taking the best gold mines, they re taking the best jobs, they re working in the factors, they re displacing us in the mills. if we continue to allow these invasions of these immigrants, the entire country will be overrun. in 1882, the u.s. government responded to those fears with racist legislation. the chinese exclusion act. and for the first time in american history, the doors closed on a population because of where they were from. chinese immigrants who were already in the u.s. became the target of vicious attacks. people show up on the chinese settlement en masse with pitch forks and guns. they forced people out into the dead of night. and literally thousands of folks are massacred because of this violence. why don t we ever hear about
coming here to take over, they are taking the best gold mines, they are taking the best jobs and working in the factories and displacing us in the mills. if we continue to allow these invasions of these immigrants, the entire country will be overrun. in 1882 the u.s. government responded to those fears with racist legislation, the chinese exclusion act, and for the first time in american history the doors closed on a population because of where they were from. chinese immigrants who are already in the u.s. became the target of vicious attacks. people show up on the chinese settlement in mass with pitch forks and guns and forced people out in the dead of night and literally thousands of folks are massacred because of this violence. why don t we ever hear about
california. i want to bring in now lisa ling, host of this is life. the new season premiers tonight. so good to see you again, lisa. so your first episode actually looks at the recent rise in anti-asian hate crimes around the country and how it s rooted in a long history discrimination against asian americans. here s a preview. in 1882, the u.s. government responded to those fears with racist legislation, the chinese exclusion act and for the first time in american history the doors closed on a population because of where they were from. chinese immigrants who were already in the u.s. became the target of vicious attacks. people show up on a chinese settlement en masse with pitch forks and guns. they forced people out into the dead of night and literally thousands of folks are massacred because of this violence.
to fears with racist legislation, the chinese exclusion act and for the first time in american history, the doors closed on a population because of where they were from. chinese immigrants who were already in the u.s. became the target of vicious attacks. people show up on the chinese settlement on mass, with pitch forks and guns. they force people out into the dead of night. and literally thousands of folks are massacred because of this violence. why don t we ever hear about this in american history books? it s not something that is part of this great mythology of selling the frontier. it s not something that makes us look good. but we ve created this powerful prosperous country on the backs of a lot of people.
we all know. but not surprising. you know, we even planned our day around knowing the tragic patterns of people listening to donald trump speak and then heading over to the capitol. with we had to be specific when we interviewed people because sometimes people see us and they aren t too happy to see us. we were there when people breached the outer gates because we knew that s where people were heading. there were people waving pitch forks. a man got interrupted by another man who was yelling. and the pitchfork guy wanted to be separate from that guy because he got outchaosed by another man. so you are talking to a man with a fitchfork, and he is taking the higher grouped, you know you re in for some stuff that day. absolutely. and you have security when you do this thing, which is vitally important. jordan you did a whole into the maga verse special. what do you think is next with the movement, especially for