Black Leader Speaks Out Against Obama Recommending Reconciliation to Pass Government-Run Health Care
Washington, D.C.: Mychal Massie, chairman of the Project 21 black leadership network, is condemning President Barack Obama for urging Senate leaders to employ controversial reconciliation rules to force a government takeover of health care. "The people have spoken, and they have said no to Obama's radical brand of health care ...
Has Rangel Lost Touch? Black Conservatives Speak Out on Rangel Ethics Rebuke
Washington, D.C.: Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are speaking out about the congressional "public admonishment" of U.S. Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY), the chairman of the powerful tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, for going on trips to the Caribbean paid for by corporate sources in violation of ...
Dan Rather, From Buckwheats to Watermelons, by Bob Parks
Dan Rather, From Buckwheats to Watermelons by Bob Parks (bio) Dan Rather, the former CBS newsreader now relegated to HDNet, isn't impressed with President Obama's ability to sell his policies to Congress. Rather recently told MSNBC's Chris Matthews that Obama "couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state ...
Health Care Fight Defines Parties, Ideologies, by R. Dozier Gray
Health Care Fight Defines Parties, Ideologies by R. Dozier Gray (bio) It's no longer time to be dancing on the head of a needle. That's what talk radio host Mark Levin said in the wake of the passage of Obamacare. If there's one thing clear from the fight to ...
Black Leader Critical of NAACP Image Award for Van Jones
Washington, D.C.: The NAACP’s decision to bestow an Image Award on radical activist and former Obama Administration official Van Jones is drawing a stern rebuke from Mychal Massie, chairman of the Project 21 black leadership network. "I understand that it's their award and the NAACP can give it to whomever ...
Washington Post/Henry Louis Gates Website Wants to Write Black Conservatives Out of Black History
As Black History Month draws to a close, the web site The Root has chosen to publish a hateful article that demeans black conservatives solely for their political views -- grouping them with brutal dictators, convicted criminals and self-centered celebrities. This has drawn a stinging rebuke from Project 21 member ...
Proposed Soda Taxes Fall Flat, Says Black Activist
Washington, DC: Proposed soda taxes fall flat, according to Deneen Borelli, a fellow with the Project 21 black leadership network, who says the demonization of carbonated beverages is just another example of the progressive attack on liberty. "After the Obama Administration tried to put itself between me and my doctor ...
Black Conservatives Praise CBS, Focus on the Family and the Tebow Family
Washington, DC: Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are speaking out in support of Focus on the Family and the family of former Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow for their efforts to air a pro-family commercial message during this weekend's Super Bowl broadcast. Project 21 members are also ...
Accuracy of Salon Article Accusing James O’Keefe of Racist Motives Challenged
Washington, DC - Kevin Martin of the black leadership group Project 21 and Amy Ridenour of the National Center for Public Policy Research are questioning the accuracy of an article in the left-wing online magazine Salon which implies that independent filmmaker James O'Keefe is a racist. The article, "James O'Keefe's ...
Hope and Change and Pick-Up Trucks, by Lisa Fritsch
Hope and Change and Pick-Up Trucks by Lisa Fritsch (bio) Just a year ago, Americans were so eloquently sold on hope and change that came from a shiny, new black sedan of a limousine liberal. It turns out what they really wanted was something that came from the likes ...
What’s Brewing at the Tea Parties? by Emery McClendon
What's Brewing at the Tea Parties? by Emery McClendon (bio) What's going on in America? Since his election, Barack Obama and his supporters have sought to move our nation leftward at breakneck speed. In the process, they've exhibited a blatant disregard for our Constitution, traditions, military and the general ...
Victory of Black History, by Lisa Fritsch
Victory of Black History by Lisa Fritsch (bio) For me and a special group of youth in North Tyler, Texas, Black History Month began in September. That's when the coordinator in charge of the "Black History Bowl" at my school began confirming who would participate in this annual competition ...
Anyone Can Do Anything, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.
Anyone Can Do Anything by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D. (bio) Black History Month is an ideal time to measure progress. This year is especially appropriate as we embark on a new decade. Some indicators of progress are how blacks are catching up with their white counterparts with regard to income, ...
Project 21 Responds to Yet Another Racial Comment from Chris Matthews
Washington, DC - Bob Parks, a member of the Project 21 black leadership network, questions the sensibilities of MSNBC talking head Chris Matthews after Matthews made yet another racially-charged comment on the air last night. After last night's State of the Union Address, Matthews said about President Obama's performance: "You ...
Black Conservatives Critique Obama Performance on Eve of State of Union Address
Washington, DC - In anticipation of President Barack Obama's first State of the Union Address, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are offering their thoughts on his first year in office and the strength of the nation. Bob Parks: "During the last few months, President Obama has arrogantly ...
Black Genocide and Black Acquiescence, by R. Dozier Gray
Why aren't more black people against abortion? To sell a virtually unabated abortion agenda, people are told abortion is necessary for instances in which the life of the mother is at risk. The need to terminate a child conceived by rape or incest is also cited. Such reasons may seem ...
Black Conservatives: Olbermann Dead Wrong on Free Speech-Dred Scott Comparison
Washington, DC: As they did with Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL), members of the Project 21 black leadership network are taking MSNBC talking head Keith Olbermann to task for his wrong-headed and offensive behavior in equating the free speech victory in the Supreme Court case of Citizens United v. Federal Election ...
Congressional Black Caucus, EPA Start “Race Card Tour” to Promote Climate Regulation
Washington, DC:An "environmental justice" public relations tour of economically-disadvantaged communities being led by EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and members of the Congressional Black Caucus is being criticized by Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli as a desperate attempt to play the "race card" to bolster the Obama Administration's "cap-and-trade" emissions ...
Black Conservatives Condemn Grayson Remarks Comparing Protection of Free Speech to Racist Dred Scott Decision
Washington, DC - Members of the Project 21 black leadership group are condemning remarks today by Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) comparing today's Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to the Dred Scott case. The decision in Citizens United eases certain restrictions on the free speech of ...
Project 21 Members Speak Out About Mark Williams/Tea Party Express Controversy
After making several controversial remarks that came to a head with a satirical but offensive blog post, the Tea Party Express and Mark Williams in particular were effectively “expelled” from the tea party movement by the National Tea Party Federation. This expulsion comes on the heels of a controversial resolution ...
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