Pneumonia) epidemic, incidents of hatred against Asian Americans continued throughout the United States, which aroused a climax of protests against Asian ethnic groups, including Chinese. However, perhaps not known to some modern phone database young Asian Americans, as early as the early 1980s, a vicious incident against Asian Americans also sparked outrage and protests in the repressed community in the United States. Detroit, June 1982. A few months later, a young Chinese-American, Chen , was chased to death with a baseball bat by two
white auto workers, and the killer did not get the punishment he deserved. The incident shocked the Asian American community and united Asian Americans of different racial and linguistic backgrounds to take to the streets of the United States in protest. "A Time of Fear" It was in the third year of a massive global oil crisis, the U.S. was mired in a recession and unemployment soared to its highest level since World War II. "Motor City" Detroit's auto industry collapsed. Many Americans blame Japan for the influx of Japanese cars into the United States. It was a scary time for Asian Americans. Activist and Chinese-American writer Helen
Zia has been at the forefront of "getting justice" for Chen "[Back then] if you had an Asian face, you had to look back a lot. There was so much hatred. It was scary," she described in an interview with the BBC. , who has been dedicated to fighting for the rights of Asians for many years, hopes that, 40 years later, the Chen case and the subsequent wave of Asian American protests in the United States can still bring inspiration to Asians. "It can't be true" In 1982, Chen , who was only 27 years old, was a draftsman and was planning to get married. That night,