Year: 2008

New Visions Commentary: Racial Bias Is What Some People Want Us to See… No Matter What

Comedian Chris Rock used to play a recurring character on "Saturday Night Live" named Nat X. During the humorous, nonsensical rants of this Black Nationalist talk show host, Nat X would sometimes be chased by his studio's "white-man cam." When ...

Project 21’s Massie to Receive “Conservative Man of the Year” Award

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Washington, D.C. - Mychal Massie, chairman of the Project 21 black leadership network, will receive the "Conservative Man of the Year" award from the Suffolk County (New York) Conservative Party for his many contributions to advancing conservative principles." The members ...

Earth Day 2008 Fact Sheet: Quotes About the Environment

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Energy: • "With one-fifth of all U.S. CO2 emissions coming from light trucks and cars, any serious effort to significantly reduce U.S. emissions would have to encourage fuel conservation in personal automobiles.  But almost half of all Americans oppose spending ...

Earth Day 2008 Fact Sheet: Environmental Progress

Air Quality:  The air we breathe is cleaner:  • Between 1970 and 2005, total emissions of the six principal air pollutants in the United States (nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, carbon monoxide and lead) tracked by the Environmental ...

Earth Day 2008 Fact Sheet: The History of Earth Day

April 22, 2008 marks the 38th anniversary of the first observance of Earth Day, first commemorated on April 22, 1970. Former U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI), Earth Day's co-founder, said he modeled Earth Day on anti-Vietnam War demonstrations called "teach-ins" ...

Racial Bias Is What Some People Want Us to See… No Matter What

Project 21 Commentary /
Comedian Chris Rock used to play a recurring character on "Saturday Night Live" named Nat X. During the humorous, nonsensical rants of this Black Nationalist talk show host, Nat X would sometimes be chased by his studio's "white-man cam." When ...

Who Are These Clowns?

An absolutely wonderful polar bear cartoon. Note the words on the director's bullhorn. Here's the blog of Roger Maynard, the guy who drew it, and some more I like are here, here, here, here, here, and especially here. (Our own ...

Parody Ad Takes Up Cause of Ringed Seals, Says Polar Bear Populations are Prosperous and Growing

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Listing the Polar Bear as "Threatened" Under the ESA Could Harm Bears and Humans Alike; Says New Study Released with the Ad Washington, D.C.: In light of environmentalist campaigns pressuring the Administration to list the polar bear as "threatened" under ...

Black Activists See No Racial Double-Meaning in LeBron James-Gisele Bundchen Vogue Magazine Cover

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Washington, D.C. - While some might consider it a milestone that basketball star LeBron James became the first black man to grace the cover of Vogue for the fashion magazine's April issue, critics are saying the photo of him with ...

Race Preference Policies Are “Discriminatory On all Ends” Says Borelli

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From David Almasi: Congratulations to Project 21 fellow Deneen Borelli for spelling out the antiquity of affirmative action policies in the March 18 Boston Globe. Globe reporter Matt Negrin called Project 21 to ask if the election of a black ...

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