Actor responds to backlash after racist admission

Liam Neeson said he hoped that sharing the nearly 40-year-old story would encourage more frank talk about race.

[@toviasjames7902]

I like that he was able to reveal his past before the media could destroy his career with it.

[@khaliaward1771]

The media would have every single right to destroy his career considering he tried to commit a hate crime. Like he literally tried to hunt down black men in the hopes of killing one in revenge. It’s not something as simple as a couple of the racist and homophobic tweets.....this is a HATE CRIME.

[@FredrickTesla]

@@khaliaward1771 Except he didn't try to commit a hate crime. He put himself in the position to be victimized with the intent of deadly retaliation, based on a prejudice that black people would just attack him and give him the opportunity. The fact that he was deluded in this way and no attack came is why no one was hurt, and how he realized he was wrong. If he wanted to commit a hate crime, he could have just gone to a place where he knew there were black people and assault them, especially at that time in history. Conflating what he did with a targeted attack is obviously disingenuous and hurts the victims of actual hate crimes.

[@carlosjenkins68]

His career will never be the same however we are all grown he simply showed his true colors ( The real Liam ) I used to Love his movies back in the day but with him doing that I lost all respect that I had for him racism should not be tolerated so 🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾Him

[@jakaryreason8696]

​@@FredrickTeslaNo,that was a targeted attack.

[@jacksondrew960]

Every neeson movie is about him getting revenge

[@sashman02]

I'm Irish. I'm in no way defending how he felt that week 40 years ago, but neither is he. He said he felt ashamed of his thoughts and actions after the 4 or 5 days of madness. His other point in the interview about revenge and bigotry in Ireland during the 35 year low level civil war in Northern Ireland is also true. I was just a child in the early 90's when the "Troubles" were ongoing, but I remember when the news came on saying "a man was shot in Derry..." or "a car bomb killed 5 in Belfast...", and my primal thought (even as a child) being I hope it was "them" that were killed and not "us". Not that I wanted anyone dead, but if it had already happened, then let it be "them". I'm ashamed of those thoughts too. It was horrible growing up in Northern Ireland in the 60's- mid 90's. Men especially were afraid to walk the streets, day or night, because groups of thugs from one side or the other often bundled innocent people into vans, tortured them, shot them and left their bodies on waste-ground. These were usually described as "tit-for-tat Revenge attacks" for what the other side did the week before. The vast majority of those killed were completely innocent and just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Revenge does breed revenge. This is just my opinion, but I think that Northern Ireland sick mentality of just wanting revenge kicked in for that short period, and instead of sectarian bigotry, it was racial bigotry. But he soon realised that and knew it was madness. Sorry for the ramble, but I just wanted to give a little perspective.

[@peacheslove6496]

Martin Burns people were angry about Kevin comments 10 years and he apologize

[@refusingtoconform]

I don't know the plight of the Irish all too well, but it sounds like chaotic retribution was the norm. No way to live with the killings, but of those killing, I can't speak for their conscious.

[@teaganyoung3394]

People for get that the Irish, Jewish and Polish were, at one time, treated just as poorly as blacks. Seriously, read a fucking book and learn up about how racist America really is. It’s to the point where they could come out tomorrow and say “Spaniards are terrorists” and I’d just say “Oh, that’s the new person to hate? Give it a decade and it’ll change”. I honestly feel that average, middle-country, back-water Americans are about as much use to anyone as oranges on the sun - and please don’t come back with some scientific bullshit about how an orange can give me enough moisture to live .3 seconds on the Sun. It’s a fucking star; you’re going to die. But, it’s kind of not their fault; no one gives a fuck about them either. TL;DR: America has a race problem and the rich get richer.

[@frankgenner782]

@@teaganyoung3394 so if the back water town was full of American of Irish decent would they still be shit on the bottom of your shoe and secondly have you ever met some of those people your talk about or do you just walk around with your head up your ass and talk shit on the internet?

[@megabites4368]

You just want to protect him because you like him. Hes a racist.

[@therealist3331]

He didn’t go to the right neighborhoods then. Definitely would’ve gotten what he was looking for in the states.

[@kidmack1121]

I don't blame him for his reaction. Seems pretty normal. I've never liked his acting though... And I agree with you, he must've not been looking hard enough. He could've just walked inside the housing projects in Brooklyn or Chicago or Newark or the ones in 77th St. station jurisdiction in L.A. (any of a number of them around the country that the housing police on midnights don't even go in unless they're in 6's) He would've surely found what he was looking for... No tussling either, they would've just bounced a part of a cinder block or a chunk of concrete off his head from the roof as he was coming in or leaving.

[@khaliaward1771]

Kid Mack speaking as someone who was actually assaulted... this reaction is not normal. someone literally going out and trying to find any black man that they could find to kill them or hurt them is not a normal reaction. What is wrong with you people????

[@whyme3772]

@@kidmack1121 Normal? So I should just go out and pick a fight and potentially kill a random white dude just because one hurt me? Crazy logic.

[@jakaryreason8696]

Yeah,I realized after this that he isn't acting in his roles.

[@thomascorder6686]

I did the same thing many years ago! Finally some honesty from phony Hollywood! Refreshing!!

[@mrexecutive]

You did what many years ago?

[@SgtJoeSmith]

So this all happened when like last week? What? In the 70s? So liberals are butthurt in 2019 cause a sentence some dude said in the 70s? Really? Like don't you people got some trump bashing to do or did that get old?

[@jasenjahn]

Joe Smith 😂 extreme, sensitive leftist and Russian, short bus trumptards are equally fucks.

[@slowturbo9996]

@HEIL TWITLER lol people like you are the problem , it's not a political party, it's an individual problem. You take all you just listed and find numerous from both sides of the aisle that have committed. The left is actually the biggest pushers of racism. If you haven't noticed it was the last 2 Democrat president who screwed up the criminal justice system allowing blacks to be prisioned at an alarming rate. Stop watching KZbin and Facebook and do some actual research

[@IKIGAIofficial]

FOREAL

[@khaliaward1771]

Jasen Jahn How are you going to call somebody else a short bus but then can’t even form a basic sentence??? Bitch pick a struggle🥴🤡

[@khaliaward1771]

slow turbo we just going to ignore that a vast majority of rapists have right wing ideology’s👀

[@You-are-right-but]

Most people have things in the past they are ashamed of. Not sure about airing it in public tho. The holier than thou crowd usually piles in with half the facts and no context.

[@the-birbo]

Yuck. He certainly is racist. He asked her "what color was he"

[@lordvader282]

Liam is feeling really stupid right now. As a celebrity, just talk about the weather and how fun it was working with so and so.... bla bla bla and you won't have to do any damage control.

[@christivson5266]

Fuck that, I respect him more for speaking truth and showing humanity. We are not perfect and we all make stupid choices. He went on national TV and told the world that he is human like the rest of us.

[@Clewz13]

He's talking about how he felt back then and that he shouldn't have felt that way. We all make mistakes and do irrational things. Props to him for admitting his wrong-doing

[@dkshotwell]

Right! There can no longer be freedom of speech because words give people boo-boos.

[@mikereed3584]

Good people do bad things, bad people do good things. Life is made up of choices sometimes we choose wrong.

[@comdrive3865]

yeah, there are no good or bad people, but we're taught lies.

[@lostsoulsinner]

Bro called out every color he hated trying to explain his self 😅😂😂😂😂😂

[@hairlessape28]

This is a perfect example of the tyranny of thought police. Liam attacked nobody. He thought about it. His sharing of that thought was an attempt to show how bad the thoughts were and how he had grown since. Nevertheless many people are happy to attack the man for 40 year old thoughts.

[@the-birbo]

no one is punishing him. he has literally came out and said that he asked "what color was he" and also said he wanted to kill a black man that night. any black man.

[@refusingtoconform]

ABC, I'm all well and good with your reporting the news, after all, it is your purpose, but please don't attempt to misrepresent the man's words. Also, please provide links to your sources. I'm on my way to the Good Morning, America video right now and the way you used "quotation marks" about him condemning his own actors may lead some views to question the man's sincerity. In the interview, he seemed very even keeled about the situation and he wants people to understand that although he had thoughts of violence and discrimination that it wasn't right and he didn't stand by it. I'll be investigating the situation more, but even those "subtle" changes make a world of difference.

[@Sclass_Ent]

Damage control but I find his statement to be an educational piece

[@bluemass3834]

We will never know his reality, positive or negative, atleast he said what he said. We act like we are almost blind.

[@user-rb1yf4he9q]

This won’t be a story in 2 weeks

[@jakaryreason8696]

This aged poorly.

[@justsomeamerican2301]

qui gon is still my favorite actor

[@earumamaadu]

That's human psychology, not racism

[@tatecraft1361]

That’s not a very smart way to use that special set of skills.

[@royallopez69]

Please we all said or thought worse

[@susanthomson-lafosse6884]

I want attention I’m from Hollywood I deserve attention.

[@carlalamar6193]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@NormalLifeGaming]

Well has he now ended his career?

[@Darryldlowe]

No

[@blt4life112]

I'd like to hear Colin Kaepernick say "I used to be a homicidal racist, but I'm past that now." just to see if people would be as forgiving.

[@christivson5266]

Fuck kapernick

[@misogynisticamerica5420]

Americans are only forgiving of white men. Everyone else is dirt beneath their feet.

[@SamanthaJade-vx3pp]

For real lmao💯dude just kneeled down and was torn to shreds over it, but a white guy can be vile, point a gun at someone (even cops), the list goes on and it’s “aww, it was in the past. He just needed a hug. Hope he’s getting help” etc. meanwhile a black dude can do something bad, but less, and everyone LOSES it. Only time they don’t, is if it’s done to another black person, bonus points if it’s a black woman as the victim. Somehow they both become the villain though and that’s where they bring in their favorite talking point: “bLaCk oN bLacK cRimE” it’s so creepy. At this point, I wish most of them would just say, “I hate black people” directly and be done with it. The mental gymnastics are EXHAUSTING, but they gotta keep up the facade of politeness and the fake squeaky clean images.

[@franzhaas3712]

I WAS HELD UP AT GUN POINT SIX TIMES AT THREE DIFFERENT CITY'S AND EVERY ONE OF THEM WAS BLACK! SO I KNOW THE PAIN. BUT I HAVE KNOWN SO MANY NICE , KIND AND GENTAL BLACK PEOPLE THAT IT KEEPS ME FROM COMPLETELY LOOSING IT TO RACISM. MR. NEILSON BELIEVE ME I KNOW MORE THEN YOU FEEL.

[@forresthurles753]

He’s not racist there’s a lot of things that can go through the mind like rape, bullying, murder and even judge about you or friend or family members which results to get revenge on the person

[@MsAppassionata]

Yeah but he wasn’t just seeking revenge against that person. He went into black areas specifically to confront with violence ANY black person that approached him.

[@issa3522]

The best qualities in any “Man” when he or she recognised his or her weaknesses and decided to reject/disown completely past behaviours and strive to be better moving forward. He came out and publicly apologised and asked for forgiveness. Give him credit for trying to be a person than he was years ago. No body is perfect and we all have little evil things in ourselves regardless of race, creed and gender. Let’s hope that I’ll be a better person tomorrow than I am today.

[@davefellhoelter1343]

"I beleive" this is 100%!!! Honest, and I suport this Man! doing his best In This World! God Bless!

[@itzyzaza1806]

I don’t even know who this is, so...🤷🏽‍♀️

[@rosecrean9717]

Itzy Zaza stfu

[@projectdcb7525]

Go back to Africa

[@AJJohnson315]

Plot twist: the friend wasn't raped. She was drunk and had sex.

[@raslalique]

Wow. I guess a celebrity can do anything and get support. He is an ACTOR. His soft voice and seeming contrition could all be an act. That said, I love all the folks who think wanting to kill innocent people because of the colour of their skin is bad but not racist. You don't only have to host KKK rallies to be a racist. If the rapist had blue eyes would he have gone hunting blue-eyed people to kill? No. If skin colour isn't as insignificant as eye colour to you then you are a racist. I don't see where he said he addressed his racism directly. Revenge seeking is a separate evil from being a racist

[@paulinoeugenia2660]

The unknown has come to Light and the gray areas are visible to the commuter who has been Taken for a ride.

[@JayRozay313]

And your done, movies been trash since the first Taken anyway

[@Emmet-id6xq]

Jay Doe

[@nathanrosenberg476]

Liam didn’t have to come out and tell the world about what he wanted to do, he could have just kept it down but he’s a good man and wanted to come clean and people came after him for it

[@sasheenmalcolm4931]

Sometime they learn it from home.

[@carlalamar6193]

You are so right !!! There are parents and grandparents that actually teach thier children and grandchildren to hate...hate of a different skin color...hate of a culture ....hate a different religion...anything that "they" consider out of what is normal in thier mindset...it's more than a stomach full let me tell ya !

[@Trivette_williams]

I think it's the way we are wired. Or at least some of us. We always want to reply with something equal or higher when we or people we care about is troubled, harassed or killed. The hard part is targeting the individual who is guilty, not his/her friends, family or his race. I'm Indian and When I see a black person being racist to a white person I used to get so mad that I don't want to see another black person and vice versa. I even used to get angry at my own race when do and say stupid things against other races. I've learned to stop it and realized that revenge and avenging must not be blind. Don't hurt others who didn't do anything to you because he looks like your enemy.

[@richardbroadnax4127]

Ironically the savagery expressed in the vitriol in the venom in The vigor that was expressed bottled up in him from 40 years ago that he told us 40 years later about that he actually felt entitled to go out as a vigilante and exact Justice on anybody with that color skin without due process of law any investigation a bad thing happened that she was raped but what exacerbated his feeling because he was black that's deep and he suspect so no man it really went out to actually commit a crime I can say I'm sorry cuz he could have punished any black person that he saw for the act of one imagine if black people went out into the streets every time there was a lynching so you got one we going to get one don't matter if you were there or not I'm going to catch whoever slipping and I'm going to take out my vengeance really and I'm sorry is all it takes I think some charities need some donations I think there needs to be there's no training for white rage but there's identification for black pride as a potential threat to what not being your whipping Stone not being your pressure release to the point of assault and potentially death for no reason but that's the mentality that lets people go into a jury box see a video of Rodney can't get beat up see officers kill people and listen to them and say I feared for my life you can even break into somebody's house because that's the only way to get into a locked door your key doesn't work on another door as as a white woman and then say that a black man is in his home that you thought was your home passing back and forth looking wild in his eye and I shot him because I see it for my Life.... Well my fellow Americans he wanted to go out and do harm to an indiscriminate person I have to watch people do it to people who look like me all the time and I hear all cops aren't bad and I say well all black people aren't bad either but when you see us all in one light what chance do we have and there's no chastisement there's no training there's no retribution there's nothing to correct the behavior and if you don't correct the behavior the moment you think you're not the pavlovian dog you have lost your humanity that is something that has been trained inbred into him by his social surroundings you just don't come up with that idea by yourself and if you never do anything to stop that it escalates too somebody getting beat up somebody getting killed and no reason is ever good for murder and if it's self-defense it's not murder but you always do recognize the humanitarian efforts of as you would say quote unquote slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King which that soft word makes me sick because even if you listen to the report of this reporter as he leads in he said his friend he said Liam neeson's friend was brutally raped and when he found out that it was a black person he wanted to kill him brutally raped she was right brutally right you got to throw that in there right so a nameless faceless black man brutally raped somebody but when you talk about systemic murder of heads of organizations that fight for the advancement and the full franchise for black people that's nothing but American positivity all day he was slain that's a softer word than murdered and you'll see that this is strategic communication softening white crime exaggerating black crime but I'm just here to tell you there's no crime based on race there's no way that you can judge me based on race you will know me by the fruit that I bear and if we're all ready looking at black people sideways what chance do I have in this crooked criminal justice system because I have to be a judge by my peers to be guilty beyond A reasonable doubt and if you're already looking at me like well you can get it too all y'all can get it I'm mad property was lost and they say it was a black person and you're black good enough as I sit there as a defendant as you sit there as a juror as you sit there as a prosecutor as you sit there as a judge the defendant is just as innocent as you because that is exactly what the law says it that you are innocent until proven guilty and the proof comes from the witness stand from the forensics from the heart evidence not from the color of my skin you will start getting better as a people if you understand that we don't know our mind plays a little trick what we try and make it make sense but you have to have an open mind in order to get an open dialogue it's going to be effective. No there was a time when there was prayer in school and that was kind of like a unifier something common that we could always talk about or that we always did so we could always meet later in life and say you remember when but the separation of church and state I can see why that stopped being compulsory however we used to also say the pledge of allegiance and I want everyone who comes across my n***** railing and I want you to go and look at what the pledge of allegiance says we're supposed to be together up under that umbrella of our nation and then I want you to read the first 10 amendments in the Bill of Rights then I want you to read the preamble to the Constitution and in that particular order and I want you to read it as red white and blue you will see how beautiful and expression of equality and fairness the document is it is the supreme document and law of the land no one can a bridge or infringe on it and if we were able to civilly talk with one another understanding that we have an obligation as members of this society to be civil one to another we wouldn't have to protest blow off steam with erratic and idiotic random acts of violence based on race because if we enforce it for everybody it's fair it ain't perfect but it's fair when you pick and choose how you enforce your laws when you systemically root out property rights when you systemically destroy bands of commerce particular to any niche market that is for minority there's a problem when people conspire to defeat the purpose of such a great document I always tell them to look at your pledge of allegiance which we don't do however these officers and public servants do take an oath where they swear on a Bible or a firm that that is the law it didn't say did you agree with it said did you acknowledge yes it is love and in your position you must one become circumspect within it and then enforce it for the greater good of the nation that's a patriot but somehow we romance the Confederacy to the point where that someone's culture that nation is dead if you allowed to be but that wasn't up that was an enemy a bitter enemy much bloodshed and the union was right and it should be according to American standards might makes right without lording over anyone because everyone that did participate and didn't die God amnesty I killed the president behind this gave the treasonous edition is amnesty kind of like January 6th how do you leave that Capital go to your home to be found later by the basis of what facial recognition cameras what I don't know the only way you can do that and you know you're going to get everybody it's because you got the list of who's already there okay just think people we're in this together the Lord's above us that we put in Congress are having pissing contests trying to make people look bad playing got your politics and nothing's getting done how many times have we had the government shut down the last 8 years or about to be on the verge of shutting down because we can't get along I mean you to even announce that you're trying to get a response from the from the electorate from the citizens and they should have got one when I should have called up then said look y'all better get something done to keep this government working cuz I promise you these people to get furloughed when they get furlough and you go on your break I bet you don't cut your money and you using that you putting pressure on them to put pressure on other people to turn away from come on Democrats Republic is a good cop bad cop just get some stuff done that's going to help the nation and I don't care who you affiliate with a donkey or elephant or a tree or cuz I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired greatest country in the world greatest military in the world and you can't keep a bunch of jokers from flying in commercial from rushing the capital cuz y'all being too cute in your little soap opera.... But the citizenry is under such pressure of their frivolity that now we looking at each other yeah they said you took my job or you took my job or you took my benefit why am I spending money on that hey hey everybody we send 54 billion into three weeks over to your grain I have whole world I really don't like it what my gas almost $5 I feel some type of way as an American cuz if you want to talk about Mexicans coming over the border that's a non issue all these mass shootings are being done by domestic terrors and sales and organize domestic terror sales and you worry about them coming over the border or at least you telling us about that and you're stirring up your Bass about that but you're sending 54 billion dollars to Ukraine like I said that's my money ain't nobody talk to me about that ain't nobody talk to you all about that y'all feel good about that.... Hey listen to the world Bank why can't the world Bank giving the money if it's a just cause why haven't you in stepped in well if they have I cuz I don't keep up with it cuz now my issue trying to live with inflation going through the roof and y'all worried about people come across come on man but you ain't worried about cutting them checks we might not know the capitals we might not know where everything is geographically but at least you ought to know when you're being screwed

[@TheMsLady4Real]

He doesn't have to worry about me or my family spending one penny on any of his movies! We must respect all people especially those who have suffered the most globally, who are Black people! I refuse to disrespect or not speak up for these people who are owed suffering because of the lack of reparations and so much more! This is why I respect and support their #Reparations #Tangibles2020 movement!

[@luciferthefallenangel7976]

There are racist out there, but I don't believe he is Racist. The guy was mad but for him to kill an innocent black person not even the rapist it's just dumb. I still support him.

[@LoneWolf-km7rg]

Everybody is racist.

[@JamarCurtis]

@@LoneWolf-km7rg bitch I'm not racist so don't say everybody is racist because you sound stupid as fuck

[@prestigeworld-wide8292]

UK Patriot. Guess what the US is the worlds super power. You will do what and when we tell you too. Trump 2020

[@whyme3772]

@@LoneWolf-km7rg Maybe just you.

[@eleazarisrael4744]

I’m not surprised

[@alieubadoujammeh6605]

Lol don't blame him.....he's European

[@brandoncannon8522]

Congratulations Liam you have just earned your I had a racist thought but I'm not a racist award

[@dejboi]

Wtf is wrong with the media. Let it be.

[@pennywiser9607]

It’s worse when people hide their ignorance and racism. I miss Archie Bunker

[@SamanthaJade-vx3pp]

Exactly. I like to know who I’m dealing with. I’m tired of the mental gymnastics and the hoops they jump through. Just say it directly and go on with it. Sick of obvious racism masked with everything else.

[@sharrigarvin3348]

How about going after the Black guy that hurt your friend rather than a random Black guy that had nothing to do with it 🤔 He is correct we all have racism some more than others but it's there

[@wadealford5549]

He became enraged when he found out that the attacker was Black!!! That explains everything!!

[@taroman7100]

I think poor fellow is still suffering from grief.

[@richardbroadnax4127]

I can't believe that he learned that fast after getting the backlash but this is my problem when I see a person I see a person yeah I know what color they appear to be sometimes it's clear sometimes ambiguous but there would be no way in my humanity that if something like that happened to my friend my sister my cousin my mother and just because it was a white guy I ran out into the streets looking for anyone because I know that that wasn't an individual and when I think of people I think of them as individuals once you open your mouth I will get some more information from you to determine and discern if if I like where you coming from but we can always be called however the one ism of he's black which enraged him he found out she was raped he was supportive found out he was black he became enraged and wanted to just go out and find somebody black to beat up and I applaud is candor and I applaud his honesty but if this man who was held in this regard could have that happen whether it's 40 years ago or not if it's 40 years ago and it's not really in your character what's the point of bringing it up other than to say I'm a racist too or have racist tendencies at some point because I can go ahead and identify a race in an individual and all of those people are the same what everybody didn't come from Cabrini Green everybody didn't grow up in Marcy and I promise you most of us aren't trying to be rappers so the weird thing is is the concept of us being thugs I'm black by the way and ruffians uncouth uneducated etc but they let that man come through wherever he was and respected him as a human being he didn't say anything to them he was trying to be set upon according to his words he was in that I wish a mother f***** would now I don't know how sensitive is trigger was because it could have been just as simple as somebody scuff your shoe or you brush into each other hey man watch where you going as pretext to start something but he said I went to be set upon as if his presence would create an adversarial and aggressive response I guess because he acknowledges that when he's with his group if a black guy came in he might be set up on let me tell you something about black people we super Americans because we believe in America and America wouldn't do Americans like that.... Or they shouldn't be and you see how Robin was so forgiving no chastisement he jumped out of pocket 40 years ago jumped out of pocket and tell us about it 40 years later and after Twitter and everybody responded and you got immediate feedback I know better now that no filter part is that construct of white power with white supremacy that I could even say that and it would be okay who thought that would be okay and if you did you need to go get the counseling too that he said he had 40 years ago that he told us about 40 years later that my friend is a dog whistle that people that do think like that somehow feel validated I think we need a little bit more than I learned my lesson because a few bottles of scotch later if I see him in Harlem I might fear for my life

[@aivarioha]

he literally said nothing wrong

[@Asiatic57]

White People need to pay Blacks reparations for slavery ....I've said nothing wrong.

[@aivarioha]

@@Asiatic57 how about no?

[@FredrickTesla]

And here we see yet another actor realizing that when you admit to a weakness or wrongdoing, the left never forgives. Mercy and compassion are nothing but weakness to them. And all Liam has done here is make sure that those people he was trying to appeal to will now never see him as anything but a single word label. It's okay though, when he comes to his senses, we moderates actually understand that people learn from their mistakes, we'll have a place for him.

[@chicosrealgirlfriend]

why are you bringing politics into this?

[@FredrickTesla]

@@chicosrealgirlfriend The moment that he felt the need to apologise when he did nothing wrong is when politics was brought into this. He felt that way because people pressured him into it to serve their political goals. If they hadn't brought their politics into this, he never would have felt the need to apologise, because normal people don't apologise for crimes they never committed. The politics were here long before I got here. I just told the facts about them.

[@FredrickTesla]

@Mohamed Hussein Never listen to someone who says "The civil war was about slavery." It was about that and about 4 other massive things. (The south wanted to leave the union and make their states into countries, the industries in the north wanted a new source of cheap labor, the political parties of the south and the north were both trying to weaken the other, the poor of the south wanted to keep northerners from dictating how they could live their lives.) Saying the civil war was about slavery is as ignorant as saying the revolutionary war was about tax evasion.

[@FredrickTesla]

@J Wood The same way you can say "I'm not a Murderer" when you wanted to kill someone, maybe even planned it out, but at some point changed your mind, and never went through with it. Until you actually act on your thoughts, it's not real. Thinking about stealing something isn't stealing something. Intent, no matter how long indulged, is not action. Thought crimes are the tools of manipulators, dictators, and brain-washers.

[@FredrickTesla]

@J Wood What you're describing is a purity test. Keep in mind, he didn't actually do the things he wanted to do, they are and always were short lived desires and delusions. However this singular moment of 'wrongthink' has you deciding to condemn him forever. He's lived for decades, donated to charity, helped those around him, but none of that matters to you, cause once for a short time as a young man, he acted out of prejudice and wanted to set up a deadly retaliation. What this shows is that you don't care about the sum of his actions, you care about the one that is useful to you and nothing else. With this flaw you latched onto, you get to label and objectify him as racist, which lets you feel superior to him. And that's what it's really about for you, not the truth of the situation, but posturing.

[@whendeathdeclareswar7458]

His friend got raped and they are pissed over a word...

[@JavierRamirez-wu9zg]

We all have anger when someone hurt us and we attack there race it totally normal but not acceptable

[@joelseparation355]

I like it its justice.

[@antonjimenez7888]

Jolly good show McManus

[@nathanieI]

The media need outrage go get their clicks these days. Load of nonsense.

[@accountable3653]

This means he will be President

[@amanteheru8572]

He should have went to Cabrini Green in Chicago back in the day then lmfao he wouldn't even have been known right now lol

[@user-iz5eg3nr4l]

What media said : " He became enraged when he found out rapist is black " What Neeson said : " friend got brutally raped which made him mad " ( and that person just happens to be black ) People what was he supposed to say, the rapist was orange? People stfu, if the rapist was black he is black, if he was white he was white, this is not about racism it's about a man whose friend was raped. The other lady says it was hard for her to hear this as she is black, well tough luck, like I said the guy who raped his friend happened to be black so he said black, end of story.

[@user-iz5eg3nr4l]

@J Wood where did he state that the entire race was horrible and how do u know he wouldn't do anything I'd the person was white?

[@QuintTheSharker]

My new favorite actor. Good for you Liam.

[@Emmet-id6xq]

He has the balls admit his wrongs learn from it and move on in today's society you can't be honest ..... We're dealing with the baby generation 🤦

[@whyme3772]

@@Emmet-id6xq I wouldn't say Gen Z is the only soft generation. Pre 1970s, it was real common for people to make a fuss over someone being a different race or if women took on certain roles.

[@XXgenderloveXY]

Oh for the love of all that is holy...ENOUGH

[@lukusglasgow1412]

What I like about this ( me being black) he owned it ... I am forever of fan of his work!

[@Chocolatedream__]

The racist being black enraged you? How about that fact he's a racist

[@yb4278]

A black man raped someone he cared about who wouldn’t be mad!! Geez people ya’ll are sooo stupid. And guess what now he regrets how he felt. But the left just can’t show compassion at all these days.

[@boulderthefat154]

Liam I had a day thought once Neeson.

[@Russia4life.]

I would have said black as well

[@marcosolis1057]

Humanity can just die

[@100sexy4]

I hope persons realize that it is not black people who are ballooning this. It is the media. Edit: YES: I am a black woman.

[@raslalique]

Black people are ballooning this. Edit. I'm a black woman. We need to stamp this ish out so that our kids stop getting shot and we can sit in Starbucks or go shopping etc without harassment

[@paoloagyei4906]

Oh then you must represent the entire race

[@patrickweaver1105]

When everything is racist nothing is. You're doing more damage to the fight against racism than you can possibly know.

[@patrickweaver1105]

@Mohamed Hussein This is so riddled with factual errors I find it hard to believe you didn't get it from a Chinese communist party pamphlet. I'll pick the lowest hanging fruit. Only about 388,000 slaves were shipped to the colonies and United States from Africa. The peak slave population was 12.5 million. Less than 12.5% of households owned slaves at the peak but 25% of households in slave states did. Social democracy is socialism and inherently evil. Societies pointed out as paragons of social democracy are inevitably capitalist.

[@t.m.8618]

I see no reason to say such racists statements, you should have kept it to yourself....I see NO GOOD coming from this! The world is going to hate you...because they can! I’m a huge fan, I’ve loved the idea of seeing you as a handsome gentle giant completely separate from your “secret agent” persona.

[@0bservationist]

Teresa M it was 40 years ago... how could he have known the world would go crazy

[@bngr_bngr]

I support Liam. Sometime street justice is the only way to get justice.

[@nikkarter5578]

Street justice isn’t attacking or Inducing violence upon a random person who shares the race of your aggressor . Fucking imbecile!

[@GOKU_32]

Who cares, get over it. There are many black people that are racist too and I'm not looking for a apology.

[@whyme3772]

Even though it's not right either way, most black people's racism is pretty much a response to racism from whites over the years.

[@Russia4life.]

I'm not racist I just don't like anyone especially anyone ;-)

[@paulagrey6013]

All to sell movie!?!.... He's full of...ISH... He went into to Black area looking for trouble....guess what!?!.....He didn't find it.....

[@AceHardy]

👑

[@ateachingmoment5662]

He told his experience, that was brave of him, the truth doesn't hurt me, I'm not offended. Why would his truth hurt me. Robin don't speak for black people

[@raslalique]

Thankfully neither do you. Because if an unfortunate black man had wandered into his path that week Liam's truth would have hurt him then

[@ateachingmoment5662]

@@raslalique what are you some type of idiot who wants to feel bad, angry or depressed because some black man didn't get his ass kicked. The man said he was looking for a black man who would approach him in a negative way. Doesn't sound to me that he was looking for a innocent black man. No but you want all of us black folk to get angry because a White man thought about kicking a black man ass. I remember years ago my uncle got robbed and hit in the head, and my black cousin did the same thing. For weeks he went out looking for some black man to try and rob him. If he had told his story know one would say anything. But death is death no matter who think that want to kill you You are not helping the situation, your self anger or blacks by trying to conjure up emotional anger because a white man thought about killing a black man. This is about as silly as it get. Stop embarrassing black people with your stupidity

[@emazing33j]

-eye roll

[@travelingjohn69]

Either way I'm not forgiving him.

[@10personalitiesguy]

Liam Neeson and Kramer are racist heroes if you know what I mean

[@ElPalomo]

Yo, ma boi Neeson should learn how to keep his mouth shut fr. LoL

[@bearriver666]

Only an actor babbling

[@RichardRoss100]

I'm waiting for a black man to come forward to say he felt rage towards a Mexican because he was Mexican, or a black woman who admits her rage against a white woman, and so forth. The business of racism is not about what you feel; it's about what you do about it. Godless people will never understand this. But only people of grace and love can accept their truth and be changed. Liam gets this.

[@GrogSothoth]

Religious people never see the irony in everything they post and I'm always here to read it

[@whyme3772]

@@GrogSothoth I'm a Christian and I can't stand many Christians. It's "love thy neighbor" until they're different from you.

[@Emmet-id6xq]

He admitted his wrongs learned from it and moved on ...... Honesty I think is a good topic to bring up we should be more honest.it only helps us in the long run ........

[@almightytowerdiveking4636]

He doesn't come off as racist. That's more like us vs them. I spent a lot of time thinking like that when I was an active gang member. If someone from another gang did something I don't like back then everyone associated with them was my enemy.. it's like that with police. Police group us all up in one category. We pretty much been doingit to them lately. This is common human nature.

[@tewshiftyx4030]

Of course who’s going to come off racist being a big actor like that just stfu

[@christivson5266]

I will defend what he said and what he did and say that I have done the same thing for the same reasons. Anyone who condemns you for defending and or avenging a loved one either has no loved ones or no balls.

[@raslalique]

This isn't a video game or one of his crappy movies. He wanted to kill INNOCENT people . That isn't defending a loved one. He didn't even try to find the right guy

[@christivson5266]

raslalique he was NOT looking for an Innocent person to kill. I've done it myself. You put yourself in a dangerous area and a comprised position and wait to be assaulted. If they attack you then they are NOT innocent and there for are fair game.

[@ladymissna]

Move on people ... Move on!😒

[@yasserd86]

Look it, I’m not black maybe I will never feel those feeling black feels over racism. It’s 21st century I’m an immigrant i see everyone in this country over skin color. Blacks are to soft over this topic get over it. Racism black radar go ballistic when ya here any comments over the topic you victimize yourself and keep the wound reopening. 🙄let it heal for crying out loud.

[@foxwillis2676]

The only one it’s funny, when I read your comment it almost sounds like your the one who is butthurt over something petty ( twitter drama/being called racist ) and you want. Large group of people, all with widely varying opinions on a sensitive and ongoing matter to stop victimizing themselves. You sound like a drama queen, my guy. Being called racist isn’t a big deal, it’s something you get to walk away from. Getting your ass beat by some random Irish dude for being the same color as a rapist is a bit more serious, no? Show some self respect please.

[@raslalique]

This is a hall of fame dumb comment. I wish they had an award for this

[@yasserd86]

Shay Zeigler that’s still debatable but to make it short heal. 🙏🏼✌️

[@lisabenn330]

Hmmm highest level of stupidity.

[@carlalamar6193]

What if generations of ugly...painful...racist ..bigoted treatment were on the other side if the color line...could you just "get over it ?" I think not...Racism is alive today as much as it ever was...it's easy to not care when it doesn't effect you and people you love...real easy

[@SgtJoeSmith]

I like the new Liam neeson movie. Go get revenge on a black man that raped your friend

[@10personalitiesguy]

Liam is a one of the "good" racists , he cool in my book

[@reefersadness4416]

no real apology, just excuses. he has no idea how what he said could be considered racist and even puts on the blame on society by saying that "everyone claims to be politically correct," when he's fully missing the point. no one expects you to be politically correct 24/7 and it speaks volumes that he looks to tear others down instead of admitting that what he said was in extremely poor taste and slightly racist, even if he doesn't still think the same way. liam neeson is cancelled.

[@TheCommandostudios]

REEFER SADNESS - Youre the problem with modern America lmao

[@0bservationist]

REEFER SADNESS he said the offending statement 40 years ago...