Op-ed submission by Project 21 As a tea party organizer and black man, I am often asked how a movement with the critical mission of saving and restoring our republic can attract minorities currently weak in numbers in tea party ranks. The mainstream media and civil rights lobbyists have perpetuated the myth that tea partiers have [...]
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“What Can the Tea Party Do to Attract Minorities?” by Emery McClendon
Posted in AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Emery McClendon, Project 21, Tea Party, U.S. Politics on March 25, 2011 | 13 Comments »
“How Much Do We Need Greenhouse Gas Regulations” by Nicholas Scott
Posted in AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Environmental Issues, News, U.S. Politics on March 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Article submission from Nicholas Scott, a health, safety, and political advocate with a passion for environmental responsibility. He believes there should be a greater focus on the present risks of environmental toxins to urban communities with close proximity to dense areas of industry. With the recent legislation proposed by the GOP that requests for the removal of [...]
“Give Conservatism a Chance” by Jimmie L. Hollis
Posted in AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Black Conservatives, Conservatism, Critical Thinking, Jimmie L. Hollis, Project 21, U.S. Politics on November 28, 2010 | 27 Comments »
Op-ed submission by Project 21 In his book “It’s OK To Leave The Plantation”, C. Mason Weaver said the next logical step for the civil rights movement is the rise of a black conservative movement. Weaver, a black conservative, former congressional candidate and public speaker, says that hysteria, angst, crime, family breakdown and many other [...]
2 African American Republicans Elected To Congress
Posted in African-Americans, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Allan West, Black Republicans, News, Republicans, Tim Scott, U.S. Congress, U.S. Politics on November 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Allan West (left) from Florida and Tim Scott from South Carolina, are the first black Republicans to be elected to the U.S. Congress in over a decade. Both apparently represent the more conservative wing of the party and had received support from Sarah Palin and the Tea Party. Read NYTimes article here. Read theROOT article here.
Election Day 2010
Posted in 2010 U.S. Midterm Elections, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, David Brooks, Politics, U.S. Politics, U.S.A on November 2, 2010 | 3 Comments »
In anticipation of the significant midterm election loses expected to be suffered by Democrats, I found these comments by David Brooks, a columnist with The New York Times, right on point: Democrats and their media enablers have paid lavish attention to Christine O’Donnell and Carl Paladino, even though these two Republican candidates have almost no chance of [...]
“Is Black Support for Obama Racist?” by Jerome Hudson
Posted in African-Americans, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Critical Thinking, Jerome Hudson, Project 21, Race Based Politics, Racism, U.S. Politics on October 27, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Op-ed submission by Project 21 With poverty at an all-time high, daunting black unemployment levels and Obamacare threatening black babies, black support for Barack Obama remains surprisingly strong. Why? Blacks are not uniformly as radical as Obama. So why do 91 percent of blacks still support him when only 79 percent of his Democrat constituency [...]
Poetry Thursday
Posted in Poetry, U.S. Politics, Uncategorized on August 5, 2010 | 5 Comments »
SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA By Amiri Barka: (All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international… But one should not be used To cover the other) They say its some terrorist, some barbaric A Rab, in Afghanistan It wasn’t our American terrorists It wasn’t the Klan or the Skin heads Or the them that blows [...]
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