thisguy808, therein lies the problem we have today. competition instead of cooperation. in head start, we give all the awards to the top 2%, letting the 98% know, at age three, that they aren't as good as others. sports reinforces this belief,  and this continues throughout our lives. just because your momma read to you, in your nice, clean and secure bed at night, and mine was working her second job to keep food on our table, should not determine whether you get a better head start on life than me. lets put as much money and attention into waianae high as we do into punahou high, then lets see. no one commits to a life of crime. the environment they are conceived into, born into and forced into, mainly by racist, bigoted, intolerant and ignorant white people, determines poor people's fate, white and minority.  as long as society disregards the poor with no more thought than they do their trash, we have no humanity.