Black, Korean, stateless: a Slickyboy’s American dream, part 2

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Growing up as the son of a sex worker and a Black US soldier in South Korea in the 70s, Milton Washington was seen as an outcast, and "not Korean." He couldn't even get a birth certificate. Still, he was loved and protected by his mum, the two of them against the world. She told him his dad was in America, a land of flying cars and ice cream mountains — and that was where Milton wanted to be, too. Milton's story continues.

Presenter: Jo Fidgen Producer: Laura Thomas

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:06.9	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.1	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:13.7	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history.
0:20.7	We're still looking for Lucan.
0:22.1	It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime.
0:25.9	I'm Alex Fontunzelman.
0:27.3	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:29.2	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.7	What's up, y'all?
0:32.6	I'm Renee Montgomery, and my podcast Untold Legends Ora is available now.
0:38.2	I'm looking back on the life of one of the most extraordinary
0:41.3	black female sports stars of the 20th century,
0:44.9	whose name has been all but forgotten.
0:47.8	Ora Washington.
0:49.6	Stay listening at the end of this podcast to find out more.
1:01.7	Be careful of these little slinky boys. You got to make sure you got all your stuff on you because they'll come up to you and steal a little bit of anything.
1:07.1	Park Milton was six when he became a slicky boy.
1:11.2	That was GI slang for a thief, a street kid.
1:14.9	He lived in Chongi province in South Korea, opposite a US military base,
1:19.5	and he picked pockets while his mother turned tricks.
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