jose s joy. her grandfather was wokkrking i the fields that day. he was working in the smoke. it was a sense of doom. after the fire then what? will they come after the individuals? she described how her grandfather used to be chased and had rocks thrown echoing anti asian attacks seen during the pandemic. we were hearing rhetoric coming down from our federal government as we know our past president that was really i think encouraging. a lot of this hate and these hate crimes were occurring. the council member says similarly city leadership in the 1880s set the tone for anti chinese attacks then. all with a backdrop of the u.s. chinese exclusion act passed to prevent chinese immigrants from becoming citizens. i was not aware of really how bad it got and through this process we have been able to expose that. the city even denied permits for rebuilding after the fire. those subsequent china towns eventually emerged. about 100 years later during the construction of this hotel,