Coronavirus Racism
from Life On The Margins Hosted by Kert Lin, Jini Palmer, Matt Chan, Marcus Harrison Green, Enrique Cerna
0:01 - Announcing Special Weekend Edition 0:24 - Episode Introduction 1:15 - Processing Together 7:12 - Conversation with Kert Lin 27:54 - Community Opinion by Matt Chan 30:36 - Episode Recap ____________________________________________________________ Kert Lin is an Seattle Public School elementary teacher and a new father. Matt Chan knows that storytelling begins with the audience – an idea that has driven his 45 years of award winning success in the television industry. Chan has worked in every facet of the industry, from operating television stations to running national television series. In 1998 he started his last business Screaming Flea Productions and over 14 years grew it to national prominence. His work created hits like A&E’s HOARDERS, and landed him a spot as one of the very few people of color on the Hollywood Reporter’s Top 50 Reality Power Producers list. His newest passion is to give back to the community, training and educating new generations of citizen journalists and storytellers for the new world of media.. ____________________________________________________________ Produced In Partnership With : Town Hall Seattle (https://townhallseattle.org/) The South Seattle Emerald (https://southseattleemerald.com/) _____________________________________________________________ Executive Producer + Host // Marcus Harrison Green Executive Producer + Host // Enrique Cerna Executive Producer + Host // Jini Palmer Additional Production Support Provided By // Hans Anderson & JEFFSCOTTSHAW Music Provided By // Draze "The Hood Ain't The Same" // http://www.thedrazeexperience.com/about-draze/
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What this episode covers
As the coronavirus spread from China to become a global pandemic, threats of violence and racial slurs aimed at persons of Asian descent continue to rise in the United States. In episode 4 of Life on the Margins, Kert Lin recounts his encounter and the emotional impact on him after becoming the target of a racist incident at a south Seattle Home Depot. He is still upset with the driver of a pick-up truck who cut him off in the parking lot, yelled an anti-Asian racial slur and told him to “go back to China”. Even more disturbing for Lin was the lack of response to the incident when he reported it to Home Depot management and Seattle Police. We also hear from Matt Chan; Seattle media producer, creator of the reality show Hoarders, and a Chinatown-International District community activist, who delivers his opinion about the Kert Lin incident and its aftermath.
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