<p>Yeah it seemed he had a hard life. </p>
<p>I also read that when his mother went back to Korea for a funeral the relatives spit in her face. And whenever they went to a Korean restaurant in AMERICA the people would avoid eye contact, stare, look in disgust, or just flat out ignore her and Hines until she had to make her presence known.</p>
<p>It seems she got pretty good at cussing people out.</p>
<p>And after that basketball incident she made the rule that Hines could no longer hang out with any Korean people because of how they treated them. She also worked 3 jobs to support him.</p>
<p>The main issue I see is that there is a blatant hate for him just because he is half black. Koreans and other Asians don't even have that much interaction with black people, but I have heard them do things that mirror what was happening in Jim Crow times. How did it get that bad?</p>
<p>There was also a story about when Hines went to Korea to visit half black/korea kids. He talked to one little girl who was SO CUTE, about her experiences. She was in ELEMENTARY school and the kids would pull her hair and say she had nigger dog hair or something like that. They would beat her up and refuse to talk to her. AND THE TEACHERS KNEW THIS WAS GOING ON THE WHOLE TIME. They would just watch and do absolutely nothing about it and just intervene when it got too serious. Her own grandparents refused to take her outside because "of the shame" as they say.</p>
<p>Its really sad.</p>