WASHINGTON (AFP): Hollywood star Liam Neeson insisted on Tuesday (Feb 5) he was "not racist" after confessing that he had once set out to attack random black men after a friend of his told him she had been raped.
"I'm not a racist," Neeson said on ABC news, although he admitted he had felt a "primal urge to lash out" some 40 years ago after hearing from his close friend that she had been raped by a black man.
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