CNN has a timely story about the enduring impact Vincent Chin's murder has today. CNN reporter Richard Lui interviews Denise Yee, a childhood friend of Vincent's who, for the past 20 years, has avoided the neighborhood where Vincent lived. (Particularly moving is when she talks about how Vincent wouldn't have wanted to be a martyr.) The video also includes a brief mention of Vincent Who?, APAP's first documentary produced by APAP founder, Curtis Chin, as well as a look at the Detroit Historical Society's exhibit on Vincent Chin.

In the video, former mayor of Detroit Dennis Archer stated that he did not believe that this could happen again. However, a lawyer who has worked with the Chin family since the '80's, disagrees, noting that the economic climate is similar to what it was in 1982. In response to Lui asking him whether he would "fight this until [he] dies," the lawyer (whose name was not provided, for some reason), said yes, "if that's what it takes."

In fact, this has happened again, most recently in the case of Luis Ramirez, a 25-year-old Mexican immigrant, who was beaten to death in Shenandoah, PA on July 14, 2008 by a group of white teenagers shouting such racial epithets as "Tell your [expletive] Mexican friends to get the [expletive] out of Shenandoah or you'll be [expletive] laying next to him." Despite the evidence, on May 1, 2009, a jury in Schuylkill County found the defendants "not guilty" of third-degree murder or ethinic intimidation.

Ramirez leaves behind his fiancee and their two young children.  Please sign the petition calling for justice for the death of Luis Ramirez!