The Elitist Media Despise Black Conservatives
Tim Graham
• May 2, 2026
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Oct. 21, 2021, in the District of Columbia. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Black conservatives perennially face the slur that they’re “not really black” if they aren’t on the left. Not only that, they are tools of white racists if they dissent from the NAACP hard line.
When the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to overturn a racially gerrymandered congressional district in Louisiana, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, was outraged by the local Deseret News in Salt Lake City prominently featuring an Associated Press photo of a lone black protester in front of the court holding a sign that said, “Thurgood is watching you, Clarence.” That implied Thurgood Marshall was disappointed in Clarence Thomas.
Lee tweeted: “They’re going after Justice Thomas for being conservative while Black. That’s racist. And it’s very, very wrong.” He added: “It’d be absurd to assume that Justice Alito should agree with the late Justice Brennan because he’s white. It’s racist and offensive for @Deseret to suggest that Justice Thomas should agree with the late Justice Thurgood Marshall because he’s Black.”
Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, a black conservative, seconded that thought: “When the Left can’t beat a Conservative Black man’s argument, they attack his Blackness.” For example, the Congressional Black Caucus has a membership of 60 Democrats, but none of the five black Republicans in Congress.
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