As Duck Dynasty makes its return for Season 5 tonight on A&E, the popular show is also getting support from the southern African-American community as well despite what was being reported as "ignorance" toward the treatment of black people in the old South.

In a GQ Magazine article, Robertson paraphrased the Bible by stating, "Don't be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers-they won't inherit the kingdom of God. Don't deceive yourself. It's not right." It was these comments along with a series of others regarding homosexuality that got him suspended from the show.

In addition, Robertson also received criticism for discussing his experiences growing up in a segregated Louisiana.

"I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash. We're going across the field.... They're singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, 'I tell you what: These doggone white people'-not a word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues," said Robertson in the same GQ article.

In a statement released on Christmas Eve, former Presidential candidate Reverend Jesse Jackson compared Robertson's recent commentary about African-Americans, women, and homosexuals to comments made by the driver of Rosa Parks' bus.

"At least the bus driver, who ordered Rosa Parks to surrender her seat to a white person, was following state law," said Jackson. "Robertson's statements were uttered freely and openly without cover of the law, within a context of what he seemed to believe was 'white privilege.'"

However, not everybody viewed Robertson's comments as bigoted.

"The way (Robertson) talks, it's old talk ...The new generation is a whole lot different. Everything is out in the open ...The comment (Robertson) made (about homosexuality) probably was taught to him at a young age, but I do believe he just made a mistake. He apologized, so I'm gonna continue to watch the show if it keeps coming on," said 53 year old African-American hunter Uncle Michael Smith to CNN.

Shannan Hicks, who specializes on the subject of the post-Jim Crow era in Northern Louisiana expressed her views as well.

"This was the age of black lynchings. A black person would never have reveled their true self to a white person who looked and talked like Robertson," said storyteller and historian Hicks to CNN.

After a brief suspension, A&E restored the Duck Commander back to his show on December 27, 2013.

Duck Dynasty returns to television on the A&E network tonight at 10pm EST.