“I had never felt that feeling before, which was a primal urge to lash out.
“There were some nights I went out deliberately into black areas in the city looking to be set upon so that I could unleash physical violence.
I’m not racist. We all pretend we are all politically correct. In this country; my own country, too. You scratch the surface and discover this racism and bigotry.”
Actor Liam Neeson said he once felt a “primal urge” to kill a black man.
Neeson said the statement on Good Morning America Tuesday morning but quickly followed up with the statement that he isn’t racist. The Taken star was explaining what he had said in the Independent, which read:
“I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I’d be approached by somebody – I’m ashamed to say that — and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some [Neeson gestures air quotes with his fingers] ‘black bastard’ would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could… kill him.”
Neeson explained to GMA’s Robin Roberts that the urge came from learning that his close friend had been raped by an anonymous black man.
On GMA, he said he confessed to a priest, spoke to two friends about his violent feelings, and took up power walking, which brought him back to earth.
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