What do you think about Liam Neeson admitting he once wanted to kill a black man?

[Anonymous]

I think it's really up to black people if they want to be forgiving of it- white people can cite the generation, the location, his honesty, and the fact that he believes he has changed- but it still must be hurtful in a way that I don't understand first hand.

[Anonymous]

I don't think that you admit something like that without it being an authentic act of contrition.

At the same time, it's pretty clueless to say something like that publicly.

It's a mixed bag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I assume most people of a certain age from certain locations had racist tendencies in their past if they don’t still currently have them.

FTFY

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wasn’t he talking about a specific person who had raped a family member?

No, he talked about hurting a random black person because his friend/family was raped by a black person.


I think he's incredibly stupid to have admitted this and to not have realized that it would blow up in his face. I appreciate that he realizes that it was wrong and that he was trying to explain that he was wrong and that he understands how people can become consumed with blind rage--but his description of the whole thing was weird and really badly handled. His publicist must have been having a fit.

+1. I kind of get what he’s saying, but damn was he stupid to have said it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a problem with that. I think if she had said it was a tall man with blond hair he would’ve done the same thing. Love and learn.

I don't agree with this at all. Even knowing it was a black person, he could have decided to go after a person with dark hair, or dark eyes, or tall/short, thin/stocky. Instead he picked the man's race rather than any of the other characteristics.

I don't find it at all surprising, then again I'm a black person. It's the same way that people who seem perfectly nice might spout off a racial slur when drunk or very angry.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s honest given the circumstances. This is not racism. Agree with a PP that if she had told him it was a short man with red hair he’d feel similarly furious about short male redheads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a problem with that. I think if she had said it was a tall man with blond hair he would’ve done the same thing. Love and learn.

I don't agree with this at all. Even knowing it was a black person, he could have decided to go after a person with dark hair, or dark eyes, or tall/short, thin/stocky. Instead he picked the man's race rather than any of the other characteristics.

I don't find it at all surprising, then again I'm a black person. It's the same way that people who seem perfectly nice might spout off a racial slur when drunk or very angry.

She said it was a black person. A white person with dark hair is not a black person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's really up to black people if they want to be forgiving of it- white people can cite the generation, the location, his honesty, and the fact that he believes he has changed- but it still must be hurtful in a way that I don't understand first hand.

Look. I’m Puerto Rican. If he had said his family member was raped by a Latino and he roamed the streets looking for a Latino to beat up, I wouldn’t take that as racist at all. #context

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a problem with that. I think if she had said it was a tall man with blond hair he would’ve done the same thing. Love and learn.

I don't agree with this at all. Even knowing it was a black person, he could have decided to go after a person with dark hair, or dark eyes, or tall/short, thin/stocky. Instead he picked the man's race rather than any of the other characteristics.

I don't find it at all surprising, then again I'm a black person. It's the same way that people who seem perfectly nice might spout off a racial slur when drunk or very angry.

She said it was a black person. A white person with dark hair is not a black person.

I understand that. My point is that black people also have other characteristics. For example, they usually have dark hair and eyes.

[Anonymous]

America punished every brown person after 9/11. It was a group of crazies who happened to be brown/Arab/Muslim, and all of a sudden, everyone they assumed was related to anything that Arab, Muslim, Brown was vilified. TV show after TV show, movie after movie, hate crime after hate crime. And the response to that? Well, they are terrorists. Well, they hate us. Over a BILLION Muslims. Millions of Arab Christians, Millions of Sikhs suffer the racism on a day to day, and now we're all SHOCKED that a white man felt a similar thing after an attack on a loved one? Oh, the hypocrisy.

Was he stupid to have admitted this? Yes. Is he any different than those who sit and watch NCIS or label Arabs, Muslims, Palestinians, etc. terrorist just because? NO, those people are actually worse because they don't see how wrong they are, and he did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a problem with that. I think if she had said it was a tall man with blond hair he would’ve done the same thing. Love and learn.

I don't agree with this at all. Even knowing it was a black person, he could have decided to go after a person with dark hair, or dark eyes, or tall/short, thin/stocky. Instead he picked the man's race rather than any of the other characteristics.

I don't find it at all surprising, then again I'm a black person. It's the same way that people who seem perfectly nice might spout off a racial slur when drunk or very angry.

Er, you just described yourself as a black person, not a dark-haired person or a tall person or a thin person.

[Anonymous]

Not a big deal at all and probably quite normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think that you admit something like that without it being an authentic act of contrition.

At the same time, it's pretty clueless to say something like that publicly.

It's a mixed bag.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not a big deal at all and probably quite normal.

+1

[Anonymous]

Racist. Also sexist. He should have looked for a white woman committing a crime.