Project 21’s Cooper Comments on Congressional Contempt Charge for Lois Lerner
Lois Lerner, the former IRS manager considered to be a key player in the alleged targeting of conservative organizations, was charged with contempt of Congress for her unwillingness to assist congressional investigators. Lerner asserted her innocence before a congressional hearing last year, and simultaneously attempted invoke her 5th Amendment right ...
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Donald Sterling-NAACP Link Further Hurts Reputation of Civil Rights Lobby
Virtually everyone knows about the race controversy that will cost Donald Sterling the ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers professional basketball team. It’s more than likely, however, that fewer people are aware of the relationship between Sterling and the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP. Despite past legal action and ...
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Project 21’s Kevin Martin Takes on Bennie Thompson Targeting Clarence Thomas
Last week, Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS), a veteran congressman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Homeland Security, shocked Capitol Hill by calling U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas an “Uncle Tom.” In the wake of referring to Thomas by this disrespectful slur on a radio program broadcast ...
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About Those April Jobs Numbers: Obama’s Economy Flattens the Spirits of Citizens
With it being the first Friday of the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its newest unemployment figures. Once again, it’s not good news by any estimation despite expected celebration among the President’s supporters that the rate went down a few tenths of a point. The official unemployment rate ...
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A Flat GDP is Much More Important than Donald Sterling, by Hughey Newsome
While many Americans were distracted by the controversy over a taped private conversation between a billionaire and his mistress, some very scary news from the Bureau of Economic Analysis went largely unnoticed. According to this federal agency's report, the U.S. economy grew at a paltry 0.1 percent (annualized) during the ...
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Three Ways To Save Your Hood Today, by Nadra Enzi
Self-defense. Private security. Police-community unity. These are the three pillars that comprise my strategy for successful anti-crime activism. Notice that none of these three suggestions require blessings from on high (or low) from the bureaucrats who often are either indifferent or hostile toward citizens who are seeking safer streets, especially ...
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Faithful Black Conservatives Observe National Day of Prayer
Every first Thursday of May is the National Day of Prayer. While the modern National Day of Prayer that is observed today was officially enacted in 1952, a similar day was originally proposed by the Continental Congress is 1775. According to the National Day of Prayer Task Force, a privately-funded ...
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Black Conservative Calls Nevada Rancher Cliven Bundy “Retro, Not Racist”
Project 21 member Nadra Enzi has these comments about the rise and fall of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and the reaction to him among conservatives: After listening to – and laughing at – Cliven Bundy’s infamous interview it was obvious that his frame of reference regarding black folks is stuck ...
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Project 21’s Nedd Suggests Clippers Sacrifice for a Sterling Solution
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is under fire for taped comments, recently released by TMZ, in which he implored his girlfriend (who is of black and Mexican heritage) to “not to bring [black people] to my games.” It’s not the first time Sterling has fended off allegations of racism, ...
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Black Conservative Schools Liberals About Supreme Court Race Case
Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper engaged and easily beat arguments posed by Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson and substitute host Joy Ann-Reid on the 4/22/14 edition of MSNBC’s “Hardball.” While Robinson and Reid fixated on the ideas that racism remains a clear and present danger to minority advancement and that ...
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Joe Hicks of Project 21 Talks Supreme Court’s Schuette Decision on NBC
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled by a 6-2 margin to allow a voter-passed constitutional amendment outlawing race preferences in state-administered matters such as school admissions and government hiring to stand, Project 21 member Joe Hicks discussed the meaning of the decision and the liberal misperceptions of modern American society ...
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Even Obama Can Be Accused of Voter Suppression, by Hughey Newsome
At the recent annual convention of Al Sharpton's National Action Network, President Obama said his political opponents are "pass[ing] laws to make it harder, not easier, to vote." It was another attempt by the President and his supporters to energize their base — in this case, African-Americans — through scare ...
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Project 21 Members Discuss Supreme Court’s Race Ruling on American Urban Radio
Members of the Project 21 black leadership network discussed the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action on American Urban Radio Network on 4/22/14. In the decision, the Court upheld a Michigan state constitutional amendment banning race preferences in state matters such ...
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Video: Supreme Court Upholds Michigan’s Ban on Race Preferences; Video Explains the Issues Before the Court
The U.S. Supreme Court today, in the case of Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, upheld the state of Michigan's decision, made by referendum in 2006, prohibiting preferential treatment in public employment, education and contracting based on "race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin." Last October 16, the day ...
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Supreme Court on Path to Ending Race Preferences; Ruling in Schuette Case Paves Way for More Equal, Less Divided America
Black Activists in Favor of Ending Quotas Available for Comments Washington, D.C. - Attorneys and activists with the Project 21 black leadership network are pleased about today's U.S. Supreme Court decision on race preferences, and hope the Court's latest ruling on race-conscious school admissions policies will become decisive in finally ...
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Black Activists Lament Later Tax Freedom Day
April 21 is “Tax Freedom Day.” It commemorates the day when all taxpaying Americans have collectively earned enough to settled up the tab for what Uncle Sam demands from them in tribute. From here on out, the American people can reasonably consider it possible to now begin to work to ...
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Not Even a Clinton Compromise Can Persuade Strident Voter ID Critics
Does Bill Clinton really want to suppress the black vote? And why, for that matter, is civil rights hero Andrew Young apparently willing to discourage minority, elderly and student from going to the polls? At least that’s what would be said of these guys were conservative. But both of these ...
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A Bad Week for Lois Lerner, But a Good Week for Finding the Truth
This was a bad week for Lois Lerner, but nothing that she apparently couldn’t have prevented. It’s her mess. The former head of the Internal Revenue Service’s division that oversees tax-exempt organizations incurred the wrath of two different congressional committees this week for her part in the alleged malicious targeting ...
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Federal Race-Raters Dealt Major Court Defeat; Black Conservatives Helped Challenge Government Agency’s Race-Card Attack on Job Applicant Credit Checks
Hypocritical Federal Government Fought Company for Using the Same System Government Uses to Screen Hires Washington, D.C. - In a case in which the Project 21 black leadership network supported the defendant with a legal brief, an appeals court just delivered a stinging rebuke to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity ...
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Project 21’s Cooper on Hank Aaron’s Race Remarks
Legendary baseball star Hank Aaron fouled out when he tried to play politics — essentially spoiling the 40th anniversary of his record-breaking 715th home run for many fans. During an interview with USA Today, when Aaron unfortunately steered the conversation into politics, the 80-year-old retired right fielder said about Barack ...
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