When interviewed on an April 27, 2014 “New Nation of Islam” webcast, Thompson, who views America as a nation rife with intractable white racism, declared himself to be a strong supporter of affirmative action as a means of “trying to level the playing field” in the academic and business worlds. On the same webcast:

• Thompson identified racism as the major underlying cause of Republican opposition to President Barack Obama‘s political and social agendas. “I never saw George Bush treated like this,” said the congressman. “I never saw Bill Clinton treated like this with such disrespect. That [Senate Minority Leader] Mitch McConnell would have the audacity to tell the president of the United States … that, ‘I don’t care what you come up with, we’re going to be against it.’ Now if that’s not a racist statement, I don’t know what is.”
• Thompson accused Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant of opposing Medicaid expansion through the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) “just because a black man created it.” He added that President George W. Bush’s Medicare prescription drug plan had generated far less opposition than Obamacare because “when a black man comes up with an idea [for healthcare] there’s something wrong with it. So again, it’s that race creeping into the picture.” And Thompson likewise attributed the recent increase in anti-government sentiment among many Americans to racism: “Now all of a sudden, government is the worst thing in the world since a black man became president.”
• Thompson disparaged conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, an African American, as an “Uncle Tom” and “a lackey for Antonin Scalia.” “When I look at decisions he’s been part of on that Court,” said the Mississippi Democrat, “its almost to the point to say this man [Thomas] doesn’t even like black people. He doesn’t like being black.” Thompson cited, in particular, Justice Thomas’s opposition to affirmative action as evidence of his anti-black bias.

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