He apparently was in his earlier years, just as Senator Robert Byrd was an exalted leader in the KKK clan. Can past statements be forgiven, like Trump's silliness about grabbing women by the crotch when he was younger and dumber? Here is what we know about the chairman of the Jan 6 committee:
While Thompson was an alderman in Bolton, he openly sympathized with a violent black secessionist organization known as the Republic of New Africa (RNA), which, according to FBI counterintelligence memos from that era, threatened “guerrilla warfare” against the United States. A March 1969 FBI memo described RNA as a “black extremist, separatist organization whose purpose is the formation of a black nation within the United States and a black army to defend and attack its enemies.” As Just The News reporter John Solomon notes: “RNA was founded in 1968 in Detroit, where its first major run-in with police led to the fatal shooting of an officer in 1969. […] By 1971, RNA was under constant FBI surveillance […] RNA members threatened to renounce their U.S. citizenship and create a separate New Africa country in the U.S. Southeast” […] The group was blamed for several other violent crimes, including a deadly bank robbery in Manhattan and the fatal [1971] shooting of a police officer who stopped a car full of RNA members in New Mexico. Some of those perpetrators were arrested and convicted, while others fled to Cuba to escape prosecution.”
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While Thompson was an alderman in Bolton, he openly sympathized with a violent black secessionist organization known as the Republic of New Africa (RNA), which, according to FBI counterintelligence memos from that era, threatened “guerrilla warfare” against the United States. A March 1969 FBI memo described RNA as a “black extremist, separatist organization whose purpose is the formation of a black nation within the United States and a black army to defend and attack its enemies.” As Just The News reporter John Solomon notes: “RNA was founded in 1968 in Detroit, where its first major run-in with police led to the fatal shooting of an officer in 1969. […] By 1971, RNA was under constant FBI surveillance […] RNA members threatened to renounce their U.S. citizenship and create a separate New Africa country in the U.S. Southeast” […] The group was blamed for several other violent crimes, including a deadly bank robbery in Manhattan and the fatal [1971] shooting of a police officer who stopped a car full of RNA members in New Mexico. Some of those perpetrators were arrested and convicted, while others fled to Cuba to escape prosecution.”