On Monday, one of Hollywood’s top actors and civil rights activist Samuel Jackson said that the countrywide Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests are “labor pains” of systemic change.

The actor, appearing on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” said that watching the protesters riot around the country makes him feel energized. Jackson also claimed that if he wasn’t living in a high-risk area of the Chinese coronavirus, he would be joining them.

Jackson, who played in multiple box-office Hollywood movies, recalled his memories from the 60s and the 70s, saying that the protests right now are very different from before, but the youth and energy feel the same. He also said that he feels like a change is about to happen, then he started to compare what is happening with BLM protesters right now to a mother giving birth to a child. “It is one of those kinds of things where the birth of change or birth has labor,” Jackson said. Then he explained that the murders that happened were symbolic of the water breaking when a woman is about to give birth. “The pressure, the water broke, and now we’re in labor, and let’s see what the result of this labor will be.”

Anderson shot Jackson a question, asking him about the generational difference and if he believes change can actually happen.

Jackson responded, “Yes, I do,” but admitting that it’s not going to be immediate. He said that the young people protesting with the BLM should have a level of patience and understanding that what they are fighting for will take a few years. Then the veteran actor looked back at his days of protesting and said, “I had the same ‘Burn it down right now. Let’s blow the whole thing up and start over again’ idea that they have.” But now, he is talking about “blowing up” as something metaphorical like blowing up systemically prejudicial systems. “There are institutions that need to be blown up that have not been blown up since the inception of captured people coming to this country. Here I am almost 72 years old, and I hear the same things or look at the things that go on around me and say, ‘Well, that hasn’t changed.’”

Last week, the Avengers star made fun of President Donald Trump and was one of the left-wing supporters who spread fake news that the President was hiding in the bunker. Jackson took to Twitter to mock Trump, saying, “No way that Muthafukkah was hiding out in the basement!! He Said he was watching the Secret Service Ninjas kick protestor ass!”