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Showing Original Post only (View all)Samuel Jackson: "You can’t do that sh-- blogging in a room. I can’t see you on your keyboard..." [View all]
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The actor then continues his political rant by asking, "How do we fix the fact that politicians arent trying to serve the people, theyre just trying to serve their party and their closed ideals? How do we find a way to say, 'You motherf---ers are fired because youre not doing shit about taking care of the country?'"
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Despite being an avid user of social media and having nearly 3 million followers on Twitter, Jackson says that signing petitions on Facebook and Twitter won't get things accomplished the way physical protests used to.
"You need to have your physical body out there in the streets and let these people and the rest of the world know. When our antiwar movement led the world, it was because people could see us in the streets, see our faces, hear the protest music," he explains.
"You cant do that sh-- blogging in a room. I cant see you on your keyboard. I cant see you sitting there in the dark. Things happen when people get out in the street."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/samuel-l-jackson-slams-obama-in-playboy-2013-9#ixzz2fq1Y6N3Q
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Samuel Jackson: "You can’t do that sh-- blogging in a room. I can’t see you on your keyboard..." [View all]
jakeXT
Sep 2013
OP
I'm TIRED of these motherfuckin' blogposts on these motherfuckin' blogs!!!
Ghost in the Machine
Sep 2013
#23
However, coordinating and learning can be done online. Then get your body out there
uppityperson
Sep 2013
#6
Millions of people in the street before the invasion of Iraq did no good. (n/t)
Jim Lane
Sep 2013
#7
Millions marching worldwide before and after the invasion. The warmongers do whatever
valerief
Sep 2013
#11
I remember how the media would take these really tight shots of the crowd of hundreds of thousands
CrispyQ
Sep 2013
#24
And then the "Main Stream Media" will be the only source of information and the enslavement would be
RC
Sep 2013
#29
How do we get people to pay attention to what is happening around them?
Puzzledtraveller
Sep 2013
#31
With the Internet, we can directly contact each other. We can set up our own web sites.
RC
Sep 2013
#34
I feel so motivated by your activism I think I'm going to watch some youtube videos.
Puzzledtraveller
Sep 2013
#32
Those anti-war protests (and I assume he meant Viet Nam) worked because TV & newspapers showed it.
Gidney N Cloyd
Sep 2013
#38