i never when i was growing up never read anything about the contribution of asian americans and the things that asian americans have had to endure and even the triumphs, so when that happens, when there s just complete erasure of one s history, it becomes easier for a country, a community to overlook or even dehumanize people which i think has resulted in what has been happening over the last year and a half which is this massive increase in attacks on asian people because they have been scapegoated because of covid, because of the virus, and so this first episode is an exploration of asian american history through the story of vincent chin who was a chinese-american man in detroit in the early 80s when detroit and the rest of the country was experiencing economic woes. detroit was the automobile capital of the world, and people started losing jobs. thousands of people when oil and gas prices started to soar, and the and the first people that