Derek Black Formally Denied Executive Committee Seat By Jewish Republican Boss Sid Dinerstein In West Palm Beach; Black Contemplates Suit
From White Reference
Derek Black, the son of Stormfront webmaster Don Black, is vowing a legal challenge after the Palm Beach County Republican Party refused to recognize his election to a local party post at a West Palm Beach, Florida meeting on Wednesday December 3rd, 2008. Media story published by the Palm Beach Post. Multi-page Stormfront discussion thread HERE. [Post Update: More local news video coverage from WPTV Channel 5 added below]:
Upon arrival at the meeting, Derek Black (wearing the hat) approached Palm Beach County Jewish Republican Chairman Sid Dinerstein (standing to the left of Black) while Dinerstein was giving a television interview before the meeting, and began debating the party’s enforcement of the oath requirement.
He then challenged Dinerstein once again the meeting began. “Are you saying the party’s rules override elections?” Black asked. After that, Black remained seated while new committee members stood up to be sworn in and Dinerstein was reelected without opposition as party chairman.
About an hour later, as party members plowed through procedural votes, Black stood up in front of the meeting and began addressing the crowd of about 200, but his words were inaudible to most because he did not have a microphone. Dinerstein promptly cut him off. “You need to sit down or leave,” Dinerstein told Black. Black chose to leave at that point, but later returned and apologized for the disruption, saying that he planned to be involved in the party in the future.
While Black was disqualified from his elected committee position because he failed to sign and return a loyalty oath by a prescribed deadline, Dinerstein and the local Republican brain trust have been accused of singling out Black because of his father’s operation of Stormfront, considered a “white supremacist” forum by its detractors, but more precisely described as a white nationalist discussion forum. To defray this criticism, the party also disqualified nine other would-be county GOP committee members for also failing to sign the oath.
However, Dinerstein made it clear numerous times that even if Black had signed the loyalty oath on time, he would have rejected Black because Black’s “white supremacist associations” violate a provision in the GOP oath that forbids activities likely to injure the name of the Republican Party. It’s these latter statements which may provide the grist for legal action against the party by Don Black.
The 19-year-old Black won a little-noticed election for one of 111 county Republican Executive Committee seats back in August, earning 58 percent of the vote. But the party immediately called the election invalid because Black hadn’t signed the Republican Party of Florida’s loyalty oath before a June deadline. Black maintains his understanding was that the oath had to be signed by the first meeting of the new committeemen, by December 1st. Black also continues to dispute the white supremacist accusation, describing himself as “a white person who is concerned about discrimination against white people.”
Although Derek’s father Don Black and Dr. David Duke provided advice and counsel to Derek, it was strictly Derek’s show all the way. He went out on the hustings and earned the support. Monitor the designated Stormfront thread and Dr. David Duke’s website for subsequent developments in this case.
Analysis: The fact that nine other committeemen were also disqualified for failure to sign and return the loyalty oath was obvious protective cover for the fact that Dinerstein had specifically targeted Derek Black for special attention. Dinerstein clearly stated that he still would have disqualified Black even if he had signed the oath, simply because, in Dinerstein’s opinion, Black is a “white supremacist”. And this is what makes it potentially actionable.
Whether Derek Black pursues legal action is contingent upon the family finances. If he truly wants to make an issue of this, and lacks finances, I hope he considers setting up a legal fund and reaching out to the white nationalist community for help. This is a battle worth joining.
Article Source: White Reference
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