functionality

Deep inside the human well of stratification through institutional procedures and practices, there exists a hopelessness that divides one people from another people. Those who desire the dream and come from a table game where the cards are stacked against them have to encounter those who were born dealers; their bosses, their bosses bosses, and the institution itself. Moving up from player status to dealer status is next to impossible. Yet there are many who were born with a collared white shirt that criticize those wearing various other colored shirts. They make statements about things of which they have no understanding and in truth, could give a shit. We all want the dream and most of us are willing to work for that dream. However, there exists in this country a modified sort of life.
In some communities, opportunities are limited while in other communities, opportunities are fluid. Those people born into one or the other have at their disposal either a limited version of America or an America filled with the boundless. This inequality can be atributed to a social structure designed for the benefit of the few who have access to institutional structures that serve as steping stones toward the goal of becoming educated, building equity, buying a home, and saving money for their kids to go to college. This of course happens until mom cheats on dad, dad cheats on mom, divorce, court battles, attorney fees, hate, anger, kids run amuck, Vegas, alcoholism, drug addiction, and so on and so forth. Those who do not reach these heights of existence never had the opportunity to save money in the first place because of their skin color, place of residence, religion, handicap, low social status and so forth. This stratification has been in place since the funky wool wearing founding father's formulated the Constitution. All men are created equal only if those men have cash and are white. Washington made booze and smoked weed; Jefferson had slaves he had sex with; and Franklin dabbled in Satanism. America is a wonderful country if you have cash. If not, and you come from the lower spectrum of society, the road to riches is a long one due in large part to the way our social institutions function.