{"id":5934,"date":"2014-12-25T05:13:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T09:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncdata.wpengine.com\/?p=5934"},"modified":"2017-09-18T21:10:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T01:10:23","slug":"project-21-training-young-conservatives-to-deal-with-those-who-play-the-race-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2014\/12\/25\/project-21-training-young-conservatives-to-deal-with-those-who-play-the-race-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Project 21 Training Young Conservatives to Deal with Those Who Play the Race Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"P21DerryckGreen\"Addressing some of the conservative leaders of tomorrow, Project 21<\/a> member Derryck Green<\/a> counseled them on the importance of standing up for themselves at the inevitable moments when liberals are so desperately losing their arguments that they will find the race card played against them.<\/p>\n

Derryck bluntly told his audience of high school and college students that \u201cyou\u2019re not racist \u2013 you\u2019re conservative.\u201d\u00a0 He explained that conservatives are all too often improperly maligned as racist and must immediately confront those who seek to discredit them on such false charges.<\/p>\n

If they do not address and disarm the smear of racism, Derryck added, it may stick and unduly influence others despite being wholly invalid.<\/p>\n

These words of wisdom came as Derryck when he spoke to dozens of young conservatives at the Reagan Ranch Center of the Young America\u2019s Foundation in Santa Barbara, California on 11\/15\/14.\u00a0 His remarks expanded on his recent Prager University lecture \u2013 \u201cWho are the Real Racists: Liberals or Conservatives?\u201d<\/a> \u2013 that has been viewed over 263,000 times.<\/p>\n

During his Young America\u2019s Foundation talk, Derryck pointed out that anyone labeling conservatives as racist must be pressed to provide definitive proof of their allegation.\u00a0 It is Derryck\u2019s contention, derived from his journey toward acknowledging his own conservatism, that the policies of liberals are actually more condescending toward black Americans that any competing agenda promoted by conservatives.<\/p>\n

For example, regarding racial preference policies for employment or school admissions, Derryck said affirmative action policies can actually be harmful to black students:<\/p>\n

It robs them of an opportunity just so the school brochure can say \u201cwe\u2019re diverse.\u201d\u00a0 I think that\u2019s wrong.\u00a0 I think that\u2019s morally wrong.\u00a0 But, most important, or maybe equally as important, is that it mismatches black students with institutions in which they\u2019re just not prepared to succeed.<\/p>\n

So, if we have a bunch of people who maybe have not have had the best education, but they applied to first-rate schools, just for diversity \u2013 well, we\u2019re setting them up for failure because they haven\u2019t been primed and they haven\u2019t been exposed to the learning techniques and the speed at which they need to keep up to be successful.\u00a0 So they\u2019re going to more than likely drop out or fall behind.<\/p>\n

If we\u2019re going to have affirmative action that gets more students into schools, but the dropout rates are higher, what have we accomplished?<\/p>\n

Derryck then talked about polling place protections to safeguard the will of American voters and voter ID requirements in particular.\u00a0 Saying that the notion that blacks cannot obtain proper identification in \u201cincongruent\u201d with a respectful view of blacks, Derryck commented about voter ID laws:<\/p>\n

They say it\u2019s going to disfranchise blacks.\u00a0 What does that mean, exactly?\u00a0 \u201cWell, blacks aren\u2019t capable of getting ID.\u201d\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 The majority of them have ID already.<\/p>\n

Why are blacks singled out as the only group who cannot get an ID?\u00a0 To me, that\u2019s\u2026 that\u2019s racist.\u00a0 And, you know, it boils my blood\u2026 that we are singled out as incapable.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have the ingenuity.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have the tools \u2013 whether intrinsically or extrinsically \u2013 to be like everyone else.<\/p>\n

But what really grinds my gears, in some fashion, is that blacks are running to use this defense \u2013 to say, \u201cyes, we cannot do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

And I look at this and say: \u201cHey, wait a second.\u00a0 You\u2019re participating in your own condescension.\u201d\u00a0 And this is why people look down on black issues and don\u2019t take black issues seriously.<\/p>\n

School choice was Derryck\u2019s third case in which he pointed out liberals are pursuing (actually opposing, in this case) a policy that would benefit black families.\u00a0 He said:<\/p>\n

I think that the idea of giving blacks the opportunity to pick what teachers teach their students, what schools their children go to, I think that should be given to every American.<\/p>\n

For the President to send his two daughters to a school that costs over $37,000 a year per student, and doesn\u2019t extend that freedom and liberty to many of his constituents \u2013 I think \u2013 is wrong.\u00a0 And I don\u2019t think he can defend that, morally\u2026<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to conscript black children to poor education.\u00a0 What do we do to these children that we say we are going to force [them] into these substandard schools.<\/p>\n

To follow is Derryck\u2019s full presentation and a lively question-and-answer session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Addressing some of the conservative leaders of tomorrow, Project 21 member Derryck Green counseled them on the importance of standing up for themselves at the inevitable moments when liberals are so desperately losing their arguments that they will find the race card played against them….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,74,36],"tags":[77],"yoast_head":"\nProject 21 Training Young Conservatives to Deal with Those Who Play the Race Card - The National Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2014\/12\/25\/project-21-training-young-conservatives-to-deal-with-those-who-play-the-race-card\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"David Almasi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2014\/12\/25\/project-21-training-young-conservatives-to-deal-with-those-who-play-the-race-card\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2014\/12\/25\/project-21-training-young-conservatives-to-deal-with-those-who-play-the-race-card\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"David Almasi\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/#\/schema\/person\/986101645c65e8d001dc8de54beb396d\"},\"headline\":\"Project 21 Training Young Conservatives to Deal with Those Who Play the Race Card\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-12-25T09:13:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-09-19T01:10:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2014\/12\/25\/project-21-training-young-conservatives-to-deal-with-those-who-play-the-race-card\/\"},\"wordCount\":752,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2014\/12\/25\/project-21-training-young-conservatives-to-deal-with-those-who-play-the-race-card\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P21DerryckGreen-28-200x300.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ConservativeBlog.org\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Articles\",\"Blog\",\"Project 21\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2014\/12\/25\/project-21-training-young-conservatives-to-deal-with-those-who-play-the-race-card\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2014\/12\/25\/project-21-training-young-conservatives-to-deal-with-those-who-play-the-race-card\/\",\"name\":\"Project 21 Training Young Conservatives to Deal with Those Who Play the Race Card - 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