Remember when Mark Wahlberg blinded a POC while hurling “racial epithets their way”?

 https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/mark-wahlberg-under-fire-requesting-pardon-amid-racist-unrest-msna474896

Remember when Mark Wahlberg blinded a POC while hurling “racial epithets their way”? Why is there a two tier social justice system? The guy had the audacity to request a pardon amid “unrest” and mostly peaceful protests after the death of Michael Brown, yet all is forgiven. People still go see his movies. In fact Transformers: Age of Extinction is Wahlberg’s highest-grossing movie and was released right around the same time he requested his pardon.

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Actor Mark Wahlberg is under fire for requesting a pardon for a prior conviction amid racial unrest following the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown.

Wahlberg, an Oscar-nominated A List actor and producer, has requested that a 1988 arrest for an assault, which some would classify as a hate crime, be expunged by lame duck Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Deval Parick. That year, a 16-year-old Wahlberg allegedly beat Thanh Lam, a Vietnamese man in Boston, with a 5-foot stick while yelling racial slurs at him. According to The Daily Beast, Wahlberg allegedly partially blinded a second Vietnamese witness when fleeing the scene. 

He served 45 days of a 90-day sentence for assault at the Deer Island House of Correction.

Still, some critics are saying the timing and substance of Wahlberg's request are disconcerting, with a few even arguing that it reeks of "white privilege." "Many Americans might prefer to erase the histories of white crime and violence from our collective memories, just as Wahlberg now requests that his own history of violence towards people of color be legally erased.

In 1986, a 15-year-old Wahlberg reportedly joined some white peers in the racial harassment of some local black children, hurling both rocks and racial epithets their way. At one point, someone in Wahlberg's crew said “We don’t like black n----rs in the area, so get the f--k away from the area,” according to court documents published by The Smoking Gun.

"To pardon Wahlberg would be another affirmation that the rich and the famous are treated differently from ‘regular’ people.