I didn't know this at the time- Hines Ward the superbowl MVP last year like me is also half korean. And we were born only 2 months apart, a very rare mix back then.
I can understand his feelings of it being hard to relate to others.
There was a 15 minute piece by Katie Couric during this superbowl pregame about Hines Ward and what he did last summer after the superbowl.....
Someday I'd like to meet him and shake his hand.
Quote:
As a figure for social change
Ward's mother (Kim Young-hee 김영희) is Korean and his father (Hines Ward, Sr.) is African-American. In 2006, Ward became the first Korean-American to win the Super Bowl MVP award. This achievement threw him into the media spotlight in South Korea, where racially-mixed people often face discrimination.[1]
From April 3 through May 30, 2006, Ward returned to his birthplace of Seoul for the first time since his parents moved to the United States when he was one year old. Ward used his celebrity status to arrange "hope-sharing" meetings with multiracial Korean children and to encourage social and political reform. Ward cried when describing the discrimination he faced. At one hope-sharing meeting, he told a group of children, "If the country can accept me for who I am and accept me for being a Korean, I'm pretty sure that this country can change and accept you for who you are."[2] On his final day in Korea, he donated $1 million USD to create the Hines Ward Helping Hands Foundation, which the AP called "a foundation to help mixed-race children like himself in South Korea, where they have suffered discrimination." [3]
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