Quote: (02-19-2019 12:27 AM)Heuristics Wrote:
Quote: (02-18-2019 11:42 PM)Atlanta Man Wrote:
As a black man I must say that the fact that I never believed it, and the streets never believed it show that times have changed. When actual innocent black men are being shot and killed in actual hate crimes ( Gregory Bush ) as a black man I feel anger -but this, this exploitation, this "attention whoring", this race baiting, THIS STAGED HOAX-enrages me. You want to really know why I thought this was fake- I have have a racially motivated attack on me , and I did not want to talk about it. It was the 1980's and these squabbles were common-but I did not want to talk about it-I wanted revenge, not a compassionate ear, and I sure as shit do not like talking about getting my ass whipped (taking ass whoppings suck, unless you set them up). He is totally fucked, this is going to be a long apology tour.....
Atlanta Man, I’m curious about your perspective on Liam Neeson… recently he came out in an interview and said he nearly did a hate crime when he was younger; the context follows: he said that he had a close female friend of his who was raped by a black guy, and he subsequently had these really dark thoughts about getting revenge by killing the first black person he encountered on the streets, so he walked the streets for a week looking for an innocent black victim (I think of Ireland or N. Ireland—this was the 70’s or 80’s I assume)… In other words, a time where people were still thinking in really racial terms. He stated in this interview, which was done for a movie he did, about how he thought the need for revenge was a very bad thing--that's the whole onus for this controversy right now, that's going to have him loose all his film roles because of boycott efforts right now:
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Liam Neeson has revealed he once walked the streets with a cosh for days looking to kill a “black bastard” after someone close to him was raped many years ago.
The actor shared the previously undisclosed story with The Independent during a press junket for his new film, Cold Pursuit, admitting that he is now “ashamed” of his past “awful” behaviour.
Neeson, who has starred in films such as Taken and Non-Stop, recalled being told about the rape after he returned from a trip overseas.
“She handled the situation of the rape in the most extraordinary way,” Neeson said during the interview, which can be read in full here. “But my immediate reaction was ... did she know who it was? No. What colour were they? She said it was a black person.
“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 said it took him about a week or a week and a half to process what had happened.
“It was horrible, horrible, when I think back, that I did that,” he said. “And I’ve never admitted that, and I’m saying it to a journalist. God forbid.”
He added: “It’s awful. But I did learn a lesson from it, when I eventually thought, ‘What the fuck are you doing’, you know?
“I understand that need for revenge, but it just leads to more revenge, to more killing and more killing.”
Interested to hear your thoughts as well Atlanta Man..
Heuristics - bear in mind that Liam Neeson is an actor promoting a film.
He was a good actor in his youth and a good proddy dog boxer in Northern Ireland in his youth.
He probably had 'thoughts'.
Tom Hardy used to do the UK chat show circuits talking about how crazy his life was .. he woke up in LA 'naked!', 'in bed!' with a 'big! black! man!' and.. 'there was a gun on the mattress between us..' and 'the safety was off!'.
Bi-sex-you-al.. sex-you-al.. inter-racial.. exthperiences.. (involving guns!)
Typical actor bullshit. Probably didn't happen in the way he described it.
When he did the press conferences for films like Warrior he was asked by cheeky Brit journalists to comment on these accounts of his life. He got in a snit and stormed out.
Because now he was a red blooded butch action star now! Don't you get it?
Dont hold him to the bs he said before when he was pretending to be someone else.
Actors say all kinds of shit to reinvent themselves for whatever role. This relates to an instance before in their life when they were 19 and they were similarly a time-travelling-cyborg trying to save the universe from destruction for a couple of months one summer... "so, you see, the role is a very personal one for me"
Its like David Hasselhoff's character Mitch suddenly revealing in Baywatch .. "Back when I was in the Seals.." What? Where did that come from? It became convenient for the storyline at that time. Up until that point Mitch was no ex- Seal..
Highly doubt that outside of Liam Neesons mind during the PR tour for his new movie he ever actually wandered round with a cosh looking to extract racial revenge.
I think the easily suggestible, living in La La Land nature of Jussie Smolletts actors mind has been overlooked in how anyone thought they could get away with this..
The only thing that gets reported about Neeson then retracted then reported again over the years is that he is a long term alcoholic and was a philandering non-husband during his marriage.
Horrible what happened to his wife though. Wouldn't wish that on anyone..
EDIT: considering the adults who tortured a disabled minor in Chicago for being a white person and therefore being a 'Trump fan' got away with no jail time, the police chief saying that they had 'just made bad choices' and the same week it went viral, Meryl Streep and a liberal charity lied about Trump mocking a disabled reporter and wilfully ignored the other attack ----- probably helped persuade Smollett he could get away with it.
EDIT 2: Neeson has my respect for being one of the first to break cover and admit in public to an otherwise fawning media that he thought the Phantom Menace, together with the whole prequel trilogy, was actually pretty shit and he regretted doing it. Ewan Mcgregor soon felt safe enough to follow suit.