Category: Project 21
Trump-Kim Meeting a “Teensy Little Bite” – Temper the Speculation
It’s too early to assign too much to the initial meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Appearing on the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto Coast-to-Coast,” Project 21 Co-Chairman Stacy Washington compared it to a first date ...
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Make Schools Serving Black Students Better Through Competition
... Make Them Safer By Arming Personnel, Black Leaders Say Washington, D.C. – Students trapped in failing schools can be freed by encouraging competition among public schools through the provision of vouchers and “Tax Credit Scholarships,” according to the black ...
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Pardon Me, Mr. President! by Emery McClendon
We often say “pardon me” after accidentally inconveniencing or offending someone. It’s also a polite expression to ask for someone to repeat something. But we now seem more accustomed to using the term pardon in the context of the power ...
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Redemption: It’s Time for Trump to Pardon Model Prisoners Serving Time for Low-Level Crimes, by Council Nedd II
Last December, President Donald Trump first exercised his power to pardon by commuting the sentence of Sholom Rubashkin. The kosher meatpacking executive received 27 years in prison for money laundering. Rubashkin’s pardon was championed by members of Congress, former attorneys ...
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Hogg SWATting Incident Bolsters Project 21 Blueprint
In Project 21’s “Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America,” a recommendation to end “SWATting” is among provisions for improving public safety and police-community relations. SWATting is when police respond to a report based on a false threat. In ...
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Time for Consensus on Coarseness
Treatment of Roseanne Barr and Samantha Bee revealed a tremendous double-standard. Neither offender deserves mercy for their high-profile contributions to the coarsening of American culture, yet Bee received it. Project 21 member Jerome Danner suggested we agree upon a standard ...
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Black Leaders Urge Repeal of Gas and “Sin Taxes” to Level Playing Field for Minorities
Washington, D.C. – Excise taxes should be repealed because they harm the poor disproportionately by requiring them to pay a higher portion of their incomes in taxes, say members of the Project 21 black leadership network. In its “Blueprint for ...
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Roseanne Barr, Samantha Bee and the Need for Consistency, by Jerome Danner
Tuesday's cancellation of the comedienne Roseanne Barr's show was simultaneously surprising and not surprising, if that is at all possible. It was surprising because it was a top-ranked show with its millions of viewers, which meant dollar signs for the ...
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Stacy Washington’s Buzz on Bee Makes CNN’s Lemon Sour
CNN host Don Lemon says that Samantha Bee’s use of extremely coarse on-air language against presidential daughter and advisor Ivanka Trump “makes me cringe.” From the behavior of Lemon and the panelists on his show who faced off against Project ...
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Calling Out the Left for Selective Racial Outrage
While no one was there to defend what Roseanne Barr tweeted out the day before that got her television show cancelled, there certainly were differences about what role President Donald Trump played in it. Two of Project 21’s finest were ...
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