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
WEBVTT
 
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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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 birds twittering)
 
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 AUTOMATED VOICE:
 Landing.
 
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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.!
 
 00:15:37.227 --> 00:15:39.897
 CROWD: Shame on the G.O.P.!
 
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 WOMAN:
 Shame on the G.O.P.!
 
 00:15:42.066 --> 00:15:44.360
 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!
 
 00:15:48.364 --> 00:15:49.531
 - 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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