Adulthood: Revisited
Episode 93: The United States - Is This My Country, Too, or Not?
January 8, 2021
Hey, A:R friends. At the time I'm releasing this episode (January 8, 2021), the United States just experienced something that I thought I'd never see. As I was watching the scenes unfolding on the television, I thought to myself, "Is this Narcos? Is this a tv show about some country with an unstable government?" Nope. It was live footage of criminals attempting a forceful coup of the United States government. People who are greedy, closed-minded and selfish forced their way into the U.S. Capitol building to interfere with the legislative process by force. A British newscast that I saw managed to get a word with one of the criminals that broke into the building. When asked by the Brit reporter what they were hoping to accomplish by breaking into Congress, his response was, "This is our country! They stole it from us! We're taking back our country!" These words struck me. "This is our country!" Who is we? Who is they? Are 'we' and 'they' mutually exclusive? When I heard that, I wish I could've asked this criminal, "Is this your country and not my country?" I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. This country is as much mine as it is someone that was born in Florida, that was born in California, that was born in Kentucky or Wyoming, or someone that has been naturalized. The events of yesterday shocked me, and left me wondering whether the United States' time as the fancy new car is over. If this is your country, is it also still my country? This is the Adulthood:Revisited podcast.

Hey, A:R friends.

At the time I'm releasing this episode (January 8, 2021), the United States just experienced something that I thought I'd never see.

As I was watching the scenes unfolding on the television, I thought to myself, "Is this Narcos? Is this a tv show about some country with an unstable government?"

Nope. It was live footage of criminals attempting a forceful coup of the United States government.

People who are greedy, closed-minded and selfish forced their way into the U.S. Capitol building to interfere with the legislative process by force.

A British newscast that I saw managed to get a word with one of the criminals that broke into the building.

When asked by the Brit reporter what they were hoping to accomplish by breaking into Congress, his response was, "This is our country! They stole it from us! We're taking back our country!"

These words struck me.

"This is our country!"

Who is we? Who is they? Are 'we' and 'they' mutually exclusive?

When I heard that, I wish I could've asked this criminal, "Is this your country and not my country?"

I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York.

This country is as much mine as it is someone that was born in Florida, that was born in California, that was born in Kentucky or Wyoming, or someone that has been naturalized.

The events of yesterday shocked me, and left me wondering whether the United States' time as the fancy new car is over.

If this is your country, is it also still my country? This is the Adulthood:Revisited podcast.