Elijah Cummings: “My mom and dad only had a second grade education; they were former sharecroppers. Worked like slaves, but yet and still…”

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

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

It is only recently in the last 50 years or so that many of these laws have changed.

On my mother's dying bed, 92 years old, former sharecropper, her last words were, 'Do not let them take our votes away from us.' She had fought and seen people harmed, beaten, trying to vote. Talk about inalienable rights. Voting is…