MLKIII Motherland

09/28/2014 3:11PM

So I got to see the police in full action today. I have been waiting to see this for some time now cause I really want to compare the differences between American and Korean cops. What would end up happening is something I will never forget and I hope to teach to future generations forever.

This black girl barely gets tapped by a cab driver today and she immediately reacts like a ghetto ratchet mess. "You fucking gook, learn how to drive, I think my hip might be bruised forever now," now getting louder, "SOMEONE CALL THE POLICE, I HAVE BEEN HIT AND NEED AN AMBULANCE" This is all happening while she is still standing up

The cab driver gets out of the car and starts calling her what I assume to be a number of profanities and calls the police himself. not even two minutes elapse and suddenly the police are there, but they end up having to call an interpretor in, and not even 3 more minutes elapse before an interpretor is on the scene (Amazingly fast compared to America). The cop starts asking the cab driver questions all while the woman continues to yell nonsense.

The cop then (When the interpretor arrives) begins questioning the woman. She is wanting to go to the hospital and everything else when the cops saids "We can't do anything for you lady, you were the one that instigated the problem and we have camera footage *Points at cameras* showing you walking where there is no intersection (AKA: J-walking)"

She is shocked to hear this and starts yelling "But that gook needs to be put away. He called me a nigg*r and where I come from, that is a national hate crime"

What the cop said will forever stay with me because he is 100% right, and I wish we could do this in America. "First of all, you called him a gook, a word that is mainly used towards the Vietnamese, but it also hurtful to Koreans around the world, including me. Second, you are the only person I have heard use nigg*r since we got on the scene, so by that logic, you should be the one in jail, not him. Finally, The reason I am not arresting you is simple, We get called derogatory names all the time by the Russians, Japanese, and Chinese, and admittedly we call them names as well but you don't see us starting wars with other countries over that, we work through it and have political and business partnerships with tons of people and companies in those countries, as well as the rest of the world. I recommend you change your thinking strategies quickly before you end up getting sent home to your divided country!"

I really enjoy this country even more than I have at any other moment. Equality and working together is a huge aspect of this country, and for whatever reason it works. Even with all of the wars they have had and so much of the older opposition, they still find a way to work together. I am proud of my motherland more today than I have been in my entire life. I wish we could get this through to the cops and the people of the US. It would make the US such a better homeland.

I think that's all I wanted to post today... But I will add, I went to the farm experience yesterday, talk about feeling like I'm right at home. I got to harvest my own chestnuts and sweet potatoes, got to go rafting, and got to make "poprice", rice cake (In Jeol Mi), rice wine (Makgeolli) and Korean pancakes (Jeon)... all of which were delicious. I should have pictures up in my next post. The landscape was picturesque EVERYWHERE!!!