First Vote
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Following the stories of four politically engaged voters during the 2018 midterm elections, First Vote crafts an insightful look at Asian Americans' diverse experiences at the polls. Taking her camera on the road, Filmmaker Yi Chen introduces us to a diverse cross section of politically engaged Chinese Americans: an avid Trump supporter in Ohio; a Democratic podcaster whose views have alienated his wife’s conservative friends; a gun-toting, Tea Party-favorite in North Carolina; and a progressive University of North Carolina professor. Speaking with distinct political voices, they share the common goal of seeing Asian Americans take their rightful place in American political life.
University of Maryland | Janelle Wong, Professor of American Studies & core faculty of Asian American Studies
"First Vote is the perfect way to introduce students and the public to how broad trends in U.S. politics, such as political polarization and mobilization, affect small, but fast-growing segments of the electorate like Asian Americans. The film offers an important and unique window into ideological development and democratic participation in the U.S."
San Diego State University | Brian Hu, Assistant Professor in Television, Film and New Media
"While many Asian American films have argued for inclusion into an American body politic through assimilation or authorship, FIRST VOTE is a film that comes along to remind us that there are different stakes: that inclusion in the American project means voting. What is so fascinating about FIRST VOTE is that this project requires us to interrogate the terms of assimilation and immigration, as well as the political stakes of navigating that strange civic terrain that ultimately renders you as strange too: a perpetual foreigner, a minority between white and black, an immigrant in search of a claim in an America deemed a 'battleground' for the future of American democracy."
IDA | Patricia Aufderheide, Professor of Communications Studies at American University in Washington, D.C. & Director
"Must-watch ... Yi Chen, herself a Chinese immigrant, gained unparalleled access and never loses the thread."
The Moveable Fest
"First Vote is rewarding because Chen opts to go after something far more complex and ambiguous that one would expect from the provocative hour-long documentary centered around the 2018 midterm elections, largely unconcerned with the end result, but fascinated with how a quartet of Asian-Americans plan to participate in the democratic process.
"Asian-Americans can't be seen as some monolithic voting bloc and as Chen illustrates vividly, a shared heritage can yield wildly different attitudes towards politics based on other personal predilections, an observation that is bound to become more prescient in the years to come not just specifically as it relates to Asian-Americans, but as the fastest growing minority group, the country as a whole."
AFI - American Film Institute
"This beguiling and refreshingly non-partisan political travelogue from Washington, DC-based filmmaker Yi Chen introduces us to a diverse cross section of politically engaged Chinese Americans determined to make a difference."
The Mercury News
"Eye-opening"
Berkeleyside
First Vote "emphatically proves there is no single Asian-American voting bloc"
Educational Media Reviews Online | Timothy W. Kneeland, History and Political Science Department, Nazareth College of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Highly Recommended “The cinematography is good. The individuals well-defined by their own words, and Li Chen allows the viewer to determine for themselves which pair of voters have a better grasp on U.S. society. This film will generate a great deal of discussion about identity, Asian-Americans in U.S. society, and American politics. At 59 minutes, it is suitable for a middle school to college classroom or community viewing in a public library or other settings. Highly Recommended.”
Citation
Main credits
Chen, Yi (film director)
Chen, Yi (film producer)
Chen, Yi (director of photography)
Chen, Yi (editor of moving image work)
Other credits
Edited by Yi Chen, Kristina Motwani, Bryan Chang; original music by Ryan Blotnick; cinematography by Yi Chen.
Distributor subjects
Asian American Studies; Asian Diaspora Studies; Critical Race Theory; Political Science; Ethnic Studies; Racial Politics; American Studies; Immigration Studies; HistoryKeywords
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What\'s up, everybody?
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So I\'m here at the Trump event,
Trump rally,
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in Kissimmee, Florida,
and I bumped into
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Chinese Americans for Trump.
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MAN: Hey, look at that.
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Chinese Americans for Trump.
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All right, tell me about it.
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- We come from Chicago.
- Okay.
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- We traveled two-and-a-half
hours come here.
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I want everybody know
Chinese love Trump.
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- Isabelle, what do you think
of, uh, of David\'s shirt?
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- Um, is it serious?
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- (chuckling):
Yeah, it\'s, it\'s serious.
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(chanting):
Build that wall!
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Build that wall!
Build that wall!
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REPORTER:
Chinese Americans for Trump
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has been organizing through
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the Chinese social media app
WeChat.
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U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
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REPORTER:
Started with three members
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and has grown to 8,000 people
nationwide.
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The majority of its members are
originally from mainland China.
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CHEN:
We are law-abiding.
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We are legal immigrants.
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We are paying tax.
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And we will get together
to make America great again.
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♪
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(train horn blaring)
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(drone whirring,
birds twittering)
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(drone whirring)
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AUTOMATED VOICE:
Landing.
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(whirring stops)
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(controller beeps)
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(grunts)
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(soft chuckle)
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(in Mandarin):
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INTERVIEWER (in Mandarin):
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CHEN:
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INTERVIEWER:
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CHEN:
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INTERVIEWER:
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CHEN:
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- Hey, bro.
- Hey.
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GUENEVERE: Yo!
- How\'s your day?
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- Hello! Hello!
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Hi, camera.
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(giggles)
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KUO: I was actually, uh,
living in, in Beijing
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for the last 20 years.
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In 2016, I moved to Chapel Hill,
North Carolina,
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with my family...
My wife, my two children.
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So election season was,
you know,
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in full swing.
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My wife, she started to tell me
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that there were a surprising
number of very vocal
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supporters of Trump.
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I was absolutely shocked.
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So I wrote this essay
running down the various,
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the list of reasons
why I thought that Trump
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was actually seeing support.
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♪
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Sit.
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Shake.
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High-five.
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(Zhang speaking Mandarin)
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(Kuo repeating Mandarin)
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(Kuo growling playfully)
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INTERVIEWER (in Mandarin):
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ZHANG (in Mandarin):
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KUO: Basically, I\'m angry
at anyone, irrespective of
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where they come from,
who votes for Trump.
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So I\'m angry at all of them.
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Why am I especially angry
at Chinese?
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Because I guess part of me
wants to think better
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of Chinese people.
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♪
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There used to be Sue Googe
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campaign signs all over
the medians from here on 15-501,
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driving around, all over
the place in the triangle.
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So when I looked it up,
sure enough, I mean, I saw,
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you know, pictures of her
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wearing a qipao with an AR-15
in her right hand
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and a semi-automatic pistol
in her left hand.
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And when I think about how
I want more Asian Americans
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to participate... more Chinese
Americans to participate...
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In American political life,
this is not what I had in mind.
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I mean, uh...
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INTERVIEWER:
How come?
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- Because she\'s a (bleep)
Tea Partier, I mean,
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because she\'s, she\'s...
She represents everything
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that I loathe
in American politics.
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(in Mandarin):
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(laughing)
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Ooh!
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INTERVIEWER (in Mandarin):
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GOOGE:
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INTERVIEWER:
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GOOGE:
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MC: And I would like to
introduce another true American.
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Sue Googe was a
congressional candidate.
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She fled Communist China.
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She has come to America legally.
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And she\'s an entrepreneur
and has her own business
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at this point.
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She is a firebrand
for conservatives
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and I am so proud to introduce
Miss Sue Googe.
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(cheers and applause)
GOOGE: Thank you.
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Hello!
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(cheers and applause)
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I love to watch
American flag fly.
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(cheers and applause)
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You know what does that means?
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Land of the free because what?
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MAN: Of the brave!
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- Because of the brave!
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I live in the life.
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I know what no freedom of speech
is, what are all about.
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I know what big government
is all about.
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Our American flag
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will fly strong
and fly on forever.
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(cheers and applause)
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Make America great again!
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(cheers and applause)
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Thank you very much.
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God bless America.
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Thank you!
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(bell tolling)
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JENNIFER HO: Why is the book
called Partly Colored?
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Is that an apt description
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for how Asian American subjects
are seen as racially anomalous
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in the U.S. South?
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Something is colored, it means
to be tinged by some kind of
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other meaning.
HO: Good.
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- Or like an off-white,
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or some kind of departure
from what is normal
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or what is the default.
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STUDENT: I think when I thought
of the title, I immediately
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kind of historicalized it
in the way that in the South,
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they use the word \"color\"
to refer to people
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of African American descent.
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And so when we\'re talking about
\"partly colored,\"
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I saw that as, like, we\'re going
from the white-black continuum,
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and we\'re in between those two.
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HO: Yeah, I mean, and definitely
to refer to people,
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especially in the U.S. South,
as \"colored,\"
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that was a label
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used to describe people
of African descent
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in the U.S. South during
the time of Jim Crow
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and segregation.
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But this question of who counted
as colored in the U.S. South,
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where did the Asian Americans
sit on the segregated bus,
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where did Lumbees fit within
the kind of racial color line
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of the U.S. South?
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Think about the U.S. South
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and think about the people
in the U.S. South.
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So if you had three photos,
right... a black person,
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a white person, and my photo...
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Who are the two people
that you would most associate?
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My photo is probably not gonna
come up.
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And that means that we have
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this normative idea of what it
means to be in the U.S. South.
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And we also have this
normative idea
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about what it means
to be American.
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I think I want people to know
who Asian Americans are
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because there\'s so much
misinformation.
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Um, people don\'t know
who Asian Americans are.
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It sounds so simple,
but it\'s just true.
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Like, I think there\'s so much
misunderstanding about
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who Asian Americans are.
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(clears throat)
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That we\'re foreign,
we\'re not from here,
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or, in the U.S. South,
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it\'s that we\'re not
people of color.
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We are honorary white people.
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Is this more exciting than Yi?
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Is this more exciting than Yi?
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Come here.
(clicks tongue)
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Okay.
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Got it?
I think we got that.
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Okay, is that good? That\'s it.
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No more hot dog for you.
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He really doesn\'t like it
when we put the eye drops
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in his eyes,
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so we have to actually give him
a treat.
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(chuckling): And it takes
two people to do it.
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So it took two people
at the vet\'s office.
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So... twice a day
we have to do this.
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Aw, man, what\'d you do
with my slipper?
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Chaucer.
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So this is Bock Bock.
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He is a transgender
male chicken.
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He prefers he/him/his pronouns.
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As a Democrat, and as someone
who doesn\'t agree with both
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the Republican-led
state legislature,
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as well as the national
government under Donald Trump,
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I\'ve decided that I should
do something.
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That I should try and
participate by getting involved.
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I mean, this is what drives me
crazy about
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the state legislature.
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They think that, um,
I\'m just there to
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indoctrinate my students, right?
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I\'m there to somehow, um,
provide propaganda to them
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instead of what I\'m doing,
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which is providing
critical thinking skills.
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I don\'t tell my students
how to vote.
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That would be the surefire way
to get them to vote
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the opposite of what I want them
to vote, right?
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And I don\'t want them to vote
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the way that I want them
to vote.
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I want them to be
free-thinking adults
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who are making decisions
based on their value system
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and their sense of ethics
and morality.
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That\'s what I want.
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And that may not line up
with my own value system.
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But as long as they\'re using
their critical thinking skills
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to come to that decision,
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then that\'s, that\'s what being
in a democracy means, right?
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We all don\'t have to agree
with each other.
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But we have to agree that
we have...
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That there are values
that we share in common
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that we can respect each other.
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And that seems to be
in short amount these days,
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of common ground.
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We just can\'t find any
common ground.
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And it would be easy for me
to demonize people on the right
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and just say that
they\'re racist, they\'re sexist,
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they\'re homophobes, you know.
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They\'re clinging to guns
and religion.
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They\'re all white supremacists.
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I mean, that\'s easy.
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And it\'s simplistic and it\'s,
it\'s not correct.
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WOMAN:
Shame on the G.O.P.!
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CROWD: Shame on the G.O.P.!
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WOMAN:
Shame on the G.O.P.!
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CROWD: Shame on the G.O.P.!
00:15:39.980 --> 00:15:42.024
WOMAN:
Shame on the G.O.P.!
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CROWD:
Shame on the G.O.P.!
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What do we want?
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CROWD: Healthcare!
- When do we want it?
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CROWD:
Now!
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- What do we want?
CROWD: Healthcare!
00:15:49.615 --> 00:15:52.576
- When do we want it?
CROWD: Now!
00:15:52.660 --> 00:15:54.119
That\'s good, thank you.
00:15:58.165 --> 00:16:02.127
(playing \"Hang On, Sloopy\")
00:16:04.213 --> 00:16:06.507
CHEN: Do you know (inaudible)
what we call President Trump?
00:16:06.548 --> 00:16:08.550
We call him Uncle Trump.
00:16:08.592 --> 00:16:10.177
(indistinct chatter)
00:16:10.219 --> 00:16:12.054
We called him Uncle Trump
all the time.
00:16:12.137 --> 00:16:13.389
- Really?
- Yeah.
00:16:13.430 --> 00:16:18.560
And this time, my wife and I,
and all my friends join,
00:16:18.602 --> 00:16:22.690
just the, just, just give up our
Chinese national...
00:16:22.731 --> 00:16:26.735
Uh, the national, nationality,
and join the U.S.
00:16:26.819 --> 00:16:29.571
So we claim our citizenship.
00:16:29.613 --> 00:16:33.742
And just because we want to vote
for Trump.
00:16:33.784 --> 00:16:35.077
MIKE PENCE: Hello, Ohio!
00:16:35.160 --> 00:16:38.247
(cheers and applause)
00:16:38.330 --> 00:16:39.665
Thank you all for being here
tonight.
00:16:39.748 --> 00:16:41.750
People of Ohio,
00:16:41.792 --> 00:16:43.377
here in the heart
of the Heartland,
00:16:43.419 --> 00:16:48.924
delivered 80 of 88 counties,
nearly three million votes,
00:16:48.966 --> 00:16:51.510
a more than eight percent
victory
00:16:51.593 --> 00:16:54.888
for President Donald Trump
to the White House.
00:16:54.930 --> 00:17:00.019
(cheers and applause)
00:17:00.102 --> 00:17:02.938
We\'re gonna repeal and replace
Obamacare.
00:17:02.980 --> 00:17:05.899
(cheers and applause)
00:17:05.941 --> 00:17:08.193
We will make America safe again.
00:17:08.277 --> 00:17:11.030
We will make America
prosperous again.
00:17:11.113 --> 00:17:14.783
And, to borrow a phrase,
00:17:14.825 --> 00:17:15.784
we will make America
great again.
00:17:15.826 --> 00:17:16.785
Thank you.
00:17:16.827 --> 00:17:21.790
(cheers and applause)
00:17:29.131 --> 00:17:30.731
Thanks... wasn\'t that a great
county fair?
00:17:30.758 --> 00:17:31.675
CHEN: Yes.
00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:33.093
WOMAN:
Thank you, so much.
00:17:33.135 --> 00:17:38.682
(indistinct chatter)
00:17:38.766 --> 00:17:41.852
CHEN: We\'re Chinese and we work
in Montgomery County.
00:17:41.935 --> 00:17:47.649
If you need anything like ground
game, I would like to help.
00:17:47.691 --> 00:17:51.153
(in Mandarin):
00:17:51.195 --> 00:17:53.822
INTERVIEWER (in Mandarin):
00:17:53.864 --> 00:17:55.824
CHEN:
00:18:00.454 --> 00:18:05.542
(bell tolling)
00:18:05.626 --> 00:18:08.212
CHEN:
00:19:00.389 --> 00:19:01.306
(chuckling)
00:19:01.390 --> 00:19:04.143
(seagull squawking)
00:19:08.939 --> 00:19:12.401
(indistinct chatter)
00:19:12.442 --> 00:19:13.819
MAN 1:
Hello, hello.
00:19:13.902 --> 00:19:15.154
MAN 2:
Your mic\'s not on.
00:19:15.237 --> 00:19:16.655
MAN 1:
All right,
00:19:16.738 --> 00:19:21.243
so Kellyanne\'s visit, so you
know, is in a personal capacity.
00:19:21.285 --> 00:19:23.996
She is not on official
White House business.
00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:27.166
So questions about
specific White House policy
00:19:27.249 --> 00:19:28.167
she can\'t answer
while she\'s here,
00:19:28.250 --> 00:19:29.585
because this is
a political trip.
00:19:29.626 --> 00:19:31.044
MAN 3: So is that whole
freedom of the press thing,
00:19:31.086 --> 00:19:32.713
is out the door?
00:19:32.754 --> 00:19:35.716
EMILY: This is, right now,
this is what she\'s...
00:19:35.757 --> 00:19:37.718
She\'s not on a political trip.
00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:39.094
WOMAN: So does the campaign pay
for the trip,
00:19:39.178 --> 00:19:41.430
or how is she down here?
00:19:41.471 --> 00:19:44.683
MAN 3: Yeah, who paid for the
Secret Service detail?
00:19:44.766 --> 00:19:46.185
EMILY:
Y\'all are gonna have to ask her.
00:19:46.268 --> 00:19:48.437
MAN 3: We\'ll ask the questions
we ask, Emily, respectfully.
00:19:48.478 --> 00:19:50.981
(indistinct chatter)
00:19:51.064 --> 00:19:52.691
You know, this is a party
that controls the White House,
00:19:52.774 --> 00:19:55.444
Congress, and the state
legislature,
00:19:55.485 --> 00:19:57.112
and conventions like this
00:19:57.154 --> 00:19:59.615
are all about trying to maintain
that control.
00:19:59.656 --> 00:20:02.451
KELLYANNE CONWAY:
North Carolina, thank you
00:20:02.492 --> 00:20:06.288
for electing Donald J. Trump
president of the United States.
00:20:06.330 --> 00:20:08.332
(cheers and applause)
Thank you.
00:20:08.415 --> 00:20:11.585
Thank you.
00:20:11.627 --> 00:20:14.004
Fairness really is the theme
00:20:14.087 --> 00:20:16.757
I believe that Donald Trump as a
candidate, and now as president,
00:20:16.798 --> 00:20:19.176
has as the centering force.
00:20:19.259 --> 00:20:21.803
Many people used to say, \"What\'s
fair to the illegal immigrant?\"
00:20:21.887 --> 00:20:23.138
And Donald Trump
00:20:23.222 --> 00:20:25.015
brought in the conversation to,
\"Well, what\'s fair
00:20:25.098 --> 00:20:26.558
\"to the American worker
who is competing with
00:20:26.642 --> 00:20:28.810
\"the illegal immigrant for a
job?
00:20:28.894 --> 00:20:32.481
\"What\'s fair to the hard-working
men and women in this state
00:20:32.522 --> 00:20:33.690
\"and elsewhere?
00:20:33.774 --> 00:20:37.486
\"What\'s fair
to the United States taxpayer
00:20:37.527 --> 00:20:39.947
\"and the men and women who work
in paper and cement and coal,
00:20:39.988 --> 00:20:42.491
and natural gas...\"
00:20:42.532 --> 00:20:45.911
You\'re a dynamite candidate,
and whenever you get ready,
00:20:45.994 --> 00:20:47.621
North Carolina will be
the better for it.
00:20:47.663 --> 00:20:49.248
- Aw, thank you, thank you.
00:20:49.331 --> 00:20:51.083
Thank you for your support.
00:20:51.166 --> 00:20:55.379
So I just wanted to say
that I was proud of you.
00:20:55.462 --> 00:20:56.838
- Aw, thank you, thank you.
00:20:56.880 --> 00:20:58.507
- And next time, let\'s run
for something that\'s
00:20:58.590 --> 00:20:59.675
a little less uphill.
00:20:59.758 --> 00:21:01.009
- (laughing)
00:21:01.093 --> 00:21:02.636
Well, we\'ll see, thank you.
00:21:02.678 --> 00:21:04.388
- Sue Googe for U.S. Senate.
00:21:04.471 --> 00:21:06.056
We could use a conservative
senator,
00:21:06.139 --> 00:21:07.641
\'cause we don\'t have any.
00:21:07.683 --> 00:21:10.852
It makes me extremely proud that
she ran as,
00:21:10.894 --> 00:21:12.229
in the Republican Party,
00:21:12.312 --> 00:21:15.816
because the Republican Party
truly is the party of diversity.
00:21:15.857 --> 00:21:19.194
And I think it\'s awesome
for someone to come from China
00:21:19.278 --> 00:21:21.947
or anywhere over there,
that\'s mainly socialist, uh,
00:21:22.030 --> 00:21:24.658
immersed countries,
to come and take part
00:21:24.700 --> 00:21:27.828
in the freedom of democracy
here in America.
00:21:27.869 --> 00:21:29.454
She is a go-getter.
00:21:29.538 --> 00:21:31.581
She was just passionate
from the get-go.
00:21:31.665 --> 00:21:34.710
And I really thought Sue
was going to take it,
00:21:34.751 --> 00:21:37.879
not only because she\'s a woman,
but because of her passion.
00:21:37.921 --> 00:21:40.799
She\'s, she\'s a contagious little
Chinese cookie,
00:21:40.882 --> 00:21:41.842
let me tell ya.
00:21:41.883 --> 00:21:44.970
INTERVIEWER (in Mandarin):
00:21:45.053 --> 00:21:46.972
GOOGE (in Mandarin):
00:22:10.954 --> 00:22:13.373
(drumming beat)
00:22:13.415 --> 00:22:16.209
CROWD: This is what democracy
looks like!
00:22:16.251 --> 00:22:18.795
(drumming beat)
00:22:18.879 --> 00:22:20.547
This is what democracy
looks like!
00:22:20.589 --> 00:22:22.507
(drumming beat)
00:22:22.591 --> 00:22:25.093
This is what democracy
looks like!
00:22:25.135 --> 00:22:27.429
(drumming beat)
00:22:27.471 --> 00:22:29.348
This is what democracy
looks like!
00:22:29.431 --> 00:22:32.392
(drumming beat)
00:22:32.434 --> 00:22:34.811
This is what democracy
looks like!
00:22:34.895 --> 00:22:36.605
Save our Earth!
00:22:36.646 --> 00:22:38.273
Save our babies!
00:22:38.357 --> 00:22:40.108
Save our babies!
00:22:40.192 --> 00:22:41.735
Save your soul.
00:22:41.777 --> 00:22:43.111
Save your soul.
00:22:43.153 --> 00:22:45.197
I mean, my parents support
Trump.
00:22:45.280 --> 00:22:48.408
And I, and I don\'t understand
that, um...
00:22:48.450 --> 00:22:50.327
And it\'s because all they do
00:22:50.410 --> 00:22:52.704
is that they watch Fox News
all day.
00:22:52.788 --> 00:22:56.208
(cheering, drumming)
00:22:56.291 --> 00:22:58.210
WOMAN:
Go inside and hear some love!
00:22:58.293 --> 00:23:00.837
I...
00:23:00.921 --> 00:23:02.672
(voice breaking):
I mean, when we first came here,
00:23:02.756 --> 00:23:09.471
I remember being stoned and spit
on by the kids in school
00:23:09.513 --> 00:23:11.473
because we were different.
00:23:11.515 --> 00:23:13.642
So, so I don\'t, I don\'t,
I don\'t understand
00:23:13.725 --> 00:23:15.519
why people would support...
00:23:15.602 --> 00:23:19.523
I mean, people of color
support...
00:23:19.606 --> 00:23:22.818
Support the,
um, the Republicans.
00:23:22.859 --> 00:23:24.444
Not the Republicans of today.
00:23:24.486 --> 00:23:27.531
(birds twittering)
00:23:28.281 --> 00:23:31.660
(in Mandarin):
00:23:44.798 --> 00:23:49.970
INTERVIEWER (in Mandarin):
00:23:50.011 --> 00:23:52.139
GOOGE:
00:23:52.180 --> 00:23:53.180
Okay?
00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:05.735
\'Cause you have nothing to lose.
00:24:05.819 --> 00:24:08.071
If I have nothing to lose...
(continues in Mandarin)
00:24:12.742 --> 00:24:17.914
(playing \"Amazing Grace\")
00:24:32.888 --> 00:24:36.558
(continues playing)
00:24:46.860 --> 00:24:49.404
(song ends)
00:24:49.446 --> 00:24:51.573
INTERVIEWER:
00:24:51.615 --> 00:24:54.868
ZHANG:
00:25:15.805 --> 00:25:18.266
KUO: My parents were actually
born in mainland China,
00:25:18.308 --> 00:25:20.519
moved to Taiwan,
00:25:20.602 --> 00:25:25.315
and then emigrated to the U.S.
in the mid-1950s.
00:25:25.398 --> 00:25:26.608
Not long after they arrived
in the States,
00:25:26.650 --> 00:25:27.734
they were pretty caught up
00:25:27.776 --> 00:25:32.113
in John Kennedy
and the romance around Camelot.
00:25:32.197 --> 00:25:35.200
We were born in the era
of Vietnam.
00:25:35.283 --> 00:25:37.369
My earliest memories are of
00:25:37.452 --> 00:25:39.621
major political televised
events.
00:25:39.663 --> 00:25:44.584
I remember very much my parents\'
opposition to Richard Nixon.
00:25:44.626 --> 00:25:47.546
I remember having formed
a really poor opinion
00:25:47.629 --> 00:25:54.177
of Richard Nixon even before
the Watergate scandal.
00:25:54.261 --> 00:25:57.472
♪
00:25:57.514 --> 00:25:59.474
HO: After World War II,
00:25:59.516 --> 00:26:01.935
when the Civil War resumes
between the Nationalists
00:26:01.977 --> 00:26:04.229
and the Communists,
my grandfather,
00:26:04.312 --> 00:26:06.189
seeing the handwriting
on the wall...
00:26:06.273 --> 00:26:08.775
Because of the
1882 Exclusion Act,
00:26:08.817 --> 00:26:11.319
prohibitions against Chinese
coming into the United States
00:26:11.403 --> 00:26:13.405
were stringent through
00:26:13.488 --> 00:26:15.532
most of the 20th century.
00:26:15.615 --> 00:26:16.992
Because of Communism
and the Cold War going on
00:26:17.075 --> 00:26:18.285
in the United States,
00:26:18.326 --> 00:26:23.206
Congress passed this
Refugee Relief Act in 1955,
00:26:23.290 --> 00:26:26.084
and that\'s what allowed
my family to come from Taiwan
00:26:26.167 --> 00:26:28.044
to the United States,
because they could prove
00:26:28.128 --> 00:26:32.757
that they were refugees
from Communist China.
00:26:32.841 --> 00:26:37.554
It\'s not until
the 1965 Immigration Act
00:26:37.637 --> 00:26:40.974
that various restrictive quotas
based on country of origin
00:26:41.016 --> 00:26:46.021
and race are finally eliminated.
00:26:46.104 --> 00:26:48.898
♪
00:26:48.982 --> 00:26:53.194
(birds twittering)
00:26:53.236 --> 00:26:55.196
(rings doorbell)
00:26:59.534 --> 00:27:01.202
CHEN (in Mandarin):
00:27:02.370 --> 00:27:03.370
(Xia speaking Mandarin)
00:27:05.582 --> 00:27:08.335
INTERVIEWER:
00:27:08.376 --> 00:27:09.586
(starts in Mandarin)
00:27:09.669 --> 00:27:11.338
Go through very long process
00:27:11.379 --> 00:27:14.591
and spend a lot of money
to get those status.
00:27:14.674 --> 00:27:16.635
(in Mandarin):
00:27:16.718 --> 00:27:17.677
entitled for everything.
00:27:17.719 --> 00:27:20.805
(in Mandarin):
00:27:20.889 --> 00:27:22.807
CHEN (in Mandarin):
00:27:30.607 --> 00:27:32.567
(in Mandarin):
00:27:39.699 --> 00:27:44.454
(din of the street,
car horns honking)
00:27:44.537 --> 00:27:45.914
Okay, so we have a quorum now,
00:27:45.955 --> 00:27:47.749
so we\'d like to start
our CAPAC meeting.
00:27:47.791 --> 00:27:51.127
Last year, we had a big effort
00:27:51.211 --> 00:27:55.799
to stop, um, everybody from
using Trump\'s derogatory term
00:27:55.882 --> 00:27:56.883
\"chain migration.\"
00:27:56.925 --> 00:27:59.969
And, of course, 70% of A.P.Is.
00:28:00.053 --> 00:28:01.846
In this country are immigrants,
00:28:01.930 --> 00:28:05.558
and most of them came through
the family immigration system.
00:28:05.600 --> 00:28:08.311
But we face problems
in that system,
00:28:08.395 --> 00:28:11.731
that is Asian/Pacific Islanders
are 40% of the visa backlogs
00:28:11.773 --> 00:28:15.568
and 80% of the employment visa
backlogs.
00:28:15.610 --> 00:28:19.906
So, at the same time, we want to
make sure that we preserve
00:28:19.948 --> 00:28:23.785
our family immigration system,
and also, ultimately,
00:28:23.868 --> 00:28:26.496
that we improve it
so that there is a reduction
00:28:26.579 --> 00:28:28.123
of these visa backlogs.
00:28:28.164 --> 00:28:32.544
We are the fastest-growing
racial population in the nation.
00:28:32.627 --> 00:28:37.799
Way need to make sure that every
A.A.P.I. person gets out there
00:28:37.882 --> 00:28:42.137
and exercises their voice
at the ballot box.
00:28:42.178 --> 00:28:44.931
We know that if we
mobilize them,
00:28:44.973 --> 00:28:47.100
and we unite them,
00:28:47.142 --> 00:28:50.270
that we can fight
against injustice
00:28:50.311 --> 00:28:53.606
and fight for the America
that we love.
00:28:53.648 --> 00:28:57.152
And we can make a difference
in shaping
00:28:57.193 --> 00:29:00.864
a better future for our
community and for our country.
00:29:00.947 --> 00:29:06.619
(bell tolling)
00:29:12.167 --> 00:29:13.960
HO:
A South Korean artist,
00:29:14.002 --> 00:29:15.670
he designed this memorial,
00:29:15.754 --> 00:29:17.422
and then, of course,
when he made it,
00:29:17.505 --> 00:29:19.257
it was very controversial.
00:29:19.340 --> 00:29:21.134
So one of the controversial
things,
00:29:21.176 --> 00:29:23.678
at least I find about it,
is that you have these
00:29:23.762 --> 00:29:26.598
kind of figures,
these abstract figures,
00:29:26.681 --> 00:29:29.434
who are meant to represent
African Americans.
00:29:29.517 --> 00:29:32.228
Who, you know, many of whom
were enslaved at the time
00:29:32.312 --> 00:29:34.147
when the university was founded
00:29:34.189 --> 00:29:36.107
and who helped \"build\"
the university.
00:29:36.191 --> 00:29:37.776
But, of course,
\"they helped build\"
00:29:37.859 --> 00:29:39.694
makes it sound like they were
volunteers
00:29:39.778 --> 00:29:43.907
or they were paid laborers
when they were enslaved labor.
00:29:43.990 --> 00:29:46.367
And now we\'re memorializing them
by having them
00:29:46.451 --> 00:29:49.120
(chuckling):
hold up a table.
00:29:49.204 --> 00:29:52.248
So it just seems absurd
that we\'re trying to recognize
00:29:52.332 --> 00:29:56.044
this very complicated racial
history with African Americans
00:29:56.085 --> 00:29:58.671
at U.N.C. in North Carolina.
00:29:58.713 --> 00:30:00.882
And the way that we\'re honoring
them is to have them,
00:30:00.965 --> 00:30:03.718
in perpetuity,
holding up a table.
00:30:03.760 --> 00:30:06.846
Um, and of course, there, it\'s
so much lower, right?
00:30:06.888 --> 00:30:10.058
So the monument itself
is literally dwarfed
00:30:10.099 --> 00:30:13.186
by the monument of Silent Sam,
00:30:13.228 --> 00:30:16.064
which is the Confederate
statue memorial.
00:30:16.105 --> 00:30:18.316
♪
00:30:25.365 --> 00:30:28.493
(in Mandarin):
00:30:30.578 --> 00:30:34.415
INTERVIEWER:
00:30:34.457 --> 00:30:36.626
ZHANG:
00:30:45.927 --> 00:30:49.806
♪
00:30:49.889 --> 00:30:54.060
INTERVIEWER:
00:30:54.102 --> 00:30:56.062
ZHANG:
00:31:17.834 --> 00:31:20.587
(engine idling)
00:31:20.628 --> 00:31:22.589
(dog barking)
00:32:09.344 --> 00:32:13.014
(engine idling)
00:32:13.056 --> 00:32:15.016
ZHANG:
00:32:22.482 --> 00:32:26.694
(brake releases, bus drives off)
00:32:26.736 --> 00:32:29.906
(birds twittering)
00:32:29.989 --> 00:32:33.743
INTERVIEWER:
00:32:33.826 --> 00:32:35.745
GUENEVERE:
00:32:54.555 --> 00:32:57.266
\"No, I mean,
where are you really from?\"
00:32:57.350 --> 00:32:59.394
(laughs)
00:32:59.435 --> 00:33:01.938
\"What country are you from?\"
00:33:02.021 --> 00:33:03.690
(in Mandarin):
00:33:03.731 --> 00:33:06.734
\"No, no, no, no, no, I mean...
You\'re Asian, right?
00:33:06.776 --> 00:33:09.737
What, what country of Asia
are you from?\"
00:33:09.821 --> 00:33:11.114
\"Okay, Chinese.\"
00:33:11.197 --> 00:33:12.407
\"Yeah, that\'s what I\'m talking
about.
00:33:12.490 --> 00:33:15.576
\"Not... I, I know, maybe
you have, like, a green card,
00:33:15.618 --> 00:33:18.079
\"or you have, like, a passport
because you\'ve stayed,
00:33:18.121 --> 00:33:19.747
like, five years or so, but...\"
00:33:19.831 --> 00:33:21.332
Da da da da da...
(clicks tongue)
00:33:21.416 --> 00:33:26.754
(in Mandarin):
00:33:31.426 --> 00:33:33.803
\"Oh, are you American?\"
00:33:33.886 --> 00:33:35.263
(mix of Mandarin and English):
00:33:35.304 --> 00:33:36.597
\"You\'re Korean.
00:33:36.639 --> 00:33:38.099
You\'re Japanese, right?\"
00:33:38.141 --> 00:33:39.661
INTERVIEWER:
What\'s your favorite thing
00:33:39.726 --> 00:33:40.768
about living in America?
00:33:40.852 --> 00:33:43.521
- Uh... the food.
00:33:43.604 --> 00:33:44.689
Yeah.
00:33:44.772 --> 00:33:47.442
I love burgers and fast food.
00:33:47.483 --> 00:33:49.152
(laughing): So, yeah.
00:33:49.235 --> 00:33:52.655
I mean, I know that\'s pretty
unhealthy and stuff, but, yeah.
00:33:55.616 --> 00:33:57.618
KUO (on phone): Make sure to
stay in close touch
00:33:57.702 --> 00:33:59.620
with Uncle Dave
and Aunt Catherine,
00:33:59.704 --> 00:34:03.624
and make sure the furniture
outside gets moved inside.
00:34:03.666 --> 00:34:04.625
Okay?
00:34:04.667 --> 00:34:05.626
JOHNNY: Okay.
00:34:05.668 --> 00:34:06.836
When are you coming home?
00:34:06.919 --> 00:34:08.087
(Kuo laughs)
00:34:08.129 --> 00:34:09.756
I\'ll be back on the 22nd.
00:34:09.797 --> 00:34:11.132
On the evening of the 22nd.
00:34:11.174 --> 00:34:13.426
22nd, evening, all right.
00:34:13.468 --> 00:34:16.012
And then I have to leave
on the...
00:34:16.095 --> 00:34:19.807
(phone connection cutting
in and out)
00:34:19.891 --> 00:34:20.891
for one day.
00:34:20.933 --> 00:34:23.394
Oh, oh, wow.
00:34:23.478 --> 00:34:24.812
Well, I feel bad for you.
00:34:24.896 --> 00:34:27.023
That\'s, like, a lot of work.
00:34:27.106 --> 00:34:29.150
Yep.
00:34:29.192 --> 00:34:31.277
Yeah, I already miss you.
00:34:31.319 --> 00:34:32.695
I miss you, too, Johnny.
00:34:32.779 --> 00:34:33.696
Be a good kid, okay?
00:34:33.780 --> 00:34:34.781
Uh-huh.
00:34:34.822 --> 00:34:35.990
All right.
00:34:36.074 --> 00:34:37.492
I love you.
- Yeah, me, too.
00:34:39.869 --> 00:34:41.913
REPORTER:
U.N.C. Chapel Hill, last night,
00:34:41.996 --> 00:34:44.499
hundreds of protesters started
the school year
00:34:44.582 --> 00:34:47.335
by gathering around
the controversial
00:34:47.376 --> 00:34:50.254
Silent Sam statue
demanding change.
00:34:50.338 --> 00:34:51.506
(crowd chanting)
00:34:51.547 --> 00:34:52.673
CROWD:
Hey, hey!
00:34:52.757 --> 00:34:53.757
Ho, ho!
00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:55.593
Silent Sam has got to go!
00:34:55.676 --> 00:34:57.136
Hey, hey, ho, ho!
00:34:57.178 --> 00:34:58.679
♪
00:34:58.763 --> 00:35:00.014
MAN: Pull!
00:35:00.056 --> 00:35:01.182
WOMAN: Pull!
00:35:01.224 --> 00:35:02.683
MAN: Pull!
00:35:02.767 --> 00:35:06.145
♪
00:35:06.187 --> 00:35:11.150
(cheers and applause)
00:35:22.203 --> 00:35:27.125
♪
00:35:31.003 --> 00:35:32.255
WOMAN:
There are prosecutors
00:35:32.338 --> 00:35:36.008
who embody the white moderate
M.L.K. warned us about.
00:35:36.050 --> 00:35:39.053
Who advocate for us to be jailed
and to be fined.
00:35:39.095 --> 00:35:42.515
Who daily imprison and extort
Black and Brown people
00:35:42.557 --> 00:35:45.268
in this county,
but claim to respect us.
00:35:45.351 --> 00:35:47.228
They claim to have their hands
tied.
00:35:47.270 --> 00:35:49.814
They say they are committed
to justice.
00:35:49.897 --> 00:35:52.400
Justice being reserved for
statues and racist property
00:35:52.441 --> 00:35:53.609
like Silent Sam.
00:35:53.693 --> 00:35:56.362
I have no problem with
Silent Sam coming down!
00:35:56.404 --> 00:35:59.907
The only problem I have
is, in my home state,
00:35:59.949 --> 00:36:01.450
that I was born and raised,
00:36:01.534 --> 00:36:05.913
violent mobs are going around
pretending to be the victim!
00:36:05.997 --> 00:36:09.625
You can\'t make a violent mob
in my home state
00:36:09.709 --> 00:36:14.046
without somebody saying,
\"No, that\'s crazy!\"
00:36:14.088 --> 00:36:15.673
Black lives, they matter here.
00:36:15.756 --> 00:36:17.675
CROWD (chanting):
Black lives, they matter here!
00:36:17.758 --> 00:36:19.635
Black lives, they matter here!
00:36:19.719 --> 00:36:21.596
Black lives, they matter here!
00:36:21.637 --> 00:36:23.431
Black lives, they matter here!
00:36:23.472 --> 00:36:25.349
Black lives, they matter here!
00:36:25.433 --> 00:36:27.059
Black lives, they matter here!
00:36:27.101 --> 00:36:28.644
Black lives, they matter here!
00:36:28.728 --> 00:36:33.566
♪
00:36:33.608 --> 00:36:37.111
HO: We are going to start with
silent meditation.
00:36:38.571 --> 00:36:40.781
(bowl trilling)
00:36:42.283 --> 00:36:43.951
(Ho exhales)
00:36:43.993 --> 00:36:45.077
It\'s challenging to get people
00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:47.788
to feel comfortable
to talk about race.
00:36:47.872 --> 00:36:49.207
What I believe is that
00:36:49.290 --> 00:36:51.918
one of the things we need to do
is, we need to be informed.
00:36:51.959 --> 00:36:53.419
And then the second thing is,
00:36:53.461 --> 00:36:55.004
get comfortable
talking about it.
00:36:55.087 --> 00:36:58.299
Realize that it\'s okay
to talk about race.
00:36:58.341 --> 00:37:00.718
(bowl trilling)
00:37:02.011 --> 00:37:06.349
And now we do have four minutes
for free writing.
00:37:07.642 --> 00:37:10.353
My class is getting them
to understand
00:37:10.436 --> 00:37:12.939
white supremacy as a structure
00:37:12.980 --> 00:37:15.066
and to understand racism
as institutional.
00:37:15.149 --> 00:37:18.402
There are these larger systems
in place of racism.
00:37:18.486 --> 00:37:21.572
So how do we recognize
these systems?
00:37:21.656 --> 00:37:26.035
And then how do we work
to dismantle these systems?
00:37:26.118 --> 00:37:27.370
We\'re gonna be talking about
whiteness.
00:37:27.453 --> 00:37:28.621
I mean, we pretty much have been
00:37:28.663 --> 00:37:30.539
talking about whiteness,
I feel like, all semester,
00:37:30.623 --> 00:37:32.541
but we\'re gonna really
talk about whiteness.
00:37:32.625 --> 00:37:34.669
Let\'s begin with Haney López.
00:37:34.710 --> 00:37:37.964
How do you think he is defining
whiteness?
00:37:38.005 --> 00:37:39.840
STUDENT:
I think it\'s primarily
00:37:39.882 --> 00:37:42.260
suggesting that its origin
00:37:42.343 --> 00:37:45.346
is on binary opposition
with Blackness,
00:37:45.388 --> 00:37:48.349
always defined as the positive
or the superior
00:37:48.432 --> 00:37:50.351
to the negative other.
00:37:50.393 --> 00:37:53.646
I\'ve always felt that whiteness
is, has a rigidity.
00:37:53.688 --> 00:37:57.149
So I\'ve been surprised by
00:37:57.191 --> 00:37:59.360
his characterization
of whiteness as fluid
00:37:59.443 --> 00:38:01.112
and heterogeneous.
00:38:01.195 --> 00:38:02.822
Being on this kind of campus,
00:38:02.863 --> 00:38:04.991
and being in, like, the South
in general,
00:38:05.032 --> 00:38:06.325
I think there\'s people who have,
really...
00:38:06.367 --> 00:38:08.160
I mean, I think...
00:38:08.202 --> 00:38:09.870
To do the, like,
♪allwhitepeople,
00:38:09.912 --> 00:38:11.956
I think all white people
have (inaudible).
00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:15.543
And in some way, they are
maintaining whiteness
00:38:15.584 --> 00:38:16.752
for themselves.
00:38:16.836 --> 00:38:19.964
So I really enjoyed that chapter
when he was, like,
00:38:20.047 --> 00:38:22.508
the value of, like, the
whiteness, because I don\'t think
00:38:22.550 --> 00:38:23.968
any white person would choose
not to be white.
00:38:24.051 --> 00:38:26.429
I don\'t know, I think that
whiteness is not, like, a static
00:38:26.512 --> 00:38:28.764
type of thing that, like,
if you are white,
00:38:28.848 --> 00:38:30.141
you\'re inherently racist,
and you can\'t change that.
00:38:30.224 --> 00:38:33.811
If you reject whiteness and you,
you know, you do your best
00:38:33.894 --> 00:38:36.063
to reject all the privileges
that you hold, which is,
00:38:36.105 --> 00:38:38.232
I guess, impossible to do,
actually.
00:38:38.316 --> 00:38:40.568
Um, then, yeah, but I guess you
can actively work towards that.
00:38:40.609 --> 00:38:42.528
And the same way that I think
that people of color
00:38:42.570 --> 00:38:46.407
can embody forms of whiteness
perhaps more so than, like,
00:38:46.449 --> 00:38:50.119
white individuals or individuals
who are racialized as white.
00:38:50.202 --> 00:38:52.830
HO: These systems have been
so ingrained,
00:38:52.913 --> 00:38:54.373
and they\'re so complicated,
00:38:54.415 --> 00:38:57.668
and racial definitions
change over time,
00:38:57.752 --> 00:38:58.794
and they change depending on
00:38:58.878 --> 00:39:00.838
where in the world you are.
00:39:00.921 --> 00:39:03.257
I can\'t get my students, you
know, do these ten easy things,
00:39:03.299 --> 00:39:05.259
and then there no longer
gonna be racism.
00:39:05.343 --> 00:39:06.510
Okay, let\'s go.
00:39:06.594 --> 00:39:09.847
♪
00:39:15.728 --> 00:39:17.229
KUO: Three, two, one.
00:39:17.271 --> 00:39:18.939
Welcome to the Sinica podcast,
00:39:19.023 --> 00:39:20.775
a weekly discussion of current
affairs in China,
00:39:20.816 --> 00:39:22.401
produced in partnership
with SupChina.
00:39:22.443 --> 00:39:25.446
I\'m Kaiser Kuo, and I am at
the Asia Society today
00:39:25.529 --> 00:39:26.947
to speak with Danny Russel,
00:39:26.989 --> 00:39:29.700
assistant secretary of state for
East Asian and Pacific Affairs
00:39:29.784 --> 00:39:32.078
during the second Obama
administration.
00:39:32.119 --> 00:39:33.079
Welcome to Sinica.
00:39:33.120 --> 00:39:35.664
We are delighted to have you on
at last.
00:39:35.748 --> 00:39:38.125
We live in a time, clearly,
of mounting American anxiety
00:39:38.209 --> 00:39:39.335
over China.
00:39:39.418 --> 00:39:42.004
What do you see as the big
drivers of anxiety
00:39:42.088 --> 00:39:43.631
here in the U.S.?
00:39:43.672 --> 00:39:46.550
RUSSEL: I\'m, I\'ll tell you,
Kaiser, I\'m increasingly worried
00:39:46.634 --> 00:39:49.637
that it\'s a phenomenon
of racism, of yellow peril.
00:39:49.678 --> 00:39:50.930
KUO: Yes.
00:39:50.971 --> 00:39:54.725
RUSSEL: We\'re branding each
other as an enemy.
00:39:54.809 --> 00:39:59.980
And it\'s no secret that when you
treat somebody like an enemy,
00:40:00.022 --> 00:40:02.191
sooner or later, you\'re gonna
wind up with an enemy.
00:40:02.274 --> 00:40:04.485
Now, onto recommendations.
00:40:04.568 --> 00:40:05.986
Danny, please, after you.
00:40:06.028 --> 00:40:08.322
It\'s your world,
it\'s your country,
00:40:08.364 --> 00:40:10.116
do something about it.
00:40:10.157 --> 00:40:11.992
Get in there,
get your hands dirty.
00:40:12.034 --> 00:40:13.244
Own it.
00:40:13.327 --> 00:40:16.330
I am going to get out there
and register voters
00:40:16.414 --> 00:40:19.959
in some rural counties of
North Carolina this weekend.
00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:23.629
That\'s going to be my
pre-midterm public service here.
00:40:23.671 --> 00:40:25.506
Thanks for listening
and we\'ll see you next week.
00:40:25.548 --> 00:40:26.882
Take care.
00:40:26.966 --> 00:40:29.510
Tonight we continue our reports
from states in which Republicans
00:40:29.593 --> 00:40:31.679
are trying to flip
U.S. Senate seats
00:40:31.720 --> 00:40:33.556
in the fall midterms coming up.
00:40:33.639 --> 00:40:35.558
REPORTER:
In Ohio, that contest pits
00:40:35.641 --> 00:40:37.309
incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown
00:40:37.351 --> 00:40:39.895
against Republican congressman
Jim Renacci.
00:40:39.979 --> 00:40:42.648
President Trump is set to make
yet another trip to Ohio.
00:40:42.690 --> 00:40:44.530
The president is set to host
a fundraiser there
00:40:44.567 --> 00:40:47.236
for Republican candidate
Renacci.
00:40:47.319 --> 00:40:48.988
REPORTER: The president will be
leaving with the first lady
00:40:49.029 --> 00:40:51.198
at 2:00 p.m. today to Ohio
00:40:51.240 --> 00:40:52.783
for a trio of events.
00:40:52.867 --> 00:40:54.702
He\'ll be hosting a roundtable
with supporters
00:40:54.785 --> 00:40:55.786
and then he\'ll be speaking at
00:40:55.870 --> 00:40:57.496
the Ohio Republican Party dinner
tonight.
00:40:57.538 --> 00:40:58.497
Maria?
00:40:58.539 --> 00:41:00.499
(in Mandarin):
00:41:05.504 --> 00:41:10.676
♪
00:41:10.718 --> 00:41:15.681
(speaking Mandarin)
00:41:17.892 --> 00:41:19.810
CHEN:
00:41:25.733 --> 00:41:29.111
(laughing)
00:41:29.195 --> 00:41:32.114
INTERVIEWER:
00:41:32.198 --> 00:41:34.116
CHEN:
00:41:47.421 --> 00:41:49.840
WOMAN:
00:41:49.924 --> 00:41:51.592
(Chen speaking Mandarin)
00:42:31.465 --> 00:42:33.801
WOMAN:
00:42:33.842 --> 00:42:35.803
MAN:
00:42:47.314 --> 00:42:48.315
(woman laughing)
00:42:48.357 --> 00:42:50.651
MAN:
00:43:12.172 --> 00:43:13.257
(overlapping chatter
in Mandarin)
00:43:13.340 --> 00:43:17.595
CHEN:
00:43:23.225 --> 00:43:28.814
MAN:
00:43:30.024 --> 00:43:31.025
WOMAN: Good idea.
00:43:31.066 --> 00:43:32.985
(laughing)
00:43:33.027 --> 00:43:37.406
MAN:
00:43:40.659 --> 00:43:43.287
CHEN:
00:43:43.370 --> 00:43:45.706
WOMAN (on speaker): Welcome to
the Ohio Republican Party
00:43:45.789 --> 00:43:46.789
State Dinner.
00:43:48.375 --> 00:43:50.085
WOMAN:
00:43:50.169 --> 00:43:52.046
CHEN:
00:43:52.087 --> 00:43:53.714
MALE MC:
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:43:53.756 --> 00:43:57.760
the president of the United
States, Donald J. Trump.
00:43:57.843 --> 00:44:03.474
(cheering loudly)
00:44:03.557 --> 00:44:07.936
(\"God Bless the U.S.A.\"
playing in background)
00:44:10.689 --> 00:44:12.107
TRUMP: I\'m honored to be joined
tonight by another
00:44:12.191 --> 00:44:14.777
very special guest,
00:44:14.860 --> 00:44:19.114
the next U.S. senator from Ohio,
00:44:19.198 --> 00:44:20.324
Jim Renacci.
00:44:20.407 --> 00:44:26.705
(cheers and applause)
00:44:26.747 --> 00:44:30.751
Jim is running to replace
a very liberal Democrat.
00:44:30.793 --> 00:44:32.670
I don\'t see Ohio as liberal.
00:44:32.753 --> 00:44:33.671
Are you liberal?
00:44:33.754 --> 00:44:35.089
Anybody, like, liberal?
00:44:35.172 --> 00:44:36.548
(crowd shouting in the negative)
00:44:36.590 --> 00:44:39.426
I don\'t get it.
Huh? I don\'t get it.
00:44:39.510 --> 00:44:41.220
He\'s running against
Sherrod Brown.
00:44:41.261 --> 00:44:42.262
(crowd booing)
00:44:42.304 --> 00:44:44.598
Sherrod voted no
on our tax cuts.
00:44:44.640 --> 00:44:47.643
He voted no on repealing
Obamacare.
00:44:47.726 --> 00:44:49.645
WOMAN (chuckling):
00:44:53.732 --> 00:44:54.566
(phone camera clicks)
00:44:54.608 --> 00:44:57.486
ZHANG:
00:45:33.814 --> 00:45:36.900
INTERVIEWER:
00:45:36.984 --> 00:45:38.110
ZHANG:
00:45:38.152 --> 00:45:40.195
(laughs)
00:45:40.279 --> 00:45:45.200
(playing guitar and drums)
00:45:50.122 --> 00:45:53.250
KUO: I really worry that there
will be something of a repeat
00:45:53.333 --> 00:45:54.877
of 2016, when we were
00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:57.463
a little too confident
in the blue wave.
00:45:57.504 --> 00:46:00.132
The best that we can hope for
is that all our efforts
00:46:00.174 --> 00:46:02.384
to get the vote out
will have done something.
00:46:05.345 --> 00:46:07.306
Most of these people
are registered Democrats
00:46:07.347 --> 00:46:09.725
who have not voted
in recent elections.
00:46:09.808 --> 00:46:12.603
These are the people we really
need to get to the polls, right?
00:46:12.686 --> 00:46:15.022
So these are people who didn\'t
vote in 2016,
00:46:15.105 --> 00:46:16.899
haven\'t voted in
off-year elections,
00:46:16.982 --> 00:46:19.276
maybe didn\'t even vote
in 2014 or 2012.
00:46:19.359 --> 00:46:20.986
So let\'s get them to the polls.
00:46:21.028 --> 00:46:23.864
The more you can get them to say
in detail about
00:46:23.947 --> 00:46:26.575
what their voting plan is,
the higher likelihood that
00:46:26.658 --> 00:46:27.993
they\'ll actually execute on it
00:46:28.035 --> 00:46:29.411
and go to the polls and vote,
so...
00:46:31.121 --> 00:46:32.039
Thank you.
00:46:32.122 --> 00:46:33.248
You, too.
00:46:33.332 --> 00:46:34.249
You, too.
00:46:34.333 --> 00:46:37.377
Have a good night. Bye.
00:46:37.419 --> 00:46:38.712
(exhales enthusiastically)
00:46:38.796 --> 00:46:39.880
KUO:
A Republican voting...
00:46:39.963 --> 00:46:41.340
- Democrat.
KUO: Straight Democrat, okay.
00:46:41.381 --> 00:46:43.258
- Yeah, and he\'s gonna vote no
on all the amendments.
00:46:43.342 --> 00:46:44.259
Yes!
00:46:44.343 --> 00:46:50.891
♪
00:46:50.933 --> 00:46:54.311
(indistinct chatter)
00:46:54.394 --> 00:46:56.438
This election really is
for the next dozen years.
00:46:56.522 --> 00:46:59.691
If this whole state ticket
wins tomorrow,
00:46:59.733 --> 00:47:01.568
it will make a huge difference
for the labor movement
00:47:01.652 --> 00:47:03.487
and a huge difference
across the country.
00:47:03.570 --> 00:47:07.282
It will say to the country
at large, \"Ohio is back.
00:47:07.366 --> 00:47:08.575
\"We\'re leading the charge.
00:47:08.659 --> 00:47:09.952
We\'re changing the way.\"
00:47:10.035 --> 00:47:13.080
And, if we all vote in as
high a number as I think we are,
00:47:13.163 --> 00:47:15.666
we are ready in 2020 to take out
this...
00:47:15.749 --> 00:47:21.046
(cheers and applause)
00:47:21.088 --> 00:47:25.676
(birds twittering)
00:47:25.759 --> 00:47:29.263
Okay.
00:47:29.304 --> 00:47:30.597
(birds twittering)
00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:32.850
Undecided.
00:47:32.933 --> 00:47:35.227
Undecided, okay.
00:47:35.269 --> 00:47:38.355
I\'m doing canvassing for
Renacci for Senate.
00:47:38.438 --> 00:47:40.649
He is a very successful
entrepreneur.
00:47:40.732 --> 00:47:42.901
He\'s a great supporter
for President Trump.
00:47:44.236 --> 00:47:46.238
(woman speaking indistinctly)
00:47:46.280 --> 00:47:47.948
CHEN: Next time.
00:47:47.990 --> 00:47:50.617
(lawnmower running in
background)
00:47:50.659 --> 00:47:51.785
Next time.
00:47:51.827 --> 00:47:54.288
I do not vote, okay,
in the past.
00:47:54.329 --> 00:47:57.958
Um, you know, I don\'t even think
about voting, okay?
00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:02.880
But since President Trump get
elected in 2016, I mean,
00:48:02.963 --> 00:48:06.466
since 2015, I realized that
we need to do something
00:48:06.550 --> 00:48:08.635
as a citizen
for this great country.
00:48:08.719 --> 00:48:10.012
We need to do something
00:48:10.095 --> 00:48:11.889
to help the Republican
get elected.
00:48:15.934 --> 00:48:18.854
REPORTER: Should voters have to
present a photo I.D.
00:48:18.937 --> 00:48:20.272
to cast a ballot?
00:48:20.314 --> 00:48:22.691
Republicans have tried this
before.
00:48:22.774 --> 00:48:25.110
So what better way to try again
than to make voter I.D.
00:48:25.152 --> 00:48:28.196
part of North Carolina\'s
constitution?
00:48:34.119 --> 00:48:36.038
(in Mandarin):
00:48:38.999 --> 00:48:40.208
Hey, how are you?
00:48:40.292 --> 00:48:41.335
MAN: Good.
00:48:41.418 --> 00:48:43.170
Would you like a Republican
voter guide?
00:48:43.211 --> 00:48:45.088
Do you want one?
- All set, thanks.
00:48:45.172 --> 00:48:46.548
GOOGE:
Hey, how are you?
00:48:46.632 --> 00:48:48.342
Would you like a voter guide?
WOMAN: Great. Thank you.
00:48:48.425 --> 00:48:49.718
GOOGE: Thank you.
00:48:49.801 --> 00:48:51.361
Would you like a Republican
voter guide?
00:48:51.428 --> 00:48:53.430
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
00:48:53.513 --> 00:48:55.515
Hey, how are you?
00:48:55.599 --> 00:48:57.601
Do you want a conservative
voting guide?
00:48:57.684 --> 00:48:58.602
WOMAN: Thank you.
00:48:58.685 --> 00:48:59.895
GOOGE: Yeah, thank you.
- Thank you.
00:48:59.978 --> 00:49:01.939
They don\'t want people to show
I.D. to vote.
00:49:02.022 --> 00:49:04.274
So people, you can come out,
just say your name
00:49:04.358 --> 00:49:06.693
and say your address and you can
vote, so nobody even know
00:49:06.735 --> 00:49:08.612
you are a citizen or not.
00:49:08.695 --> 00:49:11.448
You know? And then they don\'t
want any camera on here.
00:49:11.531 --> 00:49:14.701
So... sometimes I see people,
who knows,
00:49:14.743 --> 00:49:16.370
they come multiple times.
00:49:16.411 --> 00:49:19.414
They know, who knows they vote
multiple times, you know?
00:49:19.498 --> 00:49:24.586
HO: See, but they\'ve been
giving...
00:49:24.670 --> 00:49:28.674
Having these kinds of, um,
placards.
00:49:28.715 --> 00:49:30.175
So you don\'t have to,
you don\'t have to know
00:49:30.217 --> 00:49:31.218
which specific amendment,
00:49:31.259 --> 00:49:34.429
you just have to vote no
on all of them.
00:49:34.513 --> 00:49:37.391
Suppressing a vote seems like
winning by cheating,
00:49:37.474 --> 00:49:40.060
and it just seems like
if you really, truly believe
00:49:40.143 --> 00:49:43.897
in the ideals of democracy,
then you make voting
00:49:43.981 --> 00:49:46.900
as easy as possible for
the greatest number of people.
00:49:46.942 --> 00:49:50.988
Instead, what it seems like,
and I think what it is,
00:49:51.071 --> 00:49:53.490
is, the Republican Party
has consistently
00:49:53.573 --> 00:49:58.912
been suppressing the votes of
poor people and Black people
00:49:58.954 --> 00:50:02.541
and people of color, and making
it harder for people to vote.
00:50:02.582 --> 00:50:07.504
♪
00:50:15.762 --> 00:50:17.556
All right.
00:50:20.142 --> 00:50:23.103
♪
00:50:29.443 --> 00:50:31.403
(indistinct chatter)
00:50:31.445 --> 00:50:33.405
WOMAN:
Thank you.
00:50:40.537 --> 00:50:41.663
CHEN: I just need to
00:50:41.747 --> 00:50:43.457
cast my vote and support Jim.
00:50:43.540 --> 00:50:46.376
Now, you can see I have some
yard signs about Jim, okay?
00:50:46.460 --> 00:50:51.131
But what I can say is, this is
a democratic process.
00:50:51.214 --> 00:50:54.301
Now, regardless,
as long as it\'s fair,
00:50:54.384 --> 00:50:57.637
regardless what\'s the outcome,
I think it\'s okay,
00:50:57.679 --> 00:51:00.474
because everybody deserve
their voice being heard,
00:51:00.515 --> 00:51:02.851
and then I have my voice
being heard.
00:51:02.934 --> 00:51:04.311
And then let\'s see what happens.
00:51:07.439 --> 00:51:09.733
Ah, great, a parking space.
00:51:09.816 --> 00:51:11.151
♪
00:51:11.234 --> 00:51:12.569
MAN: Voting today, folks?
00:51:12.652 --> 00:51:15.530
We have ballots here if you need
them... Republican and Democrat.
00:51:15.614 --> 00:51:18.158
♪
00:51:18.200 --> 00:51:20.744
KUO: Democracy only works
with participation.
00:51:20.827 --> 00:51:22.662
MAN:
Okay, just slide it in there.
00:51:22.746 --> 00:51:24.164
An \"I voted\" sticker?
KUO: Yeah, sure do.
00:51:24.206 --> 00:51:25.540
MAN: Got to have that.
00:51:25.624 --> 00:51:26.708
KUO:
Got to have that.
00:51:26.792 --> 00:51:27.709
MAN:
I appreciate you coming in.
00:51:27.793 --> 00:51:28.794
KUO: Thank you very much.
00:51:28.835 --> 00:51:30.212
Have a good day.
00:51:30.295 --> 00:51:32.964
In the way that our
electoral system works,
00:51:33.006 --> 00:51:35.133
we have choices.
00:51:35.175 --> 00:51:36.635
Our choices have absolute
consequences.
00:51:36.676 --> 00:51:41.515
♪
00:51:41.556 --> 00:51:42.516
Thank you.
00:51:42.557 --> 00:51:45.268
(indistinct chatter)
00:51:45.352 --> 00:51:46.520
♪
00:51:46.603 --> 00:51:53.026
Being able to vote is
a privilege, globally.
00:51:53.068 --> 00:51:55.195
Not everybody gets to vote
in the world.
00:51:55.278 --> 00:51:59.032
♪
00:51:59.116 --> 00:52:00.992
(chuckles)
00:52:01.034 --> 00:52:04.704
(turn signal clicking)
00:52:04.746 --> 00:52:09.084
I still maybe have five or six
yards, these signs.
00:52:09.167 --> 00:52:14.756
The campaign folks tell us that
we have to show the sign
00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:17.926
with maximum visibility from
both sides of the traffic.
00:52:18.009 --> 00:52:22.764
So along the road,
that will be a good idea.
00:52:22.848 --> 00:52:24.474
That\'s my candidate.
00:52:24.558 --> 00:52:31.148
♪
00:52:35.777 --> 00:52:37.362
Polls have been closed
for an hour now,
00:52:37.404 --> 00:52:38.738
and volunteers are already
starting to
00:52:38.780 --> 00:52:42.659
bring the bags full of paper
ballots to start counting.
00:52:42.742 --> 00:52:45.036
Now, the Montgomery County Board
of Elections director,
00:52:45.078 --> 00:52:48.540
Jan Kelly, tells me that voter
turnout has been up ten percent
00:52:48.582 --> 00:52:51.585
since it was in the 2014
midterm elections.
00:52:51.626 --> 00:52:54.629
♪
00:53:04.097 --> 00:53:07.142
KUO: CNN has just projected
control of the House.
00:53:07.225 --> 00:53:08.768
Cheers.
- Cheers.
00:53:08.810 --> 00:53:10.437
KUO: Cheers.
- Cheers.
00:53:10.478 --> 00:53:13.690
♪
00:53:25.452 --> 00:53:28.997
(cheers and applause)
00:53:29.080 --> 00:53:32.626
That is the message coming out
of Ohio in 2018
00:53:32.709 --> 00:53:37.380
and that is the blueprint
for America for 2020.
00:53:37.464 --> 00:53:40.759
Our diversity is our strength,
00:53:40.800 --> 00:53:43.011
but our unity is our power.
00:53:43.094 --> 00:53:45.513
Newcomers to America
00:53:45.597 --> 00:53:48.308
make America more American.
00:53:48.350 --> 00:53:53.897
♪
00:53:53.980 --> 00:53:55.315
MAN: We voted.
00:53:55.357 --> 00:53:56.650
We organized.
00:53:56.733 --> 00:53:58.777
(cheers and applause)
00:53:58.818 --> 00:53:59.778
What happened, guys?
00:53:59.819 --> 00:54:00.779
What did we do that day?
00:54:00.820 --> 00:54:02.739
KUO: We took Congress!
00:54:02.822 --> 00:54:05.867
♪
00:54:05.951 --> 00:54:07.869
CHEN:
00:54:23.468 --> 00:54:25.428
♪
00:54:25.512 --> 00:54:29.266
GOOGE:
00:54:39.651 --> 00:54:43.905
HO: They\'re people of color
who don\'t want to be reminded
00:54:43.989 --> 00:54:46.491
of their racialized status.
00:54:46.533 --> 00:54:50.704
But I don\'t believe that people
look at me as an Asian person
00:54:50.745 --> 00:54:53.373
and they see someone
who\'s white.
00:54:53.415 --> 00:54:56.459
The central question that
I think all Asian Americans
00:54:56.543 --> 00:54:59.754
in the United States feel,
which is: do we belong?
00:54:59.838 --> 00:55:05.260
KUO: Only when we see
more diverse representation,
00:55:05.343 --> 00:55:06.594
that will change values
in this country.
00:55:06.678 --> 00:55:08.722
That will change mindsets
in this country.
00:55:08.763 --> 00:55:12.684
CROWD:
♪ O say can you see
00:55:12.726 --> 00:55:16.855
♪ By the dawn\'s early light
00:55:16.896 --> 00:55:21.735
♪ What so proudly we hail\'d
00:55:21.776 --> 00:55:25.363
♪ At the twilight\'s
last gleaming ♪
00:55:25.405 --> 00:55:29.993
♪ Whose broad stripes
and bright stars ♪
00:55:30.076 --> 00:55:33.872
♪ Through the perilous night
00:55:33.913 --> 00:55:37.834
♪ From the ramparts we watch\'d
00:55:37.917 --> 00:55:42.589
♪ Were so gallantly streaming
00:55:42.672 --> 00:55:46.426
♪ And the rocket\'s red glare
00:55:46.509 --> 00:55:50.597
♪ The bombs bursting in air
00:55:50.680 --> 00:55:54.726
♪ Gave proof through the night
00:55:54.768 --> 00:55:59.064
♪ That our flag
was still there ♪
00:55:59.105 --> 00:56:04.027
♪ O say does that
star-spangled ♪
00:56:04.110 --> 00:56:08.823
♪ Banner yet wave
00:56:08.907 --> 00:56:13.953
♪ O\'er the land of the free
00:56:13.995 --> 00:56:19.459
♪ And the home of the brave
00:56:19.542 --> 00:56:23.088
(holds note)
00:56:23.129 --> 00:56:24.464
♪
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