.....standards

I've been wondering....as I grow older and I grow more with wisdom, I began to notice things about people that I never noticed before. The very ones who spoke of integrity are the same ones who accept disrespect and destruction from those they love or serve as examples to. I have always known that money rules everything around me long before I heard Wu-Tang, and I have seen how money controls people's emotions, their relationships, and how they view themselves....even if they sell their own spirit. Now, it's good to have money, it's good to financially independent, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying the finer things in life.....black people have been poor long enough and I don't see anything wrong with people getting money. However, I do have a problem with the way money controls people.

People will love you if you have money, and will go out of their way to please someone if it delivers monetary gain in return....and people will treat you like you are absolutely nothing as soon as the money stops flowing. If you have money, people will be silent about your self destructive behavior. The very things people said they would never stand for will be tolerated so long as money is involved. Why are we that corruptable?

Maybe this is not about money, but about standards. I just don't understand how we will be silent when we know someone is killing themselves....all because we benefit? This is just something that I've been trying to wrap my mind around....feedback?

.......be real........u know the rest. PEACE

VIDEVATION - .....so you just gone personally attack on me???!!

Here's a vid of a yound lady who is teaching (in love as Christ commanded)about how to refute someone's standing without humiliating them or making a personal attack....a lot of us could learn from it. What do you think?

Stuff getting real...

With graduation 5 weeks behind me, grad school a couple of months away, and adulthood staring me in the face every morning I wake up, I try to make some sense of life. Asking myself, 'what will the rest of my life be like', 'can there be immunity from rainy days and lonliness', 'does a degree and the benefits of money necessarily garauntee the 'good life'?' These are all questions I've been asking myself the past couple of days. The books I've been reading about adults trapped in the mundane routines of life has not eased these thoughts at all....(thanks a lot Toni Morrison...lol).

I decided today that I am going to try harder to step back from the picture and take it all in. I've been so used to being in the picture, or taking the picture, that I haven't always had the opportunity to just enjoy it for what it's worth. So I'm stepping back from the picture.....and I'm on this new kick to not take life so seriously...to live for today with the future in mind. Trying to figure out how I can make this life thing work out...and make sure that it counts...and most of all, that I get a chance to enjoy the pic. So I'm going to try to make the rest of these summer days count...EVERY DAY.....employed or not. Until then, be real to you, and to others, u will be real. PEACE.

Videvation.....Nas - "Be A Nigger Too"

I heard this song a few weeks back, but I'm now just seeing the video. I've been a fan since my cousin Mall used to bump it when I was in the single digits...got my first CD when I was in 7th Grade (I Am). Nas is one of the most ahead of the time MCs in the game.......so it's no shock to many hip-hop fans that he's continuing to challenge the status quo with this latest release.

This song has already proved to be controversial.....but maybe it's because it's so far ahead of us. I'm still trying to take in the messages is sending off this tune...but I mos def know that it's not a one sided argument he's presenting.....What I got from it is that the world still sees us as niggers, but we've been producing greatness and transcending our circumstances since the beginning of time..my interpretation is what's holding us back is the word 'nigger' and the importance we give to it, and thus, the power it has over us. We are trendsetters, so if we are niggers then the whole world must (or wants to) be too because they gravitate to what we do (whether negatively or positively)....but then again, I can be off...but the brilliance lies in the fact that the vid/song makes you think and analyze your own interpretations.....and both of these produces elevated thought....so I posted the vid (or you to do that for yourself....Big Ups to Nas.

Wake up Mr. White!

So I finally made it over to blogspot.....I have been blogging on Myspace recently, and before that, Xanga...but I'm feeling this new site, that way I can blog without necessarily dealing with the foolery that's called Myspace..or only having limited views of my blog due to myspace membership....so I'm here...though I wish I would have made it here first before everybody else...(selfish, huh?)..lol.

Most of my blogs are about elevation....and here it will be the same. Since there is enough detriment already in the world, we don't need another site that will add to or current frustrations....So I hope that you come by my page, to become enlightened and to be become elevated. ...until then, Be real to you, and to others, you will be real.

Peace.