For what it's worth

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Whether 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.

Comments

[farwing.livejournal.com]

Oh. Now I am crying. Thank you for sharing that link.

(I have not seen The Wire but now I'm adding it to my list.)

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that link. It made me all sniffly. I need to do my own Wire rewatch this summer.

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

I want to go hide in an office and cry for a while now, but that was beautiful. Thanks for linking it.

[elzed.livejournal.com]

Lovely and very moving piece, that. Thanks. And omg the Wire - which I have been mainlining for the past week, zooming through season 2 now - is the most fantastic TV series I have ever watched (I expected greatness from the recs but it is even better than I could have imagined).

[mydocuments.livejournal.com]

Oh God.

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.

[romancandles.livejournal.com]

It's a close call but, alas, I was apparently born with only vestigial tear ducts. There might have been a sniffle, though.

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

That made me tear up at my desk!

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.

[ncvids.livejournal.com]

The Wire is awesome. Thanks for the link.

[norah.livejournal.com]

I now feel bizarrely guilty that I chose NOT to watch The Wire with my partner. But I do like my entertainment light, and The Wire is definitely harder-hitting than that. I love the stat about interracial relationships lasting longer; even though we live in this bizarre and awesome local bubble in which almost all our friends and neighbors are mixed couples too, and haven't had the struggles the author describes, I can see it. Thanks for sharing that article.

[sarkastic.livejournal.com]

Wow. That was beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

[kuteki.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link, this actually made me tear up. And I haven't seen the Wire, but in the last few months the vast majority of my RL friends have discovered it and all of them have told me it is in fact the best TV show ever made, so I was planning to watch it soon. It is odd that this is the first time I have seen it mentioned online. I'll take that as a sign and finally watch it though.

[nolivingman.livejournal.com]

*here from friendsfriends*

Thank you for this link, and for spreading The Wire love.

[daraq.livejournal.com]

Wow. That was an amazing article. Thanks for pointing it out.

The Wire was, is, always will be the best television show ever made.

[azephirin.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, what a great article. Thanks for linking.

[sundappled.livejournal.com]

Thank you for linking, that was beautiful and undoubtedly worth the tissue that I had to use.