Quentin Tarantino (middle) took part in the October 2015, Rise Up demonstration against police brutality in New York
Director Quentin Tarantino is out promoting his new film, "The Hateful Eight." While talking about the Western with The Telegraph, the conversation shifted when the subject of the June 17 attack on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church came up.
Nine people were killed in the Charleston, South Carolina massacre by gunman Dylann Roof, who had hoped to start a race war. Photos of him draped in the Confederate flag and burning the American flag appeared online soon after the murders.
Dylann Roof
The shootings led to S.C. Governor Nikki Haley's decision to sign a law that removed the Rebel flag from the State House grounds.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signs bill to remove the Confederate flag from the State House grounds
Tarantino told The Telegraph that it was "about damn time."
“All of a sudden, people started talking about the Confederacy in America in a way they haven’t before,” he said. “I mean, I’ve always felt the Rebel flag was some American Swastika. And, well, now, all of a sudden, people are talking about it, and now they’re banning it, and now it’s not OK to have it on fucking licence plates, and coffee cups, and stuff. And people are starting to question about stuff like statues of Bedford Forrest [the Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard] in parks. Well, it’s about damn time, if you ask me.”
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