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Samuel L. Jackson: Trump Like ‘Same Rednecks’ I Saw Growing Up ‘Who Called Me N****r’
Breitbart ^ | 21 Jun 2023 | PAUL BOIS

Posted on 06/21/2023 8:51:19 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

Actor Samuel L. Jackson likened former President Donald Trump to the “same rednecks” that hurled racist slurs at him during his youth. Even though he grew up under segregation, which means that he would have likely been governed by Jim Crow-era Democrats, Jackson said that Donald Trump and the Republican Party represent what he grew up under.

“When I see Trump, I see the same rednecks I saw when I was growing up who called me ‘n*****’ and tried to keep me in my place. 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. If you’re not them, you’re the enemy,” Jackson told Rolling Stone.

Jackson’s comments on Trump came after he reflected upon being an usher at Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral following the Civil Rights leader’s assassination.

“The world seems to be in as hard a place as it’s always been. As a child of the Sixties, 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.”

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To: Bob434
When I see Trump, I see the same rednecks I saw

In Samuel Jackson's eyes, all white people look alike.

101 posted on 06/21/2023 9:58:36 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: cld51860

Bill Gates, John Kerry, Barack Obama etc.


102 posted on 06/21/2023 9:59:15 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: SoConPubbie

Apparently, Jackson wants more of the racist environment which he denounces, because...

He is a member of the racist party, namely the democrats, who wanted slavery to continue forever, and who created the KKK and Jim Crow. And that’s the same party that wants to keep blacks as permanent victims, because, they’re not smart enough to run their own lives

Jackson may be black, but, a dumb black at that. Democrats want to keep him as a useful tool.


103 posted on 06/21/2023 9:59:37 AM PDT by adorno
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To: eyeamok

Stop catcalling Donald, Sam! He doesn’t want to date you!


104 posted on 06/21/2023 10:03:35 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: SoConPubbie

I’ve never heard Trump say anything racist. He may have, but I haven’t heard about it.

Biden, yes. Obama, yes. But not Trump.


105 posted on 06/21/2023 10:04:25 AM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: SoConPubbie

to be honest, he sees all non-subservient whites this way


106 posted on 06/21/2023 10:05:14 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: 1Old Pro

How many times has Samuel said the “N” word I wonder?


107 posted on 06/21/2023 10:08:42 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Tell It Right

“In Samuel Jackson’s eyes, all white people look alike.”

He has pet names for whites too. It all used to be somewhat good natured banter in the South.


108 posted on 06/21/2023 10:12:47 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: SoConPubbie

I guess that being a great actor doesn’t require knowledge of history, or critical thinking either.

I never thought he was such a racist dumba$$.


109 posted on 06/21/2023 10:13:07 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: SoConPubbie

Ok...
Let’s put our cards on the table..
Do you talk like a ni&#er?
Do you act like a ni$@er?
Do you think like a ni*&er?

If the answer to any of the above questions is yes, then sit down and shut the hell up.


110 posted on 06/21/2023 10:13:26 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: SoConPubbie

Would he say that to Trump directly in person? Naaah.


111 posted on 06/21/2023 10:14:05 AM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: hanamizu

“As a child of the Sixties, watching what happened at the 1968 Democratic Convention, and seeing the police beating those demonstrators...”

As an observer at the time, I maintain they weren’t beaten enough.


112 posted on 06/21/2023 10:15:30 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: libh8er
It may be soon. It's making the rounds. I saw it on Getter.

If so, it's by far his best work so far. 🙂

113 posted on 06/21/2023 10:15:56 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: SoConPubbie

You still are, Sambo.


114 posted on 06/21/2023 10:22:19 AM PDT by Old Yeller
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To: SoConPubbie

So, a bunch of “rednecks” called you neighbor?
At least they didn’t call you nooser...
What a shame...


115 posted on 06/21/2023 10:27:53 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: BatGuano

Sounds like he got it from Brie Larson


116 posted on 06/21/2023 10:28:13 AM PDT by Sertorius (A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
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To: SoConPubbie
Weird... Considering none of the usual Race Baiters had a problem with Trump while he was a New York real estate mogul... The minute he ran for Office as a Republican... *poof*... Magically a Racist.

Hey Sammy... "Logic Motherf*cker... Do you speak it..."


117 posted on 06/21/2023 10:30:41 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: SoConPubbie

“That’s what the Republican Party is to me. “

Perhaps he should step out of his room temp IQ and start to deal with facts I guess he isn’t intelligent enough to understand.

The democratic party that has always been aligned with the deep south is famous for keeping blacks down. By 1830 slavery was primarily located in the South, where it existed in many different forms. African Americans were enslaved on small farms, large plantations, in cities and towns, inside homes, out in the fields, and in industry and transportation.

Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as property was enforced by violence — actual or threatened. People, black and white, lived together within these parameters...

African American women had to endure the threat and the practice of sexual exploitation. There were no safeguards to protect them from being sexually stalked, harassed, or raped, or to be used as long-term concubines by masters and overseers. The abuse was widespread, as the men with authority took advantage of their situation. Even if a woman seemed agreeable to the situation, in reality she had no choice. Slave men, for their part, were often powerless to protect the women they loved.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2956.html#:~:text=Antebellum%20slavery&text=By%201830%20slavery%20was%20primarily,and%20in%20industry%20and%20transportation.

By law, slaves were the personal property of their owners in all Southern states except Louisiana. The slave master held absolute authority over his human property as the Louisiana law made clear: “The master may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry, and his labor; [the slave] can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire anything but what must belong to his master.”

Slaves had no constitutional rights; they could not testify in court against a white person; they could not leave the plantation without permission. Slaves often found themselves rented out, used as prizes in lotteries, or as wagers in card games and horse races.

https://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/slavery-in-the-american-south

The Southern Democratic party advocated for the expansion of slavery into the territories and strong enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. The party’s platform further affirmed the right of the federal government to protect the rights of slaveholders in the states and territories.

https://edu.lva.virginia.gov/dbva/items/show/107#:~:text=The%20Southern%20Democratic%20party%20advocated,in%20the%20states%20and%20territories.

At the end of the American Civil War, Confederate veterans formed the Ku Klux Klan to resist Reconstruction. The group incited riots and assaulted and murdered blacks and Republicans (the party of Lincoln, and of emancipation) to intimidate voters and influence elections.

The Redeemers were a political coalition in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction Era that followed the Civil War. Redeemers were the Southern wing of the Democratic Party. They sought to regain their political power and enforce White supremacy. Their policy of Redemption was intended to oust the Radical Republicans, a coalition of freedmen, “carpetbaggers”, and “scalawags”. They generally were led by the White yeomanry and they dominated Southern politics in most areas from the 1870s to 1910.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redeemers#:~:text=Redeemers%20were%20the%20Southern%20wing,%22%2C%20and%20%22scalawags%22.

So with the statement he made, he not only is showing his racism, but is displaying his lack of historical knowledge of fact.

wy69


118 posted on 06/21/2023 10:33:02 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: Dead Corpse
Well, Carlton loved him...


119 posted on 06/21/2023 10:33:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: jacknhoo
Chattanooga and Hamilton County, Tennessee were never hard core Confederate or entirely Southern Democrat. The city and county are located in East Tennessee, which had many Union sympathizers during the Civil War. After the war, Hamilton County was competitive between the Republicans and Democrats, with the only major break being 16 years of Democratic victories between 1932 and 1948, when Roosevelt and Truman won, due to the Depression and the generous aid to the area from the Tennessee Valley Authority. Since 1952, the Republicans have won every Presidential election except 1968, when George Wallace, an independent, won. These victories included years when two Southerners, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, ran as the Democratic nominee. But Hamilton County remains competitive, with Trump beating Biden by 10 percentage points.

I don't know what Samuel Jackson's actual experience was, but suffice it to say he did not grow up in a hard core white supremacist area.

120 posted on 06/21/2023 10:34:21 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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