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Remember Vincent Chin? In 1982, this hard-working Chinese-American was beaten to death with a baseball bat by a laid off Michigan auto worker who channeled his misplaced frustrations on Chin (the killer thought Chin was Japanese). The killer got a sweetheart deal from the DA, served no jail time, and paid a paltry $3,000 fine.
Never again, right? Well, with the U.S. economy tanking, anti-immigrant sentiments are brewing again. Last week, Jose Sucuzhanay, an Ecuadorian immigrant, was killed in Brooklyn by thugs wielding a baseball bat and a bottle. The killers yelled racist slurs during the attack. With the Big 3 about to go under, it's just a matter of time before another Asian-American becomes a hate crime statistic.
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Such scapegoating is not unique to America. In Russia, seven ethnic Russians, mostly teenagers, were just arrested for killing 19 non-Slavs (migrant workers from Central Asia and the Caucusus). Earlier this month, a Tajik migrant worker was beheaded near Moscow. On Sunday, an 18 year old Kazakh student was found stabbed to death in his Moscow dormitory.
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We must do all we can to ensure that these acts of hatred never happen again.
CKY
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