Movie star Mark Wahlberg is seeking a pardon from the State of Massachusetts for assaults he committed when he was 16
Growing up as a teen in Boston, movie star Mark Wahlberg was somewhat of a thug and thief. In 1988 when he was 16, Wahlberg clubbed a Vietnamese man in the head while trying to steal two cases of booze from in front of a convenience store near his home in the Dorchester section of Boston. While trying to get away from the cops, he punched another Vietnamese man in the face. Wahlberg was tried as an adult and convicted of assault and theft. He served 45 days in jail.
On November 26, 2014, Wahlberg applied to the State of Massachusetts for a pardon. In his application he admits to being high on marijuana and other drugs at the time he assaulted the Vietnamese men. In seeking the pardon, Wahlberg says:
"I've been looking for redemption (since) the day I woke up and realized that I done some horrific things and was on a path of self-destruction, as well as causing a lot of people harm. When I decided to go and petition for a pardon, it wasn't based on the things I accomplished in my career. It's been the things I've been able to do in my personal life: giving back to the community and helping kids, especially inner-city kids and at-risk youth and kids growing up in that same situation."
In 1986, two years before the assaults for which he is seeking a pardon, Wahlberg and two white buddies threw rocks and yelled racial slurs at three black siblings. A day later, Wahlberg and a larger group of white boys harassed a group of black fourth-graders. During a court hearing, the judge issued a civil injunction that would trigger criminal charges against Wahlberg if he committed another crime.
Now along comes former state prosecutor Judith Beals in opposition to granting Wahlberg the pardon he seeks. Beals is the prosecutor who in 1986 obtained the civil injunction against Wahlberg. She argues that Wahlberg committed hate crimes and has never admitted to having been a racist. Beals insists that for those reasons Mark should not be granted a pardon.
Holy shit! Now we learn that this 43-yar-old actor was a despicable racist when he was 14 and 16. Political correctness requires that we never forgive someone for having been a racist in his teens. Heaven forbid!
Let me remind the politically correct Ms. Beals about the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black and the late U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-West Virginia). Both men had at one time been active members of the Ku Klux Klan, yet despite having been racists, each served our country with distinction. Ms. Beals, has it ever occurred to you that people can and do change? So get off that politically correct horse of yours and give Mark Wahlberg a break!
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