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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s a memory seared into my brain when I was 5 years old.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the spring of 1942 when soldiers came marching up our driveway,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stomped up the front porch and banged on the door
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ordered our family out of our home.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were imprisoned behind barbed wired fences
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for four years for the duration of the war.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Simply because we happened to look like the people that bombed Pearl Harbor.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were American Citizens.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet, because of who we were, what we looked like,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were in prison without due process.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s been 7 decades now we have made undreamed of advances.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,President Obama has had 3 Asian Americans on the Cabinet:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Steven Chu, General Eric Shinseki and Gary Locke.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We now have legislatures in the US Congress.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we have as an Asian American Community uh low voter registration.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We got to be actively involved in the electoral process.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you really appreciate the price that has been paid for that right,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you should be in there participating, protecting our interests
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in so doing making our democracy a truer democracy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have a unique opportunity to support a president who is a part of us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He grew up in Hawaii, the ‘Aloha’ spirit, his sister’s half-Asian.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He understands, and loves, the Asian-American community.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,President Obama’s record of helping to advance opportunities for Asian Americans
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been remarkable.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We support President Obama for re-election because of that fantastic record.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can’t urge you strongly enough to register to vote.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To raise funds, to volunteer your time and energy,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talk to your friends, talk to your relatives,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it’s very important for all of us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For more information on how to get involved, go to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Barackobama.com/aapi
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(subtitles based on the transcript in http://lybio.net/george-takei-weve-got-to-be-actively-involved-in-the-electoral-process/news-politics/)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,