By Renny Waldron

I would love to be able to take joy in the fact that Sean Combs, aka P-Diddy, has run a marathon and raised $2 million in the process. It is nice to see someone promoting physical health in a time when America has more obese people than any other nation, and P-Diddy's run will benefit many worthy organizations, including the New York City Public Schools.

However, I have a large problem with this whole charade, simply because the man behind this farce is P-Diddy, the media magnet who owns Bad Boy Entertainment, the label responsible for promoting gangster behavior on their records. P-Diddy represents many of the negative qualities we see in American culture today - selfishness, narcissism, greediness, decadence, the list goes on. The company that P-Diddy owns and founded, Bad Boy Entertainment, continually puts out albums promoting the worst of hip-hop culture - songs that express misogyny, ignorance, extreme materialism, violence, anarchic individuality, and are filled with vulgarity after vulgarity.

Not to mention that the sponsors of the "Diddy Runs the City" project will profit greatly, and be shown in a positive light for "giving back to the community." P-Diddy has been on several TV shows and appeared on many magazine covers promoting his project along with himself. Nike sponsored his adventure, gaining lots of free advertising in the process. MTV did a popular segment about P-Diddy's training, making him the subject of his own show.

P-Diddy has a fortune estimated to be more than $300 million, and has allegedly partied away more than $1 million in one night on several occasions. If that's not decadence, I don't know what is. Diddy’s prioritization has sent out a clear message: that he can and would rather spend more money on fancy champagne in upscale nightclubs than on any charity. As for Diddy’s shoe sponsor, where do we start? Nike is a billion-dollar corporation, yet they can't throw in a few million to help the New York City public schools?