Elijah Cummings: “I am very pleased that we are going in the direction that we are going in because it is about making things better.”

That year, Bayou La Batre did elect its first Asian-American city council member.

We are better than where we are. We are better than this.

And I don't give a damn how you look at it; there are efforts to stop people from voting. That is not right. This is not Russia. This is the United States of America.

Asian Americans are often still seen as outsiders, as foreigners, as aliens.