In lashing out at affirmative action programs in college admissions, Mychal Massie of “Project 21” warns of “the harm done to minority students who have repeatedly been told the world is out to get them after they drop out or flunk out of schools they weren’t qualified to attend to start with.” According to Massie, “diversity” is “Hitlerian”:
I have repeatedly argued that the level of bigotry inherent in diversity should be glaringly obvious. It is a perverse form of Hitlerian motivations vis-à-vis attempted social engineering for no other reason than to have a color-coded campus matrix.
Massie is the host of an Internet radio show and a frequent spokesman for right-wing causes through his involvement with “Project 21,” a front group for the National Center for Public Policy Research designed to market a “new leadership for Black America.” NCPPR is perhaps most famous for allegedly laundering money between corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. “Only a Rip Van Winkle, asleep for the past 50 years, would mistake Massie and his colleagues for civil rights leaders,” as a PFAW report put it.
Nevertheless, occasionally Massie’s self-promotion pays off. Earlier this month, an Associated Press story on the debate in the Virginia legislature over apologizing for slavery used Massie as a prominent source:
Moreover, an apology won’t cure community ills, said Mychal Massie, with the National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives.
That will come from blacks emphasizing two-parent homes, education over fast money and personal responsibility for life choices, Mr. Massie said.
“A willing disregard for responsibility, a willing disrespect for education, ad nauseam, is not attributable in any way to slavery,” said Mr. Massie, who considers an apology redundant.
“We see black leaders on every level,” he said. “America has apologized.”
(“National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives” is the tagline on the “Project 21” website, apparently used by mistake.)
