COMPETITION IS NONE

Why is that everywhere you turn there's a competition? I find it strangely odd that the media perpetuates this behavior and most of us feed into it for our own selfish entertainment. We are entertained by rappers having beef with each other. We love to watch Maury and see two baby mothers compete over a man that's no longer in their lives. I can go on and on, but where does this competitive nature come from? Is this innate or something that is conditioned? I have never seen so much competition in a world where every man has the right to create a lane for themselves to be successful. I particularly see this becoming a trend within the hip hop community and now its trickling down to R&B artists. I mean theres competition in everything, from politics, church, to your local grocery store. I don't see the relevance in people hating on one another when they're trying to get ahead in life. I believe in the concept of "Do unto others as you want others to do unto you". Where does all this hate come from? Well, I'll tell you what my conclusion is and then you can add your own theories. I think it comes from mental slavery. I say that because back then you had the field slave and the house slave. There was always competition amongst them to prove to the master who was the best slave. The field slave was the outcast while the house slave got the better treatment by sleeping in the house. They ate better food and were clothed properly. Somehow this mentality has transcended into what I now call modern slavery. You have your own people hating on you for whatever purpose. How many times have you seen a new rapper attacking the next? Its becoming routine and the media capitalizes off this. Whatever happened to getting to the top on your own merit? Why do people feel the need to drag the next man down to get ahead? We're like the only race (I'm black) that doesn't take care of its own. We have more dissension than unity. We have more cutthroats within our community than those outside of it. We are blackballed by our own people for better jobs and to be in positions of power. People are motivated by their own personal agendas. They don't see the long term effect of how this mentality has stagnated our growth as a people on a whole. Its not about black and white anymore, although racism still exists in this society. Last year, we nominated our first black President in Barack Obama and that in itself was a major accomplishment. I cried that night. I felt like there was still hope for our people to do great things. We voted for change but if we don't change our way of thinking then everything we've accomplished up until this point goes in vain. I believe in the human race, I don't look at color because like I said earlier your own people can hold you back (if you allow them). I wish there wasn't so much competition out here and people learned to live life as neighbors, but that would be nirvana. The reason why so much catastrophe has occurred in the past is because we take life for granted and not doing the things we're supposed to be doing on Earth. I'm not going to get spiritual on you, but these things were written. If we can nominate our first black President, there's nothing we can't do. It all starts with you though. Love thy neighbor and everything else will fall in place--don't be an individual whose mind is Suspended In Time....