Tag: Project 21 Commentary

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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Project 21 Ambassadors Saddened That the Durham Report Confirms Their Suspicions and Fears

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Ambassadors with the Project 21 black leadership network are responding to the "Durham Report," a 300+-page document delivered this week by Special Counsel John Durham finding that the Department of Justice and FBI "failed to uphold their mission of strict ...
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Horace Cooper Compares California Reparations to the Nigerian Prince Scam

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If you've ever wondered what Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper thinks of California's reparations proposal, wonder no more.  And he certainly doesn't disappoint in his assessment: This high-stakes con game will prove no more beneficial to Blacks in California than ...
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Horace Cooper on California’s Reparations Scam: Michael Jackson’s Kids Would Get Payouts

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In 2020 the California legislature passed AB 3121 which created a 9-person task force to study California’s "complicity in slavery." The task force would also be authorized to make recommendations to the state legislature about payments – also known as ...
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