LOS ANGELES – Samuel L. Jackson has
some words of wisdom for President Obama when it comes to his deliberate
dropping of “g’s” off the ends of words to seemingly sound like Joe
Average.
“First of all, we know it ain’t because of his blackness, so I say
stop trying to ‘relate.’ Be a leader. Be f**king presidential,”
Jackson told Playboy magazine. “Look, I grew up in a society where I
could say ‘It ain’t’ or ‘What it be’ to my friends. But when I’m out
presenting myself to the world as me, who graduated from college, who
had family what cared about me, who has a well-read background, I
f**king conjugate.”
The 64-year-old actor, who stars this fall in the highly-anticipated
remake of “Oldboy,” is also known in social media circles as the
“grammar police.”
“On Twitter someone will write, ‘Your an idiot,’ and I’ll go, ‘No, you’re an
idiot,’ and all my Twitterphiles will go, ‘Hey, Sam Jackson, he’s the
grammar police.’ I’ll take that,” he continued. “Somebody needs to
be. I mean, we have newscasters who don’t even know how to conjugate
verbs, something Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow never had problems
with. How the f**k did we become a society where mediocrity is
acceptable.” (Continues)
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