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We are law-abiding.We are legal immigrants.We are paying tax.And we will get together to make American great again.Let me show you the logo. It’s a pine tree and an elephant. It’s the logo for our organization, Asian American GOP Coalition.I’m one of the members and responsible for the podcast. Chinese immigrants, including myself, hear two lies when we come to America.First lie, the Democratic Party is good for immigrants.Second lie, the Democratic Party is good for minorities.- When did you become a naturalized citizen?March 2016.- When did you submit the application?June 2015.- Was the timing a coincidence?No.I knew I must support a Republican candidate.I became a citizen because I wanted to vote.Hello friends and listeners!You all know our website, .We provide information on current affairsto balance the lies of mainstream media.This is our photo from Trump’s inauguration.We’re going to Ohio Republican Party’s state dinner. Pence is pushing the bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.The vote is next week.He is here to mobilize Ohio’s Republican base and to put pressure on Republicans who haven’t supported the bill yet.I was actually living in Beijing for the last 20 years. In 2016, I moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina with my family, my wife, my two children, so the election season was in full swing. My wife, she started to tell me that there were a surprising number of very vocal supporters of Trump. I was absolutely shocked. So I wrote this essay running on the various list of reasons why I thought that Trump was actually saying support. - How were you impacted by Kaiser’s essay?It was when I first moved here,so I was eager to make friends.But they’re all Republicans supporters,and my husband is a Democrat.It took at least three monthsbefore they started talking to me again.Basically, I'm angry at anyone, irrespective of where they come from, who votes for Trump, so I'm angry at all of them. Why am I especially angry at Chinese? Because I guess part of me wants to think better of Chinese people. There used to be Sue Googe campaign signs all over the medians here on 15-501. Driving around all over the place in the triangle, so I looked it up. Sure enough, I mean, I saw pictures of her wearing a qipao with an AR 15 in a right hand and a semiautomatic pistol in her left hand. When I think about how I want more Asian Americans to participate, more Chinese Americans to participate in American political life. This is not what I had in mind. -How come?Because she's a freaking Tea Party. I mean she represents everything that I loathe in American politics. Come inside. It’s cold.I moved around a lot in southern China.Because that experience is so memorable, I’ve become interested in owning property.As if I can never have enough houses.The decoration is very American, isn’t it?Look, this lamp has elephants, Republican symbol. This one too.So many elephants.It’s heavy.This one is mine.- Are they both yours?Yes, they are both mine.Why do people question that?- Because I don’t know if they are real or not.Why would I use a prop gun?That would be strange.I wouldn’t use prop guns or other people’s guns.These are my guns.And I would like to introduce another true American. Sue Googe was a congressional candidate. She fled communist China. She has come to America legally. And she's an entrepreneur and has her own business at this point. She is a firebrand for conservatives and I am so proud to introduce Sue Googe.Hello! I love to watch American Flag fly. You know what is that means? Land of the free. Because what? Because of the brave. I live in the life. I know no freedom of speech is all about. I know what big government is all about. Our American flag will fly strong and will fly on forever. Make America great again. Thank you very much. God bless America.Why is the book called Partly Colored? Is that an apt description for how Asian-Americans subjects are seen as racially anomalous in the U.S. South? Something is colored. It means to be tinged by some kind of other meaninggood or like an off white or some kind of departure from what is normal or what is the default. I think when I thought of the title, I immediately kind of historicalized it in and the way that in the South they use the word colored to refer to people of African-American descent. And so when we're talking about colored, partly colored, I saw that as like we're going from the white black continuum and we're in between those two. Yeah. I mean, indefinitely to refer to people, especially in the U.S. South as colored. That was a label used to describe people of African descent in the U.S. South during the time of Jim Crow and segregation. But this question of who counted as colored in the U.S. South, where did the Asian-Americans sit on the segregated bus? Where did Lumbees fit within the kind of racial color line of the U.S. South? Think about the U.S. South and think about the people in the U.S. South. So if you had three photos, right? A black person, a white person, and my photo. Who are the two people that you would most associate, my photo is probably not going to come up and that means that we have this normative idea of what it means to be in the U.S. South. And we also have this normative idea about what it means to be American. I want people to know who Asian Americans are because there's so much misinformation. People don't know who Asian-Americans are. Sounds so simple, but it's just true. Like, I think there's so much misunderstanding about who Asian-Americans are now. That we’re foreign and we're not from here or in the U.S. south, it's that we're not people of color. We are honorary white people. He really doesn't like it when we put the eye drops in his eyes, so we have to actually give him a treat. And It takes two people to do it, st took two people at the vet's office, so twice a day we have to do this. So this is Bok Bok. He is a transgender male chicken. He prefers he, him, his pronouns. As a Democrat and as someone who doesn't agree with both the Republican led state legislature, as well as the national government under Donald Trump, I've decided that I should do something, that I should try and participate by getting involved. I mean this is what drives me crazy about the state legislature. They think that I'm just there to indoctrinate my students, right? I'm there to somehow provide propaganda to them instead of what I'm doing, which is providing critical thinking skills. I don't tell my students how to vote. That would be the sure-fire way to get them to vote. The opposite of what I want them to vote, right? And I don't want them to vote the way that I want them to vote. I want them to be free thinking adults who are making decisions based on their value system and their sense of ethics and morality. That's what I want. And that may not line up with my own value system, but as long as they're using their critical thinking skills to come to that decision, then that's that's what being in a democracy means, right? We don't all have to agree with each other. We have to agree that we have that there are values that we share in common, that we can respect each other and that seems to be in short amount these days, of common ground. We just can't find any common ground. And it would be easy for me to demonize people on the right and just say that they are racist, they’re sexist, they’re homophobes, you know, they’re clinging to guns and religion. They're all white supremacists. I mean, that's easy and it's simplistic and it's not correct. You know how we call President Trump? We call him Uncle Trump. We call him Uncle Trump. Yeah. And at this time, my wife and I and all my friends, Don, just this just give up our Chinese national, the nationality, and join the U.S., reclaim our citizenship. And just because we want to win Trump.Hello Ohio. Thank you all for being here tonight. People of Ohio here in the heart of the heartland deliver 80 of 88 counties, nearly three million votes, a more than eight percent victory for President Donald Trump, the White House. We are going to repeal and replace Obama. We will make America safer. We will make America prosperous again. And to borrow a phrase, we will make America great again.We’re Chinese and we work in Montgomery County.If you need anything like ground game, I would like to help.I was chatting him up. - Is he the candidate you support?Yes, because I believe he’s most likely to win.I attended the Ohio Republican Party State Dinner yesterday. A few things on the agenda - first, repeal and replace Obamacare;second, the Republican Party hopes to win the seat currently held by Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown. We hope to replace Sherrod Brown with our candidate in the 2018 midterm election.I also want to share a personal experience. Pence asked who attended last year’s state fair.I went last year, so I raised my hand. I was the only one to raise my hand and Pence said, “I remember you!” Hello. Hello. Hi, so Kellyanne’s visit, so you know is in a personal capacity. She is not on official White House business, so questions about specific White House policies she can't answer while she's here because this is a political thing.There's a whole freedom of the press thing.This is right now. This is what she. She’s not on a political trip.Since the campaign paid for the trip, how does she know…Who paid for the Secret Service detail? You know, this is a party that controls the White House, Congress and the state legislature. … like this is all about trying to maintain that control.North Carolina. Thank you for electing Donald J. Trump president of the United States. Thank you. Fairness really is the theme. I believe that Donald Trump as a candidate now as president has as the centering force. Many people used to say what's fair to the illegal immigrant and Donald Trump brought him the conversation, too. Well, what's fair to the American worker who's competing with the illegal immigrant for a job? What's fair to the hardworking men and women in this state and elsewhere? What's fair to the United States taxpayer and the men and women who work in paper and cement and coal? …You’re a dynamite candidate and whenever you get ready, North Carolina will be the better for it. Thank you. Thank you for your support.So I just wanted to say that I was so proud of you. Oh, thank you. And next time, let's run for something that's a little less uphill. Well, we’ll see.Sue Googe for U.S. Senate. We could use a conservative senator, but we don't have it. It makes me extremely proud that she ran in the Republican Party because the Republican Party truly is the party of diversity and I think it's awesome for someone to come from China or anywhere over there, and socialist immersed countries to come and take part in the freedom of democracy here in America. She is a go getter. She was just passionate from the get go and I really thought Sue was going to take it not only because she's a woman, but because of her passion. She's a contagious little Chinese cookie. Let me tell you. - What’s next for you?I’ve given a lot of thought to whether I will run again or do something else.I will definitely stay involved in politics,but I will not run for Congress in 2018.However, I’m considering a 2020 run.I mean, my parents support Trump and I don't understand that. And it's because all they do is that they watch Fox News all day. I mean, when we first came here, I remember being stoned and spit on by the kids in school because we were different, so so I don't I don't I don't understand why people are, I mean, people of color support, support the Republicans, not the Republicans of today. Kennedy is an American president that I really like.The Democratic Party is not the same as it used to be.He was against communism. Today, Democrats promote socialism and communism.- Why do you think America is heading towards communism?There are many signs.Why did China become a Communist country?First, wealth inequality.When people on the bottom see no hope, they have nothing to lose.So a radical can lead them to attack landowners and take the land.This is from junior high.I was fifteen.My grandfather was a military officer in the Chinese Nationalist Party.He was executed after the Chinese Communist Party won the Civil War.My father fled to a poor mountain village.This is after I graduated from high school. I was working in southern China.- Is this your grandfather’s book?Yes, he worked for the Nationalist Party as an undercover Communist Party agent.This is a book by Kaiser’s grandfather.The title of this book is “Modern History of China.” He founded the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica in Taiwan.“Academic Exchange between Taiwan and United States.”My parents were actually born in mainland China, moved to Taiwan and then emigrated to the U.S. in the mid 1950s. Not long after they arrived in the States, they were pretty caught up in John Kennedy and the romance around Camelot. We were born in the era of Vietnam. My earliest memories are of major political televised events. I remember very much my parents opposition to Richard Nixon. I remember having formed a really poor opinion of Richard Nixon even before the Watergate scandal. After World War II, when the Civil War resumes between the nationalists and the communists, my grandfather's seeing the handwriting on the wall. Because of the 1882 Exclusion Act, prohibitions against Chinese coming to the United States were stringent through most of the 20th century because of communism and the Cold War going on in the United States. Congress passed this Refugee Relief Act in 1955, and that's what allowed my family to come from Taiwan to the United States because they could prove that they were refugees from communist China. It's not until a 1965 Immigration Act that various restrictive quotas based on country of origin and race are finally eliminated. This is my friend Xia.This is director Chen.- What are the issues that resonated with you?We go through a very long process.and spend a lot of money to get those status,but illegal immigrants feel entitled to everything.I think it’s a humiliation for legal immigrants.Trump’s immigration policies include building a wall at the US-Mexico border.The wall must be built. I strongly support it.Trump is not anti-immigration.He is against illegal immigration,not legal immigration.Ok. So we have a quorum now, so we'd like to start our CPAC meeting. Last year we had a big effort to stop everybody from using Trump's derogatory term, chain migration. Of course, 70 percent of API’s in this country are immigrants, and most of them came through the family immigration system, but we face problems in that system. That its Asian percent of filings are 40 percent of the visa backlogs and 80 percent of the employment visa backlogs, so at the same time, we want to make sure that we preserve our family immigration system and also ultimately that we improve it, so that there is a reduction of these visa backlogs. We are the fastest growing racial population in the nation. We need to make sure that every AAPI person gets out there and exercises their voice at the ballot box. We know that if we mobilize them and we unite them, that we can fight against injustice and fight for the America that we love. And we can make a difference in shaping a better future for our community and for our country. A South Korean artist. He designed this memorial. And then, of course, when he made it, it was very controversial, so one of the controversial things, at least I find about it, is that you have these kind of figures, these abstract figures who are meant to represent African-Americans, who, you know, many of whom were enslaved at the time when the university was founded and who helped build the university, but, of course, they helped build makes it sound like they were volunteers or they were paid laborers when they were enslaved labor. And now we're memorializing them by having them hold up a table, so it just seems absurd that we're trying to recognize this very complicated racial history with African-Americans at UNC and in North Carolina and the way that we're honoring them is to have them in perpetuity, holding up a table. And, of course, there, it’s much lower, right? So that's the monument itself is literally dwarfed by the monument of Silent Sam, which is the Confederate statue memorial.It’s right over there.- Did you know about the cemetery when you bought the house?Yes, Kaiser told me about it.He was interested in the history of the neighborhood, so he asked about it. Look, here it is.- What did he tell you about the cemetery? It is one of the earliest burial sites for African American slaves.I’ve seen some of their descendants visiting the cemetery.My son came here when he was so young.He’s become Americanand is comfortable with the language.I want to go back after my kids go to college.I’m from Beijing, the capital city, and have a good life there.But here, I don’t feel the samebecause I’m Chinese and I’m not good with the language.Perhaps that’s why I’ve encountered more discrimination.Let’s go home.- How do you like living in America?I still miss China.If you ask my brother, he’ll say that fast food and burgersare really good here.I’m not into fast food.I prefer Chinese food.However, since I live in America now, even when I want to say I am American,some people would say, “No, where are you really from?”“What country are you from?”“Oh, America.”I would say America because I have an American passport. “No, no, no, no, no. You’re Asian right? What country of Asia? Ok. Chinese. Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about. Not, I know maybe you have a green card or you have like a passport because you’ve stayed like five years or so.”For some people, they don’t consider me American.They still consider me Chinese.Nobody says, “Are you American?”Instead, they say, “You’re Chinese, right? You’re Korean. You’re Japanese, right?”- What’s your favorite thing about living in America?The food. Yeah, I love burgers and fast food, so yeah. I mean I know that’s pretty unhealthy and stuff, but yeah.Make sure to stay in close touch with Uncle Dave and to Katherine. Make sure the furniture outside gets moved inside, ok? Ok. When are you coming home? I'll be back on the 22nd, on the evening of the 22nd. 22nd evening. All right. I have to leave on the … Oh. Well, I feel bad for you. It's like a lot of work. Yup.Yeah. I already miss you. I miss you too, Johnny. Be a good kid, ok? Uh huh.All right, I love you. Yeah, me too. UNC Chapel Hill last night, hundreds of protesters started the school year by gathering around the controversial Silent Sam statue demanding change. There are prosecutors who embody the white moderate MLK warned us, who advocate for us to be jailed and to be fined, who daily in prison and extort black and brown people in this county but claim to respect us. They claim to have their hands tied. They say they are committed to justice. Justice being reserved for statues and racist property like Silent Sam. I have no problem with Silent Sam coming down. The only problem I have is in my home state that I was born and raised, violent mobs are going around pretending to be the victim. You can't make a violent mob in my home state without somebody saying, “No, that's crazy.” We're going to start with silent meditation. It’s challenging to get people to feel comfortable to talk about race. What I believe is that one of the things we need to do is we need to be informed. The second thing is get comfortable talking about it. Realize that it's ok to talk about race. And now we do have four minutes for free writing.My classes. Getting them to understand white supremacy has a structure and to understand racism as institutional. There are these larger systems in place of racism. So how do we recognize these systems and then how do we work to dismantle these systems? We're going to be talking about whiteness. I mean, we pretty much have been talking about whiteness, I feel like, all semester, but we're going to really talk about whiteness. Let's begin with Haney López. How do you think he is defining whites? I think it's primarily suggested that its origin is on binary opposition with blackness always defined as the positive or the superior to the negative other. I've always felt that whiteness has a rigidity, so I've been surprised by his characterization of whitnesses is fluid and heterogeneous.Being on this kind of campus and being like the South in general, I think there's people who have really, I mean, I think to do that all the hashtag all white people, I think all white people have in some way they are maintaining whiteness for themselves. So I really enjoyed that chapter when he was like the value of what? The whiteness, because I don't think any white person would choose not to be white. I think that whiteness is not like a static type of thing that like if you are white, you're inherently racist and you can't change that. If you reject whiteness and you know, you do your best to reject all the privileges that you hold, which is, I guess, impossible to do actually, then, yeah, but I guess you would have to go towards that and say, well, I think that people of color can embody forms of whiteness, perhaps more so than like white individuals or individuals who are racialized as white. These systems have been so ingrained and they're so complicated and racial definitions change over time and they change depending on where in the world you are. I can't get my sense, you know, do these 10 easy things and then they're no longer gonna be racist. Ok, let's go. Three, two, one. Welcome to the Sinica podcast, the weekly discussion of current affairs in China produced in partnership with Sup China. I'm Kaiser Kuo and I am at the Asia Society today to speak with Danny Russell, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, during the second Obama administration. Welcome to Sinica. We are delighted to have you on at last. We live in a time clearly of mounting American anxiety over China. What do you see as the big drivers of anxiety here in the US? I'm telling you, Kaiser, increasingly worried that it's a phenomenon of racism, of yellow peril. Yes.This we're branding each other as an enemy and it's no secret that when you treat somebody like an enemy, sooner or later you're going to wind up with an enemy. Now, onto recommendations, Danny, please, after you. It's your world. It's your country. Do something about it. Get in there. Get your hands dirty. Own it. I am going to get out there and register voters in some rural counties of North Carolina this weekend. That's going to be my pre-midterm public service here. Thanks for listening and we'll see you next week. Take care. Tonight, we continue our reports from states in which Republicans are trying to flip U.S. Senate seats in the fall midterms coming up in Ohio. That contest pits incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown against Republican Congressman Jim Renacci.President Trump is set to make yet another trip to Ohio. The president set to host a fund raiser there from Republican candidate Renacci.The president will be leaving with the first lady at 2:00 p.m. today to Ohio for a trail of events. He’ll be hosting a roundtable with supporters and then he'll be speaking at the Ohio Republican Party dinner tonight. Maria? Did you hear that?President Trump is in Ohio today for the State Dinner.At first, I thought she sounded like a left-wing because she asked some ridiculous questions.But she’s much better now.- What questions did I ask?Like when you asked, “Why did you vote Republican?”It’s an unanswerable question.It’s a question about an entire system.I can’t explain it in one sentence. Ask him why he supports Trump.At first, we thought the Democrats and Obama did a lot of good.For example, he got Osama Bin Laden. And the other one...Gaddafi.I thought Obama was doing good things for America.It made sense he won a second term.At the time, we weren’t paying attention to American economy or politics. It seemed like the United States was very powerful.United States was making a mess in the Middle East. We thought that was very good.Hey, don’t say that… But then, we started talking with friends about the egalitarianism promoted by Democrats.We left China to get away from socialism.Now, here we go again with socialism. There’s no way we’d support that.And then, there’s illegal immigration. Just because they bring their children, they feel entitled. All illegal immigrants should be deported, and their kids!All this talk of humanitarianism is nonsense.It’s a matter of law and order.If you want to come to America, do it legally.If China sends 1 billion people with their kids, what is America going to do?Accept all of them?Good idea.I say the Chinese government should send 1 billion people and their kids.Let’s see what America will do!Alright, don’t film this part. 2020, “Uncle Trump” must win.Without a doubt.Ladies and gentleman, the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.I am honored to be joined tonight by another very special guest, the next U.S. senator from Ohio, Jim Renacci. Jim is running to replace a very liberal Democrat. I don't see Ohio as liberal. Are you liberal? Anybody like liberal? I don’t get it. I don’t get it. Running is Sharrod Brown. Sharrod voted no on our tax cuts. He voted no on repealing Obamacare. Here, take a photo of us.People don’t have freedom of speech in China.Politically, except elites, individuals can rarely decide the future of their country. In America, they have the power they’ve never had before. For the first time, their voice is heard.Kaiser was practicing drum right there.See how close he was.I had just left the room.- How did you feel after this happened?It’s so good to be alive.I really worry that there will be something of a repeat of 2016 when we were a little too confident in the blue wave. The best that we can hope for is that all our efforts to get the vote out will have done something. Most of these people are registered Democrats who have not voted in recent elections. These are the people we really need to get to the polls, all right? So these are people who didn't vote in 2016 and voted in off year elections, maybe didn't even voted 2014 or 2012. So lets get them to the pollsThe more you can get them to say in detail about what their voting plan is, the higher likelihood that they'll actually execute on it and go to the polls.Thank you. You too. You too. Have a good night. Bye.A Republican voting…Democrat. Straight Democrat?Yeah and he's going to vote no on all the amendments.This election really is for the next dozen years. If this whole state ticket wins tomorrow, it will make a huge difference for the labor movement, in a huge difference across the country. It will say to the country at large, Ohio is back. We're leading the charge. We're changing the way and if we are focused in as high numbers like we are, we are ready in 2020 to take out this, right?Undecided. Undecided. I'm doing canvasing for Renacci for Senate. He is a very successful entrepreneur. He's a great supporter for President Trump. I did not vote in the past. You know, I don't even think about voting, but since the President Trump got elected in 2016, I mean, since 2015, I realize that we need to do something as a citizen for this great country. We need to do something to help the Republican get elected. Should voters have to present a photo I.D. to cast a ballot? Republicans have tried this before, so what better way to try again than to make voter I.D. part of North Carolina's constitution? Perfect timing. There’s a parking space.Hey, how are you? You like republican voter guide? You want one? Hey, how are you? Would you like a voter guide? Would you like republican voter guide?Hey, how are you? Do you want a conservative voter guide?They don't want people to show I.D. to vote, so people you can come on to just say your name and see your address so you can vote, so nobody even know you are citizen or not. And then they don't want any camera on here. So sometimes I see people, who knows, they come multiple times. Who knows they vote multiple times, you know. See, but they've been giving. Having these kinds of placards, so you don't have to. You don't have to know which specific amendment, you just have to vote no on all of them suppressing a vote seems like winning by cheating. And it just seems like if you really, truly believe in the ideals of democracy, then you make voting as easy as possible for the greatest number of people. Instead, what it seems like, and I think what it is, is the Republican Party has consistently been suppressing the votes of poor people and black people and people of color and making it harder for people to vote. I just need to cast my vote and support the team. You can see I have some yard signs about … Ok. But what I can say is this is a democratic process. No. Regardless, as long as it's a fair, regardless, what's the outcome? I think it's ok because everybody these are their lives being heard and then I have my walls being heard and then let's see what happens. Democracy only works with participation. In the way that our electoral system works, we have choices. Our choices have absolute consequences. Being able to vote is a privilege globally. Not everybody gets to vote in the world. I still maybe have five or six yards. These signs are the campaign folks tell us that we have to show the siign with maximum visibility from both sides of the traffic, so along the road, that will be a good idea. That’s my candidate.Polls have been closed for an hour now and volunteers are already starting to bring the bags full of paper ballots to start counting. Now, the Montgomery County Board of Elections Director Jan Kelly tells me that votes are now up 10% since it was in the 2014 midterm elections. That is the message coming out of Ohio in 2018 and that is the blueprint for America for 2020. Our diversity is our strength, but our unity is our power. New comers to make America more American.I want to tell Chinese Americans that your vote matters.If your family, career, and property are all here,and you follow the law and pay taxes, then this is your land.This is your country.As a first-generation immigrant, I identify myself as American.I’m thankful for America’s openness, tolerance, and generosity. People who are not born here have a chance to become American. The people of color who don't want to be reminded of their racialized status, but I don't believe that people look at me as an Asian person and they see someone who's white. The central question that I think all Asian-Americans in the United States feel, which is do we belong? Only when we see more diverse representation, that will change values in this country, that will change mindsets in this country. ................
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