How Mark Wahlberg was responsible for a string of violent race-hate crimes including two drug-fuelled attacks on Asian men he branded 'Vietnam f***ing s***' and was even charged with attempted murder during cocaine-addicted youth
All eyes were on South Africa in June 1986, as the United States House of Representatives agreed to sanctions designed to topple the country's oppressive system of racial apartheid. Much less attention was given to the conviction of a 15-year-old in Boston for pelting Black children with rocks and shouting 'kill the n****r! kill the n****r!' Little attention was paid when the same teenager, nearly two years later, knocked out a Vietnamese man - who he called a 'Vietnam f***ing s***' - with a five-foot stick, under the influence of PCP. Little attention was paid when the same man was charged with attempted murder and jailed after pleading guilty to felony assault after punching a Vietnamese-American in the face later that day. But nearly forty years later, the story has come back to bite actor Mark Wahlberg, now 51, following his presentation of a Screen and Actors Guild (SAG) award to the mostly Asian cast of 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' on Sunday .