On the 40th anniversary of Chin’s death, his story continues to inspire and move the Asian American community to solidarity and action. In today’s political landscape, which is increasingly racist, sexist, violent, and exacerbated by COVID-19-inspired anti-Asian American sentiment, it is not enough to know about this one case of injustice but to harness that outrage and use it for good.

StopAAPIHate has collected reports from nearly 11,000 Asian Americans about hate crimes or hate incidents since the start of the pandemic to December 2021. Another study by AAPI Data and Momentive indicates that those self-reported numbers are likely an undercount, and that closer to 12.5% of Asian Americans experienced a hate incident or hate crime in 2020 and 15% in 2021.

Artists and activists have responded with creative community-based solutions, interracial solidarity, and allyship. Asian American aunties sew masks for Native American communities, Black and Latino youth walk with Asian American elders, and a diverse coalition of activists and restaurants fill refrigerators and donate free meals.

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