Mark Wahlberg has stated that he’s a better person now, but other people don’t seem to believe him.

“The Gambler” actor is reportedly seeking an official pardon for a 1988 attack on two Vietnamese men, an action that was racially motivated by a teenaged Mark Wahlberg, according to People magazine.

The racist action reportedly got him a civil rights injunction.

“I don’t think he should get a pardon,” Kristyn Atwood told the Associated Press.

Atwood, who is now 38, was reportedly one of a group of mostly black 4th grade students on a class trip whom Wahlberg and his white friends threw rocks at during an incident in 1986. Wahlberg was reportedly 15 at the time as he and his friends shouted racial slurs during the attack.

“I don’t really care who he is. It doesn’t make him any exception. If you’re a racist, you’re always going to be a racist. And for him to want to erase it, I just think it’s wrong,” explained Atwood.

She added, “It was a hate crime and that’s exactly what should be on his record forever.”

Atwood reportedly still has a scar from getting hit by a rock.

“I have apologized, many times,” Wahlberg told the AP in December.

He continued, “The first opportunity I had to apologize was right there in court when all the dust had settled and I was getting shackled and taken away, and making sure I paid my debt to society and continue to try and do things that make up for the mistakes that I’ve made.”

Mary Belmonte, the white teacher who brought the students to the neighborhood the day rocks were thrown, is reportedly on the same page as Wahlberg in terms of forgiveness, according to CBS Local.

“He was just a young kid — a punk — in the mean streets of Boston. He didn’t do it specifically because he was a bad kid. He was just a follower doing what the other kids were doing,” explained Belmonte.