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Elyse · January 8th, 2008, 05:21 PM

I don't have HBO and I just finished watching the fourth season.

What happens to those poor kids is heartbreaking.

I was a lot more indifferent to the conditions that poor black people live in. Not any more. I was also fairly judgmental about poor drug addicts. Not after watching Bubbles be a way way better father to Sherrod than most pompous middle-class dads. Bubbles' kindness, concern and tenderness to that kid really made me open my eyes to the fact that behind every 'junkie' is a real person with a real story and real concerns. And that assholes are everywhere. In ghettoes and fancy dinner parties. And so are good people.

Bubbles deserves as much respect and courtesy, if not more, as any white-collar professional.

And Carcetti's betrayal of the hundreds of thousands of small children because he was too proud to beg for more money from the Governor is as despicable as the damage Avon Barksdale and Stanfield brought to the ghettoes.

I credit the Wire with teaching me that lesson. That there's way too much consideration for the circumstances of one's birth and upbringing. The son of a doctor is intrinsically no better than Sherrod. And it's best to be humble because with a little twist of fate, we could all be born in the ghettoes of Baltimore with very little way out.

January 8th, 2008, 05:21 PM	#10 (permalink)
Elyse Bronze Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 102	I don't have HBO and I just finished watching the fourth season. What happens to those poor kids is heartbreaking. I was a lot more indifferent to the conditions that poor black people live in. Not any more. I was also fairly judgmental about poor drug addicts. Not after watching Bubbles be a way way better father to Sherrod than most pompous middle-class dads. Bubbles' kindness, concern and tenderness to that kid really made me open my eyes to the fact that behind every 'junkie' is a real person with a real story and real concerns. And that assholes are everywhere. In ghettoes and fancy dinner parties. And so are good people. Bubbles deserves as much respect and courtesy, if not more, as any white-collar professional. And Carcetti's betrayal of the hundreds of thousands of small children because he was too proud to beg for more money from the Governor is as despicable as the damage Avon Barksdale and Stanfield brought to the ghettoes. I credit the Wire with teaching me that lesson. That there's way too much consideration for the circumstances of one's birth and upbringing. The son of a doctor is intrinsically no better than Sherrod. And it's best to be humble because with a little twist of fate, we could all be born in the ghettoes of Baltimore with very little way out.