Black Conservatives See No Controversy at Tea Party Rally

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Washington, D.C. – With the NAACP’s leadership throwing itself in with far-left groups in an apparent effort to paint the tea party movement as radical and potentially racist, black conservatives with the Project 21 leadership network who attended the September 12 “March on D.C.” report that nothing occurred yesterday that ...

Anti-Tea Party Site Demonstrates NAACP’s Continued Decline

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Washington, D.C. – A new NAACP initiative to monitor the "racism and other forms of extremism" of the tea party movement is being criticized by black conservatives with the Project 21 leadership network as yet another example of the once-venerable group allowing its reputation to be hijacked for progressive political ...

Project 21 Members to Speak Sunday at Tea Party Rallies in Washington D.C., St. Louis and Sacramento

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Washington, D.C. – In a weekend filled with tea party rallies nationwide, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are designated speakers at the major rallies on both coasts and right in the middle of America. "Dissent was considered patriotic when the progressives were out of power, and the ...

Black Conservative Leader Challenges Sharpton, Morial and Fauntroy to Tea Party Debate

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Washington, DC – Mychal Massie, the chairman of the Project 21 black leadership network, is challenging the Reverend Al Sharpton, National Urban League CEO Marc Morial and Pastor Walter Fauntroy to a debate over their extremist comments and racist allegations against the tea party movement. "Among the comfort of their ...

Why I’ve Decided to Be My Own Boss, by Darryn “Dutch” Martin

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Why I’ve Decided to Be My Own Boss by Darryn "Dutch" Martin (bio) Every day seems to bring more headlines about a worsening American economy. As the official unemployment rate dances closer to ten percent, it is likely there are countless people who simply gave up on finding a job ...

Beck, MLK Both Spoke About Freedom, by Jimmie L. Hollis

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  Beck, MLK Both Spoke About Freedom by Jimmie L. Hollis (bio) On August 28, I arrived in Washington, D.C. with a contingent of the Greenwich Tea Party Patriots of South Jersey to attend Glenn Beck’s “Restore Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial. We consisted of three packed busloads. The ...

School Choice Puts Students First, by Lisa Fritsch

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School Choice Puts Students First by Lisa Fritsch (bio) School choice advocates marched outside the New Jersey State House last spring to demand vouchers. They wanted families to be able to escape failing and unchecked public schools and be able to choose a better education. Most public school systems — ...

Our Father, Who Isn’t in Washington, by Lisa Fritsch

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  Our Father, Who Isn’t in Washington by Lisa Fritsch (bio) Conservatives argue that the liberal social programs of the 1960s destroyed the black family as the notion of the black man as the patriarch of his family took a beating. In just a few generations, an intact black family ...

Black Conservatives React to Obama Speech on Iraq

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Washington, DC –With President Barack Obama's announcement tonight of what he considers to be the end of combat operations in Iraq, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are speaking out about this administration's approach to operations in the Iraq theater and the debt of gratitude owed to our ...

Black Conservatives React to Obama Speech on Iraq

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Washington, DC –With President Barack Obama's announcement tonight of what he considers to be the end of combat operations in Iraq, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are speaking out about this administration's approach to operations in the Iraq theater and the debt of gratitude owed to our ...

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