Hogg SWATting Incident Bolsters Project 21 Blueprint
In Project 21’s “Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America,” a recommendation to end “SWATting” is among provisions for improving public safety and police-community relations. SWATting is when police respond to a report based on a false threat. In responding to these pranks played upon them, police have mistakenly ...
Time for Consensus on Coarseness
Treatment of Roseanne Barr and Samantha Bee revealed a tremendous double-standard. Neither offender deserves mercy for their high-profile contributions to the coarsening of American culture, yet Bee received it. Project 21 member Jerome Danner suggested we agree upon a standard and stick to it. Barr, who – drugged or not ...
Black Leaders Urge Repeal of Gas and “Sin Taxes” to Level Playing Field for Minorities
Washington, D.C. – Excise taxes should be repealed because they harm the poor disproportionately by requiring them to pay a higher portion of their incomes in taxes, say members of the Project 21 black leadership network. In its “Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America,” Project 21 calls for ...
Roseanne Barr, Samantha Bee and the Need for Consistency, by Jerome Danner
Tuesday's cancellation of the comedienne Roseanne Barr's show was simultaneously surprising and not surprising, if that is at all possible. It was surprising because it was a top-ranked show with its millions of viewers, which meant dollar signs for the ABC Network. However, the cancellation proved to be less than ...
Stacy Washington’s Buzz on Bee Makes CNN’s Lemon Sour
CNN host Don Lemon says that Samantha Bee’s use of extremely coarse on-air language against presidential daughter and advisor Ivanka Trump “makes me cringe.” From the behavior of Lemon and the panelists on his show who faced off against Project 21 Co-Chairman Stacy Washington, the cringe-worthiness of it all seems ...
Calling Out the Left for Selective Racial Outrage
While no one was there to defend what Roseanne Barr tweeted out the day before that got her television show cancelled, there certainly were differences about what role President Donald Trump played in it. Two of Project 21’s finest were part of the discussion, calling out those who were landing ...
Big Government’s Focus on Fines and Fees Disparately Impacts Poor, Minority Communities
Black Leaders Offer Better Deal From the Criminal Justice System Washington, D.C. – Law enforcement agencies focus too much on revenue-generating activities that have a negative impact on poor and minority communities, further straining the relationship between police and the communities they serve, according to the black leadership network Project ...
Farm Bill, Compliant With Project 21’s Blueprint, Gets Second Vote in June
Welfare reform found in the Farm Bill that is considered compliant with Project 21’s “Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America” is expected to get another chance in the U.S. House of Representatives in June. Language in the “Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018” (HR 2) is written to ...
Is Starbucks-Style “Racial Bias Training” Discriminatory?
Black Activists Ask Justice Department, EEOC to Investigate “Troubling Trend” Targeting Employees’ Race and Gender Washington, DC. – Over 8,000 Starbucks locations nationwide will close today to counsel approximately 175,000 employees about how to avoid their “implicit bias… [to] ensure everyone inside a Starbucks store feels safe and welcome.” Meanwhile, ...
Project 21’s “Blueprint” Makes Fox Business Network
In a recent panel discussion with Neil Cavuto on the Fox Business Network, Project 21 Co-Chairman Stacy Washington cited our “Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America” as constructive tool for bring lawmakers together on issues that can really help improve and advance the black community. During a discussion ...
Black Women Applaud Trump Administration Getting Government Out of Abortion Business
To ensure that taxpayers “do not indirectly fund abortions,” the Trump Administration has issued a proposal to reform the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Family Planning Program (Title X) funding. This move is strongly supported by black women affiliated with the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network ...
Black Leaders Meet With Ben Carson and Praise the Secretary for his Work Requirement Proposal for Subsidized Housing
HUD Welfare Reform Efforts “Compliant” With Project 21’s “Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America” Washington, DC. – During a meeting with Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson, representatives from the Project 21 black leadership network informed him that a welfare reform measure he had proposed is ...
Better Deal for Black College Students: Make Schools Meet Minimum Graduation Rates, Stop Tuition Inflation and End Campus Segregation
Black Leaders Suggest Linking Federal Student Aid to Policies That Help Black Students Succeed Washington, D.C. – Failures by K-12 school systems to prepare black students for college are compounded by inadequate college admissions policies and support programs, according to the black leadership network Project 21. This, the group says, ...
Black Leaders Praise Proposed Food Stamp Work Requirement in Farm Bill
Provision “Compliant” With Project 21’s “Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America” Washington, D.C. – A provision of the “Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018” (HR 2, the “Farm Bill”) requiring able-bodied recipients who receive food stamp benefits to work is “Blueprint Compliant,” according to the black leadership network ...
“America’s Constable” Discusses Life in Law Enforcement
It took almost five decades before Project 21 Co-Chairman Council Nedd II realized he had a true vocation in law enforcement. Now, in a new Daily Caller commentary published during National Police Week, he discusses the “life-long calling” and the personal duty he feels in wearing a badge and putting ...
Left “Marginalizing” Illegal Immigrants, But John Kelly is Deemed the Racist
In the ongoing effort to sensationalize and demonize the Trump Administration, a rather mundane comment by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is being called “ignorant” and “racist” by the left-wing media. Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper, in an appearance on the Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” pointed ...
#MeToo Culture Likens a Diaper Change to Sexual Abuse
A human sexuality “expert” in Australia suggested babies should be consulted as to whether or not they consent to having a soiled diaper changed. Project 21 member (and father) Jerome Danner, in a new Daily Caller commentary, asked: “Has she actually interacted with a newborn and/or a toddler on a ...
Black Leaders Urge Reduced Police Role in Regulatory Enforcement, Increased Autism Training and Gun Legalization to Improve Community-Police Relations
Costs to be Covered by Disarming Federal Agencies Washington, DC. – To improve community-police relations, police should get out of the regulation business, be given greater training in identifying and dealing with those with autism and other cognitive disabilities, build stronger bonds with the communities they serve by offering gun ...
That Statement on Babies’ Consent to Change Diapers by the Australian ‘Sexuality Expert’ is Absurd, by Jerome Danner
There are times when it is quite possible that a noble idea has no actual logic to it whatsoever. So, as a theory, such an idea may look attractive. However, when a thoughtful individual mulls over the proposition, they may end up finding it harder and harder to implement realistically ...
I’m a Cop at Heart, by Council Nedd II
It took nearly five decades for me to realize the lifelong calling that law enforcement had on me. At 46 years old, I became the oldest rookie officer anyone could remember. I was once a congressional aide. I was a teacher. At the late age of 29, I became a ...
