Why are we taught this? Is this just the absolute truth? Does this apply to Christian faiths only? If it’s evil, why do we need it for EVERYTHING?
How is it that something that can be used to feed the hungry, cloth the homeless or build hospitals and schools in third world countries looked at in such a negative light by certain people? Are you that certain person? I’ll tell you I am right now!
There are multiple types of people who believe this. The most common that I want to discuss is people that lack a substantial amount of wealth or assets and the people who actually used money in a way that can be considered evil.
The first type is troubling to me. You hear it in many different places. No mater where you are, if someone is displaying any amount of wealth or even perceived to be rich, you’ll hear phrases of hate. ‘No one needs to have that type of a car’, ‘Why do you need that big of a house?’, ‘No one should have that much money‘. The truth is they are not hating the person who has the items, they hate themselves for not acquiring it themselves! How do I know? I was one of them! When I was at one of my first jobs, I couldn’t understand how I worked so hard physically and was covered in dust everyday and had little to no savings. While other people who had on nice corporate outfits seemed to make so much money and didn’t even break a sweat to do it. Is it that they had a silver spoon in there mouths when they were born?
As a black man in America, we say things like the white man owns everything and doesn’t want to share. The man don’t want no one to come up. What man? This is not the thinking of a broke person, this is the thinking of a poor person. You may have heard Ben Carson say this and adding that it was a choice, while he was running for bid to be the president. He was highly criticized. No one taking into consideration where the hell he came up from! Look it up please if you don’t either. It was not only his mind that made a good life for him and his family as a neurological surgeon. It was his actions. When in his life could you say the man kept him from his achievements? When can you say the white man didn’t share with him? I say if I had even half the discipline and the dedication he had, I would have the same success! That wasn’t my dream and I didn’t have focus like him to get on the right path that early. I hear some people saying, ‘he’s one black man that made it, we all couldn’t, they wouldn’t allow that to happen’. Please for the love of Jesus stop saying that crap! These words are only dividers. Your dividing one race as being less than another and laying the same sad path for the future of any kid of color! If you are going to set the excuses from the start for kids, no wonder when only a few people of color make it you say that is why.
I will, however, agree with one fact that there is still a barrier to overcome in the way we achieve success. White people pushed Native Americans into concentrated areas and used Africans as slaves to build this America. That is why they can be proud of this nation, their flag and all the heritage of there forefathers. Knowing this fact tells me that they have the upper hand in society as a whole. Now take a look around you. Depending on where you are you may need to move around to see clearly. As someone who was born and raised in New Orleans (chocolate city, thanks former Mayer Ray Nagin for helping me make my point) all I mostly seen was African-Americans and how they lived. Anyone who would be considered white were mostly tourist or lived in upper middle class homes but not us. This alone created divide in my own heart along with the rap music I so enjoyed. Now that I’ve had the privilege to travel through most of the country and even a couple of other countries, My eyes are open to all things anyone, no mater your race or where you come from can make it. Because if you can bring value to someone with money, they will make sure you have value. When you hear motivational speeches talk about ‘you are only as good as the friends you have around you’, that is what they are looking for and what will happen to you if you open up to whoever that person is, no mater there race or background.
Now notice I said ‘make it’. I don’t want anyone to get confused and think I mean you too can be ballin like your favorite rapper. I too wish that I could do that. No, I mean you can have wealth and enjoy nice things but it is not going to happen worried about who has the upper hand. If you don’t have that wealth today, you can play the lottery all you want, you aren’t going to get it any time soon. But if you let your money work for you the way the wealthy people do, you won’t be able to stop from getting there. The best part about that is you can then let our kids be the next Donald Trump when you leave them your growing assets! Isn’t that the American Dream? Then go make it happen and don’t say money is evil, it’s just extra you had left over from planning so well and I’m enjoying it!
How about the people that have used money in a way that can be considered evil? Well, I think the most recent one that comes to mind is Jeffrey Epstein. He’s someone that had lots of wealth and used it to get a private island. Allegedly, there he was able to provide under age girls to other wealthy people. So, did money cause this? Did it cause him to be evil? What about R.Kelley? Do you think the money and fame caused him to be evil? What about other types of evil. Drug king pins, and the the money launderers, the money turned them, right?
Our emotions, the media and even movies make us believe these people achieved there financial dreams, then they some how ended up thinking they could pay for evil acts and get away with it. When the truth is they were evil all by themselves. The money just brought them to a status of fame. So when they fell, everyone wanted to know there life story. We know that people get sentenced to prison and labeled as pedophiles all the time. Drug king pins and other major felony violators didn’t wake up in that seat. Somewhere else in there lives they compromised moral society issues, but now because they had money, we want to say the money is the root of all evil. Dave Ramsey has said something to the effect of ‘money is a magnifier. What ever that person was good or bad at, by multiplying the money,it will multiply the good or bad they already are’.
Americans not being there for each other is the root of all evil. We must treat each other how we would want to be treated, no mater what the other person is doing. If you don’t think your stuff stinks, lets see you eat off your own toilet bowl then! We can’t control other peoples action but you can control your reaction to them.
We also need to do a better job with our kids in America. You here ‘that aint my kid’, ‘who raised them children’? No, they are your kid because if they end up in prison doing evil s@#$ with money, your tax dollars will be taking care of them in prison because WE failed to give them options and now they can only give us excuses.
So, whenever you here someone try to make a sermon quote and say ‘money is the root of all evil’, tell them you don’t believe that! Tell them money is just a brick. You can build dream homes with it, you can turn it to gravel or you can add to it. But, If someone decides to hurt someone else with it, they didn’t need a brick, they would use something else. the American Brick is not evil.
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