Actor Samuel L. Jackson Joins 100 Hollywood Stars in Signing Anti-Donald Trump Plea to American Voters
Hollywood stars Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Ruffalo and Kerry Washington have joined over 100 other actors in an online campaign targeted against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
"We believe it is our responsibility to use our platforms to bring attention to the dangers of a Trump presidency, and to the real and present threats of his candidacy," the actors said in a joint statement.
"Donald Trump wants to take our country back to a time when fear excused violence, when greed fueled discrimination, and when the state wrote prejudice against marginalized communities into law," they argued, pleading with American voters not to vote for Trump in November.
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The Hollywood actors further claimed that Trump's rhetoric and policy proposals would harm Mexican and Latino people, black people, Muslims, the LGBTQ community, women, Asian people and refugees, among others.
The Hollywood stars said some of them fall into the above-mentioned categories, while others do not.
"But as history has shown, it's often only a matter of time before the 'other' becomes me," they warned.
"That is why we need to unite before it is too late — for the sake of our fellow Americans and for the sake of our democracy — and why it is so critical for those of us with the privilege to speak out to do so loudly and forcefully, in our work, online, and in our communities, with all the resources we have at hand."
Other well known liberal stars who signed the letter include director Paul Haggis, television showrunner Shonda Rhimes, actors Bryan Cranston and Woody Harrelson, and actresses Olivia Wilde, Julianne Moore, Lena Dunham and Jane Fonda.
The campaign has been organized by the left-wing group MoveOn.org, which earlier this year was blamed for playing a part in a protest against Trump in Chicago that turned violent.
Bishop Harry Jackson Jr., who is the senior pastor of Hope Christian Church in Baltimore, Maryland, told The Christian Post back in March that groups like MoveOn.org are seeking to stir up national anger against conservative candidates.
"Finally, let's remember that paid agitators were involved in the Chicago rally. MoveOn.org and George Soros were mentioned prominently. This was an underhanded tactic committed by people who fear the entire field of conservative candidates," he told CP at the time.
Trump, who has dabbled in Hollywood through various reality shows and film appearances, saw his Hollywood Walk of Fame star in Los Angeles surrounded by a 6-inch wooden wall with barbered wire last week.
The wall was put up by a British-born artist known as Plastic Jesus, who said he made it as a way to mock Trump's proposals to build a wall along the border with Mexico border to keep out illegal immigrants, AFP reported.
