Neeson wanted to kill ANY black man, it left me sickened

LIAM Neeson gave one of the most explosive, career-ending interviews I have ever heard when he told a journalist he wanted to murder a black person after someone close to him was raped.

He revealed he wasn’t trying to track down the actual perpetrator who had committed this hideous crime. He didn’t want to kill that person for what he did. Neither was he looking for convicted rapists to take revenge on.

No, Neeson wanted to find ANY black person who so much as looked at him the wrong way and kill them. Not just beat them up, but actually murder them. He specifically asked his friend this question about her attacker: “What colour were they?”

He’s now furiously back-pedalling and telling anyone who will listen that he is not racist – no doubt with one eye on the effect his comments will have at the box office. It is easy to apologise when there is money at stake.

But what am I supposed to think when, even now, he uses the words “black b ***** d” when he is talking about his potential victims?

It does not matter that they were said with air quotes.

The fact he felt it was OK to use the phrase speaks volumes about his lack of understanding of racism and shows how far he still has to go to understand the power of his past thoughts and actions. Neeson has admitted he walked around with a cosh for a whole week trying to find someone to attack.

I find this utterly terrifying, sickening and really saddening. That he could have killed someone’s innocent father, son, brother, uncle meant nothing to him.

That is partly what is so hideous and dangerous about racism.

It is wrong and irrational. There is absolutely no reason to hate someone because of the colour of their skin, but sadly people do.

Innocent people die as a result. Just ask the parents of Stephen Lawrence.