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Apr. 20th, 2009 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hackthis_archiveWhether or not you're familiar with David Simon's The Wire*, this is still an absolutely beautiful article about interracial relationships and people in general and god knows it's nice to read something positive for a change, instead of about how much people suck. Because, y'all, sometimes people fucking suck... and sometimes they don't.
*FYI: If you have not seen The Wire you are missing out of some of the most well-written, compelling television ever created. It's not pretty or light, so if that's what you're after, don't bother. But if you want something that makes you think, something so real your teeth ache? Watch this series. And then go see Generation Kill. Not pretty or fluffy, but so very true.
*FYI: If you have not seen The Wire you are missing out of some of the most well-written, compelling television ever created. It's not pretty or light, so if that's what you're after, don't bother. But if you want something that makes you think, something so real your teeth ache? Watch this series. And then go see Generation Kill. Not pretty or fluffy, but so very true.
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Date: 2009-04-20 05:28 pm (UTC)(I have not seen The Wire but now I'm adding it to my list.)
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Date: 2009-04-20 06:02 pm (UTC)It's weird. I think we read and understand things based on our own interests and experiences. I often think that I miss the point of certain articles because I focus on the parts that resonate most strongly with me. So I don't necessarily understand what it's like to live in the middle of a dangerous city like Baltimore -- or really, even any city.
I used to think that I wanted to do something important with my medical career, something significant. I wanted to work with AIDS patients or cancer patients. Something where I could change the world. Now I realize that I simply do not have the strength to be surrounded, day in and out, by so much death. I cannot handle trying to treat something beyond my control.
So all I could think when I read that article was the woman's bravery, sticking with the man she loved while he was dying a painful death. There are a lot of couples who, unfortunately, don't last through that. I think she's right when she says, once you live through the disapproval and sidelong glances of family, friends, and society, your relationship pretty much has to be strong. I'm glad he was able to have the woman he loved there with him when he died.
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Date: 2009-04-20 08:01 pm (UTC)...Yep.
Although a friend of mine grew up in the same area that the Real Fick did, and she has been able to answer for me a couple of random questions about the area, and what his school was like.
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Date: 2009-04-20 08:40 pm (UTC)I am probably biased against Baltimore. When I first decided to join the USN and was looking into where they do their residencies, Baltimore and DC came up. My momma practically forbade me from applying for a residency there. Railed up one side of the room and down the other, talking about how they were the most dangerous cities in the country, except for Detroit, and how if I even thought about living there, I'd be raped and tortured and murdered and possibly fed to chihuahuas. She wasn't real clear on the details.
Now I kinda want to visit Baltimore. I feel like I need to apologize to it. Except I probably won't go to the aquarium. I'm a little creeped out by fish.
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Date: 2009-04-20 09:00 pm (UTC)There's definitely bad and good people everywhere, in my opinion. It's actually really sad, because a study came out last November about how my hometown was the most unhealthy city in America (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27697364/). It's also got a lot of problems with drugs, a lot of stuff coming in from Detroit on account of the huge narcotics addiction problems we have. Lots of meth houses, lots of pain pills, and lots of pot. I guess I don't have any stones to throw.
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Date: 2009-04-20 06:45 pm (UTC)Thank you for pointing this out. I never would have read it, because the typical Modern Love article is written by heinous, head-up-their-ass yuppies who make me want to claw their eyes out with my naked fingernails--hence I avoid the column.
This is WAY too good for Modern Love, in short.
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Date: 2009-04-20 11:00 pm (UTC)Thank you for this link, and for spreading The Wire love.
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Date: 2009-04-21 12:03 am (UTC)The Wire was, is, always will be the best television show ever made.
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Date: 2009-04-21 05:19 pm (UTC)Pretty much. I tie it with Generation Kill. Which, shockingly, also made by David Simon. I cannot wait until his new show airs next year.
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