African Americans Don’t Need Reparations. We Need To Take Responsibility For Our Lives, by Emery McClendon
In 2007, much like today, liberals were demonizing the president and looking to shore 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 ...
Chuck Todd Breaks Ranks on ICE-Concentration Camp Claim, by Jerome Danner
Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez continues to bring news on what feels like a daily basis. This may be for good reasons, or for bad ones, depending on who you ask. She (and her political statements) are constantly the subject of articles and commentaries, including this one, because of the controversy surrounding ...
Attack on Hyde Amendment an Attack on Taxpayers’ Conscience
The “Hyde Amendment” – a long-honored, bipartisan federal provision keeping taxpayer dollars from funding abortions – is now one of the top targets of the left. For more than 50 years, the Hyde Amendment has protected those who are morally and religiously opposed to abortion from having their hard-earned tax payments ...
Reparations Proposal Called a “Sham” by Black Activists
Taxpayer Payments for Slavery Would Be Unnecessary and Divisive, Says Project 21 Washington, D.C. - Calling the idea of reparations for slavery a “sham,” members of the Project 21 black leadership network say black Americans who take advantage of opportunities already available to all Americans can still achieve the American ...
Juneteenth Celebration of Past Emancipation Must Focus on Protecting Freedom and Opportunity
Project 21 Urges Black Americans to Abolish Their “Mental and Emotional Slavery” Washington, D.C. - In observance of “Juneteenth,” the oldest and most popular commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, members of the Project 21 black leadership network urge black Americans to go beyond just celebrating ...
Elective Blacks-Only Grad Ceremonies Divide Races, Culture
With colleges and universities in the midst of graduating their senior classes, many are holding segregated ceremonies. According to a report by the Washington Examiner, over 75 schools are holding special commencement ceremonies for their black graduates. Among the schools with separate ceremonies are Ivy League institutions such as Harvard ...
Vandalism of Tuskegee Airman’s Statue Repaired
Vandalism to the statue of 96-year-old former Tuskegee Airman Richard Hall, Jr. – the cousin of Project 21 member Emery McClendon – has already been repaired. Earlier this month, someone smashed a hole in the statue of Hall that is outside the Hannibal Square Heritage Center in West Winter Park, Florida ...
Key to Making ESPN Apolitical: “Money Talks”
As long ago as 2013, the National Center – through its Free Enterprise Project (FEP) – has been making the point to Disney CEO Robert Iger that Disney's ESPN sports channel is too political. At the 2013 shareholder meeting, Iger addressed our concerns about left-wing media bias at ESPN and ABC, conceding ...
Court Can’t Hide From Race, Gender-Specific Abortion Problem Forever
While the U.S. Supreme Court chose not to take up a case involving a common sense "abortion control" that prohibited the termination of a baby based on its race, gender or perceived disability, Justice Clarence Thomas made a compelling argument that the Court can’t run from the issue forever. Members ...
Black Activists Applaud Policy Requiring Noncitizens to Pay Back Welfare Benefits
Trump Order Holds Immigrants and Their Sponsors Fiscally Accountable Activists with the Project 21 black leadership network are applauding the Trump Administration’s announcement of a policy requiring noncitizens or their sponsors to be financially responsible for the expense of any welfare benefits a noncitizen receives. The activists note that this ...
New Admissions “Adversity Score” a Backdoor to Race-Based Admissions
Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper is thankful for the objective testing standards that guided the college application process when he applied to the University of Texas. Because of his scores, he received a full scholarship. But that same opportunity, for someone to be awarded due to their merits, may soon ...
Community Unites After Black War Hero’s Statue Vandalized
Police are looking for information about the vandalism of a statue of a black military hero. For a member of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network, it’s personal. He’s wondering why someone would want to destroy the lovingly crafted replica of his cousin. “These days, it seems that ...
Drug Price Controls Could Cost in Access to Life-Saving Medications
As the Trump Administration finalized a new regulation designed to lower prescription drug prices through the transparency of making costs known through advertising, two Republican senators also introduced legislation to cap domestic pricing at foreign levels. It’s a proposal that Axios has called a “sharp left turn” for otherwise conservative senators and ...
Black and Jewish, Project 21 Member Experiences More Anti-Semitism Than Racism
At a rally on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, Project 21 member Marie Fischer said she is “not what the average person expects when they see a Jewish person.” This has allowed her a keen insight into the way some people think about those of the Jewish faith. “Because ...
Religious Beliefs Not an Electoral Dealbreaker
While our Constitution protects the free exercise of religion, there are many on the left who feel that very devout individuals – particularly Christians – aren’t fit for public office. But, as Project 21 member Jerome Danner argues in a Newsmax commentary, “[r]eligious belief is completely reconcilable with public service.” ...
Left’s Obsession With America’s Mistakes Is Hatred of Its Current Exceptionalism
“It’s all the left talks about,” says Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper about the “race hatred” dominating how radical activists view America, in spite of our nation's present exceptionalism. In a debate on the Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Horace addressed statements made by Representative Ilhan Omar in which she dwelled ...
Religious Belief Is Reconcilable With Public Service, by Jerome Danner
In these postmodern times, religious belief has continued to be on a persistent decline in terms of its popularity in society. To be specific, in western society, Christianity is the religion that is continuously in the spotlight for any number of reasons that cause debate. Although many Christian individuals still ...
PragerU Video from Project 21’s Green Exposes Left’s Racial Hypocrisy
In a new video from Prager University, Project 21 member Derryck Green answers the questions “Who’s really obsessed with race?” and “Whose policies really hurt blacks?” when it comes to conservative and liberals. Derryck’s video, “Who are the Racists?,” was viewed over a quarter-million times in its first 24 hours online ...
Exposing the Reparations “Scam”
Very bluntly declaring “it’s a scam,” Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper denounced the idea of paying reparations now for acts of slavery that occurred generations ago. Besides the fact that “[t]here are no living former slaves,” Horace said the current push for payments to black America is due to liberals ...
NAACP Promotes Green Over Black in New Report
Perhaps the NAACP should have thought twice about releasing its new report on April Fool’s Day. It’s hard enough to take the group seriously these days on top of wondering if “Fossil Fueled Foolery” isn’t just a prank. In a new commentary published by the Daily Signal, Project 21 member ...
