Hollywood star Liam Neeson insisted on Tuesday he was “not racist” after confessing that he once set out to attack a random black man after a friend of his told him she had been raped. In the end, no violence occurred and Neeson added: “It shocked me and it hurt me… I did seek help. He told the newspaper that when he asked the rape victim if she knew who the attacker was, she didn’t. “Today is Trayvon’s birthday and I had a thought: What’s the distance between Liam Neeson and George Zimmerman? Barnes, who is black, told Sky News that Neeson responded in the way he did because “this is what society has shown him, that black people do, Muslims do — this is what society has wrongly shown him.

Source: Punch February 05, 2019 20:26 UTC