Los Angeles (AP) – Actor Samuel L. Jackson has called former President Donald Trump and Republican voters a “hillbilly” (uneducated) and said in an interview published Tuesday by Rolling magazine, “If you’re not like them, you’re their enemy.” .” Stone.
“When I look at Trump, I see the same rednecks I saw as a kid. Those who tried to stop me from leaving my seat (…). That’s what the Republican Party means to me. “If you’re not like her, you’re her enemy,” the Pulp Fiction star said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine published Tuesday.
It’s not the first time the interpreter, who won an honorary Oscar in 2021, has criticized the US Executive Branch chief between 2017 and 2021, as he blamed him for “ruining the planet” in 2019 and then against it raised these charges Who has not raised their voice against their policies because they were “accomplices”?
Additionally, Jackson added Tuesday that Trump supporters treat “young people, homosexuals… they don’t care who you are” that way if you disagree with their way of thinking.
Coming back to his personal experience, the 74-year-old actor, who grew up in the state of Tennessee, recalled growing up in a “segregated environment” and knowing that “there were white people who didn’t want to have a relationship with him ‘ because he was African American but always knew how they saw him.
“The world seems to be going through as difficult a time as ever. As a kid in the 1960s, I watched what happened at the 1968 Democratic National Convention and how the police beat up those protesters. That’s how I learned that there are certain things that those in power don’t want us to do,” Jackson said.
Along those same lines, he also recalled the massive protests that swept the country following the 2020 killing of George Floyd: “It was great to see the kids out there fighting injustice and what the power was doing to preventing us from having an open mind. “preventing change”.
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