After the Pittsburgh Massacre, A Pistol in the Pulpit
After last year’s attack on the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Project 21 Co-Chairman Council Nedd II – an Anglican bishop and Pennsylvania State Constable – reconsidered his decision not to carry a gun while officiating church services. In a new Daily Caller commentary, he recounted how this put him more ...
Why I Choose to Pack a Pistol Inside My Own Parish, by Bishop Council Nedd II
Well into last Sunday’s worship service, someone entered my church and was lurking in the rear of the sanctuary. As I tended to matters of faith in the pulpit, I was also assessing that potential security threat. After the horrific Pittsburgh synagogue massacre that occurred the previous day, I decided to ...
Black Activists Support Trump Fuel Efficiency Plan in Public Comments
Washington, DC – Calling “excessive regulation… one of the most significant non-racial obstacles to black economic progress,” members of the Project 21 black leadership network filed public comments with the federal government supporting a halt to increasing Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for cars and light trucks. Declaring the ...
Ensuring Every Vote Counts
Civil rights activists marched, organized and died to secure the right for all Americans to vote. “[W]ithout effective safeguards,” wrote Project 21 member Derrick Hollie, “the civil rights movement’s goal of making everybody’s vote count may never be achieved.” In a commentary published by the Daily Signal, Derrick described how the modern ...
Voter Fraud Undermines the Votes of Black Americans, by Derrick Hollie
We often hear people complain that their votes don’t count, and recent election results have many questioning our voting process. Indeed, without effective safeguards, the civil rights movement’s goal of making everybody’s vote count may never be achieved. White authorities in the Jim Crow South used tactics ranging from poll ...
Trump’s ‘Nationalism’ Defended: He Simply Loves America
President Trump’s critics are atwitter over his recent comment in Texas about being a “nationalist.” Horace Cooper, a senior fellow with the National Center, explained simply on the Fox News Channel that “[t]he President loves this country” and “is working diligently to make it better for people who live in ...
“Environmental Justice” May Limit Black Opportunity
Buckingham County, Virginia has the chance to be a part of something that could lower many power bills and economically benefit the community. But, as Project 21 member Derrick Hollie wrote in a Daily Signal commentary, “if paternalistic liberal environmentalists have their way, economic prosperity will pass them by.” Located in the ...
In Renaming Senate Building, Is Any Candidate Perfect? by Christopher Arps
John McCain, the late Arizona senator and former presidential nominee, was referred to as a “maverick” by his colleagues and the media for his fierce independence. McCain, who began his service to our nation as a Navy pilot and then became a prisoner of war in Vietnam, received many accolades ...
Another Example of Liberal Paternalism Harming Minorities, by Derrick Hollie
The people of Buckingham County, Virginia, live in the geographic center of the state, but if paternalistic liberal environmentalists have their way, economic prosperity will pass them by. A compressor station for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline has been proposed for Buckingham County, a rural part of the state that has ...
Kanye’s Candor Encourages Blacks to Embrace Conservatism
To assess the impact rapper and A-list black celebrity Kanye West is having on black American political evolution after his high-profile visit to the Trump White House, the One America News Network asked Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper to comment on this “significant celebrity” openly expressing conservative opinions. Rather than considering ...
Renaming Senate Building for McCain Shows Subjective Greatness
Shortly after Senator John McCain’s death, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer proposed renaming the Russell Senate Office Building after him. Project 21 member Christopher Arps thinks a name change is appropriate, but wonders if modern political temperament can justify awarding people with such honors. In a commentary for Inside Sources that was reprinted in ...
Western Roots Don’t Make You Western
Rachel Dolezol, Robert “Beto” O’Rourke and Elizabeth Warren have all recently made the issue of ethnicity a hot political topic. Project 21 member Nadra Enzi is focused less on a person’s physicality than on whether or not they are a person of the Western part of the world and supportive of concepts such as ...
Ensuring That Black College Students Succeed
Project 21’s innovative suggestion to tie colleges’ and universities’ eligibility for federal aid to their ability to ensure the students they admit have what it takes to graduate was recently highlighted in a Washington Times commentary. Council Nedd II, a Project 21 co-chairman and former teacher, authored the commentary. It ...
Kanye’s Conversion an Existential Threat for Left
Kanye West was praised and defended by the left after he declared, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, that President George W. Bush didn’t care about black people. Now, with West’s political evolution and his embrace of President Donald Trump, he is now being derided as a “token negro” of the Trump ...
Baldwin’s Boast of Broad Black Support Disputed
President Donald Trump’s approval rating among blacks was last reported at 36%. But Alec Baldwin seems to think it’s all due to him. Project 21 members beg to differ with Baldwin. They see the bump in the President’s numbers coming from his performance and his personal appeal to black Americans. Blasting Baldwin’s ...
Kavanaugh Confirmation Shows Liberals’ Scorn for Constitution
In his analysis of the brutal Brett Kavanaugh confirmation battle, Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper told CRTV host Andrew Wilkow that liberals are “not committed to the rule of law.” Horace, a former professor of constitutional law and senior counsel to congressional leaders, said the way Senator Diane Feinstein and other left-leaning members ...
How Stalking Diversity Statistics Sidelines Education, by Council Nedd II
Harvard stands accused of discriminating against applicants of Asian descent in pursuit of a more diverse campus. The compelling case brought against the school is scheduled to begin in federal court on Oct. 15 and could lead to a precedent-setting decision on affirmative action at the U.S. Supreme Court. Regardless ...
Official English Unites America
In a new Insides Sources commentary, picked up by the Charleston Post and Courier and other media, Project 21 member Jerome Danner and National Center Vice President David W. Almasi noted that “America is one of only seven countries without an official language.” But being a holdout from the rest of the world, in this case, is not a good thing ...
An Official Language Is Not Hate Speech, by Jerome Danner and David W. Almasi
America is one of only seven countries without an official language. It should have one, and English is the natural choice. Despite not being the official language, English has been the dominant one. Why? Assimilation was once seen as a virtue for immigrants, and thus English became pervasive. Subsequent efforts ...
Finding Black “Promised Land” With “Common Ground”
If people could stop the reflexive political name-calling, particularly in the black community, there could be a lot more progress in finding solutions to societal problems. That’s the message Project 21 member Christopher Arps brought to the Bobby Gunther Walsh morning show on WAEB. Christopher was asked to be on the show to ...
