1
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
There’s a memory seared into my brain when I was 5 years old.

2
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
It was the spring of 1942 when soldiers came marching up our driveway,

3
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
stomped up the front porch and banged on the door

4
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
and ordered our family out of our home.

5
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We were imprisoned behind barbed wired fences

6
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
for four years for the duration of the war.

7
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Simply because we happened to look like the people that bombed Pearl Harbor.

8
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We were American Citizens.

9
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Yet, because of who we were, what we looked like,

10
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
we were in prison without due process.

11
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
It’s been 7 decades now we have made undreamed of advances.

12
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
President Obama has had 3 Asian Americans on the Cabinet:

13
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Steven Chu, General Eric Shinseki and Gary Locke.

14
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We now have legislatures in the US Congress.

15
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
But we have as an Asian American Community uh low voter registration.

16
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We got to be actively involved in the electoral process.

17
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
And if you really appreciate the price that has been paid for that right,

18
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
you should be in there participating, protecting our interests

19
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
and in so doing making our democracy a truer democracy.

20
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We have a unique opportunity to support a president who is a part of us.

21
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
He grew up in Hawaii, the ‘Aloha’ spirit, his sister’s half-Asian.

22
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
He understands, and loves, the Asian-American community.

23
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
President Obama’s record of helping to advance opportunities for Asian Americans

24
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
has been remarkable.

25
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We support President Obama for re-election because of that fantastic record.

26
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I can’t urge you strongly enough to register to vote.

27
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
To raise funds, to volunteer your time and energy,

28
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
talk to your friends, talk to your relatives,

29
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
it’s very important for all of us.

30
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
For more information on how to get involved, go to

31
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Barackobama.com/aapi

32
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
(subtitles based on the transcript in http://lybio.net/george-takei-weve-got-to-be-actively-involved-in-the-electoral-process/news-politics/)

33
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999