White supremacist still battling for his seat on Palm Beach County Republican Executive Committee

Actually, newly-elected Palm Beach County Republican Executive Committeeman Derek Black would prefer not to be called a "white supremacist." Then again, what would you call someone whose father, a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, runs what purportedly was the first hate website on the Internet, Stormfront.org; who created a children's page on that site when he was 12 and who still contributes regularly to the site; and who has the support of another notorious former KKK grand wizard, David Duke?

I first told you about Derek Black in August, when county Republicans elected him to office at the tender age of 19. Back then, county GOP chair Sid Dinerstein said that if Black (how's that for an ironic name?) truly was eligible, he would be seated on the REC per his election. Now, however, Dinerstein is trying to keep Black from office on the grounds that he didn't sign a required oath.

"We're going to fight," [David] Duke said. "I know Derek Black is going to fight for his constitutional liberties. That's why I'm here, because I want to assist Derek."

Sorry, says county GOP Chairman Sid Dinerstein. In the qualifying period in June, Black didn't sign a loyalty oath pledging he would not do anything injurious to the party. And that's not the only problem.

"He participates in white supremacist activities," Dinerstein said. "We're the party of Lincoln. We're the party that says we don't judge anybody by the color of their skin."

Derek Black's response: "I've told (Dinerstein) I'm not a white supremacist; that's an insult. I would describe myself as a white person who is concerned about discrimination against white people."

A community college student who was home-schooled in West Palm Beach, Black once contributed a kids page to his father's Stormfront Internet forum around the time he was 12. The page included puzzles, games, animated Confederate flags and white-pride songs. He has since helped with his father's Internet audio broadcasts.

As if Republicans overall weren't already about as dysfunctional as a group can be, here in Palm Beach County, it's comedy gold. The PBC GOP is between a rock and a neo-Nazi hard place, and I don't see this ending without fireworks (hopefully not firearms, though). They're going to rely on Derek Black's failure to sign a loyalty oath to keep him out of office?

Figures. Those Republicans are nothing if not consistent. Stay tuned ...