.....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