Helen Zia and the filmmakers of the @PBS doc series "Asian Americans" toured me thru sites of organizing for justice for my cousin Vincent Chin. I'll forever be grateful. You can see part of our day together here: #AsianAmPBS @GeetaGandbhir @HelenZiaReal...
Thankful I got to spend a day with @HelenZiaReal, organizers who worked for justice for my cousin Vincent Chin, and filmmakers of @PBS' "Asian Americans" last summer in Michigan. Reminder to keep fighting and that it's up to us to rewrite our history. #AsianAmPBS @GeetaGandbhir
Then #AsianAmPBS came out last week, & I talked about my cousin Vincent Chin's murder, how great-aunt Lily Chin made sure #VincentChin's story was known and started that Asian American movement. Hate crimes are prosecuted diff. cuz of my great auntie....
I will always tell my cousin #VincentChin's story. I owe it to him, to great-auntie Lily Chin who fought for justice, and for all of us. We have a legacy to live up to, and justice is not just us. Thx @PBS #AsianAmPBS #AsianAmericansPBS for amplifying ❤️ https://youtu.be/KX_UsT4tYV4
@HISTORY #VincentChin's story: 2 white autoworkers assumed Vincent Chin was Japanese, blamed him for 1982 Detroit crisis, & beat him to death with a bat, a week before his wedding. Lily Chin demanded justice & started an #AsianAmerican movement #AsianAmPBS...
Today would've been my cousin Vincent Chin's 65th birthday. Rest in power, Vincent, and rest in power, great-auntie Lily Chin. Thank you for fighting for justice for your son and our family, and for making sure #VincentChin's name and story is known. #AsianAmericans #AsianAmPBS
Thank you for allowing me to share the stories and legacy of Vincent Chin and his mother Lily Chin. We must speak up and speak out as #AsianAmericans for EVERY injustice, which was clearly messaged in @PBS #AsianAmPBS. So proud to have been a part....
I wrote about my @PBS debut in "Asian Americans" documentary digital feature, filming #AsianAmPBS, on speaking up and our legacies here! (Also about teaching and #AsianAmerican media!)
What an honor, @HelenZiaReal @GeetaGandbhir @rtajima...
And here is the original @PBS Asian Americans live thread if you want to read over Twitter! Thanks for reading/sharing #AsianAmPBS #AsianAmericansPBS #AsianAmericans
More of our stories need to be told, and that's on us! @viet_t_nguyen made that clear ❤️ ...
Hah, apparently I typed out 74 minutes worth of text while live tweeting #AsianAmPBS #AsianAmericans @PBS over 5 hours! Enjoy reading, everyone, and know there is so much history still not included in this documentary, that we must continue telling!...
@threadreaderapp can you help me unroll this @PBS #AsianAmPBS #AsianAmericans thread? Thank you!
And, if you enjoyed the doc series, I'll plug it one more time, that unfortunately there wasn't enough time in #AsianAmPBS episode 5 for my interview, so here's my @PBS digital feature on #VincentChin and Lily Chin, my #AsianAmerican family's legacy....
As predicted, you can't put all of Asian American history into 5 hours! @rtajima @anothergracelee @sleochiang @GeetaGandbhir @shaleecehaas & the whole #AsianAmPBS @PBS #AsianAmericans did such a wonderful job on this 5-hour documentary series. Catch it on http://PBS.org
@prof_erikalee closing out #AsianAmPBS!!!!
It was so great!
I can't wait for my copy of @PBS #AsianAmericans to come in the mail and to be able to teach it one day to my students! So good.
Asian Americans were seen as outsiders, dreamers, but we were always Americans. Claiming space, striving for justice, for rights for all people. We don't have to be victims- we're not going away. We have endless possibilities! (We really do!)
#AsianAmPBS #AsianAmericans
Oct 2001: Ansar Mahmood was taking photos for his family, arrested, cleared, then pushed to be deported. "Free Ansar" movement happens, but fails.
DREAM Act doesn't have enough votes to go into law. DREAMers organize.
In this age, @harikondabolu gets political. #AsianAmPBS
9/11. People beat up, killed because they look brown, Muslim, Middle Eastern.
@harikondabolu: You get victimized twice: scared of terrorism, then America hates you.
Surveillance process after 9/11; immigration's about deporting people. DREAM Act was cancelled.
#AsianAmPBS
Going back to undocumented immigrants- I see you @rtajima, bookending the series with the original undocumented immigrants. Tereza Lee started off the DREAM Act thanks to @DickDurbin. Thanks to Tereza, there's a wave of DREAMers ❤️ and then... #AsianAmPBS #AsianAmericans
Asian American entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley built many of the tech advances. Jerry Yang's bicultural experience helped him build @Yahoo.
(My mind wandered off on the tech aspect of this episode, probably because I needed an emotional break)
#AsianAmPBS #AsianAmericansPBS
Jerry Yang's entrepreneur story being told now (or 20 minutes ago if you're watching live, lol) @Yahoo!
#AsianAmPBS #AsianAmericans @PBS
@viet_t_nguyen: Asian Americans have a choice: victimization narrative, choosing power/being perpetrators, OR refuse the system and build in solidarity and build something new. That was the dream of the student college movements, to be in solidarity. #AsianAmericans #AsianAmPBS
"Korean America was born in 1992." 30,000 people gathered for a pace rally: Koreans, Blacks, Latinos, Whites: "we wanted to spread a message: we wanted justice, we wanted peace."
#AsianAmPBS #AsianAmericans
2,000 Korean-owned businesses were destroyed in the 5 days of Los Angeles riots starting, in part, by Rodney King and the shooting of Latasha Harlins by a Korean woman. 63 people died. Trauma hit Koreans after riots, and so many didn't talk about it. #AsianAmPBS #AsianAmericans
LA cases of police beating of Rodney King! Soon Ja Du shooting Latasha Harlins in the head. Looting, burning, arson riots in LA ensue, part due to anger towards Koreans.
Stand for Latasha Harlins, Akai Gurley, the same way we stand for Vincent Chin.
#AsianAmPBS #AsianAmericans
My part of the filming for @pbs #AsianAmericans was cut for time, but you can watch my interview and time with the amazing @HelenZiaReal on the PBS site here: Great aunt Lily and cousin Vincent Chin remind me I have a legacy to live up to. #AsianAmPBS...
Vincent Chin's legacy is that Asian Americans won't stand for hate crimes, then & now, that we build movements in solidarity, lead to hate crime legislation. People all over now identify as #AsianAmericans because of the Vincent Chin case. Rest in power, cousin. #AsianAmPBS
Every time I see my great aunt Lily Chin speak for her son Vincent Chin... 😥😥😥
The guys who killed him never served a day in jail.
Thank you, great aunt Lily Chin. Without you, no one would know Vincent Chin's name today.
#AsianAmPBS #AsianAmericans
Other Asian Americans saw this extreme racism and called to action. Solidarity across movements: Jesse Jackson stood next to my great aunt Lily Chin. @HelenZiaReal "She was the inspirational and spiritual leader of this movement."
#AsianAmPBS #AsianAmericans
White autoworkers thought Vincent Chin was Japanese, chased him, paid off someone to find him, smashed his skull in with a baseball bat. Vincent Chin's last words: "It isn't fair." His killers didn't serve a day in jail.
Rest in power, cousin Vincent.
#AsianAmPBS #AsianAmericans
1979 Oil crisis: ppl buying Japanese fuel-efficient cars by 1982 one in five Detroit people are unemployed.
... Looks like the unemployment rate across the United States now with #COVID19.
#AsianAmPBS #AsianAmericans
