Category: Project 21 Commentary

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Stone Washington: Minority-Owned Businesses Suffer A Second Pandemic Of Crime As Local Governments Handcuff The Police

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The pandemic is now officially over. Thankfully most Americans survived, although we shall always miss those who were taken from us. However, one part of American society is still reeling from the pandemic’s effects – small business, especially small minority ...
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DawnMarie A. Boursiquot: Black Americans' Continued Deification of Victimhood

DawnMarie A. Boursiquot: Black Americans’ Continued Deification of Victimhood

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What will they do now that skin color is no longer a factor in college admissions? A month has passed since the Supreme Court decision on university affirmative action admission requirements, and the dust has begun to settle. But as ...
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Affirmative Action Rulings Signal End of Reparations Debate

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The recent Supreme Court decisions striking down affirmative action in higher education admissions "effectively sound the death knell for the race-based reparations movement," declares Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper. In a commentary published by The Hill, Horace writes: The Students ...
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Jason Aldean's "Try That In A Small Town" Calls for Peace, Not Violence

Jason Aldean’s “Try That In A Small Town” Calls for Peace, Not Violence

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Country music star Jason Aldean’s hit song “Try That in a Small Town” is being called out by the woke mob as racist and a modern-day "Lynching Song" for its anti-lawlessness theme. The song’s video, filmed outside the Maury County ...
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Horace Cooper: The Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision Also Closes the Door on Race-Based Reparations

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In one of its final rulings of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down raced-based admissions for colleges and universities (just as we at Project 21 had urged it to do in an amicus brief). In a 6-3 decision, ...
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Students Thrive When Merit — Not Race — is Rewarded With Opportunity

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In a pair of high-profile commentaries published following the Supreme Court's recent affirmative action decision, two Project 21 ambassadors discussed the implications of race-based school admissions. In a piece syndicated through InsideSources, Project 21's Michael Austin wrote: The nation’s highest ...
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Stone Washington: Don't Stop At College — End Race-Based Admissions In Public Schools

Stone Washington: Don’t Stop At College — End Race-Based Admissions In Public Schools

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There’s an important battle brewing in our public schools between equity and treating students equally under the law. Equitable treatment of one class of students always breeds inequitable outcomes for less fortunate students. This discriminatory new form of Affirmative Action ...
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Michael Austin: Supreme Court Affirms the Truth: Affirmative Action Creates Racial Disharmony

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The Supreme Court has taken a sledgehammer to the bigotry of low expectations. With a 6-3 decision, it ruled that university admission affirmative-action programs are unconstitutional and violate the 14th Amendment. Such a ruling is long overdue; there are innumerable ...
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Penny Indictment Yet Another Abuse by Woke DAs

Penny Indictment Yet Another Abuse by Woke DAs

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Ambassadors with the Project 21 black leadership network are responding to woke Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s announcement that a grand jury has indicted Good Samaritan Marine Daniel Penny for protecting subway passengers from violent would-be murderer Jordan Neely.Project 21 Chairman ...
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NAACP Warns Blacks Not to Travel to Florida -- Which Ranks #2 for Black-Owned Businesses

NAACP Warns Blacks Not to Travel to Florida — Which Ranks #2 for Black-Owned Businesses

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Despite Florida being one of the best states for black business owners, the NAACP has decided the state is irredeemably racist, and has issued a travel advisory against it. The NAACP points to several of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s policies ...
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