Korean adoptee Milton Washington, 48, has learned how to live between two worlds ever since he was adopted at the age of eight by an African-American military family. Washington, or Pak Milton-ah, spent his early years under the shadow of rejection by Korean society because of his mixed-blood heritage and outcaste because of his mother’s profession and association with black U.S. soldiers. After being adopted into a loving and somewhat unusual family, and raised in the American midwest, he realized he still had demons to overcome. As a black Korean, Washington also had to make sense of his identity in the U.S., and has come to understand and embrace both sides of his history. And what he would like to say to his Korean eomma, Pak Young-ja, one day.

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Jahzzar “Schmaltz”
Blue Dot Sessions “Tower of Mirrors”
Blue Dot Sessions “Peacetime”
Blue Dot Sessions “Bivly”
Blue Dot Sessions “Pacing”
Blue Dot Sessions “PlataZ”
Blue Dot Sessions “This Our Home”
Blue Dot Sessions “Platax”
Blue Dot Sessions “Grey Grey Joe”
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