Via Politico:

Rep. Jim Clyburn on Friday said he doesn’t have any concerns with Rep. Bennie Thompson calling Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas an “Uncle Tom” or Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell “racist.”

Clyburn on Friday said he couldn’t speak for his friend Thompson, saying that “all of us have ways of expressing our disappointment.”

But he added his own concerns about Clarence Thomas, saying: “A lot of African-Americans find his opinions very insulting.”