Black Leader Critical of NAACP Image Award for Van Jones
February 26, 2010
“I understand that it’s their award and the NAACP can give it to whomever they want,” said Project 21’s Massie. “But an Image Award is supposed to be reserved for ‘outstanding achievement.’ Can they really justify Jones’ failed tenure in government and his continued wrong-headed views for such an honor? At this rate, I expect next year’s ceremony will honor Lil’ Wayne.” Read more
Black Conservatives Condemn Grayson Remarks Comparing Protection of Free Speech to Racist Dred Scott Decision
January 21, 2010
Washington, DC: Members of the Project 21 black leadership group are condemning remarks today by Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) comparing today’s Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to the Dred Scott case.
The decision in Citizens United eases certain restrictions on the free speech of businesses, associations, organized labor and certain advocacy groups with regard to their participation in political campaigns. In response, Grayson said: “This is the worst Supreme Court decision since the Dred Scott case.”
In the 1857 Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that black Americans who were either slaves or the descendants of slaves could not be, and never had been, U.S. citizens. The decision, formally known as Scott v. Sandford, also invalidated the 1820 Missouri Compromise, which prohibited slavery in portions of U.S. territories in the west. Read more
Black Activists Respond to Reid’s Racial Remarks
January 11, 2010
Mychal Massie (chairman of Project 21): “Harry Reid is a loathsome individual whose apology was based on exposure not repentance. Reid’s comments are proof positive that the racial animus of the past is alive and prevalent among liberals today, notwithstanding the fact that their standard-bearer is a black man.”
Robert A. George: “How nice to see that, when it comes to race in America, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has such, ahem, ‘enlightenment’ (pun intended). Thank goodness no jive-talkin’ darky ever thought about running for president! No way Reid could have supported him!!” (This quote comes from Robert’s “Ragged Thots” blog. The entire post can be seen at http://raggedthots.blogspot.com.) Read more
Chris Matthews “White” Tea Parties Remark Contested
January 6, 2010
Washington, DC: On the January 5 edition of his MSNBC program “Hardball,” Chris Matthews claimed that everyone participating in tea party rallies such as the one held in Washington, D.C. on September 12, 2009 were white.
In a discussion with Mark McKinnon of the Daily Beast and Susan Page of USA Today, Matthews said: “And they’re monochromatic, right?… Meaning they’re all white. All of them — every single one of them — is white.”
Members of the Project 21 black leadership disagree. They were there. Read more
Statement of Project 21’s Bob Parks on Senator Whitehouse Comments
December 21, 2009
“President Obama’s almost-constant apologies to the world for the our nation’s actions and his socialist economic policies at home have energized a normally lethargic American people into gathering in American cities and storming the steps of the Capitol in protest. Senator Whitehouse would have us all just shut up and give Obama his political victories unchallenged. Not doing so makes us all guilty of unprecedented rudeness and – dare I say it – racism. Read more
Reid Race Comments Condemned
December 8, 2009
Black Activists Condemn Senate Leader Harry Reid Playing the Race Card in Health Care Debate
Washington D.C.: Recent race-related comments made by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) are highly offensive and historically inaccurate, say members of the Project 21 black leadership group.
“Harry Reid has resorted to the most shopworn trick in the liberal playbook. He deployed the race card in the ugliest way while debating health care reform,” said Deroy Murdock, a Project 21 member and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. “It is astonishing and outrageous to equate those who seek the defeat of Reid’s 2,074-page, $2.5 trillion legislative monstrosity with those who were happy to keep blacks in chains, unpaid for their back-breaking labor and traded back and forth like cattle. The fact that Reid would use such deplorable, insulting and insensitive rhetoric indicates that he is out of credible arguments to defend his own proposal.” Read more
Project 21 Members Protest Jesse Jackson Linking Racial Identity to ObamaCare Vote
November 20, 2009
Washington D.C.: Members of the Project 21 black leadership network have risen to condemn Jesse Jackson for saying of Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL), “You can’t vote against health care and call yourself a black man,” calling Jackson’s statement divisive and likening it to the mental tactics of a antebellum slaveowner.
Declining to respond in kind, Rep. Davis told The Hill newspaper, “The best way to honor Reverend Jackson’s legacy is to decline to engage in an argument with him that begins and ends with race.”
Project 21 members were less retrained.
“Shame on Jesse Jackson for using the race card in an attempt to influence the views of another black politician,” said Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli. Read more
Jackson & Sharpton Effort Against Rush Limbaugh is an Effort to “Get Whitie” and a “Racist Act,” Says Leading Black Conservative
October 15, 2009
Statement of Project 21’s Deneen Borelli
Washington D.C.: This statement was issued today by Deneen Borelli of the national black leadership network Project 21:
“The left-wing jihad against Rush Limbaugh is un-fair and un-American. Rush is being targeted simply because he is a conservative and a leading critic of President Obama’s wealth redistribution policies.
With conservative blood in the water, it’s predictable to see the ‘race card duo’ – Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton – circling the victim. Since the election of the first black president, they have been searching for some white meat to feed on and Rush just happens to be a juicy target. Whipping up unjustified black anger is their specialty. Read more
Why Do We Need The Fourteenth Amendment To Reinforce The Bill Of Rights?
October 7, 2009
Next summer the United States Supreme Court will hear the case of McDonald v. Chicago, which is a challenge to the constitutionality of the city of Chicago’s gun ban. Similar to the most recent gun rights ruling of District of Columbia v. Heller, in which the Supreme Court declared D.C.’s ban unconstitutional and that the Second Amendment guaranteed an individual right to keep and bear arms, the ruling did not define to what extend the states and their local governments can impose their own gun laws.
We have read of late that a Ninth District Federal Appeals Court reaffirmed that the Fourteenth Amendment “incorporates” the Second Amendment, meaning that the 14th Amendment spells out again that the Privileges or Immunities Clause grants the rights of the Bill of Rights to all legal and lawful citizens. It’s a shame that somehow became necessary. Read more
Statement of Deneen Borelli on Allegations of Racism Against Critics of Obama Policies
September 16, 2009
Washington D.C. This statement was issued today by Deneen Borelli of the national black leadership network Project 21:
“There they go again. Now Jimmy Carter has joined House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel, Texas Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, New York Governor David Paterson, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd and others on the left in claiming racism is behind criticism of President Obama’s big-spending policies.
The public is outraged about the president’s policies — the spending, the budget, the deficit — not his skin color. Read more
Sophomoric Emotionalism Rules The Day In Washington
August 28, 2009
For decades, since I have walked this planet and been old enough to even care about what a distrustful politician had to say, I have heard repeatedly, “The voting public isn’t stupid!”, or something to that effect, fully suspecting that it was sincere. For a few years now I have had my own doubts about whether these disjointed politicians were right or wrong. Comparatively, the American public isn’t stupid, or at least as stupid as the politicians. I am now, however, 100% convinced Washington politicians and bureaucrats are completely out of touch, as is the media who adore them.
I have written that I suspected that Barack Hussein Obama was elected President of the United States, not for what he stood for, not for his political ambitions, not because of what he could or couldn’t do for this country or in what direction he wanted to take us, but simply because those voting wanted to some day be able to say, “Hey, I voted for the first black United States president!”. Read more
Black Activists Call on Obama to Condemn Race-Baiting Tactics in Health Care Debate
August 8, 2009
Washington D.C. The Project 21 black leadership network is condemning New York Times liberal columnist Paul Krugman for scurrilously pinning racist motives on critics of President Obama’s health care proposals. The group is calling upon President Obama to condemn all efforts to derail legitimate public debate, specifically including this effort to stifle debate with race-baiting tactics.
“Paul Krugman is the one with race on the brain,” Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie charged. “Specifically, he is using race in the lowest and most repulsive declinations. He is using it because every other argument to stem the growing tide of condemnation for the proposed health care reform bill has failed. Ergo, when all else fails, parade out the race card and attempt to incite blacks into becoming the useful idiots.” Read more
