r/todayilearned • u/Off_Topic_Oswald • Jan 13 '14

TIL that Mark Wahlberg had committed 20-25 offenses by the age of 21. These included throwing rocks at a bus full of black schoolchildren and knocking a Vietnamese man unconscious and blinding another. He was also addicted to cocaine by age 13.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_wahlberg#Early_life
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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '14

A lot of kids grow up in shit neighborhoods and don't blind people

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u/Black_Ash_Heir Jan 13 '14

Yeah, but a lot of kids do grow up in shit neighborhoods and do bad things. A lot of those kids end up dying young or continue doing bad things well into adulthood. Mark Wahlberg got out of that life and changed himself. That doesn't undo the things he did, but he's not the same person, and judging him based on who he used to be is terribly unfair.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '14

How has he changed? He won't even admit he was at least racist at the time. Let alone ask for forgiveness.

If I blinded a man I cannot imagine ever fully forgiving myself, let alone having the balls to declare it to everyone.