Was Mark Wahlberg The Wrong Choice To Present An Award To A Mostly Asian Cast?
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🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Birch Show. |
| 0:06.5 | At the SAG Awards over the weekend, Mark Wahlberg presented an award to the mostly |
| 0:11.4 | Asian cast of everything everywhere all at once. |
| 0:16.2 | And people are pointing out the fact that Mark was convicted as a teen for assaulting |
| 0:20.2 | two Vietnamese men and hurling racial slurs at them. |
| 0:23.0 | Now, this happened in 1988 when he was 16 years old. |
| 0:27.5 | Yes, he's done a lot of growing since then. |
| 0:29.4 | He's also apologized numerous times for the incident. |
| 0:32.7 | However, that's on your permanent record as something you did. |
| 0:36.9 | You've grown, you've learned from the experience and that's you've apologized. |
| 0:41.9 | It's still very tone deaf to have a person with that on their record on stage presenting |
| 0:46.4 | to a predominantly Asian cast. |
| 0:48.9 | And one Asian journalist said, because it did, it rubs some people the wrong way, one |
| 0:53.8 | Asian journalist said, it must have been quite a shock for Mark Wahlberg. |
| 0:57.5 | To witness a group of Asians beating white people. |
| 1:00.6 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:02.6 | I've always appreciated his work as an actor, but he wasn't the guy to present this award. |
| 1:06.0 | Because if it would, if it was black people in this situation, I would not care what year |
| 1:10.2 | this was that this hate crime happened. |
| 1:11.6 | It shouldn't be you. |
| 1:12.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.6 | And I think we also live in a culture where Asian hate is downplayed more than other races. |
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