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Reparations Rhetoric Trades Physical Shackles for Emotional Ones - The National Center

22 Jun 2019 Reparations Rhetoric Trades Physical Shackles for Emotional Ones

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If black Americans were to be offered reparations for slavery, would Senator Kamala Harris be eligible for them? Should she be liable to pay for them?

These are some of the many questions that Project 21member Adrian Normanbrings to mind in a commentaryhe wrote for The Epoch Times. Initially published last February, it is highly relevant today.

With Congress having just held a hearing about the possible debt owed to black Americans due to slavery, Adrian made it clear that what has been called America’s “original sin” is not “exclusively an American phenomenon.” Instead, he pointed out, “It has existed worldwide for thousands of years.”

On June 19 – the same day as Juneteeth, the day widely celebrated as the anniversary of the end of American slavery – a hearing on Capitol Hill to discuss reparations was as contentions as critics predicted it would be. “Racism and slavery was [sic] our original sins, and we’ve got to deal with reparations by dealing exactly with that,” Julianne Malveaux said. “Let’s not forget that race is central to anything we do related to economic inequality.”

But there still isn’t anyone who can truly answer the questions of who should get slavery reparations and who should pay for them. And these are just two of many questions that need to be answered about reparations.

Consider the example of Senator Harris, who supportslegislation to set up a commission to make recommendations on the reparations issue. She is biracial – the daughterof Indian and Jamaican immigrants. So her ancestors weren’t even here when slavery existed. But, as Adrian explained in his commentary, she has a definite link to that era. Her great-grandparents owned slavesin Jamaica.

Does her family history mean that she owes reparations? Adrian wrote:

[I]s Harris personally responsible for the plight of slaves hundreds of years ago? Of course not. She is no more responsible for actions taken by those in her family’s past than any white person in America is responsible for actions taken by their ancestors.

But, since she’s made atonement for past sins a current policy platform, perhaps she should lead by example and be the first among us to take responsibility; do what she’s asking much of the rest of the country to do and pay dearly for past transgressions.

Adrian further noted:

The progressive narrative of slavery paints in broad strokes and taps into centuries-old pain and angst by methodically re-crafting historical fact into widely imbued myth. It emphatically and falsely supposes the notion that America as a whole and white southerners in particular are to blame for slavery in the United States…

Rhetoric like “government-sanctioned discrimination” suggests the entire government had culpability. It’s a distorted view of the past shared by many on the political left, including Harris…

The language used in discussing reparations is wildly inaccurate, as it implies liability for slavery rests with the entire country.

Both the House of Representativesand Senatehave voted to apologize for slavery and its aftermath in the past, but never offered monetary damages. Affirmative actionwas set up by executive decree almost 60 years ago to deal with inequality, and a myriad of welfare programs were set up to deal with economic inequality (with poor results).

During the hearing, reparations critic Coleman Hughes testified:

Black people don’t need another apology, we need safer neighborhoods and better schools, we need a less punitive criminal justice system, we need affordable health care and none of these things can be achieved with reparations for slavery.

If we were to pay reparations today, we would only divide the country further, making it harder to build the political coalitions required to solve the problems facing black people today.

Adrian added that any true solution will not come by way of an invoice for damages as much as by toning down the political rhetoric – particularly on the left – that is harming racial comity:

There are calls for an open dialogue on race. Neither Republicans nor Democrats can have a conversation about race by mindlessly reciting tall tales. We cannot allow physical shackles to be replaced by mental shackles that hold us in bondage.

To read all of Adrian’s Epoch Timescommentary, click here.

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Washington, D.C.* – Following President Trump’s 2026 State of the Union address, ambassadors with the Project 21 black leadership network are responding to the President’s remarks and policy initiatives.

Michael Austin

Michael Austin, Project 21 Ambassador and Economic Consultant:

Tonight, President Trump spoke to the central concern of our time: whether the American people can once again afford the American Dream.

For too long, inflation — the cruelest and most silent tax — devoured wages, punished thrift and burdened those least able to bear it. Now, with core inflation at its lowest level in five years, we see the first firm steps toward restoring price stability and economic confidence. A nation cannot prosper when its currency falters. Sound money is not merely economic policy; it is moral policy.

Energy, too, tells the story. With gas prices near $2.30, lower than at the close of President Trump’s first term, relief is returning to households and small businesses alike. When energy is abundant and affordable, commerce flourishes, food costs ease and industry advances. Energy independence is not a luxury; it is the backbone of national strength.

The largest tax cuts in American history further affirm a simple but powerful truth: What Americans earn belongs first to them. Lower taxes restore not only purchasing power, but dignity. And as 2.4 million Americans have moved off food stamps, we are reminded that the surest path out of poverty is not government dependency, but opportunity: the opportunity to work, to build and to rise.

Affordability is not an abstract ambition. It is the measure of whether families can fill their tanks, stock their kitchens, pay their mortgages and plan their futures with confidence. If we are to renew the promise of this nation, we must continue policies that reward work, restrain inflation, unleash energy and trust the American people with the fruits of their labor.

The task is not yet finished. But tonight, we are reminded that economic strength, grounded in freedom, remains within our reach.

Linda Lee Tarver

Dr. Linda Lee Tarver, Project 21 Ambassador:

As one who has experienced three tragic murders in my family, I strongly support the public-safety priorities outlined by Donald Trump in his State of the Union address. While many focus on economic concerns, the truth is simple: Without safety and sovereignty, we have no nation.

First, the President’s call to eliminate sanctuary states and cities and end no-cash bail is about protecting American lives. He made it clear that the priority of the U.S. government must be American citizens over illegal aliens. Violent crime—particularly murders in Washington, D.C.—has dropped dramatically under tougher enforcement, yet many leftists remained seated and silent. Even after the President acknowledged that our military has been attacked by terrorists who entered through open borders, there was no response. That silence speaks volumes.

Second, the President urged Congress to pass the SAFE Act to secure our elections through voter ID, proof of citizenship and limits on mail-in ballots. Election integrity protects every lawful voter. Claims that voter ID is discriminatory ring hollow when identification is required for everyday tasks—from boarding planes to shoveling snow in New York City. Black Americans deserve secure elections, not political excuses.

Third, the President called for full funding of the Department of Homeland Security. Leftists have repeatedly shut down DHS services for political sport, despite the fact that DHS responsibilities extend far beyond ICE—impacting border security, counterterrorism, disaster response and cybersecurity. Undermining DHS undermines national safety.

Finally, stopping states from issuing commercial driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants and individuals who cannot speak English is a commonsense, life-saving policy. Operating heavy commercial vehicles requires communication, training and accountability. Once again, leftists chose inaction over public safety.

Public safety is not partisan—it is foundational. I stand with the President and with Project 21 in supporting policies that put law-abiding Americans first, secure our borders, protect our elections and preserve our nation.

Horace Cooper

Horace Cooper, Project 21 Chairman:

The President tonight demonstrated why his tax and immigration enforcement policies are great for America. The numbers don’t lie. We’re becoming more prosperous and our communities increasingly are safer.

America isn’t just a country; it is also an idea. Tonight the President explained why America — the country and the idea — needs a growing economy, affordable health care and a strong national defense, and also how he’s working to make that happen.

I was particularly struck when he declared: “I will never allow the number one sponsor of terrorism to have a nuclear weapon.” Instead of letting this problem — Iran — fester and torment the world like his predecessors did, he’s committed to solving this challenge one way or another.

P. Rae Easley

P. Rae Easley, Project 21 Ambassador:

This SOTU was a victory lap for the MAGA movement. As a descendant of a governor of the Virginia colonies and the cotton fields of Mississippi, I am proud to have a president who puts the American people first. His America First policy is rebuilding MY congressional district in the heart of Black Chicago, because when America gets greater, so do our communities.

Tariffs have forced corporations to repatriate and bring back the jobs that took my family from impoverished southern cotton pickers to the midwestern middle class through manufacturing. We have the opportunity to rebuild the blue-collar economy that will free my community from the prison of a socialist economy controlled by grants partaged by progressive politicians. Capitalism gives citizens the ability to work and make free political decisions.

Dr. Tino Smith, Project 21 Ambassador:

Among the policy initiatives outlined in tonight’s State of the Union, the emphases on tax policy, fraud prevention and economic growth particularly resonated with me. As a business and community leader, I understand firsthand how tax structure and regulatory clarity directly influence job creation, organizational sustainability and long-term community investment.

Tino Smith

The administration’s focus on strengthening fraud oversight is also significant. Protecting taxpayer resources through accountability and enforcement supports fiscal responsibility and public trust. Effective stewardship of public funds is essential for economic stability.

Over the next three years, the measurable impact of these initiatives will be reflected in small business formation, workforce participation, inflation trends, healthcare affordability and deficit management. Responsible leadership requires evaluating policy outcomes through data and long-term results. My focus remains on substance — understanding how these initiatives are implemented and how communities can engage constructively to maximize opportunity and stability.

Melanie Collette, Project 21 Ambassador:

From a production standpoint, I love the fact that President Trump brought out the gold-medal Olympic hockey team, which set the tone for a high-energy speech. He covered the big issues Americans are dealing with: crime, illegal immigration, accountability, and honoring the service of many of our nation’s heroes.

Melanie Collette

The moment that landed hardest for me was his willingness to acknowledge what one young woman endured at the hands of activists in Virginia’s public schools and through the legal system. As a former public school teacher, I’ve been sounding the alarm for years about cultural indoctrination in schools — what I’ve bluntly called a spiritual cesspool — and I appreciated President Trump spotlighting the Virginia case where Sage Blair was socially transitioned without her parents’ knowledge, in direct defiance of the religious upbringing her family was trying to provide. That’s the kind of institutional overreach more parents should be aware of, and it needed to be said plainly on a national stage.

Dr. Ronald Gates, Sr., Project 21 Ambassador:

When the President called the chamber to its feet, he was not merely asking for applause; he was summoning a moral conviction that the first responsibility of any nation is to protect its own people. In that solemn moment, the cry was for a government that shields its children from the poison of drugs, its neighborhoods from violence, and its borders from those who exploit them for evil. It was a call to remember the grieving families who have buried sons and daughters lost to overdoses, the communities wounded by crime and the innocent lives scarred by trafficking and abuse.

Ronald D. Gates, Sr.

Standing was not about politics; it was about affirming that compassion begins with securing the safety and dignity of the American citizen. A nation without order cannot extend true mercy, and a people unprotected cannot fulfill their destiny. The appeal echoed the timeless truth that justice for the vulnerable requires courage from those entrusted with power. In that chamber, history pressed the question: Will we defend the promise of America with clarity and conviction? And the silence or the standing became more than a gesture; it became a testimony to what each heart believed the government’s sacred duty must be.

About

Project 21, a leading voice of black conservatives for over 30 years, is sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research. Its members have been quoted, interviewed or published over 50,000 times since the program was created in 1992. Contributions to the National Center are tax-deductible and greatly appreciated and may be earmarked exclusively for the use of Project 21.

Founded in 1982, the National Center for Public Policy Research is a non-partisan, free-market, independent conservative think-tank. Ninety-four percent of its support comes from some 60,000 individuals, less than four percent from foundations and less than two percent from corporations. Sign up for email updates here. Follow Project 21 on X at @Project21News for general announcements. To be alerted to upcoming media appearances by Project 21 members, follow our media appearances X account at @NCPPRMedia.

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Horace Cooper

Credentials

J.D., George Mason University of Law.[1]
B.A. University of Texas at Austin. [1]

Background

Horace Cooper is a senior fellow at the Heartland Institute. He is also a directorof the National Center for Public Policy Research (:{NCPPR:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:), where he co-chairs Project 21’sNational Advisory Board. According to his staff profile, Cooper is also an adjunct fellow with the NCPPR and “averages over 400 talk radio appearances per yearrepresenting Project 21, in addition to regular television appearances and interviews by the print media, also for Project 21.” [2],[3]

:{NCPPR:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: describes Project 21as “the National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives” and as an initiative “to promote the views of African-Americans whose entrepreneurial spirit, dedication to family and commitment to individual responsibility has not traditionally been echoed by the nation’s civil rights establishment.”[4]

Cooper is listed as President/Secretary (“P/S”) in public SEC filings for a group called the Energy Equality Coalition (:{EEC}:), which has fought “to end taxpayer subsidies and ensure a level playing field for middle-class American energy consumers” by ending subsidies to assist consumers in buying and charging electric vehicles. The EEC has maintained similar messaging to thenow-defunct group Fueling :{US}: Forward (FUSF), and **:{The New York Times}:**noted that Cooper spoke at the same conference as FUSF President and CEO Charles Drevna. [5],[6], [7]

He is alsosenior fellowof both The Institute for Liberty (:{IFL:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:) and the Heartland Institute, the latter which has been at the forefront of denying man’s influence on climate change. Cooper formerly worked with Richard (Dick) K. Armey, who went on to chair FreedomWorks until leaving the organization in 2012. FreedomWorks was formed as a merger between Citizens for a Sound Economy (:{CSE}:) and Empower America. CSE was founded by the Koch brothers in 1984 in an effort to promote deregulation.:{CSE}:/FreedomWorks received as much as $12,331,712 in Koch funding from 1986 to 2002, according to Greenpeace data. The IFL does not disclose its funders. [8], [9], [10]

According to leaked 2012 budget documents from The Heartland Institute, Cooper appears under a personnel list of individuals who were paid to work for Heartland in 2011, however would be either paid much less or unpaid in 2012. The document describes Cooper as formerly “a legislative specialist working out of our Washington DC office since 2010” until he “was let go mid-year after we concluded he wasn’t the right guy to lead a new and expanded Free to Choose Medicine project.” The budget notes “He will be replaced in 2012 by Vince Galbiati” and that “Horace remains an unpaid senior fellow.” [11]

Cooper’s archived profile at:{GOPUSA:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:notes that he was called aRepublican “Top Gun” in a Washington Times profile, “confirmed cigar smoker (profiled in Cigar Aficionado),” and former Chief of Staff and Deputy Director of the Voice of America for a year. [12]

From 2005 to 2007, Cooper was an assistant professor of law at George Mason University School of Law (:{GMUSL}:). As documented by Greenpeace, George Mason University is one of the largest recipients of Koch funding of any organization. His biography notes that he also “served in senior capacities in the George W. Bush Administration including stints as chief of staff at the Voice of America and the Dept of Labor’s Employment Standards Administration.” [1],[13]

Indictment in Jack Abramoff Scandal

In 2009, Cooper was indicted on five charges alleging he received gifts from former Washington lobbyists Jack Abramoff and Neil G. Volz while Cooper worked as the chief of staff for Voice of America (VOA) and later as chief of staff for the Employment Standards Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). The indictment included “one count of conspiracy, one count of fraudulent concealment, two counts of false statements, and one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, which could result in a maximum sentence of 40 years and a fine of $250,000.” [14]

“Cooper was required to report the gifts he received from Abramoff and Volz on his annual financial disclosure form because the value of these gifts exceeded the limits established by federal regulation. According to court documents, DOL ethics officials and his supervisors were deprived of critical information as a result of Cooper’s failure to report these gifts, which was necessary to determine whether Cooper had an actual or potential conflict of interest between his public responsibilities and his private interests and activities,” an archived :{FBI}: statement read. [15]

View the full indictment below:[doc]

Horace Cooper Criminal Indictment (Text)

Prosecutors contended that Cooper had used his influence to help Abramoff get federal funds from the Department of State andassist a colleague of Abramoff to resolve an investigation at the Labor department.[16]

The five-count felony indictment was dropped to a misdemeanor in exchange for a guilty plea by Cooper. In April 2010, Cooper pleaded guilty to the charges of making and using a false certificate or writing. Cooper also admitted that in 2003 he solicited and accepted gifts from Abramoff and Neil G. Volz, and that he had concealed his receipt of these gifts from DOL officials and his supervisors. [17], [15]

Stance on Climate Change

2015

In 2015, Horace Cooper appeared on Thom Hartmann’s “The Big Picture Rumble” panel where he argued against climate change regulations: [18]

“Poor people are disproportionately impacted by climate change regulation policies,” Cooper said. “They’re overwhelmingly going to be the front line of those harmed by these policies.” [7:41]

On Abortion

March 11, 2016

Horace Cooper has been a strong opponent of abortion and Planned Parenthood. In an episode of “The Big Picture,” he described organizations assisting with abortion as “the butchers who kill the unborn”: [19]

February 2016

Speaking on “The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann,” Cooper claimed that organizations like Planned Parenthood “enjoy killing as much as [they] can”: [20]

“The lion’s share of Planned Parenthood’s work is killing people. They ought to call it death care, not health care. But if they wanted to operate with impunity, they should do so without taxpayer support. You will find the scrutiny goes away completely once they decide we are an abortion industry and we enjoy killing as much as we can,” Cooper said on the program. [20]

After this, Hartmann put up a chart showing that only 3% of planned parenthood’s services got to abortion, and noted that “not one federal dollar goes to abortion.” Cooper responded: [20]

“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I want to do to Planned Parenthood what you want to do to Walmart. […] I want to regulate them, I will raise their cost of doing business, I will make sure that every place they want to locate that the government locally doesn’t want to approve it. […] and Walmart is doing a wonderful job and doesn’t kill people.” [20]

February 2012

Writing at the National Center for Policy Analysis, Cooper described a rule under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that would provide coverage for birth control as an “attempt to suppress basic expressions of religious faith” and “a direct violation of the First Amendment.” [21]

Key Quotes

July 14, 2017

Cooper criticized Al Gore for comparing activism on climate change to the civil rights movement: [22]

“Study after study demonstrate that the radical climate policies advocated by Al Gore, Jr. will hurt blacks and the poor most. Just as segregation and interracial marriage bans were purported to be for the good of all while clearly done to generate political support, today’s climate alarmism is pushed solely to get the support of a small group of so-called eco-warriors at the expense of blacks. Please spare us any more of this,” Cooper said in a NCPPR press release. [22]

Key Deeds

April 6, 2020

Horace Cooper, representing Project 21, is signatory to anAmerican Energy Alliance letter to President Donald Trump supporting the Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule which would scrap federal fuel economy mandates under the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program. [41]

Describing CAFE, the letter contends: “Those families and individuals who prefer or need trucks, SUVs, and crossovers pay more to subsidize those who buy smaller vehicles or electric vehicles under the existing mandate. This significant, needless, and unjust cost is a very real regressive tax on American families that has made our country worse off.” [41]

April 3, 2020

Horace Cooper, representing Project 21, praised President Donald Trump’s decision to roll back fuel efficiency mandatesas part of the “Safer Affordable Fuel Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles” rule. According to the Project 21 press release, Cooper’s organization had already been calling for the complete elimination of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in its “Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America.” Fuel efficiency mandates on automakers “make cars less affordable and less safe,” it claimed in the Blueprint publication. [39]

Horace Cooper also wrote a public comment opposing CAFE standards and advocating for the “SAFE” rule in October 2018, claiming the fuel economy standards “have a very negative impact on vehicle safety while even the proponents of climate change regulation acknowledge that they will provide only a trivial moderation of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.” [40]

Cooper concluded: “Increasing black hardship and placing drivers’ safety at greater risk for such a small payoff is simply irrational.” [40]

June 12, 2018

In a letter to then-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on behalf of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Project 21 Black Leadership Network, Cooper praised the decision to reduce CAFE fuel economy and emissions standards. [38]

Cooper and his co-chairmen suggested Obama-era regulations would have a negative impact on minority communities:

“The Black community has been prevented from reaching its full potential not only by racial factors, but by non-racial ones as well. Excessive regulatory costs that make products unaffordable are one of the most significant non-racial obstacles to black economic progress.” [38]

The letter also requested future regulatory proposals consider potential economic effects on minorities prior to approval. [38]

August 19, 2017

Cooper appeared on “The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann” to debate military spending, jobs, and climate change: [23]

December 8, 2016

Horace Cooper was a moderator at the “At the Crossroads III Energy and Climate Summit,” an event co-hosted by the Heritage Foundation and the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF). The event was billed as “the premier energy-and-climate policy event in America,” and attracted a range of prominent climate change deniers as well as a range of names connected to Donald Trump and his transition team. [24]

Speakers included:

Becky Norton Dunlop

Mike Lee

Lamar Smith

Pete Olson

Gary Palmer

James Inhofe

Kathleen Hartnett White

Stephen Moore

Bud Brigham

David Kreutzer

Patrick J. Michaels

Mark P. Mills

Horace Cooper

Patrick Forkin

Allen Gilmer

Dan Byers

Nicolas Loris

Richard Lindzen

Willie Soon

Andrew M. Grossman

William Happer

Craig Idso

Roy Spencer

Patrick J. Michaels

Brooke Rollins

Becky Norton Dunlop

David Legates

James Taylor

August 2016

According to The New York Times, Cooper delivered a speech on energy policy at the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Ind. The conference, which included Fueling US Forward as a sponsor, was also attended by FUSF President and CEO Charles Drevna.[7]

February 2012

According to the appearance schedule on his website, Cooper planned to attend the twelfth Conservative Political Action Conference(CPAC)in Washington, DC. Notable sponsors included Altria, The Heritage Foundation, and Koch Industries, among many others. [25], [26]

July 11–14, 2012

According to the appearance schedule on his website, the 2012 “FreedomFest” conference in Las Vegas, Nevada was on his upcoming agenda. The Heartland Institute, Heritage Foundation, and institute for Justice were all listed as “Gold” level exhibitors for that year’s conference. [25], [27]

March 2011

Cooper opposed a ban on menthol cigarettes. He wrote, “This coming war on menthol is a study in contradictions that will affect all Americans regardless of race and whether they smoke.” [28]

April 7, 2010

Horace Cooper pleaded guilty to charges of making and using a false certificate or writing and admitted that in 2003 he solicited and accepted gifts from former Washington lobbyists Jack A. Abramoff and Neil G. Volz. [15]

“Cooper was required to report the gifts he received from Abramoff and Volz on his annual financial disclosure form because the value of these gifts exceeded the limits established by federal regulation. According to court documents, DOL ethics officials and his supervisors were deprived of critical information as a result of Cooper’s failure to report these gifts, which was necessary to determine whether Cooper had an actual or potential conflict of interest between his public responsibilities and his private interests and activities,” an archived FBI statement read. [15]

Cooper was indicted on public corruption as noted in a 2009 FBI press release: [14]

“The five-count indictment charges Horace M. Cooper, 44, of Lorton, Va., with one count of conspiracy, one count of fraudulent concealment, two counts of false statements, and one count of obstruction of an official proceeding. U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan Kay today issued a criminal summons directing Cooper to make an initial appearance in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, at 1:45 p.m,” the FBI press release read. [14]

The indictment alleged that while Cooper worked as the chief of staff for Voice of America (VOA) and later as chief of staff for the Employment Standards Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), “Cooper conspired with Jack A. Abramoff, a former Washington, D.C., lobbyist, and others, to defraud the United States of his honest services and of its right to have federal executive branch business conducted without improper influence” and also for accepting gifts “to influence or reward Cooper for official acts as a federal executive branch employee.” [14]

Politico reported that the allegations included Cooper receiving more than $5,000 in tickets to sporting events and concerts from Abramoff while working for Dick Armey between 1998 and 2001, and another $9,000 in tickets while he worked at the Voice of America and later at the Labor Department. Prosecutors contended that Cooper had used his influence to help Abramoff get federal funds from the Department of State and assist a colleague of Abramoff to resolve an investigation at the Labor department. View the full indictment here. [16]

The indictment quotes an email from Cooper’s personal account, around March 28, 2003, when Cooper emailed lobbyist Neil Volz (emphasis added): [29]

“Okay, I’ll take them [2 tickets to a Baltimore Orioles game]. Thanks. But I’d really like to talk with you. How about via telephone. I really would like to make sure that if there are problems that I can “fix” that I get as much notice as possible. Two firms have recently been fined before the front office got a chance to have any input in the decision. If things are going well, then okay. But if not, and there’s something that I can do, I’m willing to help. I’ve got two 30 minute windows today at 2 and 3 pm.” [29]

The indictment also alleged that Cooper regularly messaged Volz and Abramoff from his personal account “in order to conceal his actions from his employers and the public,” and that Cooper “concealed the things of value he received from Abramoff, Volz, other Firm B lobbyists, and their clients by failing to report them to his supervisors or ethics officials.” [29]

The five-count felony indictment was dropped to a misdemeanor in exchange for a guilty plea by Horace Cooper. “My family and I are so grateful that this ordeal is over. It will be so good to get this whole thing behind me,” said Cooper. The original sentence he faced would be up to 40 years and a fine of $250,000. The revised sentence would be a maximum of six months in prison and a $500 fine. [30]

February 20–22, 2010

According to the event list on his website, Cooper attended the RightOnline Conference of Americans for Prosperity (AFP). While the 2010 conference isn’t archived online, the 2011 RightOnline conference described its past iteration as a place where “over 1,100 grassroots activists and bloggers from around the country came together to learn, meet, and exchange ideas on how we can advance conservative policies.” [25], [31]

Rep. Mike Pence was a speaker at the 2010 conference, according to Alternet. [32]

Americans for Prosperity, which has received a total of at least $11,900,078 from Koch-controlled foundations according to data from the Conservative Transparency project, has been criticized for “using the guise of nonprofit status to work, behind a screen of anonymity, on behalf of the Kochs’ corporate and political interests.” [33], [34], [35]

Affiliations

Energy Equality Coalition (EEC) — President/Secretary (“P/S”). [5]

National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) — Director, co-chair of Project 21’s National Advisory Board. [2], [3]

Heartland Institute — Senior Fellow. [8]

Institute for Liberty (IFL) — Senior Fellow in Legal Policy. Director of Law and Regulation. [37], [8], [1]

American Civil Rights Union — Senior Fellow. [37]

George Mason University School of Law (GMUSL) — Assistant Professor of Law (2005 to 2007). Also served for four years on GMUs “Board of Visitors.” [1], [12]

George W. Bush Administration — Served in “senior capacities […] including stints as chief of staff at the Voice of America and the Dept of Labor’s Employment Standards Administration.”[1]

Honorable Richard K. Armey — Former Counsel (1994 – 2002). [1], [36]

Centre for New Black Leadership— Former Senior Fellow. [12]

Voice of America (VOA) — Former Chief of Staff and Deputy Director (late 2001 to December 2002). [12], [14]

Social Media

Cooper doesn’t appear to maintain personal social media accounts, although the following accounts can be found for NCCPR and Project21:

@Project21News on Twitter.

Project21 on Facebook.

Publications

According to his personal bio, Cooper “has appeared on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News as well as in a variety of print publications.” The NCPPR also offers a number of samples of Cooper’s publications, including a playlist of his live appearances: [1], [3]

Resources

“Biography,” Horace Cooper. Archived November 16, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/w5UOi

“The National Center For Public Policy Research Current Board Of Directors” (PDF), National Center for Public Policy Research, May 13, 2015. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog.

“Horace Cooper,” National Center for Public Policy Research. Archived November 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/WMb1q

“ABOUT PROJECT 21,” National Center for Public Policy Research. Archived November 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/a4I6M

“2017 Annual Report: Energy Equality Coalition,” Commonwealth of Virginia State Corporation Commission. Archived November 15, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/9wphC [ many more]

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If I told you there was a plan to decrease minority salaries and jobs here in America while allowing the African continent to become polluted, would you think I was peddling a crazy conspiracy theory? A few years ago, I would have dismissed it as nonsense. But that's exactly what the United Nation's Kyoto Protocolwould do to prevent "global warming" - a scientific theory that isn't even proven.

President George W. Bush took a lot of heat from environmentalists when he announced the United States will not abide by Kyoto's regulations, but he did the right thing. He saved minorities here in the United States a lot of hardship. To meet the U.N.'s goal of lower "greenhouse gas" emissions, prices would have gone up while incomes and the employment rate would have gone down. A study by Management Information Services, Inc. reported black family incomes might have declined an average of $2,220 under Kyoto regulations, and 864,000 black jobs might have been eliminated. An estimated 100,000 black and Hispanic businesses also could have been forced to close.

This past winter, higher fuel prices made nearly everyone's winter harder. And gasoline prices are starting to rise again. These are the effects of existing environmental regulations. If Kyoto regulations had been in effect, things would have been much worse. According to the economic consulting firm WEFA, Kyoto might have raised gas prices by an estimated 66 cents a gallon and raised grocery prices by nine percent, medical bills by 11% and housing costs by 21%.

What's so insane about all the global warming hype is that almost 17,000 scientists, including 2,100 climatologists, meteorologists and environmental experts signed a declaration stating: "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere." NASA satellite-based temperature readings have found no warming. If anything, these highly-sensitive and impartial instruments find the Earth is getting cooler.

What about the threat to Africa? Only a few countries are bound by the Kyoto Protocol. There's nothing stopping a company from moving from the United States (causing the lost jobs here) to a country not bound by Kyoto. No country in Africa is bound to the same Kyoto emissions standards as the United States. In fact, these nations have few, if any, environmental restrictions. American companies are already held to strong environmental standards. Unscrupulous companies can conceivably move to Africa and eliminate all of their environmental safety rules to get around the Kyoto Protocol.

Thanks to President Bush, this probably won't ever happen. Minority businesses and livelihoods here in America will remain secure, and Africa won't be despoiled.

April 22 is the 31st observance of Earth Day. We have a lot to be proud of as a nation. Since the first Earth Day, our nation's air has become much cleaner. South Central Los Angeles residents experienced 173 unhealthy smog days in 1990, but only 27 in 1999. Our cars are running cleaner than ever. So are airplanes. The timber industry is booming while the amount of trees being planted has more than doubled between 1970 and 1995.

"One effect of the environmental movement over the last 30 years is that environmental issues have become more intangible," says Bruce Hamilton of the Sierra Club. It's gotten to the point that these activists are looking for, or creating, environmental problems... like global warming.

In doing so, environmentalists are doing us a disservice. With the Kyoto Protocol, they would have a tremendous negative impact on the African-American and Hispanic communities. Kyoto is bad policy, and a perfect example of environmental injustice since it threatened minorities more than the rest of the population.

George W. Bush was accused of being insensitive to minority concerns while he was running for President. Yet one of his first acts as President benefited minorities more than anyone else. We African-Americans need to remember who was on our side in this situation, and who pushed for rules that would hurt us.

(Edmund Peterson is the chairman of the national advisory council of the African-American leadership network Project 21. He can be reached at Project21@nationalcenter.org.)

Note: New Visions Commentaries reflect the views of their author, and not necessarily those of Project 21.

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Blackwashing

Scratch the surface of a black conservative group and you find a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy

by Joshua Holland, Contributor

7.21.04

"Black Conservative to Rebut NAACP Leader's Remarks in C-SPAN Interview," read the press release from Project 21, an organization of conservative African-Americans.

I had read in Reuters that Kweisi Mfume, president of the NAACP, had called groups like Project 21 "make-believe black organizations," and a "collection of black hustlers" who have adopted a conservative agenda in return for "a few bucks a head."

So I tuned into C-SPAN with interest to hear what a leading voice in the black conservative movement had to say. But then a funny thing happened: the African-American spokesperson for Project 21 caught a flat on the way to the studio, and the group's director had to fill in. And he was white.

As the segment began there was an awkward Wizard of Oz moment as C-SPAN's Robb Harlston “ himself black “ turned to Project 21's Caucasian director, David Almasi, and said, "Um...Project 21... a program for conservative African Americans...you're not African American."

It was a remarkable moment. Aflat tirehad led to a nationally-televised peek into what lies behind a murky network of interconnected black conservative organizations that seek ostensibly to bring more African-Americans into the conservative movement. But they're not just reaching out to the community. They also speak out publicly for conservative positions that might evoke charges of racism if advocated by whites. And while that's not to say that there aren't some blacks who embrace conservative values, the groups that claim to represent them are heavily financed by business interests and often run by white Republicans.

Almasi replied defensively, "I wanted to make clear right at the beginning that I'm an employee, I'm an employee of Project 21, my bosses are the members of Project 21, the volunteers...I take my marching orders from them, not from anybody else."

Almasi told me by phone that he is Project 21's only paid staffer, and that he works part-time. He said that the approximately 400 volunteers â€“ among whom there was a core of "a few dozen" â€“ were simply conservative blacks "willing to do interviews, be quoted for press releases and be available to write for Project 21 publications," and that his role was simply to serve as "a syndicator, an editor and a scheduler."

But Project 21 is a subsidiary of the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), which, according to the liberal watchdog Mediatransparency.org, was formed in the 1980s to support Reagan's military interventions in Central America. NCPPR's leadership â€“ president, vice president, executive director â€“ are all white. Amy Ridenour, former Deputy Director of the College Republican National Committee and the organization's president, also sits on the board of Black America's PAC, an organization that claims to be nonpartisan but whose IRS filings state that its mission is to elect Republicans.

NCPPR's directors are also all white. In fact, one of them “ Jack Abramoff “ is so white that he's actually a high-powered GOP lobbyist and Bush 'Pioneer' who, according to the Washington Post, is the target of multiple investigations into alleged funny-money payments from Indian gambling concerns (along with the $45 million in fees they collected from them, Abramoff and his partner Michael Scanlon convinced the tribes to donate large sums to conservative organizations run by Scanlon, which then funneled the money back to Abramoff, according to the Post).

In the 1990s, NCPPR got into the business of denying that climate change warnings were based on sound science. If the connection between black conservative outreach work and environmental skepticism doesn't seem clear, that's because it's not. But it's logical considering that ExxonMobil donated $30,000 to NCPPR for "educational activities" and $15,000 for general support in 2002, and last year they hiked their operating support to $25,000 and kicked in another $30,000 for NCPPR's 'EnviroTruth' website, according to company financial records.

Project 21 also received funding from R.J. Reynolds and "has lobbied in support of tobacco industry interests, opposing FDA regulation of the industry, excise taxes and other government policies to reduce tobacco use," according to the Center for Media and Democracy. Almasi denied that Project 21 received tobacco industry money, but said he was not sufficiently aware of the details of NCPPR's fundraising to say whether the parent organization had.

A mile wide, an inch deep

Project 21 is one small part of a broad coalition of black conservative groups that fight for issues of concern to the business community. These organizations draw their intellectual inspiration from Thomas Sowell's landmark 1975 book Race and Economics, one of the founding documents of the new black conservative movement. Just as born-again conservatives like David Horowitz and Zell Miller are showered with praise and money, black conservatives are embraced and elevated by the conservative movement as living repudiations of liberalism.

So Sowell and others “ like Robert L. Woodson of the American Enterprise Institute, J.A. Parker of the Lincoln Institute, sometime presidential candidate Alan Keyes of Black America's PAC (BAMPAC), and Jackie Cissel of the Black Alliance for Educational Options “ have little trouble finding cushy think-tank sinecures and generous support for their organizations. Many among this small group of prominent black conservatives are on several groups' advisory boards, adding to the appearance of a broad ideological movement. Cissel, for one, also serves as regional director for theAfrican American Republican Leadership Council, a group whose mission "is to break the liberal democrat stranglehold over Black America," according to their web site. As Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten reported last year,13 out of the 15 members of the AALRC's Advisory Panel are white. They include such well known minority champions as the Free Congress Foundation's Paul Weyrich, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, the Reverend Lou Sheldon, Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council, David Keene of the American Conservative Union, and Fox News host Sean Hannity.

What do people like Weyrich, Norquist, Bauer and Hannity have in common with the black conservatives? It's more than a common affection for low taxes and non-existent government regulation of business. Conservative activists understand that the GOP's history of tolerating bigots in their ranks and seeking out their votes, from Nixon's "Southern Strategy" to George H.W. Bush's use of Willie Horton to George W. Bush's courting of the confederate vote in the 2000 South Carolina primary, presents a problem for moderate voters of all races. Finding African-Americans to make the conservative case goes a long way toward wiping those memories from the public mind.

Big men on campus

But ideology starts outside of Washington, and one of the most important ideological battle grounds for the black conservative movement is on campus, where many of the faculty in the social sciences and humanities believe the silly notion that structural racism still exists in America, and aren't afraid to say so.

So in 1998, the Young America's Foundation formed the Alternative Black Speakers Program "in response to the overwhelmingly leftist bent of Black History Month on campuses," according to a press release. The program sends conservative black speakers to college campuses across the country, "giving students an alternative to the often radical and irresponsible message of black lecturers appearing on campuses as part of official university programs." One of YAF's top executives isFloyd Brown, the infamous dirty trickster responsible for creating the 1988 anti-Dukakis ads featuring Willie Horton's menacing mug shot.

Perhaps the most visible black conservative in the campus wars is Ward Connerly, president of the American Civil Rights Institute (ACRI). Connerly was a protÃ©gÃ© of former California Governor Pete Wilson, who appointed him to the University of California's Board of Regents. Connerly drafted Wilson's anti-affirmative action initiative Prop 209, and is now attempting to bring a similar ballot measure to Michigan.

When asked what he thought about Trent Lott's comments about segregation in 2002, Connerly told CNN: "Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races."

According to the civil rights group By Any Means Necessary (disclosure: I am a member of BAMN), Connerly reportedly makes $400,000 dollars per year as the president of ACRI.

Follow the money

And that's what seems to unite these seemingly disparate groups -- money. Every black conservative group I've mentioned â€“ without exception â€“ receives a significant portion of their funding (in some cases all of their funding) from at least three of four ultra-conservative foundations (the Lincoln Institute gets its share funneled indirectly through the conservative Hoover Institution).

The four are the usual suspects of the Right's political ATM: Richard Scaife's family foundations, Adolph Coors' Castle Rock Foundation, The John M. Olin Foundation, and the Linde and Harry Bradley Foundation. What's striking about these groups' underwriting of "minority organizations" is that some of them have at times displayed what many would consider a frankly racist agenda.

Scaife has gained notoriety as one of the great funders of the "New Conservative" movement. While he is best known for his anti-Clinton activities, including paying for the American Spectator's "Arkansas Project," he has plenty of unsavory grantees; the Charlotte Observer reported that he provided funding for Children Requiring A Caring Community, a scary fringe group that pays poor women to be surgically sterilized or to undergo long-term birth control.

According to People For The American Way (PFAW), William Coors gave a speech In 1984 in which he reportedly told a largely African American audience that "one of the best things they [slave traders] did for you is to drag your ancestors over here in chains." Later in the speech, he asserted that weakness in the Zimbabwe economy was due to black Africans' "lack of intellectual capacity."

The speech drew controversy and a boycott by African American and Hispanic groups. In response, Coors pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to African American and Hispanic organizations. Apparently, black conservative groups run by white Republicans count.

The Lynde and Harry BradleyFoundation is a particularly interesting case. According to PFAW, Bradley, whose recipients list "reads like a Who's Who of the U.S. Right," is a major funding source for the Center for Individual Rights, which brought the Hopwood v. Texas case that ended affirmative action at the University of Texas law school. Bradley played a major role in financing Pete Wilson and Ward Connerly's Prop 209, and, through the Pacific Legal Foundation, Bradley "provided pro bono representation to ...Wilson in his challenge to five state statutes dealing with affirmative action ..." Clint Bolick, vice president of the Institute for Justice, another recipient of Bradley money, "played a pivotal role in attacks on Lani Guinier, President Clinton's nominee to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Bolick's Wall Street Journal opinion piece headlined 'Clinton's Quota Queen' dredged up the worst racist and sexist stereotypes and helped throw the Guinier nomination on the defensive."

Even more striking is that Bradley grants supported Charles Murray and the late Harvard psychologist Richard Hernstein while they wrote The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. According to PFAW, "the book was widely seen as a piece of profoundly racist and classist pseudo-science, and was denounced by the American Psychological Association. It had relied heavily on studies financed by the Pioneer Fund, a neo-Nazi organization that promoted eugenicist research. Immediately after its publication, Bradley raised Murray's annual grant to $163,000."

The boards of these foundations aren't exactly "multicultural," if you know what I mean. But they have a message to get out: they're coming after affirmative action, the minimum wage, social welfare programs, pre- and after-school programs and, indeed, multiculturalism itself. And when that's the message, it's good to have it delivered by an African-American.

So there you have it, the leading lights of the black conservative movement. If you believe that the most pressing problems facing the African-American community today are the minimum wage, too many regulations on energy companies and too many people trying to get kids to quit smoking, then maybe you should join the black conservative movement yourself. You don't have to be black, or even know anyone who is. And heck, if you are black and you leave the house early enough, they may even put you on TV to "rebut" the NAACP.

Joshua Holland is a student at the University of Southern California and Editor-in-Chief of the Trojan Horse, USC's "fiercely Progressive voice of reason."

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In response to the 4700 people lynched by mobs between 1882 and 1968 the U.S. Senate in 2005 overwhelmingly passed a bi-partisan resolution apologizing for its historic failure to pass anti-lynching legislation (Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill), in the form of a non-binding resolution sponsored by two southern senators, Democrat Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Republican George Allen of Virginia. In response to this apology, Project 21 issued this statement:

"I am all for the gracious acceptance of an apology that is due, or for apologizing when I am wrong. But just like giving credit where it is due, an apology only carries weight when it has meaning. And, in the case of the recent apology by Senator Mary Landrieu [D-LA] and her regretful cohorts on Capitol Hill, this apology doesn't amount to a hill of beans – at least not today.”"The lynchings of the past, while a sad place in history to recount, is exactly that – history. The best way to avenge this shameful history and make it relevant to us today is not to wallow in the apologies and regrets offered by senators who couldn't be in any way responsible for what occurred, but to supply our own closure by forgiving those who trespassed against usand moving on."^[citation ^needed][ ^ROOF ^shootings?!]

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Michael King (born December 18, 1962 in Gary, Indiana) is an American commentator, columnist and Emmy Award-winning television producer. He attended both Purdue University and Howard University.

King was a 1980 graduate of Gary's Roosevelt High School. He is the son of 1955 Roosevelt graduate Howard and Gloria King. King's career includes radio news and talk work in Northwest Indiana, Washington, DC and Atlanta. While at Purdue, King reported for the Purdue Exponent. He was also part of the team that developedCNNSI.com in 1997.

As a member of Project 21's National Advisory Board, King has provided commentary for radio, television and newspapers across the United States. He has written political commentary columns that have been syndicated by Project 21 to more than 400 newspapers in the U.S. On behalf of Project 21, King has provided testimonyand commentary to Congressional subcommittees and to other public interest and public policy groups across the nation.

King has been interviewed on a number of national and local radio programs, including NPR's Morning Edition, The Tavis Smiley Show, The Ken Hamblin Show, The Michael Reagan Show, Janet Parshall's America and others.

King has been a semi-regular contributor to cable television talk shows including MSNBC's Scarborough Country, and **Fox News** Channel's Hannity & Colmes and The O'Reilly Factor.

King withdrew from active commentary late in 2005 in order to become a producer and reporter with WXIA-TV Atlanta. King has been nominated for 10 Southeast Regional Emmy Awards since 2005, and has won six Emmys. He has also received regional Associated Press awards in 2006 through 2012, and an Edward R. Murrow Award for his Web site work in 2006.

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Project 21 is an initiative of The National Center for Public Policy Research to promote the views of African-Americans whose entrepreneurial spirit, dedication to family and commitment to individual responsibility has not traditionally been echoed by the nation's civil rights establishment.

Project 21 participants have been interviewed by hundreds of media outlets, including the O'Reilly Factor, Hannity and Colmes, the CNN Morning News,Black Entertainment Television's Lead Story, America's Black Forum, the McLaughlin Group, C-SPAN's Morning Journal and the Rush Limbaugh, Michael Reagan, Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy and Larry King shows, as well as in newspapers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Washington Times and many others.

Project 21 participants live all over the U.S. and have a variety of careers. What they have in common is a desire to make America a better place for African-Americans, and all Americans, to live and work. Project 21 members do this in a variety of ways in their own communities, and, through Project 21, by writing opinion editorials for newspapers, participating in public policy discussions on radio and television, by participating in policy panels, by giving speeches before student, business and community groups, and by advising policymakers at the national, state and local levels.

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making up for lack of credentials with sheer numbers?

Horace Cooper Horace Cooper featured on main ncppr page, see below

Cherylyn Harley LeBon Cherylyn Harley LeBon:

Cherylyn Harley LeBon is Co-Chairman of the Project 21 National Advisory Board. Cherylyn averages over 300 radio/television interviews and news article citations per year on behalf of Project 21.

Cherylyn is currently President and CEO of KLAR Strategies, LLC, a public affairs firm. She previously served as a political appointee in the George W. Bush Administration; as a spokesman at the Republican National Committee; and as Senior Counsel for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. She is a frequent guest on the FOX News Channel and national broadcast radio shows, and is a contributor to Townhall and Politicalistas. Follow her on Twitte

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Sample of Public Appearances by Cherylyn Harley LeBon:

On MSNBC's "Hardball," Cherylyn defends voter ID and decries big government abuses (3/6/15)

On One America News Network's "The Rick Amato Show," Cherylyn discusses "free-range parenting" and government overreach (1/28/15)

On One America News Network's "The Rick Amato Show," Cherylyn says race-conscious policies in Buffalo, NY are putting the public at risk (1/14/15)

On the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Cherylyn laments that the protestors in Al Sharpton's march could have been advocating policies that the black community desperately needs (12/13/14)

On One America News Network's "The Rick Amato Show," Cherylyn says the tone of the protests in Ferguson makes it hard for kids to learn the real lessons the situation can offer (11/19/14)

On One America News Network's "The Rick Amato Show," Cherylyn wonders why celebrities such as Emma Watson ignore the atrocities committed under sharia law when they complain about slights against women (9/25/14)

On Soul of the South's "DC Breakdown with Angela Rae," Cherylyn discusses the federal nutritional guidelines that are imposed on schools (9/4/14)

Akindele Akinyemi Akindele Akinyemi Christopher Arps Christopher Arps

Thompson Ayodele Thompson Ayodele

Deneen Borelli Deneen Borelli

Charles Butler Charles Butler Gianno Caldwell Gianno Caldwell

Coby Dillard Coby Dillard Richard Dimery Richard Dimery

Michael Dozier, Ph.D. Michael Dozier Stella Dulanya Stella Dulanya

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Wayne Dupree Wayne Dupree

Shelby Emmett Shelby Emmett

Nadra Enzi Nadra Enzi Lisa Fritsch Lisa Fritsch

Leo G.A. Fuller Leo G.A. Fuller

Dr. Day Gardner Dr. Day Gardner

Dr. Elaina George Dr. Elaina George Murdock 'Doc' Gibbs Murdock "Doc" Gibbs

R. Dozier Gray R. Dozier

Gray Derryck Green Derryck Green

Joe Hicks Joe Hicks

Jimmie L. Hollis Jimmie L. Hollis

Jerome Hudson Jerome Hudson

Niger Innis Niger Innis

Roy Innis Roy Innis Dr. Phillip Johnson Dr. Phillip Johnson

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Alveda C. King Alveda C. King Peter Kirsanow Peter Kirsanow

Maia Koskinen Maia Koskinen Dutch Martin Dutch Martin

Kevin Martin Kevin Martin Robin Carter-Martin Robin Carter-Martin

Mychal Massie Mychal Massie Emery McClendon Emery McClendon

John Meredith John Meredith Djana Milton Djana Milton

Demetrius Minor Demetrius Minor

Geoffrey Moore Geoffrey Moore

Deroy Murdock Deroy Murdock Oscar Murdock Oscar Murdock

Bishop Council Nedd II Bishop Council Nedd II

Hughey Newsome Hughey Newsome

Gregory Parker Gregory Parker Bob Parks Bob Parks

Carl Pittman Carl Pittman B.B. Robinson B.B. Robinson

Tara Setmayer Tara Setmayer Ak'Bar A. Shabazz Ak'Bar A. Shabazz

Stacy M. Swimp Stacy M. Swimp Sean Turner Sean Turner

Lee H. Walker Lee H. Walker Ellis Washington Ellis Washington

Stacy Washington Stacy Washington Kimberley Jane Wilson Kimberley Jane Wilson

To reach any of the above, or any Project 21 member not listed above, on a public policy issue,

please contact Project 21 staff director David Almasi at (202) 543-4110 x11 or Project21@nationalcenter.org

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Even Obama Can Be Accused of Voter Suppression

by Hughey Newsome (bio)

voter ID http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21NVNewsomeVoting90414.html:**

...Claims over whether voter IDand other polling place protections are intentional attempts to suppress minority voters generally supportive of liberal politicians continue to garner headlines. Historic attempts to suppress votes cannot be denied, but there have been numerous attempts to deny voters' voices when convenient or expedient — and not all are Jim Crow analogies.

For example, there was an upstart community organizer from Chicago who ran for a state senate seat in Illinois in 1996. He won his party's nomination, in part, by invalidating thousands of names on his opponents' petitions – including those supporting the incumbent – by looking for inconsistencies in names, addresses and pertinent registration information.

Currently embattled ballot protection efforts such as list purges are used to deal with many of these same inconsistencies this candidate used to knock out his competition and eventually run unopposed in the primary and win easily that November...

Hughey P. Newsome is a member of the national advisory council of the Project 21 black leadership network. He is a member of the MoveOnUp.org black political network and has his own blog called The Objective Citizen (theobjectivecitizen.com).

Hughey received an MS degree from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard Business School (where he also interned at the Pentagon in the U.S. Air Force's Finance and Cost Accounting Office). A specialist in financial issues, he has previously worked for AT Kearney, Chrysler Financial Services and CGN and Associates (where he worked on assignments for multinational Fortune 500 clients in Belgium and China).

Newsome currently serves as a consultant for MorganFranklin in McLean, Virginia and has his own consulting firm, EGE-squared.

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Sample of Public Appearances by Hughey Newsome:

On the Fox News Channel's "Special Report with Bret Baier," Hughey says solid families and a good education are what really levels the playing field in the employment market (1/24/14)

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Publications by Hughey Newsome:

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Discussing both President Obama’s comments on the George Zimmerman case and the upcoming rallies protesting the case’s not guilty verdict, Project 21member Hughey Newsome offers constructive advice on America’s race problem on the 7/19/13 edition of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Power and Politics” while Danielle Moodie-Mills of the Center for American Progress — like Obama — attempts to use the personal tragedy for the family of Trayvon Martin as a means to push their political agenda.

Pointing out that he believes the root cause of current race problems are “built on a perception of the African-American male being a thug” that is perpetuated by the media and the entertainment industry as well as a fixation on a belief in rampant overt racism that no longer really exists, Hughey says Obama ignored the “need to have a specific conversation” on the black male perception problem. Commenting on the Zimmerman case, he added:“[I]f we focus on him [and the ‘stand your ground’ law that never factored into the case], we lose an opportunity to really talk about these perceptions that are so ingrained in our brains.”

To the contrary, and counterproductive to Hughey’s suggestion, Mills demanded that “we need to focus on the law.” Furthermore, she made her case against the unrelated stand your ground law laughable by starting off the discussion by claiming that “racism has been the elephant in the room that we have been ignoring… for eons.”

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Project 21 is an initiative of The National Center for Public Policy Researchto promote the views of African-Americans whose entrepreneurial spirit, dedication to family and commitment to individual responsibility has not traditionally been echoed by the nation's civil rights establishment.

Project 21 participants have been interviewed by hundreds of media outlets, including the O'Reilly Factor, Hannity and Colmes, the CNN Morning News, Black Entertainment Television's Lead Story, America's Black Forum, the McLaughlin Group, C-SPAN's Morning Journal and the Rush Limbaugh, Michael Reagan, Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy and Larry King shows, as well as in newspapers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Washington Timesand many others.

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Social Security "fright mail" targeting seniors helped fund GOP leader's trips to UK, Asia

RAW STORY EXCLUSIVE

By John Byrne and Larisa Alexandrovna

A think tank which raised money by targeting elderly Americans with Social Security scare letters paid for more than $130,000 in travel expenses for the House Republican leader, his wife and his staff, RAW STORY has learned.

The National Center for Public Policy Research, a highly controversial and little-known conservative think tank which has been sending Social Security 'fright mail' for years, paid for two posh trips for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay(R-TX) in 1996 and 2000, each at the cost of at least $64,000.

NCPPR also gave $1,000 toDeLay's legal defense fund in 2004. [...]

The group's letters target seniors of both parties, aiming to convince them their Social Security benefits are in jeopardy and thereby induce them to donate money. The mailings also encourage seniors to keep the mailing secret from others, perhaps even from family members. [...]

NCPPR also picked up a hefty $70,000 tab for trip for DeLay and his aides made in mid-2000 to Europe.DeLay and his staff took a junket where he met with former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and took a round of golf with conservative leaders in Scotland.

The ten-day "educational" trip was no small affair: NCPPR paid $28,106 for DeLay and his wife alone, splurging on transportation ($20,266.00), cushy lodging ($3,840.00) and meals ($4,000.00).

DeLay's office did not return RAW STORY calls seeking comment today.

On Saturday, the National Journal reported that DeLay may have violated House ethics rules when a top lobbyist shelled out an additional $13,000 for DeLay's stay at the London Four Seasons hotel during that same trip. House rules stipulate that members or members' employees cannot accept payment from a registered lobbyist to cover travel costs.

The lobbyist in question? Jack Abramoff, an NCPPR director. Abramoff is also on the board of USA Next, a pro-privatization Social Security group that formed as an offshoot of the Swift Boat Vets and recently ran an ad claiming AARP supported gay marriage.

Go read the whole thing; RAW STORY did an excellent job on this one. They're also looking for tips on any additional "fright mail" letters sent by NCPPR.

So now we have the DeLay corruption scandals sharing space with conservative "think tanks" using Social Security scare tactics to bilk money from seniors, including a direct connection to USA Next. It's a Republican corruption trifecta.

Originally posted to Daily Kos on Mon Feb 28, 2005 at 12:52 PM PST.

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Another bit from the RAW STORY piece: NCPPR doesn't only concern itself with bilking money from seniors...

In the 1990s, the group began to focus on denying climate change after they began received tens of thousands of dollars from ExxonMobil. They also launched a crusade on behalf of tobacco interests after taking money from Phillip Morris.

NCPPR also saw an awkward moment last year when one of the members of the group's conservative African American branch Project 21 failed to show up for a C-SPAN interview. Executive Director David Almasi, who is the only paid staff member for Project 21 and is white, filled in. From there, one editor went on to expose the group as a whole, finding that not a single director or board member of the group was black.

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http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/02/what-is-project-21/

Some of James O’Keefe’sdefenders are claiming that the mere presence of an African-American Project 21 member named Kevin Martin on the podium with white nationalists like Jared Taylor exonerates everyone involved in 2006 Race and Conservatism event. But what is Project 21? As I wrote in a 2005 piece for the Nation in a profile of one of Project 21’s most prominent figures,Jesse Lee Peterson, the group was created to provide cover and support for white conservatives to attack minorities and civil rights leaders. In fact, on May 9, 2005, Peterson hosted Taylor on his own radio show for a friendly exchange about the evils of civil rights.

Part of a slightly redacted email between the “Race and Conservatism” event’s chief organizer, Marcus Epstein, and Jared Taylor was published by Dave Weigel, who confirmed Taylor as the email recipient. The email appears to reveal that Taylor had a direct role in planning the event, including in booking Martin. (Epstein tells Taylor that Martin “will do it;” the subject line refers to Steve Sailer, a prominent proponent of racialist Eugenics pseudo-science.) What else was in the email thread? Will Epstein release the full email exchange between himself and Taylor to show how Martin was booked?

Here’s some background on Project 21:

In 1992, while race rioting engulfed Los Angeles in the wake of the Rodney King beating, civil rights leaders and black Democratic politicians took to the airwaves to criticize the draconian policies of the Los Angeles police department as the riot’s root cause. In the absence of a coordinated right-wing response, NCPPR enlisted a coterie of black conservatives, including Peterson, to denounce the rioters as wanton criminals while hailing the LAPD’s ham-handed response. Out of the campaign grew Project 21, a group providing cable news programs with a reliable stable of black talking heads willing and able to say what white conservatives can’t.

More than a decade after its formation, however, Project 21 is still hamstrung by its dearth of publicly recognized members. Besides the group’s most well-known spokesman, Peterson, Project 21’s roster includes the eminent Murdock Gibbs, described in his bio as a “Dallas-based entertainer, speaker and freelance writer.” Then there’s Kevin Martin, whose career as “an environmental contractor in Maryland” must have made his transition to punditry a no-brainer. (Martin showcased his political sophistication during a July 13, 2004, appearance on the Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes in which he compared the NAACP to the Ku Klux Klan.) And finally, Project 21 boasts the seasoned insider Eddie Huff, an insurance agent from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

NCPPR’s executive director, David Almasi, coordinates Project 21’s strategy, churns out its press releases and even provides its spokespeople with talking points before they appear on air. But as Project 21’s only white associate, he tries to keep behind the curtain while his cadres bash everyone from black basketball players to civil rights veterans.Almasi’s cover was blown in July 2004, when he decided to fill in for a Project 21 spokesman who had gotten a flat tire on his way to an appearance on C-SPAN.

As Joshua Holland reported in the Internet magazine The Gadflyer, while introducing Almasi, the show’s bemused host turned to him and stuttered, “Um…Project 21…a program for conservative African Americans…you’re not African American.”

“I’m an employee of Project 21, my bosses are the members of Project 21, the volunteers…. I take my marching orders from them, not from anybody else,” Almasi blurted.

Despite Almasi’s bungle, Project 21 remains a crucial gear in the right’s propaganda factory. Most recently, the group dutifully attempted to stifle Democratic opposition to Condoleezza Rice’s nomination as Secretary of State. On November 19, two days after Rush Limbaugh went on air to condemn a series of political cartoons mocking Rice, including a Doonesbury strip depicting Bush calling her “brown sugar,” Almasi sent out a press release blaring, “President Bush’s nomination of Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state has resulted in harsh liberal criticism that members of the black leadership network Project 21 consider racist.”

Like clockwork, the right cranked up its Mighty Wurlitzer. While Peterson took to Hannity & Colmes to blast Democratic critics of Rice like Barbara Boxer and John Kerry as sworn “enemies to black people,” Talon News’s now-infamous former White House correspondent, Jeff Gannon, lifted a quote verbatim from Almasi’s press release: “The recent racist attacks and mimicry of Condoleezza Rice are infuriating and despicable.” Meanwhile, Project 21 member LaShawn Barber distilled news of the mock controversy on her blog, LaShawn Barber’s Corner. With Rice under fire from Democrats for hyping bogus intelligence to build the case for invading Iraq, Project 21 managed to shift the discussion from the content of her character to the color of her skin.

Without well-heeled Republican operatives like Almasi behind them, Peterson and the rest of Project 21’s cadres would probably be at home screaming at the TV. But instead, they’re on TV, screaming at civil rights leaders who have spent their lifetimes representing millions of constituents. As Stephen Carter wrote in his 1991 memoir Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby, “When the black folks get out of hand…many white folks think that it is nice to have another black person to shut them down.”

From Max Blumenthal, the idiot race-baiter who was literally destroyed at CPAC, “Feeling the Hate at CPAC 2010 With Andrew Breitbart, Hannah Giles and the Crazy Mob” (via Memeorandum):

While I was filming at CPAC for a forthcoming project, I was confronted by Hannah Giles, Andrew Breitbart and a mob of crazed teabaggers. They were enraged by an article I wrote for Salon.com about James O’Keefe’s attendance of and assistance with a white nationalist event featuring open racialists Jared Taylor and John Derbyshire as well as Kevin Martin of the right-wing front group Project 21. Project 21, by the way, is a black front group created and operated by white conservative operatives to provide cover to figures like Taylor.

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While I was filming at CPAC for a forthcoming project, I was confronted by Hannah Giles, Andrew Breitbart and a mob of crazed teabaggers. They were enraged by an article I wrote for Salon.com about James O'Keefe's attendance of and assistance with a white nationalist event featuring open racialists Jared Taylor and John Derbyshire as well as Kevin Martin of the right-wing front group Project 21. Project 21, by the way, is a black front groupcreated and operated by white conservative operatives to provide cover to figures like Taylor.

Did O'Keefe plan the event with his friend, the white nationalist Marcus Epstein, the Tancredo aide who pled guilty to randomly attacking a black woman and calling her the n-word? O'Keefe's role in helping out with and freely attending the event, along with his palling around with characters like Epstein and Taylor highlighted a career filled with racist pranks, from his ACORN pimp costume minstrel show (see Bradblog on the deceptive means Breitbart used to push the pimp costume myth) to his "affirmative action bake sale," in which he and his friends charged white students extra for baked goods while minorities ate for little or nothing. Then there are his diaries about the hell of living in a multicultural university environment. James O'Keefe, the apparent hero of the conservative movement's youth wing, is what racism looks like today.

The only time Breitbart and his goon squad get upset about racism is when they think it is somehow being directed against white people like themselves. That's why a particularly manic mob member (who wouldn't stop using the pretentious word "rubric") seemed to argue to me against the existence of the Congressional Black Caucus because it would not allow a hostile conservative congressman to join. And it's why when CPAC chose as its keynote speaker the race-baiter Glenn Beck, who claimed Obama has "a deep-seated hatred for white people."

It is also worth noting that CPAC played host to Thomas Woods, a former leader of the white supremacist League of the South and contributor to the neo-secessionist Southern Partisan magazine. And that CPAC held a seminar called "Abraham Lincoln: Friend or Foe of Liberty?" led by Thomas DiLorenzo, another League of the South figure who insists Lincoln was the very embodiment of evil. The presence at CPAC of Islamophobes Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller (Geller once argued Obama was "involved with a crack whore in his youth"), promoters of the European neo-fascist Geert Wilders, can not be overlooked either. And stay tuned for my interview with Birther leader Philip Berg, who insisted Obama was actually an Indonesian Muslim who should be tried for treason and possibly executed. These people must have left their sheets at the dry cleaners.

Breitbart's tirade against me was filled with irony. The most glaring projection was that I was using "Alinsky tactics," referring to left-wing community organizer Saul Alinsky. For the record, I skimmed Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" about 14 years ago and can hardly remember what was in it. However, Breitbart's boy, James O'Keefe, boasted to the LA Times that Alinsky's book was the blueprint for his work.

Breitbart went on to say that calling someone a racist was the worst thing anyone could do. Actually, there is something worse than that: promoting and paying a racist. And that's what Breitbart is doing with O'Keefe. Meanwhile, Breitbart has some interesting views of his own on racial issues. Besides calling the Holocaust Museum shooter James von Brunn a "multiculturalist, just like the black studies and the lesbian studies majors on college campuses," Breitbart has howled about "black studies intimidation." As usual, he only sees racism when it is supposedly directed against white people like himself.

According to a recent study by the Pew Center on the States, one out of every 100 adults in the United States is in prison. One of every nine black males between the ages of 20 and 34 has been behind bars, a scandalous statistic owing itself in part to the failed and racially biased drug war, which mandates the warehousing of non-violent drug offenders for long periods of time.

I look forward to working with James O'Keefe on prison reform.

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Jesse Lee Peterson (born May 22, 1949) is president and founder of The Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND), an American religious nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to a conservative agenda among African Americans. He has hosted a cable TV program and a syndicated radio talk show.

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Peterson was born in Midway, Alabama, and raised in Comer Hill, Alabama. His mother and father moved to Gary, Indiana, and East Chicago, Indiana, respectively, where they separately started new families of their own. Peterson was left to be raised in Comer Hill by his grandparents who worked on the same white-owned plantation his ancestors labored on as slaves a century earlier. As a teenager, Peterson moved in with his mother and stepfather in Gary and eventually settled in Los Angeles, California, as a young adult.^[1]

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Jesse Lee Peterson currently hosts a national radio show Jesse Lee Peterson Show Radio Show heard in several markets including Atlanta, GA.

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Peterson hosted the Jesse Lee Peterson Show.^[citation ^needed]

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February 2014, Peterson wrote an Op-Ed for Human Events titled: 5 Things Black Americans Can Do To Succeed (Despite Obama), the article was reprinted in various sites.

Peterson established an annual “National Day of Repudiation of Jesse Jackson” event, which lasted from 1999 to 2004, and which was held outside Jackson's offices in Los Angeles.^[2][3]

On September 21, 2005, Peterson penned a column for WorldNetDaily, in which he suggested the majority of the African-American people stranded inNew Orleans during Hurricane Katrina were "welfare-pampered", "lazy" and "immoral". Peterson also criticized New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin for blaming President George W. Bush for his lack of response to the crisis, stating that "responsibility to perform legally and practically fell first on the Mayor of New Orleans."^[4]

On February 28, 2006, as a member of a student panel discussion at the **University of California, Irvine** on the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, Peterson described Islam as an "evil religion", and stated extremist Muslims "hate us [America] because we are a Christian nation and we support Israel."^[5] The event was sponsored by the United American Committee and College Republicans, and gained national attention in part due to his remarks.^[6]

In January 2010, Peterson issued a statement calling for the resignation of Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele, saying "Michael Steele is a weak leader and he needs to resign or be fired. We need someone who's not afraid to boldly promote strong conservative Republican ideas. The only reason Steele is still RNC Chair is because he's black and the party is terrified of the implications of firing him."^[7]

He has also claimed, "Barack Obama hates white people, especially white men" and "Barack Obama is Jeremiah Wright Jr. He is the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus! He embodies the aspirations of every left-wing black group that wants to tear down this country and take power away from the 'oppressive' white man. He's not an obvious race hustler like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson; but Obama is a smooth pathological liar—with a wicked heart".^[8] Peterson has also thanked "God and white people" for slavery adding if it weren't for the slave trade, blacks might have never made it to the promised land and described slave ships as akin to "being on a crowded airplane". Peterson is friends with Sean Hannity and is a frequent guest on his TV show.^[9]

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George E. Curry, editor in chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (an African American newspaper organization), and former New York bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune, has said: "Jesse Lee Peterson gives the racists in the Republican Party deniability. He let's them say, 'What I'm saying can't be racism because black people are saying it".^[10]

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On January 17, 2006, Peterson was a party to the case Jesse Lee Peterson, et al., v. Jesse Jackson, et al. (BC 266505), in Los Angeles County Superior Court, after a ruling the previous week by Judge George H. Wu. Judicial Watch filed the civil lawsuit against Jackson, his son Jonathan, and others on behalf of Peterson, who was the alleged victim of a physical and verbal assaultat an event hosted by Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition andToyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. in December 2001.^[11][12]

On January 27, 2006, a Los Angeles jury dismissed all of the counts except one, in which the jury deadlocked. The parties settled the remaining charge out of court.^[13]

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Peterson is a member of Choose Black America, an organization of African Americans who oppose illegal immigration to the United States.^[14] He is a member of the advisory board of Project 21, a conservative African American organization.^[15] He serves on the national advisory board of Accuracy in Media,^[16] and is a former board member of the California Christian Coalition.^[17]

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From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today, with Dennis Prager and Brad Stetson. Paragon House (affiliated with theUnification Church), 2000, ISBN 1-55778-788-3
SCAM: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America, WND Books (WorldNetDaily), ISBN 0-7852-6331-4. Reprinted, Thomas Nelson, 2005,ISBN 978-1595550453

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Ask people like Ken Blake if they know a black Republican and you will usually get a quizzical, puzzled look.

"I think I might know one," he replies. "You know, people who think like that don't let themselves be known."

Kevin L. Martin, a 29-year-old Navy vet who lives in Camp Springs, agrees. It's tough being black and believing, as he does, that affirmative action should be slowed, then stamped out. Or that President Clinton has hurt the black comm or that blacks are simply pandered to by liberal Democrats.

"But these are things I stand for," says Martin, an African-American conservative who now works for his family's environmental cleanup biz

Reginald Daniel thinks he has an answer

"We know [Prince George's County] is not America," says Daniel, 41, the founder and CEO of Scientific & Engineering Solutions, a high-tech firm that does much of its roughly $30 million in yearly contracts with the Department of Defense.[aff action?]

"Most black people are not doing as well as the people living here. That, maybe more than anything, shapes our politics."

Daniel, who grew up poor in inner-city Milwaukee, is serious about helping others, so much so he recently started a nonprofit called AIMSE: Assimilate Into Mainstream Society Economically.

Kevin Martin is a member of the National Advisory Council the Project 21 black leadership network.

Comments may be sent to Project21@nationalcenter.org.

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Selected Publications by Kevin Martin:

Polls Show State of the Economy Has Dumped Energy Issues onto Obama's Lap (April 2012)

Why Al Sharpton is Afraid of Black Conservatives (April 2011)

How's That Post-Racial America Working Out for You? (November 2010)

How Political Correctness Kills (November 2009)

President Poser (October 2009)

Playing the Race Card Without a Full Deck (August 2009)

Maxine Waters' Leaky Argument Can't Wash Away Banking Scandal Dirt (March 2009)

Hurricane Katrina Hypocrisy (March 2009)

Congressional Liberals Having Their Cake and Eating It, Too (July 2008)

Hip-Hop Hype Hurts, Just Ask Michael Vick (September 2007)

Military Service Deserves Respect in the Black Community (July 2007)

Car-Crazy Congress Set to Break the American Auto Industry (July 2007)

The Black Community's Self-Destructive Embrace of Liberalism (October 2006)

Are Black Leaders Guilty of "Criminal Neglect"? (November 2005)

The Perceived Stupidity of the Black Voter (July 2005)

Bill Cosby, You Say the Darndest Things (June 2004)

Some of My Best Friends are Black: A Business Proposal (June 2004)

Elitist Environmentalists Say "No Thanks" to New Jobs (April 2004) // deneen?

It's Only Disfranchisement When Liberals Lose (October 2003)

The Reparations Pipe Dream and the Tax Cut Reality (June 2003)

The Need for Regime Change in Black America (May 2003)

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Oreo cookie incident

After a September 26, 2002 gubernatorial debate that had included the candidates for lieutenant governor, Paul Schurick, Ehrlich's communications manager, claimed that the Kathleen Kennedy Townsend campaign had handed out Oreo cookies to the audience.^[24] Five days later, Steele said that one or more Oreo cookies had rolled to his feet during the debate suggesting a racist statement against him, that of being black on the outside and white on the inside like an Oreo. "Maybe it was just someone having their snack, but it was there," Steele said. "If it happened, shame on them if they are that immature and that threatened by me." More than three years after the debate, when Steele was running for the U.S. Senate, Schurick claimed "It was raining Oreos... They were thick in the air like locusts. I was there. It was very real. It wasn't subtle."^[25] In a November 2005 Hannity and Colmes appearance, Steele agreed with Hannity that cookies were thrown at him during the September 2002 debate.^[26] Neil Duke of the Baltimore NAACP, who moderated the debate, praised the "passionate audience" and noted that "derisive behavior" had occurred.^[24] but did not see Oreo-throwing. "Were there some goofballs sitting in [the] right-hand corner section tossing cookies amongst themselves and acting like sophomores, as the legend has it?" Duke said. "I have no reason to doubt those sources; I just didn't see it."^[25] The operations manager of the building where the debate was held, interviewed three years after the event by The Baltimore Sun, disputed Steele's claim and said "I was in on the cleanup, and we found no cookies or anything else abnormal. There were no Oreo cookies thrown."^[25] Some eyewitnesses, including AP reporter Tom Stuckey^[27] and Project 21 representative Kevin Martin,^[28] have said cookies were handed out and thrown. Other eyewitnesses, however, did not corroborate that claim.^[25] Steele would later tell local radio station WTOP that the claims were exaggerated, saying that he "never claimed that I was hit, no. The one or two that I saw at my feet were there. I just happened to look down and see them."^[29]

Kevin Martin is a member of the National Advisory Council of the Project 21 black leadership network. An environmental contractor in the Washington-Baltimore area and a long-time public policy commentator, Kevin frequently appears on the Fox News Channel and typically is interviewed by radio talk shows over 70 times each year on behalf of Project 21.

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Elitist Environmentalists Say "No Thanks" to New Jobs

by Kevin Martin

A New Visions Commentary paper published April 2004 by The National Center for Public Policy Research.Reprints permitted provided source is credited.

Jobs are a hot political issue these days.

While technical support and textiles jobs continue to be "outsourced" to foreign workers in countries like China and India, we must not forget that over 300,000 new jobs were created in America just this past March. America's economic growth is tied to trade relationships abroad. It's a give-and-take global relationship. A protectionist trade policy only hurts our long-term prospects for prosperity.

Levi Strauss may no longer make jeans in the United States, but foreign automakers like Mercedes, Nissan, BMW and Honda all now have factories in the American South. And this is just scratching the surface of foreign investment in the American workforce.

While outsourcing is a term that's on everyone's lips, there's little concern over something called "environmental justice." It's a policy advocated by elite environmentalists, and it is killing job prospects in minority communities. If outsourcing is considered bad, environmental justice is much, much worse and could lead to further outsourcing totally unrelated to trade policy.

In 1996, Shintech Inc. - a Japanese chemical company - wanted to build a $700 million facility in Convent, Louisiana to make the polyvinyl chloridethat is used in building materials, upholstery and clothing. Shintech promised to hire hundreds of area residents for the construction of the plant and provide $500,000 in local job training. After the plant was built, it would employ 165 people with salaries beginning at $12 an hour - twice the average wage area residents made working in the region's sugar cane fields.

Shintech was never able to build the plant in this poor, job-starved community. Despite strong local support among residents, politicians and the NAACP, EPA officials in Washington, D.C. - at the urging of environmentalists - denied Shintech a permit based on concerns about environmental justice.

Environmental justice policies are supposed to keep businesses from inflicting a "disparate impact" on minority communities, but this vague definition does not weigh the costs against the benefits of introducing a job-producing industry to a poverty-stricken area. To the elitists in the environmental movement, it's a black and white issue where businesses are guilty until proven innocent. In reality, it's about black and white jobs. Those people who need jobs the most often find their prospects gloomier after environmental justice concerns are raised.

Former Detroit mayor Dennis Archer has complained that the EPA's environmental justice policies are "so vague and so broad that it nullifies everything that we have done to attract companies." It seems activists are willing to make an issue out of just about everything. When a formerly blighted neighborhood in Harlem was cleaned up and a Home Depot that created 400 area jobs moved in, it was criticized by environmentalists because it wasn't a "clean industry" like a school and increased area truck traffic.

President Bush has endured harsh criticism for his administration's stance on outsourcing, but it's important to know his likely opponent this fall has heartily embraced the elitist definition of environmental justice.

At an Earth Day event in 2003, Senator John Kerry - the likely Democratic nominee for president - said: "For too long, polluters thought they could get away with breaking the law as long as it was in someone else's backyard. Those days need to end. Under a Kerry administration, no community will have their environment overlooked. They will have the power to fight back."

Wrong-headed environmental justice policies encourage companies to outsource. Rather than deal with stricter and costlier American regulations, it's cheaper to abandon factories here and start fresh abroad. That's already happening. In the case of Shintech, environmental justice enforcement discouraged a foreign company wanting to work with American labor.

In 2000, The National Center for Public Policy Research surveyed 69 community-level environmental groups about "environmental justice." When presented with the choice between jobs and justice, 72 percent didn't think jobs or wages should be sacrificed to achieve environmental goals. Likewise, 57 percent said environmental goals must be balanced with economic opportunity.

Environmental goals are important, but they cannot come at the expense of people and their livelihoods. Environmental justice polices, as advocated by the environmental elite, will hurt our national economy and our community.

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(Kevin Martin, a member of the African-American leadership network Project 21, is an environmental contractor in Maryland. Comments many be sent to Project21@nationalcenter.org.)

Note: New Visions Commentaries reflect the views of their author, and not necessarily those of Project 21.

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Mychal Massie, Depraved Liar

The president -- and, in particular, Michelle Obama -- sends the WorldNetDaily columnist into spasms of sputtering rage and venomous lies.

By Terry Krepel

Posted 8/21/2012

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The ConWeb is filled with Obama-bashers, but for vitriolic rage and willingness to lie -- or for having Michelle Obama as a particular target of his hate -- it's hard to beat Mychal Massie, WorldNetDaily columnist and head of Project 21, a group of black conservatives promoted by the right-wing National Center for Public Policy Research.

Lies upon lies

Given that WND editor has admitted that his website publishes misinformation -- and, thus, essentially concedes that there's an institutional tolerance of such falsehoods, especially if they are about WND's political enemies, like President Obama -- it's not stretch to presume that some of its columnists apparently believe they can lie with impunity on WND's pages. One of those, it seems, is Massie.

One of the lies Massie loves to tell is that Michelle Obama -- whom Massie regularly calls "Buttzilla" -- is that she went shopping for expensive lingerie. Massie wrote in his Jan. 30 column that she was going on "$50,000 Madison Ave. spending sprees for undergarments just for her." In fact, not only the the White House call the claim "100% false," the British newspaper that made the claim retracted the story and deleted it from its website.

In that same column, Massie claimed that Obama has a "$15,000-per-day makeup person." In fact, nobody has claimed that makeup artist Derrick Rutledge charges Obama $15,000 a day, only that that's what he has charged others in the past.

Yet Massie repeated the claim as if it were true in his Feb. 27 column. In his June 11 column, he repeated it again, thenadded another lie -- that she was "fraudulently listing her daughters as 'senior advisers' so that American taxpayers (millions of whom are unemployed) would be responsible for footing the bill for them." In fact, the White House saidthat a listing for them as "senior staff" indicates only where they sat on the plane, and no "fraud" was committed. Massie also repeated the lie that she "spent $15,000 a day to use the same makeup man Oprah Winfrey uses."

Related articles on ConWebWatch:The Ghosts of Mr. Massie Out There, Exhibit 46: Mychal Massie's Thesaurus

(Massie, by the way, was spewing those lies while arguing that Michelle Obama was being held to a different standard than a white first lady would. Which raises the question of whether Massie would be allowed to continue as a WND columnist if he was a white man spewing the same unhinged hatred of a black president.)

In his July 16 column, Massie not only again repeated the lie about the nonexistent lingerie shopping spree, he added the discredited liethat President Obama targeted auto dealers for closure in the bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler because they donated to conservatives.

As that indicates, Massie likes to lie about President Obama as well. Massie ranted in a July 22, 2011, TwitLonger post:

Permit me to point out what others are afraid to say. There's an entire town of people in Joplin, MO. who are suffering in the extreme weather temperatures. They don't have trailers; there's no news casts, there are no music groups holding "save Joplin" concerts. We don't see the naacp or the congressional black caucus calling obama a racist for ignoring them. Kanye west isn't saying obama hates white people as he claimed bush hated blacks. A couple things - one we need to not only remember these brave people in prayer, we need to do what we can for them as they are surviving the heat in tents, the other remember that obama has ignored them as he lies about the budget/debt ceiling. Finally, plz add the people across the nation who are w/out housing and comforts from the storms not long ago, who obama has spit on, to the list of things to make him and congress pay for November 2012.

Massie is lying here too. While some people in Joplin were living in tents following the tornado -- some of whom were actually volunteers helping to clean up the damage -- it's not because trailers aren't available and Obama had "ignored" them. Another article on a tent city in Joplinnoted that "many flocked to shelters and placed in FEMA trailers." Indeed, FEMA began sending trailers to Joplin a couple weeks after the massive tornado that hit the city, and at the time Massie wrote his post, FEMA was nearing completion on two sites in Joplin where 350 trailers were to be set up.

If others were "afraid to say" what Massie's saying, it was because, unlike Massie, did their research and knew that Massie was lying.

Massie ranted in his June 18 column:

Forget for the moment Obama bypassed Congress to arbitrarily grant amnesty to illegal aliens vis-a-vis what amounts to the Dream Act. Forget for the moment that for years he has said that without congressional approval he didn’t have the authority to do precisely what he did today. Forget for the moment that college students and high school seniors have just graduated into an employment market that has lost millions of jobs. Forget for the moment that unemployment amongst legal American citizens is 10.4 percent, and forget that as legal Americans are searching for jobs and students are looking for summer employment, Obama has granted amnesty to 800,000 illegal aliens up to 30 years of age who are now cleared to compete for jobs that millions of citizens desperately need. And forget for the moment that in arbitrarily granting amnesty to these illegal aliens, he micturated on the Constitution of the United States.

In fact, Obama did not "grant amnesty" to anyone -- he permitted prosecutorial discretion in delaying legal action against certain undocumented immigrants. "Amnesty" has a specific definition, and this is not it.

Is Massie -- who loves to beat people over the head with his thesaurus -- really so ignorant of the correct definition of the word? Or is he simply so unhinged in his hatred of Obama that facts simply don't matter to him?

Massie's conspiracy-mongering

Massie also likes to peddle outlandish conspiracy theories about the Obamas. In his March 12 column, he wrote: "Do not the allegations of the late Larry Sinclair deserve the same investigative attention from the media that went into looking into President Bush’s past?" Given that Sinclair is a massively discredited convicted criminal whose claim that he had sex with Obama lacks any substantiation whatsoever, probably not. Also, Sinclair is not dead, which only further demonstrates the lack of interest Massie has in actual facts.

In that same column, Massie asked why reporters aren't looking into "the truth surrounding the Obamas’ surrendering their law licenses." Massie need only have consulted with the mythbusters at Snopes, which points out that both Barack and Michelle Obama placed their law licenses on inactive status because they didn't need them for the jobs they were performing at the time they surrendered them, not for any disciplinary action as Massie suggests.

Massie wrote in his May 31, 2011, column, carrying the spiteful headline "Michelle Obama: bitter harridan":

A tape that was reportedly filmed in 2004 during the Rainbow/Push Coalition Conference at Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church has mysteriously disappeared from public view. The tape allegedly showed Michelle Obama hysterically ranting about "Whiteys" and savagely attacking Bill Clinton as responsible for African genocide. The wife of Louis Farrakhan was one of the honored guests.

Massie seems not to have considered the possibility that the purported tape has “mysteriously disappeared” because it never existed in the first place. Obama’s campaign has stated that “No such tape exists. Michelle Obama has not spoken from the pulpit at Trinity and has not used that word.” Even conservative blogger Michelle Malkin noted that the purported tape was being hyped by “buffoons” whose claims about it were constantly shifting.

If Massie is going to embrace the idea of something that has shown no evidence of ever existing, he’s certainly not going to be too concerned about getting actual, provable facts straight.

Massie's angry, hateful insults

And then there's Massie's unhinged insult-hurling, in which he has likened Obama's parents to snakes and Obama himself to Caligula and Judas Iscariot -- and declared that he wants Obama to die like Osama bin Laden:

I don't blame Obama for being a corrupt, dishonest, congenital liar – looking at his gene pool and the associations he gravitated toward, it can be argued that little more can be expected of him. He is the spawn of elapids, so what else could he be? I blame the people who voted for him. They believed his poorly told lies and his vacuous promises have resulted in the epitome of the Feast of Barmecide. -- May 17, 2011 (Elapids are a class of venomous snakes.)
bho is dangerous as poisonous pit viper as corrupt and dishonest as judas iscariot himself - he is hateful he is common n he is determined 2 have his own way - he is also increasingly unstable - as I watch him come under the weight of his actions trying 2 force his agendas/policies thru it becomes increasingly apparent that he that we r looking at a man who is beyond redemption n worthy of rebuke - it is not just for the sake of the nation we must drive him out - it is for the sake of all we hold just -- July 7, 2011
Like Nero – who was only slightly less debaucherous than Caligula – with wine on his lips Obama treated "we the people" the way Caligula treated those over whom he lorded. -- Aug. 9, 2011
Obama has been an abject failure to all but Planned Parenthood, SEIU, NEA and Leninists. Sadly, many blacks did, do and will support him because of his melanin content, even though he’s not black – he’s Kenyan and communist. And unlike Bush, he is sans propriety and character. -- May 17, 2011
Words fail to express the contempt I have for Obama as the leader of our nation. He condemns the very thing that made America great - and specific to that point, America was great before there was an Obama. It should be a punishable offense to allow him to undermine that greatness. America is in denial to believe that he is not a communist doing everything in his power to forcibly and insidiously transform the nation into a communist state. It is misinformation for the media, political pundits and writers of opinion to report his actions in any other way. He is a manifestation of evil that threatens America in a way the KKK and al-Qaida could but hope to. -- Dec. 12, 2011
I submit that it is the blackness of Michelle Obama that gives credibility to the “blackness” of Obama. This is one of the dirty little secrets white people remain ignorant of, because to accept what I am saying as fact would require them to also acknowledge the depth of contempt many blacks harbor toward them. And it is that contempt the Obamas manipulate to control what is said of them and the extent of media criticism they receive. Michelle Obama is a world-class conductor of the race-mongers orchestra. And she conducts the symphony with the adroitness that even the most skilled race-monger can take lessons from. In 2000, Al Gore may have gotten little more than prayers and fried chicken, but in 2011-12, Obama – thanks to his wife has figured out how to get juice from that fruit. -- Jan. 2
One can argue that by keeping fuel prices artificially inflated, Obama can keep people dependent upon government for their subsistence. And they would be right, but it goes deeper than just to those communist proclivities alone. It goes to the core of his being. He doesn’t have a dream for America – he has a thirst for control/power that has been witnessed in the form of Chavez, Castro, Mao and Lenin. That said, I find it interesting that the mainstream media and others who applauded Obama’s aria of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” were applauding Obama for performing an act that mirrored Hugo Chavez singing in front of the United Nations – right before he ordered the people of Venezuela to stop singing in their showers as a means to save water and cut electricity use – but I digress. -- Jan. 23
Obama has called for blacks to rally in support of his re-election by launching “African-Americans for Obama.” ... Cries and assertions that this was an overt act of racism by an overtly racist president – whose wife is the equivalent of Black Panther socialist Angela Davis, only with a taxpayer-paid no-limit credit card – were swift and plentiful. But I see it a bit differently. I see it as emblematic of Obama’s grotesque narcissism and his eager willingness to elevate himself above God. -- March 5
Like a fly to fresh horse manure or his wife to a hot-buttered biscuit, Obama wasted no time injecting himself into the cruel tragedy of the Trayvon Martin shooting. -- March 26
Many say Barack Obama is the most divisive, egocentric megalomaniac ever to hold his office. Others say he is the most ruthless and defiantly determined Marxist-Leninist ever to become president. I say he is, by definition and actions, both. ... Obama is a hardcore Marxist-Leninist. He was one of Alinksy’s best disciples and, as Alinsky’s son proudly boasted, he learned his lessons well. We cannot give this Erebusic evil another term. --April 9
Obama and his Justice Department were silent when 25-year-old James Cooper and 24-year-old James Kouzaris were brutally murdered by 17-year-old Shawn Tyson, a black thug, as they begged for their lives. They were white tourists who had been out drinking and stumbled into Tyson’s Sarasota, Fla., neighborhood. Tyson’s plan was to rob them, but finding they had no money, he murdered them. Referencing Martin, Obama said: “You know, if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” I think it bears noting that if Obama had a son, he would also look like the boys who set Allen Coon on fire and Shawn Tyson. Don’t their families and the American people – whom Obama took an oath to represent – deserve the same concern he shows for black hoodlums? -- April 16
Even an honest, casual observer must admit the actions of the Obamas are at best arrogant and haughty – and Michelle Obama comports herself with an air of race-based entitlement. For her to use veiled supraliminal references to the Holy Scriptures is morally opprobrious, but obviously not out of character for her. It is, however, the very essence and definition of moral turpitude. -- April 23
This is the most important thing to be remembered: What [Obama] did last week is not even a breath of what he will do if he is re-elected without a Congress that will hold him in check. What he did will pale in comparison to the things he will feel empowered to do. He and his wife will drop the thinly veiled pretense of public servant and reveal themselves as the hardcore Marxist-Leninists and redistributionists they are. The Constitution will mean nothing to them. They will openly disdain and abuse it even more freely. She will vacation and spend like the taxpayer welfare queen she aspires to be, and he will drop all pretense of working with Congress. -- June 18
Everything you have said and done has told us a story – and it is a story with which we massively disagree. Yours is one continuing story of how to disparage America to foreign despots and how to reduce the White House to Cabrini Green on a hot weekend summer night. -- July 16
Obama is the most mendacious and pernicious, narcissistic megalomaniac ever to occupy elected office. He makes Hugo Chavez appear sane and coherent. -- July 30
I am now prepared to say that the photos of young Obama, appearing to be stoned out of his mind, the photos of him doing his best pimp look – wide-brimmed pimp hat cocked to the side with a cigarette in his hand – and the photos of him puffing on a cigarette as if it were a marijuana joint – speak to his commonality. The photos we see of him as a young man and a college student symbolize him as a pothead or trying to be ghetto-cool. -- Aug. 13

On top of all that, after the death last year of Osama bin Laden, Massie tweeted, "i hope it dsnt take 10 yrs 2 get bho 4 his attacks on US constitution." So Massie wants Obama to be shot to death by the U.S. military as it leads a tactical attack on the White House?

Massie once wrote a column headlined "More evidence Obama's a depraved liar." It's clear that the only depraved liar here is Massie.

RWW

Mychal Massie Posts Archive

WorldNetDaily Pundit Wants 'White Christian Conservative' President Because Of Michelle Obama's Vacations, Benghazi

SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Tuesday 06/17/2014, 10:45am

WorldNetDaily columnist Mychal Massie is no fan of First Lady Michelle Obama, and is citing her lack of “social grace and decorum” and “lavish shopping sprees” as reasons that the next president should be “a white Christian conservative.” Not missing a beat, Massie also cites #Benghazi as a reason not to have a person of color succeed President Obama. “[Obama] has traded on the color of his skin the way prostitutes trade on sexual favors,” Massie writes today. “Because the Obama sucklings, complicit with a pathetic and biased media, label... MORE >

Right Wing Bonus Tracks - 6/3/14

SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 06/03/2014, 5:30pm

Opponents of an Islamic Center in Tennessee have lost their effort to shut it down after the Supreme Court refused to hear their case. Bryan Fischer awaits the day the American people "reach their threshold of tolerance for unlawful behavior from our chief executive and simply insist that the constitutional remedy of impeachment be pursued." Mychal Massie analyzes the president: "Obama is a man on the ropes. He is coming more unhinged. Only a person with deep-seated emotional instability makes the public displays he does. Only a person teetering on the brink of... MORE >

WorldNetDaily Pundit Claims 'Mac-Daddy Sissy' Obama's Criticism Of Donald Sterling Is Just A Distraction From Benghazi

SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Tuesday 04/29/2014, 10:10am

WorldNetDaily is out with yet another column defending Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling over his alleged racist remarks. In a WND column published today, pundit Mychal Massie insists that “Sterling has done more for blacks than Obama.” Massie writes that “as quick as you can say ‘Mac-Daddy sissy,’ Obama” found “time to feign insult over Sterling’s comments.” He speculates that Obama is trying to use Sterling’s comments as a distraction from Benghazi and “reports that Michelle plans to divorce him (supposedly over his... MORE >

Mychal Massie Compares Tea Party Critics To Saddam Hussein And Slave-Owners

SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Tuesday 04/15/2014, 10:55am

Right-wing columnist Mychael Massie is upset that some conservatives are beginning to criticize the Tea Party, pointing to Michael Reagan’s recent claim that Republicans would have won control of the US Senate “if the Tea Party hadn’t been so stupid in several races.” Writing today in WorldNetDaily, Massie complains that Tea Party activists are being treated as “slaves” by politicians who are “cracking the whip for us to get back in line and do as they tell us,” comparing critics of the movement to Hugo Chavez and Saddam Hussein. I find it... MORE >

WND: 'You Can Make A Black Woman The First Lady, But That Doesn't Mean She Will Have Any Class'

SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Tuesday 03/04/2014, 12:45pm

WorldNetDaily’s Mychal Massie writes today that the new nutrition facts label championed by Michelle Obama is proof that she’s a “bigoted, racialist” first lady who is “usurping authority and inflicting additional financial injury upon an already suffering people.” Massie claims the cost of the program will add “more unnecessary financial burden” to families; in fact, the New York Times reports that in total, “the health benefits could eventually be as much as $30 billion.” Citing an article from the tabloid the National Enquirer... MORE >

WND: Black History Month Should Be About The Knockout Game, Anti-White Segregation

SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Tuesday 02/04/2014, 1:40pm

WorldNetDaily columnist Mychal Massie thinks Black History Month should be sent “to the ash heaps of history,” but since it is still around, he has devised his own way to mark the month. Massie suggests that Black History Month should focus on the media-hyped “knockout game” as proof that black people “are able to get away” with anything and blames groups such as the Congressional Black Caucus for segregation. The one thing you won’t hear during Black History Month is what blacks are able to get away with today, which, if taken in context, shows the... MORE >

WND: African Americans, Liberals And The Obamas Should Get Out Of America

SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Tuesday 12/17/2013, 12:20pm

WorldNetDaily’s Mychal Massie has declared that racism is over and African Americans who work against inequality and discrimination should simply leave the country because such injustices do not exist. MORE >

WND: You Can't Be Christian And Support Obama

SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Tuesday 12/03/2013, 1:00pm

WorldNetDaily columnist Mychal Massie is quite sure that President Obama is a Satanic, Antichrist figure who has the power to turn people gay, and is baffled that many Christians voted for him despite his “support for murdering unborn children” and “the contamination of our military with the practice of open homosexuality.” Since Massie believes he gets to decide who is a Christian and who is not, he thinks that the only way someone could back “a mendacious liar, an advocate of murdering unborn children, an advocate of homosexual intercourse,” is due to... MORE >

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