What Did Colin Kaepernick Sacrifice?
Roland Martin, who once had jobs at CNN and TVOne, is now hosting a new streaming webcast. Having seen Project 21 member Christopher Arps's recent Daily Caller commentary about NFL players kneeling during the national anthem, Martin had Christopher on his show as one of his first guests to try to “school” him on ...
Maxine Waters “Trivializes” Slavery with Immigration Analogy
In her latest attack on President Trump, Representative Maxine Waters compared the enforcement of American immigration law to slavery. Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper rebutted her comments during a segment on the Fox News Channel, saying that such an outlandish comparison “trivializes” the plight of black slaves who were brought here against their ...
Player Protests Cause Football Fans to Flee
For the third consecutive year, the NFL’s first week ratings were lower than the previous season opener. The Washington Redskins, which boasts 50 straight years of sellout crowds, is risking that streak being broken for this weekend’s first home game despite having removed almost 10,000 seats over the past few seasons and ...
What Has Colin Kaepernick Really Sacrificed? by Christopher Arps
Another opening NFL weekend is over, leaving me ambivalent about another upcoming season. Admittedly, part of it stems from the Rams being yanked from my hometown and sent back to Los Angeles. But my ambivalence mostly comes from NFL players still taking a knee during the national anthem and disrespecting ...
Billboard Markets Abortion in Black Community, Project 21 Responds
It’s reported that 79 percent of Planned Parenthood’s abortion facilities are located in or near minority neighborhoods. Black women account for 28 percent of all abortions, far exceeding their proportion of the population. When such disparities occur elsewhere, they are usually considered discriminatory. It should in this instance, too. After all, Planned ...
Hard Truths Aired at Aretha’s Funeral
At the funeral for legendary soul singer Aretha Franklin, Al Sharpton used his time to slam President Donald Trump, saying that the President needed to be taught the meaning of the word “respect.” Commentator Michael Eric Dyson reportedly screeched about the President: “You lugubrious leech, you dopey doppelgänger of deceit and deviance, ...
“A Job Program Will Not Stop Cut-Throat Killers”
You need to watch this video just to hear the anguished sighs of Leo Terrell. Debating the issue of unrelenting violence in Chicago with Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper on the Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Terrell tried to pin the problem of out-of-control violence in the Windy City on everybody ...
“This is the Time” for Food Stamp Work Benefits
With the Farm Bill – the congressional package for guiding national agriculture policy over the next five years – now in conference to merge separate House and Senate packages, a big issue is the fate of the House version’s work requirement for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or “food stamps”) eligibility. This is ...
American History With a Social Justice Spin at Clemson
Entering his final year at Clemson University, Project 21 member Stone Washington was appalled to find students offered a course on American history taught “largely from a far-left perspective.” So he blew the whistle on it in an article posted by The College Fix. Ominously, the syllabus for Assistant Professor Maribel Morey’s History 1020 ...
Green Protests Create Energy Crisis for Black Families
In addressing how a disproportionate “energy burden” afflicts many poor and minority households, Project 21 member Derrick Hollie criticized establishment environmental activists and the politicians who follow their lead in a commentary that was published by the Daily Press newspaper serving the Newport News region of southern Virginia. In noting how offshore oil ...
Jemele Jumps Ship Following Joy’s Concession
For those of you who remain hopeful that ESPN can get un-woke and return to an era of actual sports broadcasting rather than acting as a sports version of MSNBC, there may yet be hope. Jemele Hill is leaving the network! And we helped! On Saturday, the New York Post broke ...
Making the Case Against Statue Vandals
On the day before classes began at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a mob of reportedly several hundred people tore down the statue of a Confederate soldier that was a part of the campus since 1913. Seven people have been arrested in connection with the vandalism. In accordance with state ...
Big Data’s Little Concern for Free Speech, Assembly Causes Concern
Economist George Gilder doesn’t think that the “Big Data” has staying power because Google, Facebook and other Internet-based companies lack security, privacy, the ability to be factual and even to competently process transactions necessary for survival over the long-term. To cope in that wild environment thus far, he thinks that ...
‘White Rage,’ Black Lives Matter: How One Professor Teaches U.S. History, by Stone Washington
A basic U.S. history course at Clemson University focused on the post-Civil War era to modern times teaches the subject of America’s past largely from a far-left perspective, including subjects such as “White Rage” and Black Lives Matter, according to the required readings for the course. History 1020, or History ...
Black Support for Trump: It’s the Economy
Polls are showing rising support in the black community for President Donald Trump. A new poll shows more than a third of blacks approving of his performance in the White House. This comes as a shock to the mainstream media, which can’t figure out why blacks would have favorable feelings ...
Offshore Protestors Who Flood Hearing Rooms Don’t Speak For Everyone, by Derrick Hollie
Time and time again we hear politicians say they are committed to representing the will of the people. As the entire country heads into another general election, I’m reminded what the Isle of Wight County Supervisor Rudolph Jefferson said after his most recent re-election, “I plan to continue to be ...
Controversy Kicks Off Football Season
Professional football doesn’t officially start until September 6, but the pre-season is indicating there will be a fresh new set of protests against the National Anthem, for washed-up player Colin Kaepernick, against alleged police brutality or whatever players think they are protesting. During the first week of pre-season games, a ...
Newest National Anthem Assault: It’s Like a Slave Owner’s Song
Previously, those wanting to create an excuse for kneeling football players and demeaning the United States at every possible turn tried to say that the National Anthem was an inherently racist song because it contained derogatory references to slaves. But a literal interpretation of a more than two-centuries-old lyric in a stanza not ...
HUD Ditches Diversity Goals, Black Activists Applaud
Cost and Availability of Public Housing Should Be Prioritized Over Racial Demographics, Say Project 21 Leaders Washington D.C. – New plans by the Trump Administration to refocus public housing policy on supply and affordability rather than diversity are being applauded by members of the Project 21 black leadership network. This ...
White House Seeks Traction on Criminal Justice Reform
In a roundtable discussion earlier this week with governors, state attorneys general and members of his cabinet, President Donald Trump sought to broker a compromise for federal legislation on criminal justice reform. In particular, the President sought to gain traction for the “FIRST STEP Act” that already overwhelmingly passed in the U.S. House ...
