I applaud Dr. 정. Well done! That’s great.

It is an interesting story, KwanHo, but not surprising at all to me.

Because you look like a China/JJAINA-MAN no matter whether you are the first or second

or third generation. So you look different from them that they feel the urge to ask you

to 'Go back to China'  as natural response, buddy! Even in Korea, they openly requested me to go back 

to the State because we all hate YANG-BANG which rather gave me the momentum to refuse to leave

Samsung but determine to stay through till I feel like I'd like to go back to the States.

You know who delegated this open request in behalf of HAN-BANG? Our classmate, Ha KwonIk

who knows me too well what I was even before I left Korea in 1968. So, buddy, your story is rather fully

expected response, “THAT I CAN TELL YOU” (If I may quote Idiot Donald’s expression).

Indeed, I encountered same reaction soon after I decided NOT to go back home/Korea but remain

at Richmond to take the opportunity to compete with them through the residency system of MCV

(Med Coll Va) after two-year fellowship. Obviously, they pretended, at least, they could tolerate

my participation as a guest/outsider to study as a fellow arranged by SNU through the State Department –

I then carried an official passport given by the Korean Government to remain here as an official trip -.

But when they learned I would NOT go back to Korea but remain for the residency program to compete

with them- those days we all had to compete/go through the pyramidal system as you recall!-,

they were all furious for such exceptional permission big Daddy gave to me, waiving the unwritten rule

to limit the chance to AMGs and not to damn FMGs.

Nevertheless, I swallowed my pride(?) to ignore such humiliating open attack/inquiry asking

‘how the hell, Dr. Hume gave such exception to a damn foreigner like you’ after a nice butter up

compliment first as a courtesy, saying ‘You must be darn good, BB’ even by the faculty members.

To make me feel further isolated, many former colleagues through MCV program told me frankly

after I left Richmond, that ‘Gee, BB, I didn’t know you did not go back to Korea to pay

what you owe to David Hume. Yeh, yeh, we all remember you were exceptional’.

Such frank expression remained/embedded in my brain through years and indeed it was Number One

motivation for me to go back to Seoul in 1994 to show to the friends/colleagues that I did NOT forget

but kept my pledge to Hume, though belatedly, when Melville Williams, my mentor of the Hopkins

arranged a safety net for me with clinical professorship while helping Samsung Medical Center

to organize Hopkins style surgery program/structure on behalf of the Hopkins as a joint project

between SMC and the Hopkins till I get back home to the U.S. 2004.

So, I have no more guilt to my American colleagues I did not keep my promise to Hume

but I came back home from Seoul 2004 with such sad reality, that is I confirmed my status

as more foreign to Korean Koreans than Americans’. Sadly, I lost my feeling of Korean kinship

based on their racist reaction to pull me down whenever they had a chance until I left Korea.

I now acknowledge I will remain as an estranged cosmopolitan(?) with no clear identity even

as legally Korean American.

Indeed, my American colleagues still share their mixed feeling on me based on such odd

exceptional privilege I got from Dr. Hume though I fulfilled its mandate with no further due I owe.

Even after 40 years plus since I left Richmond, they still introduce me over the drink infrequently

whenever they have a chance - of course with NO ill intention!-, saying ‘You all know BB is one

and only damn foreigner David Hume accepted to this MCV program and further one and only

damn foreigner ever survived through the pyramidal system’ during the Humera Society in particular.

So, ‘once a foreigner, forever foreigner’ no matter what, at least down in South to Mason-Dixie Line

that I can tell you (Bastard Donald’s favorite term). But I have no place/country to go back to join back

if I am sent back where I came from by the majority, excusing/passing to White Trash:

SEND THEM BACK, SEND THEM BACK. 

Hence, I have to tell you, guys, no matter how eager the Korean Americans show their royalty (?)

to the Republican Party as a card carrying members, they just couldn’t care, believe me! You are simply

one of the filthy fucking foreigners from the shit hole (countries) no matter how long you have been here

in this country which belongs to White Majority. Damn Donald confirmed through his honest(?)

confession no other Republicans couldn’t dare, that I can tell you Buddy! 'Send ALL Non-White back

where they/their ancestors came from, not only Black but also all Browns, of course Koreans,

JJAINAMAN, and JAP and what else?

BB

P.S. I still vividly recall I broke down once to tears soon after I started my residency at MCV in early 70,

when one hillbilly senior/chief resident from West Virginia, Greg Halloran- who later became very close

friend of mine and I thank for the eye-opening opportunity he gave to me through this shit!!!-,

kicked me to my shinbone under the OR table, shouting at me ‘GD BB, pull your GD retractor hard

or I will send you back to China. I don’t care whether you were a big professor in your fucking country

before but remember you are now nobody, you hear? You are nobody but a junior resident of mine,

you hear?’. Indeed, it gave me the momentum for me to be reborn as an American(?) BB Lee from

Korean Byung-Boong Lee, no more claiming nor expecting to be recognized

as a top-notch/IL-DEUNG-SAENG?-.

Trump revives the idea of a ‘white man’s country’, America’s original sin
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/20/as-donald-trump-revives-racism-struggle-against-it-gathers-momentum

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If you click the above website, you see a prologue that says:

"It can’t be left to black Americans alone to resist the president’s racism.

Citizens of all colors need to resist, and embrace activism"

Just remember that Koreans are not white but colored race.

We belong to the citizens of all colors. Then you should know what to do.

All of us would wholeheartedly agree with this reminder as our WM

once again emphasized.

Certainly, White Racism is one of the most pressing issues in America nowadays.

However, Racism is not confined to whites. 

What about Black Racism, Islamic Racism, other national racisms?

What about Korean national racism against less fortunate Southeastern Asian women married to Korean men?

Frequently they were physically abused by the inhumanly violent Korean husbands.

We all should look back upon ourselves and should try to free ourselves out of these wrongs.

I know I have a racistic idea but my children do not. I am surprised oftentimes

that my children talk about colored people or white people just like themselves.

I know I can not even if I want to. It’s like I am admitting I am foreign. 

For a long time, America meant White in my mind. However, I am acutely

aware of what is wrong or right. 

KwanHo, Southeastern Asians are NOT the sole target of the racism among Koreans

but even own Korean clans from Southwestern part of Korea/ChollaDo for example are,

you know very well. Indeed, as I repeatedly lamented, unabashedly,

Koreans are genuinely the worst racists of all I ever encountered.

Though we were taught Japanese are the worst racists with such reputation to discriminate ‘gaijin’

but during my stay in Korea in late ’90, I confirmed Koreans are not better than Japanese

and probably worse, putting up so many barriers like HAKBOUL, JOKBOUL, etc,

to keep out the outsiders. Such discriminating behavior is one version of the racism

I watched with such disgusts.   

Indeed, ‘racism’ is a natural response like “birds of a feather flock together” for the survival in my opinion

so that we try to tolerate in certain extent though we all learned it is no longer needed in a 'civilized' society

and also unfair through the education. But what I am worrying most here in the U.S. is

NOT only this racism per se but also Idiot Donald encouraging the white trash to revive historic racism,

chanting “This is a white man’s country. Go back to where you came from”.

I thought America had turned a corner but apparently, the past era to bully out black Americans

by the white is not the past! The target is now further extended to all non-white, of course,

brown/Asians as well included! I really worry about Trump Party- no longer old Republican Party!

– tolerating such Nazi-style racism upheld by the white trash led by Idiot Donald.

BB Lee

Dear BB: I am not as concerned about white racism as you are since the concept has declined so much nowadays.

However, even today Ivy League schools or other top colleges developed noticeable discrimination

against Northeastern Asian students including Korean and Chinese students at their entrance.

This issue is still pending at the court. On the other hand, white students have considerable privileges generally speaking.

It’s also noticeable that black students were given exceptionally favorable treatments from these schools.

The school administrations appear to be flattering to the strong black powers.

This country seems to lose the principle of universal equality among all the races.

This is my limited observation as well as interest.

Certainly, KwanHo.

If anyone comes up with the exotic(?) name of Asian origin among the applicants, the reviewers

pull them out to the last, I heard from very reliable source.  Indeed, it seems to be well known

among the faculty members of many leading universities for years, of course, including the IVY LEAGUES. 

Asians as a minority ought to have a more collective voice through the political system after all.

BB

We, as a part of Asians, are not very happy at the discrimination practices at the Ivy League universities.

However, I couldn't help feeling sympathy to the whites as they are progressively losing

their proportional numbers in those places. In some Ivy League schools, I heard that the Asians

are over 50% and getting worse every year despite their valiant effort to hold up the numbers of whites.

I can envision of the African army ants' flooding the plain and getting rid of everything in their path

as if the Mongols savagely conquered the Eurasian continents in a similar fashion.

Armed with Civil Rights Act by Johnson (1964), these Asians will eventually paint

the American universities, all the skilled jobs, all other good jobs, and even the American landscapes

into waves of "brown color" in no time.

Oh, poor Trump and his followers, they had been too generous and it may be too late now.

They should have learned from the Koreans who are the worst racist.

Drs. Lee and Chung, please don't worry too much. My vision will be realized very soon.