 Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe compared Samuel L. Jackson 's Stephen character to black Republicans like Clarence Thomas or Herman Cain . Samuel L. Jackson said that he believed his character to have " the same moral compass as Clarence Thomas does . " Jackson defended heavy use of the word " nigger " : " Saying Tarantino said ' nigger ' too many times is like complaining they said ' kyke ' [ sic ] too many times in a movie about Nazis . " 
