It’s safe to say Samuel L. Jackson is not fan of Donald Trump. In a new interview with The Daily Beast, Jackson said he views Trump as the “same rednecks” who used to say racial slurs to him when he was growing up.
“When I grew up in segregation, I knew which white people didn’t want to be bothered with me, and I knew how they felt about me,” the actor said. “When I see Trump, I see the same rednecks I saw when I was growing up … [who] tried to keep me in my place,” Jackson said, adding that they would direct racist insults at him. “That’s what the Republican Party is to me.”
“They’re doing it to young people, gay people. They don’t care who you are,” Jackson continued. “If you’re not them, you’re the enemy.” Jackson went on to say how he feels the world hasn’t changed much since he was a kid. “The world seems to be in as hard a place as it’s always been. As a child of the ’60s, watching what happened at the 1968 Democratic Convention, and seeing the police beating those demonstrators — and those were young white kids — I learned there’s a certain kind of thing that the powers that be don’t want us doing,” Jackson said.
“One of them is protesting what they think they want us to do,” he continued.
“So when George Floyd happened, it was great to see all the different faces of kids out there fighting the injustice and what the power was doing once again to keep you from having an open mind or keep you from creating change that is not the change they want made,” Jackson said.
“That part has not changed. In my opinion, it’s kind of worse. They used to hide it. Now, they don’t hide it anymore!”
Donald Trump has himself in some heat right now, the former president has found himself rapped up in a second indictment over classified documents.
As we previously reported, Trump made a video addressing his second indictment saying, “very sadly we’re a nation in decline and yet, they go after a popular president that got more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country by far. And did much better the second time in the election than the first.” He said. “They can’t stop because it’s election interference at the highest level there’s never been anything like what’s happened. I’m an innocent man, I’m an innocent person.”
Trump also went on to say how he feels like he’s being hit with these indictments because he’s beating the current president, Joe Biden in polls. “They’re coming after me because now we’re leading in the polls again by a lot, against Biden and the republicans by a lot. But we’re leading against Biden by a lot, a tremendous amount and we went up to a level that the way they figured they’ll stop us is using what’s called a warfare. Then that’s what it is. This is warfare for the law. And we can’t let it happen. Our country is going to hell and they come after Donald trump.”
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