African-American Appreciation Thread - Not Actually an Appreciation Thread

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How have you never heard of The Wire? It's well-written in the sense that the storylines are interesting and layered, the characters are intriguing, and lots of subtle shit is revealed after multiple watches. If you miss certain lines, storylines might not make sense. I think folks ITT said earlier that they didn't talk like black people which threw them off, but IDK. Some characters are more street, some are intelligent, some are both, others are actual hood people from Baltimore, etc. Idris Elba is British. It's not solely hood shit.
The Wire is lauded for its literary themes and its uncommonly accurate exploration of society, politics and urban life. Despite this, the series received only average ratings and never won any major television awards during its original run. In the years following its conclusion, the show cultivated a cult following,[6][7] and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time.
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I don't know if there's a non-spoiler clip worth showing since context and character development make all the lines cooler. If you're going to watch it like, "WTF, no project black would ever tip at a restaurant" or some shit, then I don't know.
This is probably one of the more heavy-handed scenes with the writing, but still good.
This is how the project dudes talk, but they're not main characters.
The cops with some scrub characters that spoils nothing. It makes fun of how dumb the project yo's are once in a while. The machine is never wrong, son.
See? Plenty of good fun.

For reference, Breaking Bad is probably right up there with it for me. The same writer did Generation Kill, We Own This City, and a few others.
 
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Twix Eatr said:
How have you never heard of The Wire? It's well-written in the sense that the storylines are interesting and layered, the characters are intriguing, and lots of subtle shit is revealed after multiple watches. If you miss certain lines, storylines might not make sense. I think folks ITT said earlier that they didn't talk like black people which threw them off, but IDK. Some characters are more street, some are intelligent, some are both, others are actual hood people from Baltimore, etc. Idris Elba is British. It's not solely hood shit.
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You know The Wire is good because it makes shitlibs seethe about "Copaganda" while also forcing them to admit it's still one of the best-written shows on television.
 
It never fails. You can always spot the seething shitskin who made an account solely to poorly troll the nigger thread.
It wouldn't be so fuckin gay if these subhumans had some good bantz, but they don't.

I mean I know its hard to banter when the other side is throwing out thousands of years of "literally everyone who has ever come into contact with you people has thought you were even lower than apes and good for nothing other than slavery, and despite wasting billions and billions of dollars you people have somehow become more retarded and violent than when you were before" but at least put some effort in.
 
moocow said:
Well-written in the sense that "yes, this is how niggers talk and act,"
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It's not exactly authentic in how niggers talk, other than in e.g. intonation and verbiage. Whereas a bodycam film will show you how black people talk and what they mean to say, as in "I din even du nuffin muhfucka bitch ass cop sheeyit I din DU NUFFIN, I been arrested FO WHUT??", in The Wire black characters speak the message of enlightened whites and exceptional blacks but with a street veneer.

So, they would instead say something like "ayo we wuz like dem bitches on the chessboard, ain't nobody tryna hire a felon nigga, shit be hard out here, cuz my skin brown " yada yada. It might sound superficially the same but it's not.

The focus of the show is essentially why Baltimore is unfixable, and it is definitely trying to convince you it's not because of the niggers. But we all know it's because of the niggers.
 
You can't have a society when you live around she-boons...

Yes, the wig came off, lol.

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Hunter Hearst Helmsley said:
"You are under arrest!"

"No I'm not!"

Nothing makes me pointlessly angry like that line.
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It's an impressive child-like denial of reality and rejection of authority. Very Fatrick Tomlinson-like behavior, come to think of it.

I consistently hate how police fail to escalate to taser-level incapacitation once that kind of shit starts. "You're under arrest." "No I'm not." "Very well, negotiations have ended. C'mere [zzzzzap]." Once you hear that mindless defiance, you know you're not dealing with an intelligent creature, and you also know there's no point in trying to reason with it or de-escalate. Just fucking knock them out, cuff them and drag them in. Saves so much fucking time.
 
byron said:
Random working class white guy tackles a wild jogger who would have gotten away otherwise. You love to see it.

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It's so funny how they don't beep out any of this because they know it's not really his name.

The way niggers dress is so strange. White balaclava with black track pants and top with white shoes. Crazy.
 
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