Year: 2014

Blacks’ “Wartime” Mentality Disregarding Opportunity Makes Them Their Own Worst Enemy, by Christopher Arps

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Noted author and intellectual Shelby Steele, a black conservative, once wrote: "It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it." It's true. And even ...
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Important Questions and a Few Easy Steps to Stop an American Ebola Outbreak, by Kevin L. Martin

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In fighting Ebola, President Obama has repeated his strategy from the Libyan revolution and is leading from behind. As public anxiety spiked at a fever pitch, the President and his staff made pronouncements and took actions leaving more questions than ...
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How to Make Media Coverage of Race a Force for Unity, by Hughey Newsome

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Like most Americans, I anxiously awaited the decision of the Ferguson grand jury. My concern was not about how the grand jury tasked with assessing the case against Officer Darren Wilson might rule. I trusted it to act fairly in ...
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Eric Garner Was Killed by New York Tax Collectors, by Shelby Emmett

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Some of the greatest people in my life are black men. All of these great black men are heroes to me in some way. They are amazing fathers and hard workers whose work goes unheralded. These black men are my ...
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The Steve Scalise Double Standard

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Project 21 member Nadra Enzi, a community activist in New Orleans, had this comment about the alleged controversy involving U.S. Representative Steve Scalise (R-LA) having addressed members of a white separatist group 12 years ago while serving as a state ...
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Project 21 Training Young Conservatives to Deal with Those Who Play the Race Card

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Addressing some of the conservative leaders of tomorrow, Project 21 member Derryck Green counseled them on the importance of standing up for themselves at the inevitable moments when liberals are so desperately losing their arguments that they will find the ...
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Unto You Is Born This Day

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Luke 2: 1-14 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And ...
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Project 21 Members Comment on St. Louis Police Shooting

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Another St. Louis suburb erupted in violence after another police shooting.  This time, however, the situation seems more definitive.  An officer in Berkeley, Missouri, responding to a report of a theft in progress at a gas station, shot and killed ...
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“Black America Has Allowed Itself to Be Used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists”

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio made a plea for calm and asked for a moratorium on anti-police protests after the assassination of two police officers there over the weekend. Despite the Mayor’s attempts to defuse the escalating situation, ...
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Koch Brothers Lame Duck Loss Defeats Dark Money Meme

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When ultra-liberal talk show host Thom Hartmann suggested that conservative senators are going to “pay back the Koch brothers” by passing legislation promoting the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper rebutted Hartmann by saying that ...
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