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A partial, but not complete defense of Liam Neeson

I was struck when I saw a headline for an article at the Independent  which read, "Liam Neeson: 'I walked the streets with a cosh hoping I'd be approached by a 'black bastard' so that I could kill him'." Yes, the headline grabbed my attention so I decided to read the article in its entirety. Unfortunately, it seems not everyone did that. In an interview with ClĂ©mence Michallon, Neeson told the story of a friend confessing to him that she had been raped by a black man. Upon hearing the news, the action star claims he thought this: "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 'black bastard' would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him." That was the attention-grabbing headline in a nutshell. What those who didn't read the full article missed were the two following bits of ...