A speaker at a Congressional Black Caucus event at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday told the audience they needed to “do the right thing” at least until the election.
Rev. Mark Thompson, host of the “Make it Plain” podcast, hosted a panel for the Congressional Black Caucus on the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
He told the people that they must exercise restraint until they win the elections.
“We have 70 days to do the right thing, and after those 70 days, we can go back to acting crazy,” he said.
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Reverend Louis Farrakhan and Reverend Mark Thompson (Getty)
When someone off-camera appeared to mimic the Democratic National Convention slogan, “We’re not coming back,” Thompson responded, “I pray we don’t come back, but for those who do, give us 70 days. Be a good boy.”
Thompson is Drawn Farrakhan has met multiple times with Louis Farrakhan, a notorious anti-Semite and leader of the Nation of Islam, whose derogatory comments about Israel have made him one of the most controversial religious leaders in the United States, calling Jews “termites,” praising Hitler and making other disparaging remarks about Israel.
“Thank you for the opportunity to serve your people alongside you,” Thompson tweeted in 2015 in response to Farrakhan thanking him for inviting him on his show.
At Wednesday’s event, Thompson spoke about the importance of “Black men staying and waking up.”
“We are being targeted with disinformation and misinformation on social media. There is so much confusion and a deliberate effort to pit black men against black women and vice versa,” he said, adding: “We have to fight this.”
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Rev. Mark Thompson spoke to the Congressional Black Caucus on the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (Forbes News YouTube Channel)
He asked the panel, “What are each of you doing to inform, educate, organize and mobilize Black men, and what challenges in particular do you think we all need to work together to overcome?”
At the time, he commented that he would not behave like a crazy person for the next 70 days.
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The Trump campaign emphasized that this comment was “spoken out loud in a quiet part of the Democratic National Convention.”
Fox News’ Adam Shaw and Cameron Cawthorn contributed to this report.
