Liam Neeson's Racist Revenge Plan

Actor Liam Neeson was discussing how he understood the primal desire for revenge with a personal anecdote: long ago, a loved one had been raped by a black man, and he became obsessed with the idea of revenge. He took to walking the streets, hoping a 'black bastard' would pick a fight with him so he could kill him. Neeson acknowledges how horribly wrong it was, and that although he understands that revenge doesn't work, there is a deep, irrational desire for it. Predictably, he is being blasted as a racist. I take this as not being against black men per se, but that he only knew the attacker was black and a man, so those were the only elements he had to irrationally focus on.

Pain and obsession with revenge are a thing, IMO. Does he get a pass for his temporary, misplaced desire to kill a black man, or is he rotten at the core and the rape is what brought it to the surface?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/04/enter...eeson-revenge/

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