From Daily Kos: Anti-immigrant activists are reportedly trying to get liberal radio host Mark Thompson fired
Veteran progressive Sirius XM radio host Mark Thompson has been off the air for more than a week. The move came soon after a physical, videotaped altercation that took place in Newark, when an activist approached him after a community event and called him an “Uncle Tom” and a “sell out coon.” Activists with ties to the far right quickly seized on the video and are reportedly using the incident in an attempt to get Thompson fired from his Sirius XM radio show. The dispute stems from a larger campaign by black advocates to target a number of black progressives, including Joy Reid, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roland Martin, Malcolm Nance, and the Rev. William Barber, among other Trump critics.
“If Thompson is purged on such a thin basis, it will encourage further mischief,” warned columnist Richard Rosendall in the Washington Blade. Thompson has hosted the show Make It Plain for 18 years, and his was among the first talk shows hosted by XM Satellite Radio when it debuted in 2001.
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From Medium: Mark Thompson is Missing from the Airwaves and Why That Matters
Thompson’s conspicuous hiatus from the airwaves came amid his support for reparations — he is a member of the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) — and his criticism of the #ADOS(American Descendants of Slaves) hashtag movement — which claims to support reparations for Black people has ties to a white nationalist, anti-immigrant, pro-Trump hate group, the Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR). Mark also opposed a now defunct program on SiriusXM hosted by white supremacist and former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon. During an appearance on MSNBC, Thompson had expressed his criticism of #ADOS -which attacks progressives to the benefit of Republicans, and which white supremacists are using to sow division in the Black community — resulting in #ADOS attacks on him on social media and attempts to have him fired from his show. Things came to a head when Mark had a confrontation with an apparent agent provocateur who took issue with his opposition to #ADOS, and verbally harassed and provoked him at a recent event hosted by Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.
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From DiversityInc: Why is SiriusXM Considering Firing Mark Thompson?
The strategy for ADOS to get reparations seemed to be attacking famous (mostly) black people for two reasons; first, for not being black and American enough according to a standard set by ADOS and secondly, for being anti Donald Trump. Yvette Carnell’s partner in the founding fo ADOS is a former Los Angeles county district attorney named Antonio Moore who spends his free time making YouTube videos that critique filmmaker Jordan Peele for hiring Africans that haven’t been born in America as the leads for his movies. ADOS folks online constantly tweet about taking down Ta-Nehisi Coates, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, Roland Martin, Angela Rye, and every other prominent public critic of Donald Trump. They say that they only go after Democrats because Democrats have taken the black vote for granted. While that statement can be proven true, ADOS fails to realize that the results of only going after Democrats is handing a free pass to the GOP. When you raise that question, far too many ADOS folks begin to defend Trump and double down on their attacks of all Trumps opposition. This is a recipe for failure in my view.
When I began peeling back the layers of ADOS to try and understand why they seemed so focused on attacking immigrants and all anti Trump black people, even clearly pro reparations anti Trump black people, what I found was startling.
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From Make It Plain: Mark Thompson Responds to ADOS Assault
ADOS Watch 