Racially Profiled, Falsely Convicted, Sentenced to Die: Who Was Chol Soo Lee? | Amanpour and Company
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2022
- A victim of racial profiling, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was sentenced to life in prison for a San Francisco murder he did not commit. In 1970s America, his case inspired a grassroots social justice movement within the Asian American community. Now a new critically acclaimed documentary traces his story and the movement that led to his release. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with co-directors Julie Ha and Eugene Yi about the life and legacy of Lee.
Originally aired on August 29, 2022.
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I knew Chol Soo. Befriended him while he was in prison. I am not Asian, just human. I'm glad to have known him as a man.
Regarding crimes involving non-white people, until the focus becomes seeking justice, not just clearing cases, this pattern will continue.
This is an amazing and heartbreaking story. I can't believe I didn't learn about this in school. It's beautiful how they describe the community coming together for this.
Incredible story thank you~~
I wish that term ‘broken home’ would die out! Two parents don’t always make a healthy home.
It is applicable in this case though, per his own testimony Chol Soo Lee came from a background of domestic violence and severe intergenerational trauma
Thank you for this amazing story.
When Biden sat down at his desk in the Oval Office for the first time and reached for the letter that every former president leaves for the next president what did he find. Nothing Trump took the desk drawer too
This sounds alot like the 1989 James Woods film True Believer. Is there a connection?
It is based on the same event.
Notice that NO other non-Korean groups are being included in the story presentation of this man, the focus stayed on him…that’s the power of Asian economic growth and power. Blacks are ALWAYS talking about “ black, brown and people of “colour” including everyone in their struggles. Blacks need to focus, focus on themselves ONLY when fighting for the same things but more importantly, realise that economic growth and power is the ONLY WAY THAT THEY’LL get respect for their ECONOMIC ACHIEVEMENTS, party affiliations.. Republican or Democratic dose NOT guarantee your humanity.
Economic growth and power has been stifled at numerous points throughout our history in this country and becoming more so today in spite of the push to keep us apart from other minorities and POC. ALL non-European peoples are viewed the same. We are a threat when we coalesce around similar circumstances and issues.
With respect, did you miss the part where the filmmakers spoke of the need for Asian-Americans to know about and support the "Black Lives Matter" movement and about the intersection of the struggles of all peoples of colour?
Yes, this constituted but a small part of the discussion, but you have rather unrealistic expectations of a piece that was designed to focus on a specific documentary and the particular issues that it addresses.
@@shirleyashanti3031 guess you’ve NEVER HEARD OF BLACK WALL ST, or know of complete black neighbourhoods in the Hamptons and Marther’s vineyard, as well as black many other areas in black achievements, the problem isn’t Economic growth and power, the problem is that each decade or century that goes by they reinvent new ways to make blacks complacent, but with that said, if you already know what the enemy is up to , why fall into hi trap each time. They’re using gender politics, and media trickery to make everyone complacent and again, blacks are front and centre for the magic show, so why do the same things expecting different results. We can’t blame the other groups when we already know who or adversaries are…. EVERYONE! Whites, East Asian, Latino, South Asian, Native American Indian ALL OF THEM. We are the metaphorical people of the biblical story of Joseph and the coat on many colours. His siblings hated him because his father gave him the coat of many colours and for that he was thrown into a pit. Blacks has had to wear that coat that the creator gave us with love, we are the ONLY people that can produce ALL races of colours and so we are more fortunate than ALL ELSE, but like children we seek adoration from EVERYONE ELSE but ourselves and not value each other.
@@kesart8378 Every “ civil rights “ everyone obtained in this country is washed in the blood of black struggles , but non of them wants to live in a neighbourhood that’s majority black… unless it becomes trendy or to acquire cultural heritage through appropriation. Haven’t you noticed all the advertisements that omits the black male in success but instead depicts a black woman with a white man buying their first home or she is successful but single(feminist) FEMINISM or LGBTQZ and all the other letters in the alphabet.. anything but a depiction of a happy,healthy black family, so please don’t speak to me about BLM , like the only time these letters are to be used is when a Chinese , a Latino and White man kills one of us. Our lives matter on EVERY LEVEL, this includes ECONOMICALLY as well JUDICIALLY as well as EDUCATIONALLY, without having to aline our causes with other non-blacks.
@@scampishfoxx3138 It was not my intent to offend you, but to address a misperception of yours about the segment of Democracy Now under consideration. The points that you make about the centuries of cruelty, barbarism and murder, and the continuing grinding oppression, inequality, systematic executions of Black men, and calculated efforts to perpetuate myths about Black fathers and broken families are, of course, quite spot on... but said points reside far from the chosen path of the documentary. Your anger and pain are not for me to validate, for that might seem like condescension, but your assertion that Black people must denounce alliances with other oppressed groups seems, to my mind, a not particularly productive strategy to such a terribly complex and long- enduring problem.
We do not know each other and I don't presume to know your story (but then, neither do you know mine). I would merely suggest that once righteous anger has been soured, the next stage involves examining matters in as emotionally neutral a manner as possible. The reality is that social scientists and data analysts predict that Americans of Asian lineage will become the majority racial group in the near future, with Latino/Hispanic peoples next. So unless the United States gets partitioned into separate domains for each racial group--a fantastically unlikely proposition--
it would seem that the banding together of oppressed groups would yield a greater likelihood of success than declaring that Blacks must go it alone. (This, of course, is not my original thought, nor would I ever claim it so. Rather, it is a concept. advanced by many civil rights leaders.)
Again, my apologies for any offence taken for it was not my intent to offer any. I do understand the points you raised. And I do hope that I live long enough to see a world in which the principles set forth in the American Constitution will no longer be aspirational but the daily reality for all.
Take care.
Cheers