OF HIS ADMINISTRATION CONTINUE TO CHARACTERIZE IT AS THE
CHINESE VIRUS.
CHINESE VIRUS. >> WHY DO YOU KEEP CALLING THIS
THE CHINESE VIRUS?
THERE ARE REPORTS OF DOZENS OF
INCIDENTS OF BIAS AGAINST
CHINESE AMERICANS IN THIS
COUNTRY.
COUNTRY. YOUR OWN AIDE SAYS HE DOES NOT
USE THIS TERM, HE SAYS ETHNICITY
DOES NOT CAUSE THE VIRUS.
WHY DO YOU KEEP --
>> BECAUSE IT COMES FROM CHINA.
>> PEOPLE SAY IT IS RACIST.
>> NOT AT ALL.
>> DO YOU THINK KUNG THREW GCHLT
THAT IS PUT YOU GO ASIAN
AMERICANS AT RISK?
>> NO, NO, I THINK PROBABLY
WOULD AGREE WITH IT 100%.
IT COMES FROM CHINA.
>> LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THIS
PHOTO BY A STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
FOR THE "WASHINGTON POST" WHICH
TOOK PLACE ON THURSDAY, IT SHOWS
THE WORD CORONA CROSSED OUT WITH
ONE OF HIS PLIZED EDPRIZED SHARP
REPLACED WITH THE WORD CHINESE.
AND THEYGEORGE TAKEI IS SAYING T
HE IS STOKING RACISM.
I KNOW THAT THIS IS THE SAVE WAY
WE SHOULD GREET EACH OTHER.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
>> ABSOLUTELY. >> LET ME ASK YOU TO REACT TO
THAT EXCHANGE THAT WE SAW IN THE
PRESS BRIEFING ROOM, PERCOLATING
FOR SOME DAYS.
SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO
HAS CALLED IT THE WUHAN VIRUS,
PRESIDENT TRUMP CONTINUES TO
CALL IT THE CHINESE VIRUS.
WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIM
DOING THAT AS YOU SEE IT?
>> HIS DOING THAT END ISES ASEND
CHILL THROUGHOUT THE ASIAN
AMERICAN COMMUNITY BECAUSE HE IS
SENDING A SIGNAL TO THE HATERS
AND STATISTIC INSIDE
HIT CITY AND IN NEW YORK A
CHINESE AMERICAN WOMAN WAS
CAUGHT AND BEATEN AND IT WAS
CAUGHT ON THE PHONE.
AND IN THE STREETS OF SAN
FRANCISCO -- ON THE STREETS
OF --
OF -- >> YOU’RE GOOD.
YOU’RE GOOD.
YOU’RE GOOD. >> ON THE STREET OF SAN
FRANCISCO, AN ASIAN WOMAN WAS
YELLED AT AND SPAT AT AND SHE
HAD TO FLEE INTO A STORE TO GET
AWAY FROM THIS MAN.
AND SO WE ARE CHILLED BY THE
CONSTANT USE BY THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADMINISTRATION OF THAT
TERM.
TERM. WE HAVE A LONG HISTORY OF
ANTI-ASIAN HATRED IN THIS
COUNTRY, AS FAR BACK AS THE
1870s.
1870s. TWO CHINESE MEN WERE LYNCHED IN
THE CENTRAL PLAZA OF LOS ANGELES
BECAUSE A WHITE WOMAN CLAIMED
THAT SHE WAS ASSAULTED BY A
CHINESE MAN, A MOB LYNCHED THEM.
AND THEN OF COURSE IN THE 1940s,
WE JAPANESE AMERICANS WERE
INCARCERATED, I WAS FIVE YEARS
OLD AT THAT TIME, WITH NO DUE
PROCESS, NO CHARGES, NO TRIAL.
WE WERE CATEGORIZED AS ENEMY
ALIEN.
ALIEN. I WAS NEITHER.
I WAS A 5-YEAR-OLD KID.
AND I WAS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN,
SON OF MY MOTHER WHO WAS BORNED
IN SACRAMENTO, MY FATHER WAS A
FRANCISCAN.
FRANCISCAN. AND YET WE WERE INCARCERATED.
AND THEN IN THE 1980s AND 1982,
A YOUNG CHINESE AMERICAN MAN IN
DETROIT, AND DETROIT HAD HIGH
UNEMPLOYMENT BECAUSE OF THE
ADVENT OF JAPANESE AUTOMOBILES,
UN
UN UNEMPLOYED
UNEMPLOYED UNEMPLOYED, BUT THIS CHINESE
AMERICAN YOUNG MAN, VINCENT
CHIN, WAS IN A BAR CELEBRATEING
HIS BACHELOR PARTY AND THEY WERE
ACCOSTED BY TWO UNEMPLOYED AUTO
WORKERS AND THEY HAD THEIR
ALTERCATION, THEY LEFT THE BAR,
BUT THEY WERE FOLLOWED OUT BY
THE SAME TWO GUYS NOW ARMED WITH
A BASEBALL BAT AND HE WAS BEATEN
TO DEATH.
TO DEATH. WHEN THE MURDERS WERE TRIED, THE
JUDGE SAID HE UNDERSTOOD THE
ANGUISH OF UNEMPLOYED AUTO
WORKERS AND HE GAVE THEM -- GAVE
ONE OF THEM PROBATION AND A
$3,000 FINE.
$3,000 FINE. >> GEORGE --
>> A MURDER COMMITTED.
AND SO WE HAVE THIS HISTORY, WE
WANT THAT TERM TO BE ELIMINATED
COMPLETELY.
COMPLETELY. BUT THAT SYCOPHANT MIKE POMPEO
USED IT PUBLICLY AS WELL.
AND SO WE HAVE WANT TRUMP NOT TO
BE A PARTICIPANT IN THAT ARE
CORONA VIRAL TASK FORCE PRESS
CONFERENCE.
CONFERENCE. HE SHOULD STAY AWAY AND LET THE
REAL EXPERT PARTICIPATE
BECAUSE --
BECAUSE -- >> GEORGE TAKEI, WE HAVE TO
LEAVE IT THERE.
I’LL NOTE HERE THAT THE WORLD
HEALTH ORGANIZATION CITING THE