In episode eight* of We Are All Americans Christy Roberts Berkowitz and Michele Jaquis discuss the parallels between the US Government’s current anti-immigrant sentiment and the anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia at the turn of the 19th century and the differences between diversity and inclusion.

We Are All Americans is a podcast series Inspired by the fact that my Russian great-grandfather gained his US citizenship after serving in the US Army and my Lithuanian (or Austrian, or Russian, or Latvian - depending on who is telling the story) great-grandmother entered the US on fake passport. Each episode is a different recorded conversations about how family stories are passed down from generation to generation and what it means to be American in the contexts of multiculturalism, immigration, military service, black lives matter, white privilege, and indigeneity.

* Recorded on August 2, 2018 in the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA.