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.

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Baltimore also has Johns Hopkins, I'm just saying I'm pretty sure you couldn't get the best surgical hospital and university in the country in the worst place in the country at the same time. Having said that, I just believe it's important to make up your own mind. It's not like people don't have bad things happen in the suburbs and the country either.

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Well, I oughta know better anyway. I hate it when people judge Appalachia without ever having set foot in it. I shouldn't do the same for Baltimore.

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.