Beware of False Facts from Confused Celebrities
In his latest Newsmax commentary, Project 21 member Jerome Hudson assures that “all opinions matter.” That being said, he also counsels: “let us not fail to see the truth as it is and let it trump and persuade the ignorant.” To make his point, Jerome invokes the opinions of celebrities ...
Ayanna Pressley’s Racial Radicalism Repudiated
Representative Ayanna Pressley pulled back the curtain at the recent Netroots Nation conference to show that the organizing principles of the left appear similar to the organizing principles of the alt-right and white nationalists. In pitching her adversarial approach in dealing with her own caucus colleagues on Capitol Hill, Pressley ...
Trump and ‘The Squad’ Squabble Exposes Love/Hate Views of America
When the radical and racial statements of Representative Ilhan Omar forced the congressional leadership to act, the result – after much agonizing – was a muddled resolution condemning a broad range of "anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism and other forms of bigotry" that did not actually address Omar directly. But these same leaders were ...
“Raising the Barr” Seeks Uniform Treatment for Bad Behavior
Roseanne Barr essentially lost her career last year after she made vicious remarks on Twitter against former Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett. Barr claimed her tweets against Jarrett weren’t racist, but she was fired from the television show that she had created and which had jumpstarted her career. After it was ...
Women’s Soccer Star’s “Blaccent” Deserves a Yellow Card
When kids go back to school this fall, there’s a pretty good chance their teachers will have posted a photo of the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) winning the FIFA Women’s World Cup in soccer. Does it deserve this honor? Since their victory, the women’s soccer stars have been presented as ...
The Political Opinions of Celebrities Matter But Facts Do Too, by Jerome Danner
Let it be said at the outset of this piece: all opinions matter. In our country, no matter your status, level of infamy, or salary, you have the right to freedom of speech, which means you can voice your opinion anywhere and on any topic you choose. It has long ...
Facts Defeat Liberal Agenda of Fear
After a campaign of little substance, liberal President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used his inauguration to proclaim to the American people that the “only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” And then he went on to promote a radical agenda that transformed America while prolonging the suffering he vowed ...
Trump’s “Salute to America” the Right Thing and the Right Time
In the days leading up to the White House-planned Independence Day “Salute to America” on the National Mall, there was a loud hue and cry from the media and the left about the event. Critics lamented the tanks that were brought in for display and the shifting of Park Service ...
Immigration Ideas in Project 21’s Blueprint Cited in Newsmax Commentary
A Newsmax columnist highlights Project 21 in a recent commentary about immigration policy, noting that the recommendations found in Project 21's “Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America” are being wholly ignored by the liberals’ political superstars. Clarence V. McKee, commenting on liberal presidential candidates, writes that they “only care ...
Salute to America Made Fools of Trumpophobes, by Deroy Murdock
The left overpromised. The president under-delivered. Before Donald J. Trump’s July 4 Salute to America, his foes described this event as, at best, a parade of partisanship, narcissism, racism, and divisiveness. At worst, they billed it as a pageant of despotism or a prelude to martial law. By 7:32 p.m., ...
Fox News Taps Project 21 for Opinion on Nike Flag Scandal
Two times over the past two days, Fox News Channel programs featured Project 21 members in their coverage of Nike’s decision to recall a line of patriotic-themed shoes. Nike made the stunning reversal after its advertising pitchman, failed football player Colin Kaepernick, called the flag offensive. In a press release, Project ...
Reparations Are Treated as the Cure for Inequality — They Are Not, by Emery McClendon
In 2007, much like today, liberals were demonizing the president and looking at shoring up their base for the next major election. An issue dragged out of the political closet was the notion of paying reparations to blacks now for slavery dating back to before America’s founding. Here they go ...
Nike Should Have “Held Their Ground” on Patriotic Show
So it is about the flag. The liberal chattering class scolded the rest of us for being critical of failed professional football player Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling during game-time observances of the national anthem. They said his protests on the field during the 2016-2017 NFL season was about more than a ...
Nike’s American Flag Shoe Recall Kicks Up Black Conservatives’ Anger
Colin Kaepernick's Demand Sends Nike Down "Dangerous Path" With Consumers, Investors Washington, D.C. - After Nike pulled an American flag-themed shoe off the market after a complaint by former football player Colin Kaepernick, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are blasting the company for caving to left-wing wokeness at ...
Reparations Report Reveals Liberals’ Lack of Interest in Black America
Blacks are “at the back of the political bus” in the current intersectional pecking order of progressive priorities. This observation was made by Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper in a recent segment on the syndicated “Armstrong Williams Show.” He was joined on the program by Shelby Emmett, another member of ...
Karma Kicks Biden’s Butt
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s political legacy is in shambles because of the modern “poison” of being able to charge someone with racism for potentially anything. In an appearance on the Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper said this reckless behavior has Biden “living on ...
Reparations: “Feel-Good Fantasy With Zero Practicality”
With liberal politicians pushing a more radical legislative agenda ahead of the upcoming election season, reparations is once again being discussed on Capitol Hill. The last time this was an issue was 2008. In an interview with One America News political correspondent Chanel Rion, Project 21 member Derrick Hollie called ...
AOC’s Immigration Comments So Radical Even the Media Pushed Back
It’s “amazing” that congressional gadfly Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, colloquially known as AOC, might think her radical and prolific comments shouldn’t be challenged – particularly from centrist political quarters. In a new commentary published by Western Free Press, Project 21 member Jerome Danner takes particular exception to AOC’s comments that compared ...
Time to “Flip the Script” on Reparations
A recent congressional hearing, focusing on the idea of reparations payments to black Americans as part of an official apology for slavery, went nowhere. While it did not produce credible ideas, it did encourage anger and confusion. It did not find solutions for healing race relations that got worse over the ...
Reparations Rhetoric Trades Physical Shackles for Emotional Ones
If black Americans were to be offered reparations for slavery, would Senator Kamala Harris be eligible for them? Should she be liable to pay for them? These are some of the many questions that Project 21 member Adrian Norman brings to mind in a commentary he wrote for The Epoch ...
