I kid you not.

National Center for Public Policy is funded by entities like ExxonMobil to attack global warming research. They were also one of the top defenders of corrupt former Republican majority leader Tom DeLay, going so far as to launder money for him. One of their projects is a blackwashing entity called Project 21. Project 21 exists to employ black people who have no qualms about attacking the civil rights movement while being paid by wealthy right-wingers (click here for some of the really dumb stuff Mychal Massie of Project 21 regularly vomits on America).

That’s where Deneen Borelli comes in. She’s the subject of a press release this group put out, with the laughable headline “Black Activist Slams “Stimulus” Spending Making Billions Available to ACORN”. Of course, that headline makes it look like a real civil rights activist is coming out against ACORN (the newest right wing boogeyman since the election). In fact it seems ACORN isn’t even eligible for these funds the right is hyperventilating over.

Deneen Borelli, this “black activist” has argued that blacks shouldn’t support Obama’s agenda, said that somehow Rev. Wright’s comments pointed to a secret belief among black churches, and – apparently with a straight face – claimed that anti-global warming policies hurt black business.

In other words, Deneen Borelli works the corner of political commentary, putting a black face on the same old warmed over conservative nonsense that helped knock America off track. She should be ashamed of what she does, but I guess the dollar bills sop up her tears.

When even Sean Hannity thinks you’re a little nutty…

You might remember Blackwell for most recently trying to disqualify black voters in 2004, or for getting his butt kicked by 23% in the 2006 Ohio gubernatorial race.

For the near future the Republican party seems mostly interested in being a party for very conservative white males from the south. Whatever consistency of thought this maintains, it has already begun to manifest itself as a poor way to run a national party. I’m okay with that, but then I’m a Democrat.

They won’t ever really learn, will they?

As far as black conservatives in the actual population, they’ll vote for Obama because they’re not morons.

Just a few years after the Republican Party launched a highly publicized diversity effort, the GOP is heading into the 2008 election without a single minority candidate with a plausible chance of winning a campaign for the House, the Senate or governor.

At a time when Democrats are poised to knock down a historic racial barrier with their presidential nominee, the GOP is fielding only a handful of minority candidates for Congress or statehouses — none of whom seem to have a prayer of victory.

At the start of the Bush years, the Republican National Committee — in tandem with the White House — vowed to usher in a new era of GOP minority outreach. As George W. Bush winds down his presidency, Republicans are now on the verge of going six — and probably more — years without an African-American governor, senator or House member.

That’s the longest such streak since the 1980s.

Wanted: Racial minorities to stab your own people in the back, provide cover to destructive policies. Perks include a life long association with the party of Strom Thurmond, Trent Lott, and The Southern Strategy. Inquire Within.

In all likelihood, Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee for president. He will be the first black man in history with a legitimate, decent shot at being the leader of the free world. His candidacy will cause turnout among black Americans to go off the charts and more blacks – in raw numbers and in percentages – will vote than ever before in American history (we’ve seen the early rumblings of this in the primary process, but I think that America at large just has no idea how strong this thing will be in a general election).

In an environment like that, where the vast majority of blacks engaged in politics are moving forward you have a miniscule few who for whatever the reason (I tend to think its for them to adopt a contrarian pose) will vote Republican. As a result, they are outliers within their own race and essentially position themselves against the tide of black history. The tried and true response of black conservatives is to look at themselves as some kind of hero or martyrs. The larger conservative movement, unable to attract a sizable percentage of black votes, trumpets these kinds of stories again and again. Like this blog post from the hard-right Human Events:

Blacks who will vote for McCain this fall are some of the most courageous people on the planet, because of the extreme social scorn they will face from their left-wing black counterparts.

It takes courage to challenge the dominant social order. It took courage for Elia Kazan to battle pro-Communist sentiment in the 1950s. It took courage for Martin Luther King to fight Jim Crow in the 1960s. It took courage for Ronald Reagan to confront institutionalized liberalism in the 1980s. Likewise, it will take courage for black Republicans like [Michael] Steele to combat “Obama-ism” in the late-2000s.

Of course, a black person supporting McCain is not courageous at all. If you want to truly compare it to the 1960s its the equivalent of seeing Bull Connor sic dogs on people and saying “Hey guys, let’s cool it on all this civil rights stuff, we may upset some people.”

The funny thing is, its not even a conservative vs liberal thing. On a whole, black Americans are far more conservative socially than your average Democrat. The story the media refuses to cover beyond spectacle is the churchgoing socially conservative socially active black Americans that are the bedrock of the Democratic party. The problem for the press and the right is that those same socially conservative voters are by and large economic moderates to liberals. They don’t think that they should be distracted by politician’s latest song and dance on a social issue they’ll drop like a hot potato the day after they’re elected (ie George W. Bush and gay marriage) but instead they think that sane economics helps lead to cures for social ills (tax cuts for Paris Hilton don’t help teen pregnancy rates, but perhaps better funding for education does).

On paper, many of these voters should be Republican voters, and the few who are are overrepresented in the media (CNN seems to have a neverending supply of black conservatives) and for their contrarianism are paid handsomely. While they collect this money for espousing a minority of a minority opinion they treat any and all backlash as a sign of superiority. They see themselves as martyrs, but the only thing they do is prop up policies hurting black America that the vast majority of black America has rejected.

Neither side of the idealogical divide has an awesome record on racial issues, but only on the left would it even be plausible for a black candidate to be a presidential contender. Only on the left are their elected leaders at the federal level who are black. There is a reason for that, a reason why the party of the southern strategy and Macaca makes blacks sick to the stomach.

And a reason why black conservatives who help to prop up barriers to progress aren’t martyrs but fools.

Tom DeLay and Ken Blackwell have put together the Coalition for a Conservative Majority, which will play a huge and unprecedented role in helping grassroots conservative groups nationwide.

Increasingly, I think this book was just a few years early.

O.J. got black again, quick.

As part of his defense strategy from superlawyer Johnnie Cochran, Simpson made clear that his race would be a key element of how he would explain the mountain of evidence against him. Aided by idiot cop Mark Furhman’s racist tirade on an audio tape, the defense team concocted an elaborate plot where the suddenly black again O.J. was on the receiving end of a raw deal from a rogue racist cop simply because he was a noted black celebrity. The strategy worked, and as Simpson was released from LAPD custody they went directly to a black church in Los Angeles to finish painting the picture. When OJ needed sympathy he got real black again.

That’s what Clarence Thomas does. Thomas worked his way up in conservative circles, getting a place at the table for being one of the “good ones” by toeing the right-wing line on issues like affirmative action and the like (ignoring that at some levels Thomas was on the receiving end of these benefits) he made it okay for the right to push him as a trojan horse candidate. Sure, his positions were antithetical to those of the vast majority of black Americans. If Thurgood Marshall were still alive at Thomas’ Supreme Court nomination he would have surely recoiled at the neanderthal positions Thomas held on race. But he was a black guy who spit out the Republican position on things and it wouldn’t have done the Senate well to reject him.

What happened on the way is that Thomas’ sexual harassment of Anita Hill came out, and like OJ when threatened, Thomas got real black real fast. Suddenly the get-along guy was the victim of a Fuhrmanesque “high tech lynching for uppity blacks” when in fact most blacks were in opposition to his nomination and believed Anita Hill. But it was convenient for Thomas, after all these years, to be black once again when it suited him.

And now with the release of his new book, it shows Thomas’ use of convenient blackness. He can, at least in his own mind, flit in-between these two worlds without penalty as it suits him.

The problem is, for most blacks in America, there is not the easy avenue of convenient blackness. Often an upper class black professional is treated the same as a poverty-level black teen. There is no on and off switch, there is no ability to dance along with the larger white world while at the same time becoming black to generate some gussied up “outrage”. Clarence Thomas and OJ Simpson inhabit a world that is fictional to the average black American, but they think in their own narrow minds that this is how it has and should operate.

UPDATE: I made a mistake and said Marshall was not alive during Thomas’ hearings. He was. This does not change the fact that Clarence Thomas is conveniently black when he wants to play the victim or that he makes decisions that hurt black Americans in a way that Thurgood Marshall never would.

When I watched Justice Clarence Thomas on “60 Minutes,” I was quite moved by his life story. Nonetheless, I simply could not understand why the man is still so bitter after having spent 16 years on the Supreme Court.

Anita Hill, in contrast, appears to have moved on both from her “60 Minutes” appearance and in her reasoned rebuttal (Op-Ed, Oct. 2). If Justice Thomas persists in playing the part of a perpetual victim, one might justly wonder whether he continues to be racked by guilt.

There are, as he ought to know, plenty of black conservatives. There are plenty of African American parents teaching their children the same lessons of hard work and self-reliance that Thomas’s grandfather taught him. The black church, I would argue, is one of the more socially conservative major institutions in the nation.

Black America has never been monolithic in its views, but black Americans do vote almost monolithically for Democrats. That wouldn’t necessarily be the case if Richard Nixon hadn’t built an electoral strategy on a race-based appeal to Southern whites — and if every Republican presidential candidate and party leader since Nixon hadn’t followed suit. Just last week, the four leading contenders for the Republican nomination all skipped a forum at historically black Morgan State University. As long as snubbing black voters is seen as smart politics in the Republican Party, black conservatives have good reason to stick with the Democrats.

Robinson goes on to explain why, until the cows come home, black conservatives like Clarence Thomas will be known as the self-loathers they are.

UPDATE: Professor Anita Hill, the woman that this… troll… sexually harassed has written an op-ed in the NY Times to counter his slander of her in his book pimping tour.

ON Oct. 11, 1991, I testified about my experience as an employee of Clarence Thomas’s at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

I stand by my testimony.

Justice Thomas has every right to present himself as he wishes in his new memoir, “My Grandfather’s Son.” He may even be entitled to feel abused by the confirmation process that led to his appointment to the Supreme Court.

But I will not stand by silently and allow him, in his anger, to reinvent me.

See, people. This is why the Supreme Court is more than Roe v. Wade. It’s about getting good, decent people on the highest court in the land, and not absolute filth like Clarence Thomas whose odor wafts from every case he gets his grubby little paws on.

ALSO: You should check out this hilarious propaganda from black conservatives who get their backing from the same old cons. They’re oppressed I tell you, oppressed as they get promoted way higher than their actual numbers and their piles of cash. (via the delicate sensibilities of HotAir)