Project 21: Press Releases

Civil Rights Scaremongering Against Polling Place Protections Rings Hollow With Many Blacks Black Activists Say Identity Verification Only Way to Preserve Ballot Integrity, Ensure Every Vote Counts St. Louis/Washington, D.C. - A new poll shows that a majority of black Americans support voter ID laws despite a full-court press by the Obama Administration and its supporters in and out of government to label such polling place protections as a danger to civil rights. Members of the Project 21 black leadership network note this very basic safeguard ensures the integrity of the democratic process and provides Americans of all races, genders ...
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Jim Crow Banished, But Failing Public Schools a Crisis for Many Black Youth Vouchers and Other Alternatives to Failing Public Schools Needed for Full Equality of Opportunity Washington, D.C. - On the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling that mandated desegregation in American public schools, members of the Project 21 black leadership network commend the necessary desegregation of public education, but point out that providing all students with a quality education, including viable alternatives, still challenges government. "While it's important to commemorate Brown v. Board of Education as the beginning of the end ...
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Four State Lawmakers Caught in Government Bribery Sting; Accused of Taking Cash to Influence Actions on Government Contracts and Voter ID State's Attorney General Declines to Prosecute, Apparently Because Lawmakers are Black and Liberal "It appears that Attorney General Kane picks and chooses the laws she will defend and the crimes she will prosecute based on a political litmus test," says Project 21's Episcopal Missionary Church Bishop Council Nedd II, a Pennsylvanian Washington, D.C. - In the wake of a liberal walkout in the Pennsylvania state legislature and accusations that Pennsylvania's attorney general is declining to prosecute four lawmakers allegedly ...
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Black Activists in Favor of Ending Quotas Available for Comments Washington, D.C. - Attorneys and activists with the Project 21 black leadership network are pleased about today's U.S. Supreme Court decision on race preferences, and hope the Court's latest ruling on race-conscious school admissions policies will become decisive in finally ending government-enforced rules creating arbitrary demographic quotas. "Today, the Supreme Court moved us closer to the colorblind principle that Martin Luther King advocated and that is embedded in the 14th Amendment," said Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper, a former constitutional law professor. "I'm pleased that the principle of treating all ...
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Hypocritical Federal Government Fought Company for Using the Same System Government Uses to Screen Hires Washington, D.C. - In a case in which the Project 21 black leadership network supported the defendant with a legal brief, an appeals court just delivered a stinging rebuke to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for highly unprofessional methodology in attempting to prove racial disparities in a company's job applicant credit checks. "We decided to weigh in on this case because the EEOC's effort to expand the use of disparate impact analysis went far beyond having any logical nexus with discrimination," said Project 21 ...
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Son of Conservative Civil Rights Icon, a Member of Project 21, Issues Statement FBI, Local Police Investigating Apparent Hate Crime Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network condemn the apparent February 16 hate crime on the campus of the University of Mississippi in which a statue of civil rights icon and prominent black conservative James Meredith was vandalized. Meredith's son, John, a founding member of Project 21, has issued a statement about the act and his appreciation for efforts to find the perpetrators. "We join in the condemnation of those who have vandalized the iconic statue ...
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Washington, D.C. - Calling it steeped in class warfare and contempt for the Constitution, commentators with the Project 21 black leadership network are highly critical of President Barack Obama's 2014 State of the Union address. "It's interesting for President Obama to begin his State of the Union address with a list of supposed accomplishments, and then ask for a 'year of action.' He put forth a lot of ideas, yet offered no fixes to the problems that define his administration - an ever-expanding federal deficit, the stifling of jobs by the Affordable Care Act and the continued attempts to rob ...
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New Bill Provides Fraudsters with Opportunity to Steal, Nullify Votes of Law-Abiding Americans Washington, D.C. - Legal experts with the Project 21 black leadership network are highly critical of new legislation introduced in Congress meant to overturn and pervert reforms to the Voting Rights Act that were instituted by the U.S. Supreme Court just a few months ago. "This proposal is fundamentally flawed. Instead of explicitly acknowledging the rights of states to engage in lawful voter integrity measures, it only does so begrudgingly. And it fails to reset the clock before allowing the federal officials to micro-manage the voter laws ...
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Washington, D.C. - Black conservatives affiliated with the Project 21 leadership network are available for comment about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his beliefs and his legacy in observance of the upcoming national holiday that bears Dr. King's name. For over 20 years, Project 21 has helped promote black conservatives to highlight the political diversity of the black community. "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. embodied hope, courage and love for fellow man. His dream of peace and racial harmony is still achievable through collective efforts to work towards this goal," said Project 21's Demetrius Minor, a youth ministry coordinator and ...
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Radical Selection Shows Need for Filibuster Protections, Black Conservatives Say Washington, D.C. - President Barack Obama's controversial nomination of Debo Adegbile to head the U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights office is being criticized by members of the Project 21 black leadership network. Adegbile's radical resume, Project 21 legal and policy experts say, places him far outside of the mainstream and presents an extremely risky choice for a position with tremendous influence over important issues such as immigration and voter protection. "With the Adegbile nomination, President Obama is once again pushing a divisive agenda," said Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper, ...
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Five Decades After: Black Progress Hurt by Expansion in Government, Welfare Black Activists Criticize Handout Mentality that Destroyed Traditional Families Washington, D.C. - Fifty years ago today, before a joint session of Congress, President Lyndon Baines Johnson announced an "unconditional war on poverty in America." Today, black activists with the Project 21 leadership network are critical of how that war has been waged. They note the expansion of government and a strategy focused on handouts that discourage self-improvement caused more harm than help to the poor. "Five decades after President Johnson initiated the 'war' on poverty, America remains at around ...
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Washington, D.C. - In no uncertain terms, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are calling out many self-appointed black leaders, activists and journalists for thus far being unwilling to directly address the senseless "knockout game" violence terrorizing innocent Americans. Project 21 members are also thanking those others who are courageously speaking out against the unacceptable mayhem. "The members of the racial grievance industry who've attempted to sanitize rather than denounce this chaotic behavior on the grounds that the offenders are black do so as an insult to all black Americans. In their sanitation process, they excuse the very ...
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Washington, D.C. - With the U.S. Supreme Court set to address whether businesses can obtain a conscience exemption from ObamaCare's contraception mandate, a constitutional scholar with the Project 21 black leadership network is "pleased" the Court is addressing a "fundamental principle of religious liberty" that the Obama Administration has turned into "a political wedge issue." In taking up the case, the justices are expected to decide on an issue that has divided the lower courts in the face of dozens of legal challenges from for-profit companies seeking ObamaCare exemptions based on constitutional protections of religious freedom. These lawsuits ask for ...
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Project 21 Black Conservatives' Network Hopes Eventual Decision Will Invalidate Constitutionality of Racial Quotas Once and for All Case Centers on Whether Referendum Passed in Michigan to Prohibit Preferential Treatment in Public Employment, Education and Contracting Based on "Race, Sex, Color, Ethnicity or National Origin" Violates U.S. Constitution Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case today that may lead to a definitive decision invalidating race quota policies once and for all. Legal experts with the Project 21 black leadership network, which has filed an amici brief in the case, urge the court to do ...
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Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are supporting comments made by black businessman Robert Johnson, who took President Obama to task this past weekend for using class warfare to promote his policy agenda. "When it comes to soliciting support for his policies, President Obama's class warfare approach is a sad measure for the state of our country and a telling sign of his failures while in office," said Project 21 spokesman Ak'bar Shabazz. "Condemning Americans for flying in private planes may win applause at union rallies, but it won't help anyone get a job." "After ...
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Washington, D.C. - With Congress at an impasse and President Obama threatening to shut down the government rather than make concessions regarding his very unpopular federal takeover of private health care, black conservatives with the Project 21 black leadership network remain highly critical of ObamaCare and President Obama's unwillingness to compromise. "ObamaCare will invariably lead to a centralized, rigid health care system that will insert the government as the decisionmaker and destroy the traditional doctor-patient relationship. Cost control will become the driving force. There will be a transfer of wealth -- not from rich to poor, but away from the ...
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North Carolina Assault an Affront to Supreme Court, Safe Balloting Washington, D.C. - In a clear attempt to reclaim and expand its perceived authority to prevent the enactment of election protections, the Obama Administration filed a lawsuit today that challenges new North Carolina ballot safeguards. Coming in the immediate wake of much-needed reform to the Voting Rights Act by the U.S. Supreme Court, members of the Project 21 black leadership network decry this effort by Barack Obama and Eric Holder to turn back the clock on necessary protections enacted by states to ensure the integrity of Americans' ballots. "For Attorney ...
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Peacenik President and Staff Out of Depth in Test of Strategic Prowess, Project 21 Members Say Washington, D.C. - With President Barack Obama trying to make the case tonight for fulfilling his red-line demands on the Syrian regime of Bashir al-Assad, members of the Project 21 black leadership network remain unconvinced that the Nobel Peace Prize-winner possesses the authority and the justification to properly handle this foreign policy nightmare of his own making. "President Obama's speech this evening lacked a logical reasoning for what to do about Syria even though he has declared it a national priority," said Project 21's ...
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Washington, D.C. - Black conservatives affiliated with the Project 21 leadership network are available for interview and comment regarding the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and President Obama's scheduled speech at the Lincoln Memorial. On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and an estimated quarter-million others participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was at this event that Dr. King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. At an event marking the anniversary that is organized by the King Center, President Barack Obama is slated to give a speech commemorating the ...
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Partisan Words Inappropriate for Solemn Occasion, Project 21 Members Say Washington, D.C. - Black activists with the Project 21 leadership network are critical of President Barack Obama's divisive and political comments made today as part of the 50th anniversary observance of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Approximately 50 years to the minute from when Dr. Martin Luther King began his "I Have a Dream" speech, President Obama stood in the same place as Dr. King to commemorate a solemn yet joyous anniversary. Yet the President seemed more interested in promoting his political agenda than celebrating progress earned ...
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