and japanese manufacturers were being blamed because they were producing more fuel efficient cars. and gas prices and oil prices were skyrocketing at the time. so, vincent chin was in a bar celebrating his bachelor party. and two out of work auto workers got into an altercation with him. he left the bar, the men chased him out and beat him to death with a baseball bat. those two men never served a day in jail or prison, paid a $3,000 fine and spent some months on probation. when we think about what's been happening over the past year and a half -- and john i've spoken to you on multiple shows on cnn about this -- this scapegoating of asian people because of the covid virus. the virus was really weaponized against our community, and it's part of this long pattern of discrimination and scapegoating that has been happening in this country for more than a century. >> and turning a blind eye to it or erasing it or not acknowledging it.