Why a Passport Means Survival in My Community

Friends of mine who aren't Jewish make fun of us because we got this kid a passport the first second that we could. Like an international passport and we did that for all of our kids. And everybody I know in the Jewish community, we all get our kids passports like that. Why? Not cuz we're neurotic Woody Allen types. It's because we've all had it ingrained into our psyche by our parents, by our grandparents, by our teachers that if things get bad here, we need to be able to run. The Jews of Nazi Germany made the mistake of not running. We've been thrown out of every country. sure you've been chased out of every place, but I definitely have friends who actually have a suitcase packed under their bed at all times just in case we need to run in the middle of the night. I don't think people process like the fear in our community. That's like the pernitious version of the of the claim that someone else is replacing us and no amount of empathy will get us past that fear. [Music]