Vincent Who Analysis

Vincent Who? : The Murder of a Chinese-American Man, produced by Curtis Chin and Tony Lam sparked a lot of new thoughts in my mind when I first watched it. The oblivious nature of many Americans and even American students is kind of shameful to be honest. The opening scene of this film really proves this, the narrator askes various people on a college campus if they know who Vincent Chin was. No one knew and only one had a slight clue. The Vincent Chin case should be one that every American knows of, not just a select few Asian-Americans. This film also really shines light upon the falsehood of the racial dichotomy we seem to have in America. In most contexts racism in America is seen as a battle between black and white, when this could not be more convoluted. There are so many more racial groups that are discriminated against than just African Americans. I only mention this because prior to this video I had no idea who Vincent Chin was and I was privy to thinking that the black white paradigm was the only way we see discrimination in this country. Discrimination happens all the time even in ways that may not seem discriminatory, we have to keep a careful eye.
Vincent Chin was a Chinese-American man who was beaten to death in a Detroit bar by two white men in June 1982. The perpetrators …show more content…
George Zimmerman is but one disgusting example. Come to think of it I haven’t heard of any recent hate crimes that involve Asian-Americans, either I’m ill-informed or the justice system is doing what it does best, sweeping things under the rug. One thing I’ve been doing and I think it’s really one of the only things we can do is to keep telling the story, only then will we as Americans all know who Vincent Chin was and how to prevent heinous fates like his from happening