Helen Zia writes about Vincent Chin and how we must #StopRepeatingHistory with how we handle and react to COVID-19.

In a time where our nation is facing a pandemic, it is more important than ever to have a Unifier-in-Chief to lead and guide us. President Trump has exhibited the opposite of that. Rather than focusing wholeheartedly on getting necessary testing and relief to affected communities, Trump has chosen to use inflammatory and racist rhetoric as a distraction from his failures as Commander-in-Chief. But while we recognize it to be the distraction that it is, we cannot ignore these remarks because they endanger and potentially exacerbate violence against Asian American individuals.