Lack of empathy is the American $ culture.
If integration is what one aspires to, then lack of empathy is the first prerequisite.
The second is putting the $ as the only value worth living for.
Yeh, I've rubbed elbows with money, yeh I still have friends 'of influence', yeh over the years I could've gone taken that same path many times but it ALWAYS comes at a cost from with-in I am not willing to sell.
$'s don't mean that much to me.
As to r. kelly and the nexus of influence and money:
If integration is what one aspires to, then lack of empathy is the first prerequisite.
The second is putting the $ as the only value worth living for.
Yeh, I've rubbed elbows with money, yeh I still have friends 'of influence', yeh over the years I could've gone taken that same path many times but it ALWAYS comes at a cost from with-in I am not willing to sell.
$'s don't mean that much to me.
As to r. kelly and the nexus of influence and money: