Project 21: Press Releases

Washington, D.C. - Project 21 member and Indiana Tea Party organizer Emery McClendon has the following statement about President Obama's loss in a critical immigration case that was handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court today: As one who followed the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, or DACA, case closely, and a person that participated in a press conference outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on the day of the oral arguments, I am happy for this outcome. It would have been better if they had agreed with the lower court, but the matter should ...
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Project 21 Joins Those Calling for the Appreciation of and Continued Advancement of Freedom Obama White House Strangely Silent for Eighth Year, Despite Calls that it Issue Some Form of a Commemorative Proclamation for Juneteenth, Joining 43 States and the Bush White House Washington, D.C. - Sunday, June 19, marks "Juneteenth," the anniversary of the arrival of Union soldiers in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865, who carried with them the news that the Civil War was over and that slavery had been abolished by President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation two-and-a-half years earlier. According to the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation, ...
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Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 national leadership network are commenting on the History Channel's multi-day reboot of the epic miniseries "Roots," based on a novel by Alex Haley, that began Memorial Day. The original 1977 broadcast of "Roots" was a phenomenon. At least 130 million Americans watched at least part of the original broadcast, at a time when the national population was just 220 million. Even more impressively, seven of its eight episodes were among the top ten TV broadcasts of all time up until then. Many Project 21 members and their colleagues were among them. "'Roots' ...
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"Attaching this insanity to the legacy of civil rights… trivializes everything the brave men and women experienced and sacrificed in the pursuit of social, economic and legal equality…" "Civil rights champions were not spat upon, beaten with police batons and sometimes murdered for the right of men to go to the same restroom with little girls…" "Why is there such a rush to strip away the innocence of American children?" "As a Christian conservative, Black clergyman, I am deeply offended…" "The idea that a mentally ill person should assume the mantle of civil rights so hard-fought and won by black ...
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Washington, D.C. - The following is a statement by Project 21 founding member Council Nedd II on the ambush attack on Harris County Deputy Constable Alden Clopton late last night: I am appalled at the senseless willingness to harm and to risk loss of life. I am especially appalled when a sworn peace officer is wantonly shot in the back, for no other reason than wanting to serve his community. It's bad enough when officers are killed or injured responding to the commission of a crime or during an investigation, but to be shot in the back as Alden Clopton ...
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Washington, D.C. - Spokesmen for the national black leadership group Project 21 are critical of WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh for firing anchor Wendy Bell for comments about a March 9 multiple murder in the Pittsburgh suburb of Wilkinsburg. Bell wrote, in part: ...There's no nice words to write when a coward holding an AK-47 hoses down a family and their friends sharing laughs and a mild evening on a back porch in Wilkinsburg. There's no kind words when 6 people are murdered. When their children have to hide for cover and then emerge from the frightened shadows to find their mother's ...
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"Communism has never worked, can never work and... must be challenged" "Why is the President cozying up to killers?" "This president... has pole-vaulted over America's territory of Puerto Rico, which is dying on the economic vine, to play kissy-face with the Castros" "Cuba gets legitimacy and currency while America gets empty promises" "Castro turned on us; not us on them" "Mr. Obama should think before he acts" "Many members of the Obama Administration are making excuses for this bastion of institutional racism" Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are issuing strong statements of condemnation about ...
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Washington, D.C. - The following is a statement by Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper on President Obama's nomination of a candidate to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court: The White House believes it can hide behind the notion that the U.S. Senate should "do its duty" and act on his nominee. Perhaps if the President had done his duty to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," he would have a case. Having undermined and disregarded the Constitution (including holding the dubious distinction of being the modern President with the most unanimous losses before the ...
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Black Lawmakers Group May Seek Sanction of Congressman for Ruing High Abortion Rate in Black Community Lawmaker Sean Duffy's Remarks Expressing Concern About Lives of Black Babies Called "Insensitive" and "Disgusting" by CBC Members Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are rising to the defense of Wisconsin Republican Congressman Sean Duffy, who is under fire from the Congressional Black Caucus for remarks on the House floor expressing concern about the high abortion rate in the black community. As reported by The Hill, this is what Duffy said: Duffy during a House floor speech cited statistics ...
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Puffy, Partisan Speech Further Mires President's Lamentable Legacy "You Can't Put Enough Lipstick on This Pig of His to Make It Look Pretty" Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are commenting on - and available for interviews about - President Barack Obama's final State of the Union Address. While starting out talking about alleged areas for potential bipartisan accomplishment, the agenda President Obama quickly pivoted to and championed throughout the rest of his speech to Congress encompassed a big-government agenda he has always sought to enact with or without the support of elected lawmakers - ...
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Washington, D.C. - Project 21 founding member Bishop Council Nedd II, rector of St. Alban's Anglican Church in Pine Grove Mills, PA, will be sworn in as a Pennsylvania State Constable on January 4. "I'm excited about this new endeavor," says Bishop Nedd. "I come from a family of law enforcement officers, so law enforcement is a vocation that has always been near and dear to my heart. However, my father, uncles and brother never wanted me to go into the family business. They wanted me to become an attorney. I've always tried to set my own path, so I ...
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Ending Affirmative Action is Important Because It Does Four Negative Things, Says Derryck Green There is Still a Very Real Concern About Academic Mismatches, Says Bishop Council Nedd II Washington, D.C. - Leaders of the Project 21 black leadership network are commenting on today's oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court over Fisher v. University of Texas, a key affirmative action case. With the Pacific Legal Foundation and others, Project 21 submitted in September an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in the case, and has twice before submitted friend of the court briefs in Fisher (here and here). It's ...
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Call Speech "Least Inspiring Presidential Speech Ever," Say President Failed to Instill Confidence in Already-Suspect Policy "Passion is No Excuse for a Failure of Leadership" Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are commenting on and available for interviews about President Barack Obama's address to the nation on terrorism and his agenda for dealing with this threat to American citizens and other western nations. "President Obama gave what might have been the least inspiring presidential speech ever," said Project 21's Council Nedd, an Anglican bishop with strong ties in the Middle East who is also an ...
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Washington, D.C. - Project 21's Stacy Washington and Horace Cooper have issued statements addressing the resignation of University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe today in light of student and faculty protests over racial issues on the campus. Said Stacy Washington, a Project 21 member and talk show host on 97.1 FM News Talk KFTK in St. Louis, Missouri: The purveyors of Political Correctness have won again. It's a shallow victory for so-called "striking" college football players to achieve the resignation of the President of the University of Missouri. It's clear that this move was partially motivated by the potential loss ...
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Schools Accused of Trampling Constitution for Politically-Correct Diversity Goals U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Same Racial Preferences Case Twice in Almost Two Years Washington, D.C. - Project 21, a leader in the promotion of black conservative public policy opinion and activism, has joined a new legal brief to the U.S. Supreme Court opposing racial preferences in school admissions. Project 21 joined an amicus curiae ("friend of the court") legal brief written by the Pacific Legal Foundation and also joined by the Center for Equal Opportunity, American Civil Rights Institute and National Association of Scholars in the case of Abigail Noel ...
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In Light of Virginia Journalist Killings, Project 21's Joe Hicks Fears People with Mental Psychosis and Other Brain Disorders are Responding Dangerously to the Re-Birth of Militant Black Protests Washington, D.C. - "Did the ideology of black racial victimization play a role in the murder of a white Virginia TV news reporter and her cameraman?" asks Joe Hicks, a political commentator and member of Project 21. "When Dylann Roof walked into Charleston's historic Emanuel African Methodist Church and shot down nine black members of a Bible study group his actions were not informed by organized, active white supremacist groups - ...
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Celebrate the Achievement, Black Leadership Group Says Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are hitting back against President Barack Obama's use of the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act to divide Americans from one another and to promote a political agenda. The Voting Rights Act anniversary is a time for celebration, say Project 21 members, who say it was inappropriate for the President to use his speech noting the occasion to falsely accuse his political rivals of "deliberately making it harder for people to vote" and of intentionally passing "laws that aim at disenfranchising ...
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S. 1881, Senator Joni Ernst's Bill to Do Exactly That, to be Voted on Shortly Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are joining calls for passage of S. 1881, a bill to prohibit federal funding of Planned Parenthood, sponsored by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA). The legislation, which would ban federal grants and Medicaid reimbursement payments to Planned Parenthood, but keep overall funding levels for womens' health care services the same, will be voted upon in the U.S. Senate at approximately 5:30 PM on Monday, August 3.(1) Project 21 members say: Dr. Day Gardner: It is ...
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Members of Black Leadership Group Say U.S. District Court Judge Was Wrong to Release Transcript of Deposition in a Cosby Civil Case Explicitly Because Cosby Gave a 2005 Speech Telling Young Black Parents to do a Better Job Raising Their Children Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 black conservative leadership network are weighing in following news that documents in a civil case related to allegations that Bill Cosby molested a Temple University employee were made public by a U.S. district court judge specifically because Dr. Cosby has publicly criticized the way many black parents rear their children. "I'm ...
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Washington, D.C. - Legal and policy experts with the Project 21 black leadership network are available for comment on today's U.S. Supreme Court decision that allows perceived group racial disparities to be used as a trigger for enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. "When those statistical differences alone are used as proof of discrimination, freedom and liberty are lost; but worse the constitutional protections provided to every American as an individual are lost too," said Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper, a legal commentator who taught constitutional law at George Mason University and is a former leadership staff member for the ...
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