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George Takei: "We've got to be actively involved in the electoral process."

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

Join AAPI for Obama:

George Takei shares how far the AAPI community has come and why you should get involved in this election to help re-elect President Obama.

As George shares:

"We have a unique opportunity to support a president who is a part of us. He grew up in Hawaii—the Aloha Spirit. His sister is half-Asian—he understands and loves the Asian American community."
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02:29

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