'Conservatives and some blacks' object?

Insight check: What's wrong with this Editor and Publisher headline about a dustup over a Journal Sentinel editorial?

Conservatives, Some Blacks, Outraged Over Milwaukee Paper's Editorial

Well, as near as I can tell, everyone who has howled about the unfortunate (read boneheaded) editorial has been conservative, whether they are black or white. Here's the only black complaint I've seen referenced:

Project 21, which describes itself as the National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives, a press release stated that the group condemned the newspaper, saying, "Justice Thomas is not on the Court to represent 'mainstream black America' any more than Justice Antonin Scalia is supposed to stick up for Americans of Italian descent or Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is supposed to be the Court's voice of American Jewry. Is there a mainstream black view on so-called 'right to die' cases? What is the proper Jewish position on the Endangered Species Act's impact on property rights? Who knows? Justice Thomas represents the conservative judicial philosophy of the president who appointed him. So far, he is doing that quite well. If liberals want to affect the philosophical tone of the Supreme Court, they should consider winning the White House."

Saying "conservatives and some blacks" are upset is like saying that "conservatives and Sheriff David Clarke are upset." They are few in number, but there actually are some black conservatives -- Clarence Thomas, for example, who is what the brouhaha is all about. He doesn't deserve an asterisk, as the editorial suggested, but it is indisputable that he is out of the mainstream of black opinion.