Ending Tuesday's Politics Nation with a monolog about the Supreme Court's decision to uphold Michigan's ban on affirmative action, Sharpton argued that the government must continue affirmative action "until the field is even for everyone." 

The MSNBC host and civil rights activist argued that since it was the federal government that had created and enforced racially unjust laws in the past, government-imposed racially discriminatory affirmative action laws were necessary to "undo" the damage until "everyone is equal."

It was the law and enforced laws that made the playing field uneven, and the government must bring laws until the field is even for everyone!

Sharpton did not clarify at what point the government "undoing" would end, nor did he define what he meant by an "even" field or everyone being "equal."

Sharpton's monolog comes in response to the Supreme Court's 6-2 ruling in favor of Michigan's ban on affirmative action, arguing for the rights of Michigan voters to determine that they would not allow racially discriminatory hiring practices.

In the ruling Tuesday, Judge Sonia Sotomayor presented the minority view in which she compared Michigan voters' majority decision to ban affirmative action to southern states' votes for Jim Crow laws. In response, Judge Antonin Scalia scolded Sotomayor for implying that Michigan voters were racist.