The podcast Hold Still, Vincent, a dramatization of the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin, has been pulled after criticism from Chin’s family as well as journalist Helen Zia, whose activist work following Chin’s racially motivated murder helped bring federal civil rights charges against Chin’s assailants. NBC News reports…
worth sharing with the world. In June 1982, Chin was severely beaten in a Detroit suburb by two white autoworkers who were resentful of Japan’s increasingly popular auto industry. Auto plant layoffs ran rampant, and morale was low; Chin, who is Chinese-American, was just one of many Asians who became a scapegoat amidst economic uncertainty.
Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz, were initially charged with second-degree murder, but negotiated down to manslaughter instead. The two paid a $3,000 fine and were sentenced to three years of probation. Such a light sentence prompted outrage from Asian Americans across the country, and federal civil rights charges and civil suits followed, with varying levels of success. The crime occurred before the creation of hate crime legislation in the U.S., but is widely regarded as one.
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