CHECK
CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES TO THE FORECAST AS WE GO THROUGH THE WEEK AND STAY SAFE OUT THERE IN
THE HEAT FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS
.
>> ALL RIGHT, CASEY, THANK YOU
SO MUCH.
ALL WEEK WE'VE BEEN SHEDDING
LIGHT ON HATE CRIMES AND
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST
ASIAN-AMERICANS AND PACIFIC
ISLANDERS AS A PART OF AAPI
HERITAGE MONTH.
HATE CRIMES MAY HAVE SPIKED
DURING COVID-19 BUT THEY'VE
ALWAYS EXISTED.
WE LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST
ASIAN-AMERICANS >>.
I LOOK WITH GREAT PRIDE AT THE
COURAGE MY GRANDFATHER HAD IN
COMING TO AMERICA THAT JOURNEY
HELPED TURN YOUNG WOMAN QUAN
INTO A LEADING U.S. IMMIGRATION
ATTORNEY.
HE KNOWS BETTER THAN MOST HOW
HARD CROSSING AMERICA HAS BEEN
FOR MANY GROUPS.
FOR ASIANS IT WAS MARKED BY
AMERICA'S FIRST IMMIGRATION BAN
BASED ON RACE STARTING WITH THE
PAGE ACT IN 1875 TARGETING
CHINESE WOMEN AND THE CHINESE
EXCLUSION ACT IN 1882 THAT
LARGELY STOPPED CHINESE MEN
FROM IMMIGRATING AND THOSE
ALREADY HERE FROM NATURALIZING
WESTERN STATES PUSHED THE LAW
THROUGH BY CUTTING A DEAL WITH
SOUTHERN STATES TARGETING
ANOTHER MINORITY.
THE >> PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH
DIDN'T CARE ABOUT CHINESE THERE
OR ANY CHINESE THERE.
THEY CARED ABOUT THE JIM CROW
RATE THE BOTTOM LINE OF THAT
DEAL WAS YES, I VOTE FOR THE
EXCLUSION ACT IF YOU VOTE FOR
JIM CROW EXACTLY.
THEN THREE YEARS LATER IN 1885
CAME THE ROCK SPRINGS MASSACRE
AND ONGOING DISPUTE OVER
CHINESE COAL MINERS IN WYOMING
SPIRALED INTO A BLOODBATH.
WHITE IMMIGRANT WORKERS THOUGHT
THAT THEY WERE GOING TO BE
DISPLACED BY THESE CHINESE
WORKERS DECIDED TO ENGAGE IN
VIGILANTE JUSTICE, KILLING 28
>> CHINESE MINERS, INJURING
OTHERS AND BURNING DOZENS OF
HOMES.
BUT TENSIONS BETWEEN CULTURES
WENT BEYOND BORDERS WHEN THE US
COLONIZED THE PHILIPPINES AFTER
WINNING THE SPANISH AMERICAN
WAR IN 1898, MILITARY OFFICIALS
UPROOTED INDIGENOUS TRIBESMEN
TO SHOWCASE THEM AT THE 1984
WORLD'S FAIR IN ST. LOUIS.
THIS HUMAN DISPLAY WAS A
DISPLAY OF IMPERIAL POWER.
FILIPINOS >> WERE DISPLAYED IN
THIS WORLD'S THERE AS SAVAGES,
AS BARBARIANS YOU KNOW, AS
ALMOST LIKE ANIMALS.
YOUNG >> FILIPINOS EVENTUALLY
BECAME FARMERS IN CALIFORNIA
BUT UNDER CHEAP PAY AND POOR
LIVING CONDITIONS.
IN 1930 A WHITE MOB ATTACKED
FILIPINO FARM WORKERS FOR
DANCING WITH WHITE WOMEN,
SPARKING SIMILAR ATTACKS IN
OTHER CITIES.
THERE WERE INCIDENTS WHERE THEY
WOULD CREATE RIOTS OR THEY
WOULD ASSAULT FILIPINOS.
THEN CAME WORLD WAR TO CHINA
AND THE US BECAME ALLIES.
THE FLYING TIGERS A HIGH
PROFILE EXAMPLE AND THE
EXCLUSION ACT BECAME A HIGH
PROFILE EMBARRASSING WHITE KNEW
WHETHER YOU VOTED SHALVOY YOU
CAN'T.
THEY PAY.
THEY PAY.
YOU ARE LEWIS YEE THEN 18 YEAR
OLD SOLDIER HELP WITH THE
PETITION THAT ENDED THE
IMMIGRATION >> BAN NIGHTBEAT 43
THAT KEPT THE COLTYN LAW DO
AWAY WITH BUT ALSO DURING WORLD
WAR TWO HUNDRED TWENTY THOUSAND
JAPANESE 70000 OF THEM U.S.
CITIZENS WERE SENT TO
INTERNMENT CAMPS FOR THE
DURATION OF THE WAR.
THIS AS SOME 33 THOUSAND
JAPANESE SERVED IN THE U.S.
MILITARY AND COMPRISE THE
LEGENDARY 440 SECOND REGIMENTAL
COMBAT TEAM.
THAT UNIT WAS THE MOST HIGHLY
DECORATED UNIT OF THE ENTIRE
WAR.
DECADES LATER, ANOTHER WAR IN
VIETNAM SENDING 130000 REFUGEES
TO THE U.S. BY THE LATE 70S
MANY BECAME SHRIMPERS ON THE
GULF COAST.
THE COMPETITION TRIGGERED
SHOOTINGS BOAT BURNINGS ALONG
WITH ASSAULTS AND INTIMIDATION
BY THE KU KLUX.
THEN IN 1980 TO A KILLING THAT
OUTRAGED AND GALVANIZED
ASIAN-AMERICANS.
TWENTY SEVEN YEAR OLD VINCENT
CHIN WAS MURDERED THE NIGHT OF
HIS BACHELOR PARTY IN DETROIT.
TWO WHITE AUTO WORKERS BEAT HIM
TO DEATH WITH A BASEBALL BAT
APPARENTLY BLAMING JAPANESE
CARMAKERS FOR TAKING AMERICAN
JOBS.
CHEN WAS CHINESE.
THE PUNISHMENT AGAINST HIS
KILLERS A 3000 DOLLAR FINE >>
UNIMAGINABLE THESE THINGS >>.
BUT AS THE WORLD WAS GRIEVING
THE 9/11 TERROR ATTACKS ALSO
SPAWNED EVEN MORE HATE THIS
TIME TOWARD SOUTH ASIANS
BULLYING, HARASSMENT, RACIAL
PROFILING IN PLACES OF WORSHIP
VANDALIZED THE FIRST MONTH
AFTER SEPTEMBER 11TH THERE WERE
MORE THAN 300 CASES OF VIOLENCE
AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST SIKH
AMERICANS ALONE IN THE U.S.
NEARLY 20 YEARS LATER TRACKING
HATE CRIMES AGAINST THE
COMMUNITY CONTINUES TO THIS DAY
DISCRIMINATION AND VIOLENCE IS
OFTEN TRIGGERED BY GREED OR
FEAR AND FRUSTRATIONS LIKE JOB
SAFETY AND SECURITY WITH FAMILY
AND HEALTH AND A LACK OF
FAMILIARITY IT IS EASY >> TO BE
AFRAID OF AND TO FIGHT WHAT WE
DO NOT KNOW NOW ACCORDING TO
THE ORGANIZATION CALLED STOP
AAPI HATE, THE NUMBER OF HATE
INCIDENTS REPORTED