"It's not fair," Vincent Chin whispered as he faded into a coma. Hours before, he had been beaten with a baseball bat by two white out-of-work autoworkers, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz. Four days later, June 23, 1982, Vincent Chin would die.



The killers blamed "the Japanese" for the state of the then-struggling American automotive industry and had mistaken Chin, a Chinese American, for a man of Japanese descent. Before the beating, witnesses heard the autoworkers yell, "It's because of you little motherf*****s that we're out of work."

(courtesy of tolerance.org)