Samuel L. Jackson (AP)

Actor Samuel L. Jackson recently told the Hollywood Reporter that he wished the Islamic terrorists who killed 14 and wounded 22 in San Bernardino, California had instead been a white male.

The attack occurred on December 2. Muslim married couple Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik targeted a San Bernardino Department of Public Health training event and holiday party.

In the Hollywood Reporter, Jackson expressed disappointed in the identities of the killers, arguing that it resulted in prejudice against Muslims, who “become the new young black men”:

"When that thing happened in France, we were sitting there going, 'Oh, my God, these terrorists!' And I can't even tell you how much that day the thing that happened in San Bernardino — I was in Hawaii — how much I really wanted that to just be another, you know, crazy white dude, and not really some Muslims, because it's like: 'Oh, [expletive]. It's here. And it's here in another kind of way.' Now, okay, it happened on an Army base and it happened somewhere else. But now? It's like they have a legitimate reason now to look at your Muslim neighbor, friend, whatever in another way. And they become the new young black men."

Jackson is currently starring in the Quentin Tarantino film "The Hateful Eight."