DH, I'd like if we could put this issue to rest. I feel bad for how inflamed I became after reading your post that mostly criticized The Wire for its focus on inner-city blacks and I'd like to apologize for that. I think one of the achievements of the show is giving a human face to the inner-city black criminal story. It's easy to shit all over black youths when you've enjoyed the upbringing that most of us have, but many of them have not been as lucky. Many have been forced into selling drugs at a young age and a gang-banging lifestyle by the pressures from their families and/or culture. An achievement of The Wire is helping people learn to see these troubled youths through eyes of compassion and understanding for their broader circumstances and take an attitude that hopes for the rehabilitation of that culture, not one that seeks to vilify it.
I am sorry that I did not better handle the emotions I felt from reading your, what I believe to be, ignorant critique of The Wire. My response to you was counterproductive and served nothing other than a temporary release of the anger I felt. My current perception of you, whether fair or not, is one of basically a college kid (even though I know you are no longer taking classes) still being supported by his parents. In this way, you are unique from everyone else on this board. I think this leads me to having less patience with regards to taking your beliefs and opinions seriously. I find myself rooting for you to break out of your shell and find success and happiness as a self-sufficient adult and it's frustrating when you make ignorant remarks coming from a place of a relative lack of real world experience. I'm sorry if sometimes I allow the potential I see in you to lead me to make counterproductive, harsh remarks. I hold myself and others to somewhat brutally high standards. It's something I've been questioning lately. I'm trying to work on seeing the more human side of myself and others and accepting them as they are. It's sometimes just hard to strike a balance between striving for self-improvement, and the goal-actualization of friends and others I care about, without pushing things too far.
Your critique of The Wire wouldn't have bothered me if I didn't think you can be better than that. It's good to have you around and, again, I apologize for the out-of-line personal attacks on your character.
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