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During a recent interview with C-Span, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas took the Washington establishment and the media to task<\/a> for their intense love of President Obama and virtually everything he does while \u2014 at the same time \u2014 exhibiting mostly disdain for black conservatives and their opinions.<\/p>\n

Asked if he ever expected to see a black person elected to the American presidency during his lifetime, Thomas replied that what he \u201calways knew is that it would have to be a black president who was approved by the elites and the media.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thomas added that \u201cany black person who says something that is not the prescribed things that they expect from a black person will be picked apart.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Clarence Thomas, of all people, should know.\u00a0 For his own conservative beliefs, he went through a brutal Senate confirmation battle related to his nomination to the Court in 1991.\u00a0 And he\u2019s endured vicious treatment at the hands of liberals ever since.<\/p>\n

Black conservatives with the Project 21<\/a> black leadership network echo Justice Thomas on his views of the D.C. elite, the media and their supporters and can relate to the demands on black conservatives to the liberal line.<\/p>\n

\"P21DutchMartin\"For example, Project 21 member Darryn \u201cDutch\u201d Martin<\/a>, a former member of the diplomatic corps who now lives in D.C., said:<\/p>\n

One need only compare the horrible way that Justice Thomas is treated by the mainstream media over his entire career to the media\u2019s \u201cwalk-on-water\u201d treatment of President Obama during his entire tenure in office.\u00a0 One can see a glaring difference.\u00a0 Justice Thomas has probably been called every nasty name in the book over his entire tenure on the High Court \u2014 many times by the mainstream media.\u00a0 Yet Chris Matthews apparently still hasn\u2019t gotten over that \u201cthrill up his leg\u201d he got when Barack Obama was first running for the White House in 2008.<\/p>\n

\"P21LisaFritsch\"Project 21 member Lisa Fritsch<\/a>, an author and radio host who lives in Austin, Texas, also sees the need for blacks to toe a political line as an even broader demand of the elite.\u00a0 Lisa believes that all blacks are expected to behave in the same manner of groupthink, from the highest to the lowest levels of black America.\u00a0 She said:<\/p>\n

It is more than what the media expects.\u00a0 It is what they have demanded of blacks: that we group think and hate conservatives.<\/p>\n

\"P21JimmieHollis-hat\"This feeling of a need on the part of the liberal establishment for a legion of like-minded blacks is echoed by Project 21 member Jimmie L. Hollis<\/a>, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and tea party activist in southern New Jersey.\u00a0 Citing pressures in the black community to conform to liberal political ideology, Jimmie said:<\/p>\n

I agree with Justice Thomas. \u00a0As long as blacks toe the politically correct line and stay within the liberal guidelines of speech and actions, they will win the approval and the smiles of the liberal elites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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