falling off the ladder

I went and saw Gridiron Gang last night with Chelsea after a respectable dinner at Swiss Chalet just a couple whities... (yes whities) so this movie was really good but it threw Chels and I into this conversation and I woke up this morning still thinking about it. It seems that now a days the suburban populations problems are boys not liking them, getting teased and bullied, cliques, a parting between "cool" and "uncool" and other problems that we see as huge issues in our neighbourhoods. Now in my 'hood' of St. Albert we have a HUGE problem with drugs but yet our city council seems to push it to the side and try to become oblivious to the fact that it's very easy to get some pot or ecstasy or any other drug you want and the kicker the easy place to get is at school there are cars that come into the parking lot and you know it's a drug deal. This all came up because of what the movie Gridiron Gang was about the different gangs within 5 block radius as well as other gangs. We started to wonder that if this could come back to us the whities because of slavery and also the fact that we have secluded them into the 'downtown' world with little room and don't give them the real support they need so it just keeps happening over and over again. It is very similar how our government deals with the homeless in downtown Edmonton, or should I say who? When I was helping out at the mustard seed I talked to a lot of men with all different opinions and talents most of them don't like the situation they are in but the system isn't set up for them to succeed it's set up for them to fail because the more of them that succeed mean that some of us, the more privileged, will have to take their place. I also was told about the Asian gang’s downtown, yes it sounds funny but very possible, have you ever taken a bus downtown when schools let out? We are the minority. Ever tried to find a spot on the number 1 at 3? Impossible! But will things ever change and can they? Because once that happens who will replace the poor? Or can there be a society without poor?