The Marmot’s Hole

kushibo

Multi-millionaire lets his Mom work menial labor in a school cafeteria?

The possibility that she might want to work to keep busy, as a lot of people who have worked all their lives are wont to do, never occurred to you? And who says she’s doing menial labor now? The article says she works hard, but it didn’t say whether she was mopping floors or managing the place.

And he say’s he’s proud of that?

He said he’s proud of the fact that she’s a hard worker, suggesting she doesn’t take anything for granted. That and her humility is what he says he learned from her.

The Koreans try…

That’s right. Everyone. A secret ballot was taken and 100% decided this.

…try to claim as their own…

It was Hines Ward himself who brought it up, and being born in Seoul to someone who’s Korean was one of the first things mentioned in the SI article. It’s natural, and by no means exclusive to Korea, for the local media to pick up on something like that.

…anyone famous who has even a fraction…

The guy is half Korean. From second grade he was raised by his Korean mom. He was born in Seoul. A better question would be why are you trying to deny him a right to identify himself as being Korean.

…of kimchi blood…

Not going to comment; just wanted to highlight this.

despite the fact they are very racist against anyone not “pure”. I say let ‘em have Hines Ward.

It is not a universal thing that everyone feels that way about being “pure.” 8% of marriages today in Korea are to people with other nationalities (though a good chunk might be ethnic Koreans from elsewhere), and a number of mixed Korean performers are enjoying immense popularity.

There may still be a lot of people who go ballistic over “impure” offspring, but here’s the media trying to highlight a person of mixed ethnicity who is thriving, and you feel the need to rip it apart. Maybe some people in the media are trying to show that people of mixed heritage are just as good and can do just as well as anyone else. The people you’re griping about are not the people who put this article together.

Brendon Carr

Multi-millionaire lets his Mom work menial labor in a school cafeteria? And he say’s he’s proud of that? The Koreans try to claim as their own anyone famous who has even a fraction of kimchi blood despite the fact they are very racist against anyone not “pure”. I say let ‘em have Hines Ward.

All the evidence on Hines Ward is that he’s a great kid who loves and is proud of his mother — whose selfless labor for her son is an exemplar of the finest traits of the Korean immigrant experience in America. Treacly sports human-interest reporting always brings a tear to my eye and his mother’s story is inspiring. I say let the Koreans have Hines Ward too, as long as we get him back.

virtual wonderer

Newsflash!

Pittsburgh Steeler’s Hines announces that he will force his mother’s early retirement from the food services industry.

Hines will hire a host of personal trainers, golf instructor, and the four men from Queers Eyes in addition to a harem of young men to insure that Mrs. Hines lead a life of perfectly unproductive life eating bon-bons while watching Oprah.

According to Hines, “I am very proud that I can give my mother, the ultimate American Dream. I am glad that she will no longer be working in such dehumanizing workplace such as the American high school cafeteria. Now she can pursue her true interests in writing romance novels. She is also thinking about going back to medical school. I am also buying her the nex XBOX 360″

-reuters

CPT KIM

Whenever I visited Pittsburgh area for Army Reserve duty, I get to see lots of Hines Ward on billboard and in local media. It is wonderful to see someone like him who is considered hero in Pittsburgh area while highly praising his half Korean background. He was raised eating Korean food ever since he moved to his mother’s house per Korean Documentary show back in 1998 when they were covering Ward during his college days.