RECOMMENDATIONS

Be prepared for anti-Asian incidents. Don’t be surprised—be informed. Anti-Asian racism and violence have a long history that is often not taught at K-12 levels or even in higher education. Arm yourself, your family and others with knowledge, check out “bystander trainings” on the web to anticipate possible responses. Talk with your family and friends so that they are prepared. Engage your campus, community, church, workplace employee resource groups, social clubs and the like to educate and increase awareness to combat hate toward any people. Participate in ways to improve safety getting to and from home, especially if traveling late. Reach out to local businesses to help inform and educate about anti-hate responses and to offer bystander training posters, flyers, and links. Many anti-Asian incidents occur in shops, grocery stores and public places. Be a courageous ally. Call out anti-Asian hate for what it is: anti-Asian bias, intolerance, prejudice, discrimination, racism, bigotry. It’s not anti-Asian “sentiment”—that's a polite euphemism that obscures the harm and violence that Asian Americans are facing today. Initiate conversations with family and friends who perpetuate racist language or acts against any marginalized people. Call on national, state and local leaders to publicly condemn and take action to stop anti-Asian racism and the recent drastic increase in anti-Asian hate incidents. Support and elect leaders who do; encourage others to register and vote as well. Find ways to call out, educate and address racism, whether through organizations, letters to companies and advertisers, visits to elected officials or through the media, to make it clear that there will be consequences for anti-Asian hate. Support solidarity movements of people of color and people of conscience to fight systemic racism and other forms of institutionalized inequity. Support ways to fix the broken safety net to address mental health, health care, housing and food insecurity, and language access and to seek solutions of restorative justice. Demand that your state include curriculum about Asian Americans at the K-12 levels, as California, Illinois and New Jersey legislatures have done. Work with students, alumni, staff in higher education who are seeking Asian American studies, as well curricula on other marginalized groups. Connect the dots. Know your own Asian American stories and those of other marginalized people in America. Enforced invisibility and ignorance about any group denies people of their humanity. Asian American history is American history, don’t let it go MIH—Missing in History. Stay informed. Global and national stresses contribute to inequity, poverty, barriers to health care, housing insecurity and affronts to human dignity. Awareness and action can help combat narratives that create scapegoats to blame, just as the political innuendo about COVID has fueled anti-Asian hate. Amplify the voices and stories of historically marginalized communities, including immigrants and refugees. Use your social media, letter writing and other platforms to lift up the diversity of those whose lived experiences have helped to build America.

MYTHS VERSUS FACTS: HONOR VINCENT CHIN’S LEGACY BY KNOWING THE FACTS

Understanding the legacy of Vincent Chin involves knowing the facts and not perpetuating myths and misinformation about this hate killing. Even recent publications contain factual errors about the location of the lounge where Vincent’s fateful encounter took place and misstating the city where he worked as a draftsman. Please use this guide as a reference for facts and photos. » FALSE: Vincent Chin’s killers were unemployed. FACT: Both were employed, and one was a general foreman at a large factory. » FALSE: This was a case of “mistaken identity” and the killers mistook him for Japanese. FACT: The murderers were told that Vincent was Chinese and they hired a bystander to help them “get the Chinese.” They also targeted Vincent’s

Chinese buddy, not his white friends. » FALSE: Vincent Chin was an engineer. FACT: Vincent worked two jobs and attended school part-time to become a draftsman. He planned to continue his studies to learn computer programming. » FALSE: Vincent died from hitting his head on the ground. FACT: His murderer crushed Vincent’s skull with homerun swings of a baseball bat. » FALSE: The killers apologized for killing Vincent Chin. FACT: The murderers never expressed remorse to Lily Chin or any of Vincent’s many family members or accepted responsibility for taking Vincent’s life. The Vincent and Lily

Chin Estate remains open to this day so that Vincent’s killer will never be free of his debt to the family and society.