Honored to be one of the speakers at an annual Commemoration that honors the life and legacy of Vincent Chin – a Chinese immigrant who was beaten to death in a hate crime by two auto workers influenced by massive scapegoating blaming Japanese, and AAPI in general, for the massive lay-offs occurring in the auto industry in 1982. The program, which included speakers, poets, and singers all referred to the legacy of the Vincent Chin case that resulted in a mass movement nationally and exposed the role of corporations in fueling that scapegoating. Similarities were made to the blaming of immigrants today (as a strategy by the Trump administration and the wealthy behind him) to divert the anger of working people and to fan division, war, and hate. The call was made to follow in the legacy of building a mass movement, resist authoritarianism and white supremacy, and build multi-racial coalitions that work together in turning around the historical systemic sources of racial and economic disparities that have been used – and are now being used – to pit us one against the other.