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BCR #19: Give U.S. Your Huddled Masses. Riiiiight!!! Part 1

Bar Crawl Radio
Bar Crawl Radio
Episode • Apr 3, 2019 • 1h 0m

CHOOSE TWO:

  • We are a nation of immigrants.
  • We are a nation that does not want immigrants -- keep it right and white.
  • We are a nation that welcomes the talented and those who yearn for a better life and those who are escaping oppression.
  • We are a nation that sticks to our own - outsiders are dangerous.

BCR #19 brings together three immigrants -- a Czech -- a Filipino -- an Irishman -- who are now authorized "United Statesians" OR USians. [If you are from the United States -- you are not "American" -- rather you are a USian. Afterall, we do not own the entire American continent--North, Central and South--and so USians do not own the identifier--"American." Of course, in doing so, we reveal an attitude of ownership and power.]

This show and conversation was an inspiration of Rebecca McKean -- who is tired and sick of the populist right matching "criminal" with "immigrant." As she emphasized -- we are all immigrants.

The show starts off with Alan and Becky talking with BCR co-producer Alina Larson about her trip to the Galapagos, and we get an explosive definition of the alcoholic term "proof." It could have just as well been "POOF."

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