A storm is brewing in the United States over a podcast based on the brutal murder of a Chinese-American almost 40 years ago. Hold Still, Vincent , announced in April, aimed to highlight the importance of a brutal hate crime that left 27-year-old draughtsman Vincent Chin unconscious outside Detroit’s Highland Park McDonalds, his brains spilling out onto the street, on.
Reel Asian is providing the rare opportunity to see the Oscar-nominated 1989 documentary "Who Killed Vincent Chin?," the story of a Chinese-American man who was brutally beaten to death on the eve of his wedding.
An unsaid truth : Why some Asian families are hesitant to discuss racism By Mansee Khurana
May 5, 2021 / 12:00 PM / CBS News
When she was growing up, Annie Tan only heard her cousin Vincent Chin s name twice. The first was when her brother, who was 22, wanted to go out to a bar with some friends one night.
My mom said, Don t go out so late and (get) killed like your cousin, said Tan, 31, who is now a special education teacher in New York City.
The second time came while watching a documentary that featured Chin, who was killed by two White men in 1982. Tan s mother acknowledged that Chin was indeed her cousin and that his mother and her great aunt, Lily Chin, helped grow Asian American activism in the wake of her son s death. Tan was shocked but unsurprised that her parents kept this from her.