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. ♪ [theme music] ♪ [theme music] >>>ernabel demillo: welcome to asian american life, i'm ernabel demillore coming to you from the new york historical society where they're featuring the chinese american exclusion/inclusion exhibit. chronicling the chinese american experience from the eighteenth century to today. let's take a look. for bronx born amy chin this exhibit is personal.

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life on the ground. >> ts just shows another example that the president doe not care about the lives of folks who live in these communities, african-american communities, latino communities asianmmunities and indigenous communities. i ran a seven-agency task force on environmental justice, we understand housing, economics and environment are all interconnected. if you look at what happened in baton rouge and floods that came through and killed so many people and $10 billion associated with that, it just makes sense that we get in front of these issues. also, if you look at princeville, north carolina, a community founded by freed slaves and impacts that happened inside their community also and the lack of infrastructure and opportunities that existed in getting ahead of this, it is all interconnected. >> jackie, you're with the naacp, the legacy organizations like others, urban league and others. how do you energize the civil rights community to put pressure on those in washington to really say to the president, you cannot do this? >> yes, very good question, we have started to -- we've been historically working at the local level and at the state level on getting folks energi

american for costing auto workers their jobs. >> that was indeed the sentiment in 1982 metro detroit, booming japanese imports were stealing auto industry jobs, fueling a wave of anti-asian racism that cost vincent chin his lifeork, one of the men allegedly said before following chin, the chinese american, to a parking lot and fatally beating him in the head with a baseball bat. chin died four days later, days before his wedding date. his killers never served a day of prison time. 35 years later, his death resonates as trump paints china as job stealing boogie man and as anti-asian hate crimes surged. joining me, anchor richard lui and jenny yang, co-founder of disoriented comedy. thank you for being here. this is a case a lot of people don't know about. >> that's right. >> shocking that there's no jail time, didn't spend a day in jail. >> they did not. the criminal charges never came through. that did not happen because there was a plea deal. $3,000 equals that man's life. that's what happened. not a day in jail. >> it's really shocking, jenny. it comes as now we are facing resurgence in hate crimes against lots of groups of americans, muslim americans are obviously facing it. but donald trump has been sayin

asian american, but more than just that, right? >> yeah. you know, i'm filipino, but i was raised in chicago. now live in new jersey but from brooklyn. so i think my food is inspired by just the life-day basis. for me, this cereal is the opposite of what my parents would give me for breakfast. >> this is interesting. even though you grew up obviously with filipino influences, you craved the not? american fast food? so as i grew up, even that urge for fast food or, you know, what i never was able to have has influenced my cooking today. >> you took the spatula into your own hands. your mom would say no, and you basically started making the pancakes on your own. >> yeah. you know, i say that that's where my first dish came from. you know, my mom had a beautiful fishhead stew now that if my mom made it now, i'm loving it. as like an 8, 9-year-old kid, i saw this dish and was like, i am not eating that. i want apple pancakes. my poor mother, r.n., works the graveyard shift, takes care of three kids and my father. she said, "you want pancakes, make them yourself." i took the box, this can't be that hard, made them myself. >> boom. a career is born. >> at 17, you go to the culinary inst