The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Between the Scenes - Liam Neeson Admits to Past Racism

Episode Date: February 9, 2019

Trevor weighs in on actor Liam Neeson's admission of past racism and encourages the audience to be more aware of how society has framed their thinking.   Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yes sir. What do I think about Liam Nieson's recent admission that he was, well I think it's really difficult because in many ways it feels like an onslaught. I can understand for any black person out there to just be like, this shit never seems to end, right? You think you get past the age of lynching, and then there's still black face in 2019. You know, you hear stories every day about black people who are persecuted just because of their skin. Black Lives matter exists as a hashtag because of that very reason. I do think though the Liam Neeson story, most of it was like, most of it is treated the way it is because of how he told the story and where he told the story.

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She said she doesn't know, she just knows it was a black guy tied and I went out into the streets hoping that some black bastard and he.......... I could kill him. And the headline obviously is Liam Nieson. I walked the streets looking for a black person to kill. Which is what he said, but not technically what he was saying, right? And I think also, I'm going to be honest, I think a lot of people take the story a little bit more seriously because it's Liam Nisen.

Because people see him as the thing. I walked the streets for a week. Black people be like, really, Tom Hanks? Really, Tom Hanks? People are like, y'all, man, we're gonna kick your ass, man. You're gonna, we're gonna bump your ass, Tom. Like, I think part of it is that, it's like people, so it has a certain weight that it wouldn't have if it weren't for Liam Niesen. I do think it was it was a powerful, it was a powerful, it was a powerful, it was a powerful, it was a powerful, it was a powerful, it was a powerful, it was a powerful, it was a powerful, it was a powerful, it was a powerful, it was a powerful, it was a powerful, it was a powerful, it was a powerful, it was a powerful, it was a powerful, it was a powerful, it was a th. th. thi. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, t. to, to, to, to, to, tom, to, tom, tom, tom, tom, tom, tom, tom, t you know, I hope he and people who hear the story understand the gravity of what he's saying and that is, if you're not careful, you can have inside of you a hatred that is, that is encouraged or grown by the society that you live in and you don't even realize how disgusting that idea is. I think it was cool that he said he looked for help afterwards. I think it was cool that no one busted the the the the the the the the th is thu is thu is the the the their their their the their the thi their their thi their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. thi. thi. thi. theeea. I's thea. thea. thea. thea.ea. thea. theiiiiiiiiiiiiii. I's thea. I think it was cool that he said he looked for help afterwards. I think it was cool that no one bust him.

He volunteered the information. I think it was great that he was ashamed. You know, so for me, that's the world I want to live in. I want to live in a world where a person who says something like that is ashamed ofi and they're telling they, and their their their their their their their their told.. understands because I saw him afterwards saying I'm not racist I'm not racist at all it wasn't racism like no no you I understand why you would say that but it is it is racist that that is racism that you have that that is you think you could just go out and kill a black man that you're gonna kill any black man for what a black man might have done is a form of racism because

because you're going the whole race should be condemned so you should be able to accept to accept, yes, I was thinking a racist thought. But a lot of the time, I find people are afraid to admit that they ever had a racist thought because then society says you are racist forever and then that's it. So there's no value in atoning, I guess. And he keeps going out and giving more interviews that make it worse. I'm like, why do you, like the things that he says, I'm just like, clearly your particular set of skills doesn't include shutting the f-b-up. The Daily Show with Cover Noa, ears edition. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at

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